Quotes and Sayings about Babies
"For the first time in my life I feel important. I'd like to have five babies."
- June Allyson
(Related: Life, Time, Babies, First)
"I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies."
- June Allyson
(Related: Home, Babies)
"I've given birth to five babies and I breastfed every single one of these babies. To think that government has to go out and buy my breast pump for my babies. You wanna talk about the nanny state? I think we just got the new definition of a nanny."
- Michele Bachmann
(Related: Government, Babies, State, Talk)
"When looking at the evidence of feeding on large prey, you can see every size tooth from hatchling to adult in one spot. The babies may have been fed in the nest until they were full grown, like in eagles and hawks."
- Robert T. Bakker
(Related: Babies, Eagles, Hawks, May)
"But people that are worried about unborn babies are the same ones that vote against kindergarten programs in Indiana or school lunch funds out of the federal government."
- Birch Bayh
(Related: Government, People, Babies, School, Vote)
"Most of us would do more for our babies than we have ever been willing to do for anyone, even ourselves."
- Polly Berrien Berends
(Related: Babies)
"Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?"
- Candice Bergen
(Related: Women, Work, Babies)
"All pitchers are liars or crybabies."
- Yogi Berra
"I used to think about how I was conceived quite a lot when I was about 10 or 11, but I don't think about it at all now that so many other babies have been born in the same way."
- Louise Brown
(Related: Babies, Now)
"All babies are beautiful."
- Jeanne Calment
(Related: Babies)
"The truth is, no matter how trying they become, babies two and under don't have the ability to make moral choices, so they can't be bad. That category only exists in the adult mind."
- Anne Cassidy
(Related: Truth, Ability, Babies, Choices, Mind, Trying)
"It's a wonderful thing to see a segment of our population that is open and eager to learn more about Chinese culture. It has filtered into the mainstream. You see credit-card ads on TV with white couples and Chinese babies."
- Iris Chang
(Related: Babies, Credit, Culture, Open, Population)
"It is the nature of babies to be in bliss."
- Deepak Chopra
(Related: Nature, Babies)
"We are at a major epoch in human history, which is that we don't need sex to recreate the race. You can have babies without sex. This is the first time in human history that has been true, and it means, for example, we could do some extraordinary things."
- David Cronenberg
(Related: History, Time, Sex, Babies, Example, First, Race)
"I want to have babies one day but not right now. When I do it I want to do it really well. I want it to be my best project in life."
- Penelope Cruz
(Related: Life, Babies, Day, Now, Project, Right, Want)
"The Center for Immigration Studies found that illegal immigrants cost the United States taxpayer about $10.4 billion a year. A large part of that expense stems from the babies born each year to illegal immigrants."
- Nathan Deal
(Related: Babies, states, United)
"If men had to have babies, they would only ever have one each."
- Princess Diana
(Related: Men, Babies)
"I was walking around with the babies so much that when I got to the Sidney Lumet picture, I would be on set in between takes and I'd be rocking back and forth. Just standing like this rocking back and forth, and Sidney would say, Why are you walking like that in between takes?"
- Vin Diesel
(Related: Babies, Walking)
"If people think that you're throwing babies out, dissecting children, to do stem-cell research, I'm not for that."
- Elizabeth Edwards
(Related: People, Babies, Children, Research)
"These wretched babies don't come until they are ready."
- Elizabeth II
(Related: Babies)
"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
(Related: Age, Kiss, Babies, Enemy, First, Help, Man)
"Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; in fact the family brings up baby by being brought up by him."
- Erik H. Erikson
(Related: Family, Control, Babies, Baby, Being, Fact)
"I can't think why mothers love them. All babies do is leak at both ends."
- Douglas Feaver
(Related: Love, Babies, Mothers)
"Did you know babies are nauseated by the smell of a clean shirt?"
- Jeff Foxworthy
(Related: Babies)
"There's no praise or acknowledgment paid to women who raise the babies."
- Sharon Gless
(Related: Women, Babies, Praise)
"Amnesty is the magnet. Other magnets that you mentioned are anchor babies who get benefits in this country and employer deductions for employees, even if they are here illegally, which Mr. King is addressing."
- Virgil Goode
(Related: Babies, Benefits, Country, Employees)
"Research has shown that a barren environment is much more damaging to baby animals than it is to adult animals. It does not hurt the adult animals the same way it damages babies."
