quotations about babies
O child! O new-born denizen
Of life's great city! on thy head
The glory of the morn is shed,
Like a celestial benison!
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
To a Child
Fragoletta is so small
We wonder that she lives at all--
Tiny alabaster girl,
Hardly bigger than a pearl.
RICHARD LE GALLIENNE
Songs for Fragoletta
A babe in a house is a well-spring of pleasure.
MARTIN F. TUPPER
Of Education
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
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
A little child born yesterday,
A thing on mother's milk and kisses fed.
HOMER
Hymn to Hermes
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
stand-up routine