Babies Quotes

Most popular babies quotes

Babies are always more trouble than you thought—and more wonderful.

parenting children

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. - J. M. Barrie quote.
When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.

laughter

No symphony orchestra ever played music like a two-year-old girl laughing with a puppy. - Bernard Williams quote.
No symphony orchestra ever played music like a two-year-old girl laughing with a puppy.

laughter dogs

People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one.

funny

A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother. - Mark Twain quote.
A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.
Insomnia: A contagious disease often transmitted from babies to parents.
I can't think why mothers love them. - William Faulkner quote.
I can't think why mothers love them.
A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. - Carl Sandburg quote.
A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

birth

You can sort of be married, you can sort of be divorced, you can sort of be living together, but you can't sort of have a baby.
Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last. - Charles Dickens quote.
Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson quote.
Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it.
Who would not tremble and rather choose to die than to be a baby again, if given such a choice? - Augustine of Hippo quote.
Who would not tremble and rather choose to die than to be a baby again, if given such a choice?
A baby is a loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. - Ronald Knox quote.
A baby is a loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins. - Josh Billings quote.
There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins.
I like handling newborn animals.  Fallen into life from an unmappable world, they are the ultimate immigrants, full of wonder and confusion. - Diane Ackerman quote.
I like handling newborn animals.  Fallen into life from an unmappable world, they are the ultimate immigrants, full of wonder and confusion.

animals

Father asked us what was God's noblest work.  Anna said men, but I said babies.  Men are often bad; babies never are. - Louisa May Alcott quote.
Father asked us what was God's noblest work.  Anna said men, but I said babies.  Men are often bad; babies never are.
A babe is nothing but a bundle of possibilities. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
A babe is nothing but a bundle of possibilities.

proverbs

The human baby, the human being, is a mosaic of animal and angel. - Jacob Bronowski quote.
The human baby, the human being, is a mosaic of animal and angel.
The babe in arms is a channel through which the energies we call fate, love, and reason visibly stream. - Ralph Waldo Emerson quote.
The babe in arms is a channel through which the energies we call fate, love, and reason visibly stream.
Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first.  What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age? - Erasmus quote.
Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first.  What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?

hugs

Babies are such a nice way to start people.
The baby, assailed by eyes, ears, nose, skin, and entrails at once, feels it all as one great blooming, buzzing confusion. - William James quote.
The baby, assailed by eyes, ears, nose, skin, and entrails at once, feels it all as one great blooming, buzzing confusion.
A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. - Ronald Knox quote.
A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Each time a new baby is born there is a possibility of reprieve.  Each child is a new being, a potential prophet, a new spiritual prince, a new spark of light precipitated into the outer darkness. - R. D. Laing quote.
Each time a new baby is born there is a possibility of reprieve.  Each child is a new being, a potential prophet, a new spiritual prince, a new spark of light precipitated into the outer darkness.
Having a baby is like suddenly getting the world's worst roommate, like having Janis Joplin with a bad hangover and PMS come to stay with you. - Anne Lamott quote.
Having a baby is like suddenly getting the world's worst roommate, like having Janis Joplin with a bad hangover and PMS come to stay with you.
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In came...a baby, eloquent as infancy usually is, and like most youthful orators, more easily heard than understood. - Letitia Landon quote.
In came...a baby, eloquent as infancy usually is, and like most youthful orators, more easily heard than understood.
Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things—wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.
Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act. - Lewis Mumford quote.
Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.
They lie flat on their noses at first in what appears to be a drunken slumber, then flat on their backs kicking and screaming, demanding impossibilities in a foreign language. - Katherine Anne Porter quote.
They lie flat on their noses at first in what appears to be a drunken slumber, then flat on their backs kicking and screaming, demanding impossibilities in a foreign language.
Having a baby dragged me, kicking and screaming, from the world of self-absorption. - Paul Reiser quote.
Having a baby dragged me, kicking and screaming, from the world of self-absorption.

self-centered parenting

When people talk about wanting "to have children someday," what they really mean is that they want to have babies. - Paul Reiser quote.
When people talk about wanting "to have children someday," what they really mean is that they want to have babies.
Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born. - George Bernard Shaw quote.
Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born.

children birth

A soiled baby, with a neglected nose, cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty; and inasmuch as babyhood spans but three short years, no baby is competent to be a joy "forever." - Mark Twain quote.
A soiled baby, with a neglected nose, cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty; and inasmuch as babyhood spans but three short years, no baby is competent to be a joy "forever."
I admit he's a darling, but babies are an acquired taste.
Baby caca is like Kryptonite to a father.  Even the dog says, "You don't rub his face in it." - Robin Williams quote.
Baby caca is like Kryptonite to a father.  Even the dog says, "You don't rub his face in it."