Baby Quotes

"Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body."

- Elizabeth Stone

"There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings."

- Hodding Carter Jr.

"Like stars are to the sky, so are the children to our world. They deserve to shine!"

- Chinonye J. Chidolue

"For all the things my hands have held the best by far is you."

"Having a baby is like falling in love again, both with your husband and your child."

- Tina Brown

"There are no words that can describe the euphoria you feel when your baby recognizes you for the first time and smiles."

- Jared Padalecki

"What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all."

- Benjamin Spock

"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

"Children have neither past nor future. They enjoy the present, which very few of us do."

- Jean De La Bruyere

"It is a moment of pure ecstasy and satisfaction when you see a smile flicker on baby's lips, just as they gently pass into a deep slumber."

"All those cliches, those things you hear about having a baby and motherhood-all of them are true. And all of them are the most beautiful things you will ever experience."

- Penelope Cruz

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

- Lish McBride

"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

"I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Loving a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback loop. The more you give the more you get and the more you get the more you feel like giving."

- Penelope Leach

"This is a place where grandmothers hold babies on their laps under the stars and whisper in their ears that the lights in the sky are holes in the floor of heaven."

- Rick Bragg