- Temple Grandin
(Related: Animals, Babies, Baby, Environment, Hurt, Research)
"I don't particularly like babies. I don't mind them for about four minutes. That's my max. After that I can't quite see what everyone's fussing about."
- Hugh Grant
(Related: Babies, Mind)
"The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too."
- Tom Hanks
(Related: Age, People, Babies, Being, Generations)
"It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life."
- Augustus Hare
(Related: Life, Babies, Conceit, Importance, Intellect, Mothers)
"I like to express certain things that happen in my life, the joy of spring, the birds singing and young babies coming into the world. You know, the whole thing as well as the part I'm not happy with, the sad part."
- Roy Haynes
(Related: Life, Babies, Birds, Joy, Singing, Spring, World)
"Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of."
- Amy Heckerling
(Related: Babies, Baby, Care, Fathers, Mothers, Needs)
"Babies act out when they're hungry, cold, tired. They do this for survival."
- Marilu Henner
(Related: Survival, Act, Babies)
"It's been my dream to have four babies by 30. I look after animals, so I'd have a lot to give my kids."
- Paris Hilton
(Related: Dream, Animals, Babies, Kids)
"Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other."
- Edgar Watson Howe
(Related: Babies)
"I think all actors - they'll hate me for saying this - but we are babies. We like to be loved, and we'll do anything if we're loved."
- Anjelica Huston
(Related: Actors, Babies, Hate, Saying)
"I've always been a true believer that if men had babies, nobody would be trying to tell them what they can and can't do with their bodies."
- Scott Ian
(Related: Men, Babies, Trying)
"No one likes change but babies in diapers."
- Barbara Johnson
(Related: Change, Babies)
"Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store."
- Lyndon B. Johnson
(Related: Babies, Kissing)
"There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies."
- Leon Kass
(Related: Fear, Babies)
"Directors who turn into big babies and shut out criticism stop learning."
- Richard King
(Related: Babies, Criticism, Learning)
"Truth, which is important to a scholar, has got to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud."
- Jeane Kirkpatrick
(Related: Truth, Babies, Frogs, Nothing)
"I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle, so all is peace."
- Edward Lear
(Related: Peace, People, Babies, Twins)
"A woman doing comedy doesn't offend me, but sets me back a bit. I, as a viewer, have trouble with it. I think of her as a producing machine that brings babies in the world."
- Jerry Lewis
(Related: Babies, Comedy, Machine, Trouble, Woman, World)
"If you look around Brazil you see pregnant women everywhere. Here you don't see that as much. There the only thing they do is babies, babies, babies! Especially the poor families."
- Adriana Lima
(Related: Women, Babies, Brazil, Poor)
"I was married when I wasn't quite 14 and had four babies by the time I was 18."
- Loretta Lynn
(Related: Time, Babies)
"I didn't know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child."
- Loretta Lynn
(Related: Babies)
"I am serving the Lord and helping women save babies."
- Norma McCorvey
(Related: Women, Babies)
"War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands."
- H. L. Mencken
(Related: War, Babies, Will, World)
"I'm always amazed when young women who are having babies want their husbands to watch the babies come out. I would never allow anything like that."
- Jeanne Moreau
(Related: Women, Babies, Husbands, Want)
"The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it."
- Toni Morrison
(Related: Nature, Babies, Body, Income)
"My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we'd grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies."
- Holly Near
(Related: Babies, Labor, Parents)
"Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns."
- David Ogilvy
(Related: Advertising, Babies, Living, World)
"So, babies are taken from their mothers because they get temporarily insane and it's not the mother's fault. This is the thing: they shouldn't feel ashamed. They didn't cause this. It is not something they did to themselves."
- Marie Osmond
(Related: Mother, Babies, Cause, Fault, Mothers)
"We were marching since we were babies and all we did was make Jane Fonda famous."
- Robert Patrick
(Related: Babies, Famous)
"Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once."
- Norman Vincent Peale
(Related: Babies, Promises, Theater)
"You'd look out and there'd be little babies watching the show, and boys and girls. They loved the cowboys, and they loved Annie. There were young people seeing the show for the first time. I stayed for two years because I enjoyed it so much."
