158 First Baby Quotes

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Famous First Baby Quotes

A new baby is like the beginning of all things - wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. — Eda LeShan

In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along. — Antonin Scalia

A newborn already has nine months of experience when she is born. — T. Berry Brazelton

Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. - Gore Vidal

Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. — Gore Vidal

When I first got pregnant, I freaked out. Then I had to remind myself: I'm turning 30 — Melissa Joan Hart

Birth: The first and direst of all disasters. - Ambrose Bierce

Birth: The first and direst of all disasters. — Ambrose Bierce

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

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

Every baby's first breath on Earth could be one of peace and love. Every mother should be healthy and strong. Every birth could be safe and loving. But our world is not there yet — Robin Lim

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

Birth may be a matter of a moment, but it is a unique one. — Frederick Leboyer

Babies are always more trouble than you thought and more wonderful. - Charles Osgood

Babies are always more trouble than you thought and more wonderful. — Charles Osgood

First feelings are always the most natural. - Louis XIV

First feelings are always the most natural. — Louis XIV

A newborn baby has only three demands. They are warmth in the arms of its mother, food from her breasts, and security in the knowledge of her presence. Breastfeeding satisfies all three. — Grantly Dick-Read

Attachment to a baby is a long-term process, not a single, magical moment. The opportunity for bonding at birth may be compared to falling in love - staying in love takes longer and demands more work. — T. Berry Brazelton

My daughter is my biggest achievement. She is a little star and my life has changed so much for the better since she came along. — Denise Van Outen

Short First Baby Quotes

  • Having a baby is painful in order to show how serious a thing life is. — Lisa See
  • Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers. — Barbara Katz Rothman
  • Carrying a baby is the most rewarding experience a woman can enjoy. — Jayne Mansfield
  • Don't tell me about the pain. Show me the baby. — Sayings
  • Having a baby is like falling in love again, both with your husband and your child. — Tina Brown
  • A baby is a loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. — Ronald Knox
  • Precious and priceless, so lovable, too; The world's sweetest miracle, baby, is you. — Helen Steiner Rice
  • I didn't know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child. — Loretta Lynn

First Baby Image Quotes

First baby quote The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself.
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself.

My First Baby Quotes

Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart. — A. A. Milne

For the first time I feel an inner emotional security. There is reality and dependability. My life revolves around Richard and the baby. — Natalie Wood

Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply. — Jane Austen

First baby quote You have to be odd to be number one.
You have to be odd to be number one.

A toast once heard: "To my big sister, who never found her second Easter egg until I'd found my first." — Robert Breault

I met my wife and, for the next ten years, we did no films at all. She did the first movie and then I did several after. My first movie was written by Tennessee Williams and directed by [Elia] Kazan and was called Baby Doll. — Eli Wallach

The feeling of your baby taking nourishment from your body for the first time is amazing, and it remains the most touching moment of my life. — Laura Schlessinger

First baby quote Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure you are not, in fac
Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure you are not, in fact, surrounded by assholes.

My first marriage was totally unsuitable and shouldn't have happened. It was a whirlwind, rebound thing. I was 23 or 24 - a baby. — Carol Vorderman

I think it is such a privilege to give a baby its first home inside your body. [After the pregnancy was over] I found myself massaging my stomach gently. I miss him being in my body -- stretching, hiccupping even. It was a wonderful, deep, loving, fulfilling feeling. — Celine Dion

The beginning of my life was simple and much like every other little life. I came, I saw, I conquered, as the first baby in the family always does. — Helen Keller

I wasn't a ballet baby. My first dance class was in an outdoor pavilion when I was three. It was called 'creative movement.' The teacher gave us chiffon scarves in beautiful colors. She turned on some music and said, 'Now go dance.' So for me, dance has always been about self-expression. — Carrie Ann Inaba

New Baby Quotes

Three things remain with us from paradise: stars, flowers and children. — Dante Alighieri

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. — Osho

Scott Bullett, as he takes left field, is getting congratulations from everybody. He and his daughter are parents of a new baby. — Harry Caray

First baby quote First think, second believe, third dream and finally dare.
First think, second believe, third dream and finally dare.

