BABIES QUOTES III

quotations about babies

You know what the great thing about babies is? They are like little bundles of hope. Like the future in a basket.

LISH MCBRIDE

Hold Me Closer, Necromancer


When Jordan was a baby he sat on top of me much as a fly rests on a hill of dung. And I nourished him as a hill of dung nourishes a fly, and when he had eaten his fill he left me.

JEANETTE WINTERSON

Sexing the Cherry


How lovely he appears! his little cheeks
In their pure incarnation, vying with
The rose leaves strewn beneath them.

LORD BYRON

Cain


Home alone with a wakeful newborn, I could shower so quickly that the mirror didn't fog and the backs of my knees stayed dry.

MARNI JACKSON

attributed, Great Funny Quotes: Sweeten Your Life with Laughter


Whenever a little child is born
All night a soft wind rocks the corn;
One more buttercup wakes to the morn,
Somewhere, Somewhere.

AGNES CARTER MASON

Somewhere


A babe in a house is a well-spring of pleasure.

MARTIN F. TUPPER

Of Education


The smile that flickers on a baby's lips when he sleeps--does anybody know where it was born? Yes, there is a rumor that a young pale beam of a crescent moon touched the edge of a vanishing autumn cloud, and there the smile was first born in the dream of a dew-washed morning.

RABINDRANATH TAGORE

Gitanjali


This is why people have babies ... because it's exhausting not to know what you're supposed to do next. A baby is basically a nonnegotiable map for the next two decades.

GLYNNIS MACNICOL

No One Tells You This


He smiles and clasps his tiny hand,
With sunbeams o'er him gleaming--
A world of baby fairyland
He visits while he's dreaming.

JOSEPH ASHBY-STERRY

King of the Cradle


We learn from experience. A woman never wakes up her second baby just to see it smile.

GRACE WILLIAMS

attributed, Great Funny Quotes: Sweeten Your Life with Laughter


The first thing I thought when I saw my son was, "I wonder if they'd look less like space aliens if I penciled in their eyebrows.

JUDITH NEWMAN

attributed, Great Funny Quotes: Sweeten Your Life with Laughter


A little child born yesterday,
A thing on mother's milk and kisses fed.

HOMER

Hymn to Hermes


Babies are bits of star-dust blown from the hand of God. Lucky the woman who knows the pangs of birth for she has held a star.

LARRY BARRETTO

The Indiscreet Years


Where did you come from, baby dear?
Out of the Everywhere into the here....
How did they all just come to be you?
God thought about me and so I grew.

GEORGE MACDONALD

At the Back of the North Wind


Courtney didn't like babies at the best of times. As far as she was concerned, anything that existed solely to emit drool, vomit, ghastly odors and loud, annoying screams was more trouble than it was worth.

TED NAIFEH

Courtney Crumrin and the Night Things


A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as its legs increase.

FRENCH PROVERB


Did you know babies are nauseated by the smell of a clean shirt?

JEFF FOXWORTHY

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