Baby - Babies Quotes

A mother’s singing, however poor, is far better for her baby than the best of records.

Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married… Mom was working as a maid with a white family. When they found out she was going to have a baby they just threw her out. Pop’s family just about had a fit, too, when they heard about it. They were real […]

Families with babies and families without are so sorry for each other.

Father asked us what was God’s noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.

We haven’t come a long way. We’ve come a short way. If we hadn’t come a short way, no one would be calling us “baby.”

If you were to open up a baby’s head – and I am not suggesting for a moment that you should – you would find nothing but an enormous drool gland.

To see helpless infancy stretching out her hands, and pouring out her cries in testimony of dependence, without any powers to alarm jealousy, or any guilt to alienate affection, must surely awaken tenderness in every human mind; and tenderness once excited will be hourly increased by the natural contagion of felicity, by the repercussion of […]

Birth: The first and direst of all disasters.

No animal is so inexhaustible as an excited infant.

Infancy, n. The period of our lives when, according to Wordsworth, “Heaven lies about us.” The world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.