Baby Quotes: Cherishing the Magic of New Beginnings

"My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening"

Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Author

"We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"Its love that makes the world go round, my baby"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

"Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other"

Ronald Reagan, President

"Well, the first year I lost my voice I didn't mind so much because I was going to have a baby and I was distracted with him anyway, I didn't even think about it that much, well, OK, this is what's happening"

Rosanne Cash, Musician

"I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio"

Joan Rivers, Comedian

"I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby"

Barack Obama, President

"You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass"

Frank Sinatra, Musician

"A baby is a loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other"

Ronald Knox, Theologian

"There are some great questions to ask your doctor. If he says 'no,' then you find yourself a different doctor. There really has to be a change in how we medically look at women at this time. I mean, this is not just baby gloom"

Marie Osmond, Musician

"All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization"

Abraham Maslow, Psychologist

"Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss"

George Mason, Statesman

"When the baby dies, On every side Rose stranger's voices, hard and harsh and loud. The baby was not wrapped in any shroud. The mother made no sound. Her head was bowed That men's eyes might not see Her misery"

Helen Hunt Jackson, Writer

"An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful"

Queen Victoria, Royalty

"Oh, yeah, I see the world differently now. Actually, when I first had the baby, I was breast-feeding him for two years straight. So we were together for two years of his life, every single day, all hours of the day. So I was two people, and I eventually morphed back into one"

Erykah Badu, Musician

"Carrying a baby is the most rewarding experience a woman can enjoy"

Jayne Mansfield, Actress

"I'm saddened to see that everyone's pitched out the baby with the bath, in that we say that it can't be one or the other, it could be both. I mean, just because we listen to classical music doesn't mean that we can't listen to jazz"

Don Bluth, Artist

"In fact I have nightmares about having children. I want to carry a baby and feel the life within me and in my dream, I do. But every time after it's born, there's this incredible fear, this pounding pulse of fear. It's a real bad nightmare"

Sharon Gless, Actress

"The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby"

Natalie Wood, Actress

"I had friends of mine tell me they had a baby, and I didn't even know they were pregnant"

Josh Lucas, Actor

"How come life is so important in the nine months before birth, but then we sort of forget about the importance, we're not worried about whether that baby lives in poverty once he or she is born"

Birch Bayh, Politician

"I slept like a baby the night before, because I knew that I'd win the next day"

Bernard Hinault, Athlete

"All my friends were in the park smoking weed and getting pregnant. I didn't want to be the young black girl having a baby, a baby's father, being on welfare. That wasn't going to be my story"

Foxy Brown, Musician

"Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain"

Billie Holiday, Musician

"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, Actor

"Once I showed up at my sister's with a baby rabbit I had bought from some children because its ears were cold. I put the rabbit on a hot water bottle and massaged its ears for quite a while. After all, I knew that all healthy animals had warm ears"

Juliette G. Low

"He was so good with the kids on the set. He just knew exactly how to handle them. The baby would cry and Vin would hold him and do all these weird sounds and the baby would stop crying. It was really cute"

Brittany Snow, Actress

"A Harvard Medical School study has determined that rectal thermometers are still the best way to tell a baby's temperature. Plus, it really teaches the baby who's boss"

Tina Fey, Comedian

"A torn rotator cuff is a cancer for a pitcher and if a pitcher gets a badly torn one, he has to face the facts, it's all over baby"

Don Drysdale, Athlete

"This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer"

Will Rogers, Actor

"My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant"

Steven Wright, Comedian

"Babies don't need a vacation, but I still see them at the beach... it pisses me off! I'll go over to a little baby and say 'What are you doing here? You haven't worked a day in your life!'"

Steven Wright, Comedian

"The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?"

Bette Davis, Actress

"We're not going to baby sit a civil war"

Barack Obama, President

"And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

"I talk in that baby talk voice when I'm on TV, it's a put on"

Paris Hilton, Celebrity

"Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die"

Bono, Musician

"I think I would be very sad if I wasn't able to have a baby"

Nicole Kidman, Actress

"I'm a New Wave baby, so I got very stimulated by foreign film"

Jack Nicholson, Actor

"If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it.""

T. S. Eliot, Poet

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