A baby is a blank cheque made payable to the human race – Barbara Christine Seifert.
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t – Barbara Kingsolver.
Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit – Bill Cosby.
Getting a burp out of your little thing is probably the greatest satisfaction I’ve come across. It’s truly one of life’s most satisfying moments – Brad Pitt on his New Child.
A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on – Carl Sandburg.
A crying baby is the best form of birth control – Carole Tabron.
Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last – Charles Dickens.
Babies are always more trouble than you thought – and more wonderful – Charles Osgood.
They are babies in waiting, life on ice – Claudia Wallis
If you were to open up a baby’s head – and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should – you would find nothing but an enormous drool gland – Dave Barry.
Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns – David Ogilvy.
It is the nature of babies to be in bliss – Deepak Chopra.
Babies are such a nice way to start people – Don Herrold.
I can’t think why mothers love them. All babies do is leak at both ends – Douglas Feaver.
Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other – Ed Howe.
The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby is beneath him, and then he certainly is not going to be a very successful father – Eleanor Roosevelt.
It sometimes happens, even in the best of families, that a baby is born. This is not necessarily cause for alarm. The important thing is to keep your wits about you and borrow some money – Elinor Goulding Smith.
It sometimes happens, even in the best of families, that a baby is born. This is not necessarily cause for alarm. The important thing is to keep your wits about you and borrow some money – Elinor Goulding Smith.
Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body – Elizabeth Stone.
A baby is born with a need to be loved — and never outgrows it – Frank A. Clark.
Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky – Fran Lebowitz.
Every child begins the world again – Henry David Thoreau.
Always kiss your children goodnight – even if they’re already asleep – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
There is a ‘’sanctity” involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it – James Baldwin.
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. And now when every new baby is born its first laugh becomes a fairy. So there ought to be – James Matthew Barrie.
Now the thing about having a baby – and I can’t be the first person to have noticed this – is that thereafter you have it – Jean Kerr.
Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories – John Wilmot.
Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility – Kate Douglas Wiggin.
The worst feature of a new baby is its mother’s singing – Kin Hubbard.
If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family – Lawrence Housman.
People who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have one – Leo J. Burke.
I didn’t know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child – Loretta Lynn.
Father asked us, “What was God’s noblest work?” Anna said, “Men”, but I said “Babies”. Men are often bad, but babies never are – Louisa May Alcott.
A soiled baby with a neglected nose cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty – Mark Twain.
When you have a baby, love is automatic, when you get married, love is earned – Marie Osmond.
A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother – Mark Twain.
A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men – Martin Fraquhar Tupper.
Having a baby changes the way you view your in-laws. I love it when they come to visit now. They can hold the baby and I can go out – Matthew Broderick.
It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge – Phyllis Diller.
An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful – Queen Victoria.
The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new – Rajneesh.
Babies don’t need a vacation but I still see them at the beach. I’ll go over to them and say, “What are you doing here, you’ve never worked a day in your life!” – Stephen Wright.
My friend has a baby. I’m recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant – Stephen Wright.
Children reinvent your world for you – Susan Sarandon.
If you put a baseball and other toys in front of a baby, he’ll pick up a baseball in preference to the others – Tris Speaker.