Quotes and Sayings

BABY QUOTES

Before you were conceived I wanted you.  Before you were born I loved you.  Before you were here an hour I would die for you.  That is the miracle of life.
Maureen Hawkins

Then they handed her to me, stiff and howling, and I held her for the first time and kissed her, and she went still and quiet as though by instinctive guile, and I was instantly enslaved by her flattery of my powers.”
“Laurie Lee

I’ll never forget the first time I saw you.  You were wet sticky, wrinkly and screaming your head off.  The most perfect, beautiful sight I had ever seen.
Stuart Macfarlane

“No man can possibly know what life means, what the world means, what anything means, until he has a child and loves it.  And then the whole universe changes and nothing will ever again seem exactly as it seemed before.”
Lafcadio Hearn

“I’ll carry you first cry with me wherever I go.”
Paule D’Arcy

"one thing about having a baby is that each step of the way, you simply cannot imagine loving him anymore than you already do, because you are bursting with love, loving as much as you are humanly capable of, and then you do; you love him even more."
Anne Lamott

A baby overwhelms us with lovableness; even its smell stirs us more deeply that the smell of pine or baking bread.  What is overpowering is simply the fact that a baby is life.”
Bill Cosby

...in that moment of desperation she let fly her first real smile:  not a shy, average half-moon smile – but an open-mouthed, toothless, silly wide gas of delight.  She chortled at me and despite my stupor, I laughed back.  She’s taken me by surprise, and exhaustion dropped away, flooded out on waves of pure maternal bliss...the spirit – that wild sense of humor – had been Elyse and stayed Elyse from that minute on.”
Linda Gray Sexton

“Such tiny hands to hold in our hearts forever.:
Pam Brown

“When I hold her exhausted from the day’s work and the disturbed nights, there is a deep relief and pleasure at finding myself able to give – again and again – what’s needed:  bottles, changes, attention.  I’ve at last found the good mother within me, the ability to put someone else’s needs before my own, and she’s so beautiful it feels like a privilege.”
Jean Radford

“...I also had no idea I could feel so deeply or that tucking children in would have the serenity of prayer, or that being their father / mother would renovate my heart.”
Hugh O’Neill

“He is totally transformed my his first daughter.  There is a gentleness about him that even love never discovered.  He holds her like a flower, like thinnest glass.  He wonders at this new and lovely life, incredible in its perfection”
Pam Brown

“Just for a little while a human being loves and trusts the world, is amazed by its simplicities, in awe of its complexities, enchanted by light and color, movement, strangeness, eager to explore, in love with waking and with sleeping.  Those who snatch away even one moment of that golden time have stolen something that can never be replaced.”
Pam Brown

“Life’s song, indeed, would lose its charm,
Were there no babies to begin it;
A doleful place this world would be,
Were there not little people in it.”
J.G. Whittier

“A timy daughter seems like a dolly to dress but dolls do not sick, poo, dribble or apply liberal amounts of paint and mud.  Satins and laces don’t last long on this living doll.”
Pamela Dugdale

“I cannot tell you exactly when I truly felt love for her.  I suspect it was developed slowly over the first few weeks.  I know that by the time she started smiling at me I felt not only love, but adulation.”
Carolyn Jacobs

“...a baby brings out the love, tolerance and tenderness which has become rusty over the years.”
F.M. Wightman

“I wish you so much.  But most of all I wish you to be your own true self.  To take all the gifts that you were born with and make them marvels of beauty and ingenuity and astonishment.”
Pam Brown

“Babies are amazing…
the way they stare into your eyes…
their exuberant smiles…
how they begin each day all warm
and sleepy, smelling of promise.
I suppose I never realized
it before…babies aren’t really
born of their parents, they’re born
of every kind word, loving
gesture, hope, and dream their
parents ever had…“
-Julia Roberts