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 Erikson

Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day. — Emma Goldman

There's people making babies to my music. That's nice. - Barry White

There's people making babies to my music. That's nice. — Barry White

First baby quote Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you test first and the lesson afterward.
Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you test first and the lesson afterward.

It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge. — Phyllis Diller

There are three reasons for breast-feeding: the milk is always at the right temperature; it comes in attractive containers; and the cat can't get it. — Irena Chalmers

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

Old school new school need to learn though I burn baby, burn like Disco Inferno Burn slow like blunts with ya-yo Peel more skins than Idaho potato — The Notorious B.I.G.

First Pregnancy Quotes

if you love two people at the same time, choose the second. Because if you really loved the first one, you wouldn't have fallen for the second. — Johnny Depp

I’ve been training for Ronda Rousey [to compete with her] since my first fight in the UFC. — Amanda Nunes

During my first pregnancy, I spent a lot of time worrying about how big I was getting and how I would lose it afterwards. — Tori Spelling

I know since my first fight in the UFC I can beat Ronda Rousey, but of course I have to take my time and put everything together. — Amanda Nunes

I never ever slept again after my first pregnancy. — Uma Thurman

In the first movement alone, I took note of six pregnancies and at least four miscarriages. — Thomas Beecham

After the first miscarriage, I tried to take the attitude that it was my body's way of telling me that this pregnancy wasn't meant to be. — Christie Brinkley

The images I like best are parts of series that I've started, in some cases, with the pregnancies of the mothers of the children in question, and I continue that series right on through the birth of children to the child that resulted from that first pregnancy. — Jock Sturges

We got off the Clash of the Titans tour and I said that my wife and I were working on having a baby and sure enough we found out that she was pregnant. So I told them nine months in advance that I wasn't going to tour in September so I could witness the birth of my first son. — Dave Lombardo

There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer. — Nana Mouskouri

Having A Baby Quotes

Grandparenthood is a unique moment in anyone's life, as countless kind people have told me in recent months, so I am enormously proud and happy to be a grandfather for the first time and we are eagerly looking forward to seeing the baby in the near future. — Prince Charles

I have also made this a point in our company: We need to stop taking baby steps and start thinking globally. It really seems to be helping. — Ratan Tata

My sister just had a baby, a little newborn. The kid is adorable, so cute. She wouldn't let me hold him, she refuses. She says, 'No way, Anthony, I'm afraid you're gonna drop him.' I'm 32 years old. Like I'm some kind of idiot. Like I don't have a million other ways to hurt that baby. — Anthony Jeselnik

No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And this tendency doesn't die out, it's wiped out. — B. F. Skinner

They wrapped her up like a baby burrito to show to Mom. Here were a mother and her daughter and I love them both so much. I couldn't wait for Courtney to come to the hospital so I could have all my women together. — Al Roker

You couldn't pay me enough to be a law enforcement officer. Their job is a tough job. You have to solve people's problems, you have to baby-sit people, you have to always be doing this cat-and-mouse game with the bad guys. My respect for them is immense. — Christopher Meloni

Female genital mutilation targets little girls, baby girls - fragile angels who are helpless, who cannot fight back. It's a crime against a child, a crime against humanity. It's abuse. It's absolutely criminal and we have to stop it. — Waris Dirie

What a mercy was it to us to have parents that prayed for us before they had us, as well as in our infancy when we could not pray for ourselves! — John Flavel

Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it. — Mark Twain

I'd much rather have AIDS than a baby... They're not that different at all. They're both expensive, you have them for the rest of your life, they're constant reminders of the mistakes you've made and once you have them, you pretty much can only date other people who have them. — Donald Glover

New Baby Boy Quotes

The more you give, the more you live. — Blake Mycoskie

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable. — Plato

Children reinvent your world for you. — Susan Sarandon

The more you give, the more you can give. — Roy T. Bennett

Life is a wheel. The more you give, the more you get back. — Jerold Panas

Every child begins the world again. — Henry David Thoreau

Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last. — Charles Dickens

Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born. Life is greater than death, and hope than despair. — George Bernard Shaw

A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother. — Mark Twain

A 66-YEAR-OLD woman has become the oldest new mum in Britain after giving birth to a baby boy. I'm amazed she needed to have a caesarean section though, you'd think at 66 she would have needed some masking tape down there just to stop it falling out. — Frankie Boyle

