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.”
Baby - Babies Quotes
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.
A baby is born believing.
Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace, Secret joys and secret smiles, Little pretty infant wiles.
A sweet new blossom of humanity, fresh fallen from God’s own home, to flower on earth.
A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain.
