Baby Quotes - Page 3

• We can see the child moving rather serenely in the uterus. The child senses aggression in its sanctuary. We see the child's mouth wide open in a silent scream.

  Bernard Nathanson

  Children, Moving, Uterus

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

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Mother, Courage, Explanation

  FaceBook post by Elizabeth Taylor from Jun 30, 2016

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• My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

  Mark Twain

  Mothers Day, Mom, Children

  Mark Twain (1961). “Twain: Wit and Wisecracks”

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• A lot of baby boomers are baby bongers.

  Kevin Nealon

  Funny, Laughter, Boomers

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• If you put a baseball and other toys in front of a baby, he'll pick up a baseball in preference to the others.

  Tris Speaker

  Baseball, Toys, Preference

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Having a baby dragged me, kicking and screaming, from the world of self-absorption.

  Paul Reiser

  Self, Kicking, World

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• A baby's a full time job for three adults. Nobody tells you that when you're pregnant, or you'd probably jump off a bridge. Nobody tells you how all-consuming it is to be a mother-how reading goes out the window and thinking too.

  Erica Jong

  Mother, Jobs, Reading

  Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.43, Penguin

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• A soiled baby with a neglected nose cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.

  Mark Twain

  Beauty, Noses, Neglected

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.2422, Delphi Classics

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• Carrying a baby is the most rewarding experience a woman can enjoy.

  Jayne Mansfield

  Enjoy, Rewarding Experiences, Baby Boy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns.

  David Ogilvy

  Campaigns, World, Advertising

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts the lover afore words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first-born baby, and assures him of a mother's love.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Happiness, Smile, Mom

  "Sam Slick's Wise Saws and Modern Instances: Or, What He Said, Did, Or Invented". Volume II,

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• I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!

  William Blake

  Happiness, Sweet, Names

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.71, Penguin

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• It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

  Charles Dickens

  Answers, World, Lasts

  Charles Dickens (1839). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.347

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• I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven't had a lesson since.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Lessons, Walks

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• 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

  Stupid, Kids, Responsibility

  "Global Protests, Tragedy in Arizona, and a Defense of Political Polarization?" by David Helfenbein, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 28, 2011.

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• If men had to have babies, they would only ever have one each.

  Princess Diana

  Men, Ifs

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• We're not going to baby sit a civil war.

  Barack Obama

  War, Hippie, Civil War

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

  John Updike

  Art, Shoes, Gold

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• War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

  H. L. Mencken

  Peace, War, Political

  'Minority Report'. Collected in Notebooks (1956).

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• I got a hundred bucks says my baby beats Pete's baby. I just think genetics are in my favour.

  Andre Agassi

  Thinking, Bucks, Favour

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• 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

  Thinking, Genius, Months

  May Sarton (2014). “Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel”, p.63, Open Road Media

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• The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby is beneath him, and then he certainly is not going to be a very successful father.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Fathers Day, Successful, Men

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1946). “If You Ask Me”

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• There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

  James A. Baldwin

  Funny, Uplifting, Children

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• That was the summer of 1963, when everybody called me ‘Baby,’ and it didn't occur to me to mind.

  Jennifer Grey

  Summer, Mind

  "Fictional character: Baby". "Dirty Dancing", www.imdb.com. August 21, 1987.

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• Does Grandpa love to baby-sit his grandchildren? Are you kidding? By day he is too busy taking hormone shots at the doctor's or chip shots on the golf course. At night he and Grandma are too busy doing the cha-cha.

  Hal Boyle

  Grandma, Golf, Night

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