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Quotes About Babies

Shall I tell you something I've been noticing? The mistrust this society has for women. All kinds of experts and officials are terrified because so many women are working. They really think that women have to be coerced into having babies and raising kids.
~ Marge Piercy
You don't know anything about pain until you've seen your own baby drowned in a tub... and you definitely don't know anything about how to wash a baby.
~ Anthony Jeselnik
Babies are such amazing creations, they put up with all our nonsense and we keep believing that we are amazing parents.
~ Unknown
Babies don't need a vacation but I still see them at the beach. I'll go over to them and say, "What are you doing here, you've never worked a day in your life!"
~ Stephen Wright
I can't think why mothers love them. All babies do is leak at both ends.
~ Douglas Feaver
No one likes change but babies in diapers.
~ Barbara Johnson
I always wondered why babies spend so much time sucking their thumbs. Then I tasted baby food.
~ Robert Orben
Families with babies, and families without babies are sorry for each other.
~ Ed Howe
Why is it that people say they "slept like a baby" when babies wake up like every two hours?
~ Mark Cahill
Maybe mistakes are what make our fate... without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had never veered off course we wouldn't fall in love, have babies, or be who we are. After all, things change, so do cities, people come into your life and they go. But it's comforting to know that the ones you love are always in your heart... and if you're very lucky, a plane ride away
~ Sex and the City
On the contrary. Babies are the best judges of character.
~ Unknown
If we are to believe Schopenhauer, women are incapable of romantic love and merely use man's love hunger as bait to fish babies out of the treacherous sea of matrimony. Of course Schopenhauer, who threw a female servant down a flight of stairs, and was intimate with numerous women he hated philosophically, is no unbiased witness to woman's unfathomable treachery.
~ Maxwell Bodenheim
He's as ambivalent about raising a family as I am, but he'll do it because I asked him to. And until now, I tried convincing myself that it was the praiseworthy decision. But is it the right choice for the babies? For Ram? For me? But I'm not supposed to think about what's best for me, am I?
~ Megan McCafferty
Flowers are like the sweet babies of the nature; they make us to smile.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
If we have to get married and have a million babies, I hope our relationship will be built on mutual disgust and an endless barrage of ridicule and insults. It feels like the only thing I can count on right now. I don't want something dumb like respect and affection getting in the way.
~ Michael Buckley
That summer, there was a Name the Babies contest, an annual event organized by the Whale Museum on San Juan Island. A young girl from Bellingham submitted the winning entry. The little orca should be named "Luna", she wrote, because "the whale explores the ocean like the moon explores the Earth.
~ Michael Parfit
Here was the world of cardiac surgery on babies born with heart defects, and here, I had learned during my first month in this center, was the unusual work of unusual people:
~ Michael Ruhlman
Megalodons," Prometheus announced, pulling the Rukma higher and higher, little fountains of water spilling from the leaks in its sides. "They were at least thirty feet long!" Scathach said. "I know," replied the Elder. "They must have been babies.
~ Michael Scott
A good God wouldn't have let my babies die. I can't believe in that. My babies did nothing wrong." "I agree. They did nothing wrong." He looked at her thoughtfully. "But a God that did everything we thought was right and good wouldn't be the creator of the universe. He would be our puppet. He wouldn't be God. There's more to everything than we know.
~ Min Jin Lee
I had read the baby books, of course, but could remember literally nothing but one fact: "babies are born without kneecaps." What the hell was I supposed to do with that information?
~ Mindy Kaling
I had read the baby books, of course, but could remember literally nothing but one fact: "babies are born without kneecaps." What the hell was I supposed to do with that information? Invite some gangster to take retribution against me by kneecapping my baby and then laugh when he realizes it's physically impossible? That was no good to me; I would have needed to lay the groundwork ages ago!
~ Mindy Kaling
They were just little families cooking beans and planting and hunting a deer now and then, and having babies and laying their old folks to rest, not harming anyone, just living...I know that Indians aren't no dirtier than any white folks and cleaner than some. Not stupid, either. But I saved my breath. The likes of her isn't going to listen nor be changed in the mind just from hearing sense. Some people sense is wasted on and that's purely a fact.
~ Nancy E. Turner
There is a noise that is different to grief. Sadness wails and cries and lets loose a sound to the heavens like a baby calling for its mother. That kind of noisy grief is hopeful. It believes that things can be put right, or that help can come. There is a different kind of sound to that. Babies left alone too long do not even cry. They become very still and quiet. They know no one is coming.
~ Naomi Alderman
Have you thought about the evolutionary psychology of it? Men have evolved to be strong worker homestead-keepers, while women—with babies to protect from harm—have had to become aggressive and violent. The few partial patriarchies that have ever existed in human society have been very peaceful places.
~ Naomi Alderman