Baby Quotes

"I knew it was going to be the most extraordinary thing in my life, but how powerful it is, you can never know until you have a baby"

Celine Dion, Musician

"We tried - we tried for a year, and we tried different methods and different - and I had in vitro and it didn't work. It didn't stick. It didn't - didn't produce a baby at all"

Cheryl Tiegs, Model

"The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube"

Norman Mailer, Novelist

"I visited those friends who'd just had a baby, and she was washing dishes and he was cleaning the house, and I burst with happiness. And in their minds, they were in this terrible domestic rut"

Josh Lucas, Actor

"Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting"

Jack Bowman, Actor

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

Ronald Knox, Theologian

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

Queen Victoria, Royalty

"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

"Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn"

John Updike, Novelist

"Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you"

Anna Quindlen, Journalist

"Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby"

Walter Benjamin, Critic

"When you have a baby, love is automatic, when you get married, love is earned"

Marie Osmond, Musician

"Patients would come in and say, Well, my baby is going to have a cleft palate. I'm going like, that's not a reason. And the doctor would do the abortion"

Norma McCorvey, Celebrity

"I do not regard it as wrong to take my life, because I simply change my place of residence and go where my wife and baby are"

Alex Campbell, Politician

"Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals "love" them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more"

Edwin Way Teale

"I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on the handles of the baby carriage and I wheel it into the traffic"

Grace Abbott, Activist

"The reason I didn't fly over from Maui at their beck and call is my wife was about to have a baby at any time. Those guys knew that. These guys would not compromise and meet me halfway"

Sammy Hagar, Musician

"This is a serious, serious condition that is also called postpartum psychosis. And that's where, literally, you get so bad that you end up either hurting the baby or killing yourself"

Marie Osmond, Musician

"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

"Nobody took me too seriously but I was grown up even as a baby"

Sharon Stone, Actress

"You just need to be honest with how you're feeling. But, a lot of women are afraid of it because they think, 'Oh, they are going to take my baby away. They're gonna call me incompetent. I'm going to lose my job. I've got to be tough, it's a man's world.'"

Marie Osmond, Musician

"We needed time off from each other after our last tour because there was a lot of personal stuff we had to take care of. Eddie needed hip replacement surgery. Al needed his back worked on. And I was going to have a baby"

Sammy Hagar, Musician

"A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for"

Thurgood Marshall, Judge

"I remember li'l ol' Hank Jr. - he was just a baby back in them days, you know - but he used to hang around. His mama would bring him around. He was just a natural"

Mel Tillis, Musician

"When you see the political parties squabble, if a baby is not allowed to be born, all the other issues do not come into play"

Alveda King, Clergyman

"People gave me such a bad time about wanting a baby. I didn't want a baby, and I still don't. I wanted a dog"

Ann Patchett, Author

"Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"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 am glad to go with my wife and baby boy"

Alex Campbell, Politician

"I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage"

Elizabeth Taylor, Actress

"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

"It'd be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren't kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I'm not a baby sitter"

Eminem, Musician

"Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view"

Lillian Hellman, Dramatist

"Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since"

Edith Sitwell, Poet

"It's not like I want to hop on a bandwagon, because I said it 15 years ago - bringing a child into your life who is not genetically yours is one of the most beautiful things you can do. But I'm also interested in having my own baby, too"

Tyra Banks, Model

"My generation had to be taken seriously because we were stopping things and burning things. We were able to initiate change, because we had such vast numbers. We were part of the baby boom, and when we moved, everything moved with us"

John Hughes, Director

"I'm not gangly; I'm very coordinated. I do have a bit of a baby face. But I guess that just means I'll be working longer"

Tim Robbins, Actor

"My TV show had been cancelled; nothing else had gone anywhere; some alliances I had made petered out and nothing came of them and I was looking at a long, long year ahead of me in which there was no work on the horizon, the phone wasn't ringing. I had two kids, one of them a brand-new baby, and I didn't know if I would be able to keep my house"

Tom Hanks, Actor

"I'm not following anybody's tracks, I'm making my own baby"

Picabo Street, Athlete

"Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!"

May Sarton, Poet

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