- Bernadette Peters
(Related: Time, People, Babies, Boys, Cowboys, First, Girls, Years)
"They're not the sharpest people - babies. So, you must be everything to them."
- Paul Reiser
(Related: People, Babies)
"I remember my wife and I used to get on plane and see everybody else with their babies. They'd be putting strollers and car seats up above, and we'd think: Oh, please Lord, don't make us go through that."
- Paul Reiser
(Related: Car, Wife, Babies)
"To see those babies with no food for three of four days, old people sitting in the hot sun, when you see these poor people, you cannot help but being compassionate or affected."
- Geraldo Rivera
(Related: Food, People, Babies, Being, Help, Old, Poor, Sun)
"Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad."
- Leo Rosten
(Related: Babies, Dogs, Man)
"For right now, it really is the end. Hopefully in 10 years we'll all be married and have babies."
- Kelly Rowland
(Related: Babies, End, Now, Right, Years)
"Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: Babies, Beer)
"Make no mistake about why these babies are here - they are here to replace us."
- Jerry Seinfeld
(Related: Mistake, Babies)
"Babies have big heads and big eyes, and tiny little bodies with tiny little arms and legs. So did the aliens at Roswell! I rest my case."
- William Shatner
(Related: Babies, Eyes, Rest)
"I wanted to travel with my dad to be close to him again. Having babies and raising my own family took so much of my time, I didn't have a chance to be with him very often."
- Nancy Sinatra
(Related: Dad, Family, Travel, Time, Babies, Chance)
"Let's clean up our environment. Let's clean up our bodies, but most importantly, let's not permit our babies of the future to be polluted before they are even born."
- Louise Slaughter
(Related: Babies, Environment, Future)
"If ever we had proof that our nation's pollution laws aren't working, it's reading the list of industrial chemicals in the bodies of babies who have not yet lived outside the womb."
- Louise Slaughter
(Related: Babies, Laws, Nation, Pollution, Proof, Reading)
"What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all."
- Benjamin Spock
(Related: Babies, Fathers, Mothers)
"The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all."
- Benjamin Spock
(Related: People, Babies, Children, Fathers, Mothers)
"I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies."
- Benjamin Spock
(Related: War, Babies, Vietnam)
"Most countries are static, and they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight."
- Neal Stephenson
(Related: America, Babies, Countries, Eating, Machine, Old, Sight, Smoking)
"Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own."
- Robert Louis Stevenson
(Related: Impression, Babies, Cannibalism, Disgust, Nothing)
"Licences to have babies incidentally is something that I got in trouble for some years ago for suggesting even in Canada that this might be necessary at some point, at least some restriction on the right to have a child."
- Maurice Strong
(Related: Babies, Canada, Right, Trouble, Years)
"Nobody wants you to stop, obviously because you're a moneymaking machine. But you have to make the decision and you have to move forward. So I took time off to have babies and do all that."
- Donna Summer
(Related: Time, Decision, Babies, Machine)
"I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Babies, Parents)
"We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma."
- Randall Terry
(Related: Babies, Being, Want)
"Senorita was fun to sing, but I don't really have a favorite. When you write a bunch of songs, they're like your babies. You don't pick favorites."
- Justin Timberlake
(Related: Babies, Favorite, Fun, Songs)
"I remember leaving the hospital - thinking, 'Wait, are they going to let me just walk off with him? I don't know beans about babies! I don't have a license to do this.' We're just amateurs."
- Anne Tyler
(Related: Thinking)
"I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting."
- Queen Victoria
(Related: Babies)
"Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer."
- Andy Warhol
(Related: People, Babies, Living)
"There's people making babies to my music. That's nice."
- Barry White
(Related: Music, People, Babies)
"I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy."
- Barry White
(Related: Babies)
"A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin."
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
(Related: Time, Babies, Baby, Boys, Girls, Today)
"Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day."
- Armstrong Williams
(Related: Education, Babies, Children, Crime, Day, Drugs, Obstacles, Temptation)
"Babies don't need a vacation, but I still see them at the beach... it pisses me off! I'll go over to a little baby and say 'What are you doing here? You haven't worked a day in your life!'"
- Steven Wright
(Related: Babies, Baby, Beach, Day, Vacation)
"When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother's voice."
- Robert Wyatt
(Related: Music, Mother, Babies, Focus, Hearing, Voice)