Top 62 Baby Quotes

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Babies are wonderful bundles of joy. They help us realize what is truly important. With that in mind, check out the top 62 baby quotes.

#62 – 60. Baby Quotes

62. 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 communicated pleasure, by the consciousness of dignity of benefaction. – Samuel Johnson

61. The children we bring into the world are small replicas of ourselves and our husbands; the pride and joy of grandfathers and grandmothers. We dream of being mothers, and for most of us that dreams are realized naturally. For this is the Miracle of Life. – Azelene Williams

60. As babies we’re born blank sheets of paper. Not a single mark. As we grow older, lines form, then colors and patterns. Before long that paper is all sorts of brilliant. Like a kaleidoscope, no two exactly alike. – Shannon Wiersbitzky

#59 – 50. Baby Quotes

59. Except that right side up is best, there is not much to learn about holding a baby. There are one hundred and fifty-two distinctly different ways –and all are right! At least all will do. – Heywood Broun

58. Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess. – Lemony Snicket

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

56. No one who has seen a baby sinking back satiated from the breast and falling asleep with flushed cheeks and a blissful smile can escape the reflection that this picture persists as a prototype of the expression of sexual satisfaction in later life. – Sigmund Freud

55. A baby is a dancing joy of life. – Debasish Mridha

54. A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. – Ronald Knox

53. A baby is God’s opinion that life should go on. – Carl Sandburg

52. The baby’s body lay in a bassinet. He was the size of a half loaf of bread, his bones light as a bird’s and stretched with thin skin. – Jodi Picoult

51. The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants. – Johnny Depp

50. It’s way too early for him to be talking anyhow but I see in his eyes something and I see in his eyes a voice and I see in his eyes a whole new set of words – Sherman Alexie

#49 – 40. Baby Quotes

49. You know what the great thing about babies is? They are like little bundles of hope. Like the future in a basket. – Lish McBride

48. Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever fresh and radiant possibility. – Kate Douglas Wiggin

47. Babies are the buds of life ready to bloom like a fresh flower to refresh humanity. – Debasish Mridha

46. I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting. – Queen Victoria

45. Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it. – Marshall McLuhan

44. The best baby-sitters, of course, are the baby’s grandparents. You feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long periods, which is why most grandparents flee to Florida. – Dave Barry

43. We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground. – Mark Twain

42. A mother does not become pregnant in order to provide employment to medical people. Giving birth is an ecstatic jubilant adventure not available to males. It is a woman’s crowning creative experience of a lifetime. – John Stevenson

41. You may hate being pregnant, but the minute the baby is born, she is God’s precious child, given to you as a gift. – Sandra Dallas

40. You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the years that have passed there has never been another child like you. Your legs, your arms, your clever fingers, the way you move. You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel. – Pau (Pablo) Casals

#39 – 30. Baby Quotes

39. Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age? – Desiderius Erasmus

38. The tots both started laughing. On the same day. I’m now obsessed with getting them to do it. Babies laughing is like opium. – Neil Patrick Harris

37. The tiny madman in his padded cell. – Vladimir Nabokov

36. We all started off this way – small little bundles of joy. Me, Aires, Noah, Lila, Isaiah and even Beth. At some point, someone held us and loved us. – Katie McGarry

35. I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us. – Charles Dickens

34. 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

33. Everybody needs some time to rejuvenate, refresh, recharge and begin again. Seeing babies face is the best way to relax, refresh, rejuvenate and recharge. – Revathi Sankaran

32. For me, this baby was the most precious thing I had ever had. He was my treasure, my joy, my world, my everything now. – Preeti Shenoy

31. In the garden of humanity every baby is a fresh new flower. – Debasish Mridha

30. Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they’ll just have to learn how to be babies longer. – Andy Warhol

#29 – 20. Baby Quotes

29. I know now why God gave us babies. They require constant attention, of course. They make messes and disturb the peace, but their cuteness and smiles are something the only reminder of God we have in the house. – Ann Rinaldi

28. Babies cry at birth because it is the first time they experience separation from love. – Kamand Kojouri

27. The babies are amazing. They begin each day all warm and sleepy, smelling of promise. – Julia Roberts

26. Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

25. I always wondered why babies spend so much time sucking their thumbs. Then I tasted baby food. – Robert Orben

24. It’s never the right time to have kids, but it’s always the right time for screwing. God’s not dumb. He knows how it works. – Justin Halpern

23. Babies are living dolls with dancing smiles that come from the stars to still our hearts. – Debasish Mridha

22. Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

21. A baby is born with a need to be loved and never outgrows it. – Frank A. Clark

20. 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

#19 – 10. Baby Quotes

19. A happy baby has shining eyes. It walks open hearted into the world and spreads magic. – Sigrid Leo

18. Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act. – Lewis Mumford

17. Like stars are to the sky, so are the children to our world. They deserve to shine! – Chinonye J. Chidolue

16. Mark the babe not long accustomed to this breathing world; One that hath barely learned to shape a smile, though yet irrational of soul, to grasp with tiny finger — to let fall a tear; And, as the heavy cloud of sleep dissolves, To stretch his limbs, becoming, as might seem. The outward functions of intelligent man. – William Wordsworth

15. Every child begins the world again. – Henry David Thoreau

14. Don’t stand unmoving outside the door of a crying baby whose only desire is to touch you. Go to your baby. Go to your baby a million times. Demonstrate that people can be trusted, that the environment can be trusted, that we live in a benign universe. – Peggy O’Mara

13. Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man. – Rabindranath Tagore

12. Babies are such a nice way to start people. – Don Herold

11. 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

10. Babies used to make me nervous, but these squirmy things are awesome once you’ve read the manual. – David Z. Hirsch

#9 – 1. Baby Quotes

9. Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things –wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its earth to concrete… babies are almost the only remaining link with nature, with the natural world of living things from which we spring. – Eda J. Le Shan

8. It is a smile of a baby that makes life worth living. – Debasish Mridha

7. A baby is as pure as an angel and as fresh as a blooming flower. – Debasish Mridha

6. Children see magic because they look for it. – Christopher Moore

5. The jewel of the sky is the sun, the jewel of the house is the child. – Chinese Saying

4. A soiled baby, with a neglected nose, cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty. – Mark Twain

3. If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby it. – Jerome K. Jerome

2. Abort the thought, save the baby. – Chinonye J. Chidolue

1. From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father have been, and their parents and their parents before them. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities. This enterprise is on the whole successful. – R. D. Laing

Ideas for the top 62 baby quotes come from the following sources.^[1]Quoteland – Babies^[2]Planet of Success – 65 Inspiring and Cute Baby Quote^[3]Wise Old Sayings – Baby Sayings and Quotes