- “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
- “There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings.” —Hodding Carter Jr.
- “Like stars are to the sky, so are the children to our world. They deserve to shine!” —Chinonye J. Chidolue
- For all the things my hands have held the best by far is you.
- “Having a baby is like falling in love again, both with your husband and your child.” —Tina Brown
- “There are no words that can describe the euphoria you feel when your baby recognizes you for the first time and smiles.” —Jared Padalecki
- “What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.” —Benjamin Spock
- “It’s
a good thing babies don’t give you a lot of time to think. You fall in
love with them and when you realize how much they love you back, life is
very simple.” —Anita Diamant
- “Children have neither past nor future. They enjoy the present, which very few of us do.” —Jean De La Bruyere
- “I
think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the
ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in
the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its
cradle.” —Vincent Van Gogh
- It is a
moment of pure ecstasy and satisfaction when you see a smile flicker on
baby’s lips, just as they gently pass into a deep slumber.
- “All
those cliches, those things you hear about having a baby and
motherhood—all of them are true. And all of them are the most beautiful
things you will ever experience.” —Penelope Cruz
- “And
I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection
of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be
spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals. That a
day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be
bettered.” —Nicholas Sparks
- “You know what the great thing about babies is? They are like little bundles of hope. Like the future in a basket.” —Lish McBride
- “Babies
control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by
them; in fact, the family brings up baby by being brought up by him.” —Erik H. Erikson
- “I
think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to
endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Loving
a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback loop. The more you
give the more you get and the more you get the more you feel like
giving.” —Penelope Leach
- “Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.” —Fran Lebowitz
- “If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?” —Milton Berle
- “Perfection only exists in babies and pastries.” —Gayle Wray
- The most precious jewels, you’ll ever have around your neck, are the arms of your children.
- “Make no mistake about why these babies are here—they are here to replace us.” —Jerry Seinfeld
- “I always wondered why babies spend so much time sucking their thumbs. Then I tasted baby food.” —Robert Orben
- “When
your first baby drops her pacifier, you sterilize it. When your second
baby drops her pacifier, you tell the dog: ‘Fetch!’.” —Bruce Lansky
- And then my soul saw you and it kind of went “Oh, there you are. I’ve been looking for you.”
- “You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.” —Franklin P. Jones
- “A
child enters your home and for the next twenty years makes so much
noise you can hardly stand it. The child departs, leaving the house so
silent you think you are going mad.” —John Andrew Holmes
- You’re my favorite reason to lose sleep.
- A parent is someone who carries pictures where their money used to be.
- “Before I got married I had six theories about raising children. Now, I have six children and no theories.” —John Wilmot
- A toddler can do more in one unsupervised moment than most people can do all day.
- “The amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority.” —Olivia Wilde
- You’ll
learn to lower your expectations about what you can accomplish in a
day. Some days, it will be all you can do to keep baby safe, warm, and
fed. And that will be enough.
- A baby makes love stronger, the days shorter, the nights longer, savings smaller, and a home happier.
- “This is a
place where grandmothers hold babies on their laps under the stars and
whisper in their ears that the lights in the sky are holes in the floor
of heaven.” —Rick Bragg
- I loved you
from the very start. You stole my breath, embraced my heart. Our life
together has just begun. You’re part of me, my little one.
- “Having
my baby fall asleep in my arms takes away all of my worries and
stresses. A sense of complete and total peace comes over me.” —Maria Jose Ovalle3
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