Newborn Baby Quotes

I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always, As long as I'm living, my baby you'll be. — Robert Munsch

Is it the duty of every good revolutionary to kill every newborn White baby? — Jose Angel Gutierrez

Babies need social interactions with loving adults who talk with them, listen to their babblings, name objects for them, and give them opportunities to explore their worlds. — Sandra Scarr

The joy in motherhood comes in moments. There will be hard times and frustrating times, but amid the challenges there are shining moments of joy and satisfaction. — M. Russell Ballard

There are some circumstances, for example, where the newborn baby is severely disabled and where the parents think that it's better that child should not live, when killing the newborn baby is not at all wrong ... not like killing the chimpanzee would be. — Peter Singer

Maternal love, like an orange tree, buds and blossoms and bears at once. When a woman puts her finger for the first time into the tiny hand of her baby and feels that helpless clutch which tightens her very heartstrings, she is born again with her newborn child. — Kate Douglas Wiggin

Whenever I held my newborn baby in my arms, I used to think that what I said and did to him could have an influence not only on him but on all whom he met, not only for a day or a month or a year, but for all eternity - a very challenging and exciting thought for a mother. — Rose Kennedy

If Newborn Babies Could Speak They Would Be The Most Intelligent Beings On Planet Earth. — Jaden Smith

A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase. — Mark Twain

Words can not express the joy of new life. — Hermann Hesse

Baby Pictures Quotes

Vickie is so fat that her baby pictures were taken via satellite. — John Cena

My Vocabularies vary, its so exclusionary You'll find my baby pictures in modern dictionaries Next to mighty mercenaries, and visual visionaries — Andre Nickatina

People seldom live up to their baby pictures. — Rodney Dangerfield

My mom would put me in these preppy little suits and slick my hair to the side. I have these baby pictures of me where I'm this little preppy kid with a sweater tied around my neck. — Alexander Wang

When a picture can't make it on its own, the producers pull in a 'controversial' message - the way a couple whose marriage is falling apart decide to have a baby. — Pauline Kael

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

I have a picture I keep in my wallet of my father's corpse... I keep that picture in my wallet to show people who show me baby pictures. — Doug Stanhope

Everyone knows now how early a fetus becomes a baby. Women who have been pregnant have seen their babies on ultrasounds. They know that there is a terrible truth to those horrific pictures the anti-choice fanatics hold up in front of abortion clinics. — Ayelet Waldman

Motion picture making is a very, very involved affair. It is completely my baby. I'm a thorough professional. I plan films right from the conception of an idea to its final execution. — Dev Anand

I've been chased through airports with a screaming baby because the photographers are ruthless, and they want the picture. — Lisa Marie Presley

Baby Born Quotes

A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for. — Thurgood Marshall

According to traditional wisdom in rural France, a baby in the womb should be compared to fruit on the tree. Not all the fruit on the same tree is ripe at the same time...we must accept that some babies need a much longer time than others before they are ready to be born. — Michel Odent

Each and every one of us is born with a clean heart. Our babies know nothing about hate or racism. But soon they begin to learn – and only from us. We keep racism alive. We pass it on to our children. We owe it to our children to help them keep their clean start. — Ruby Bridges

The Bureau of Justice reports that one in three black male babies born this century will go to jail or prison - that is an absolutely astonishing statistic. And it ought to be terrorizing to not just to people of color, but to all of us. — Bryan Stevenson

A world to be born under your footsteps. - Saint-John Perse

A world to be born under your footsteps. — Saint-John Perse

Baby, we have no choice of what color we're born or who our parents are or whether we're rich or poor. What we do have is some choice over what we make of our lives once we're here. — Mildred D. Taylor

Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart. — Jeremiah

Rejoice and love yourself today 'Cause baby, you were born this way. — Lady Gaga

Someday girl, I don't know when, were gonna get to the place where we really want to go, and we'll walk in the sun. But til then, tramps like us, baby, we were born to run. — Bruce Springsteen

Comfort is everything. You start doing something and you want it to be perfect right away, but most babies are born ugly and then they shake it out and you get beautiful toddlers. — John Mulaney

Cute Baby Quotes

There is a garden in her eyes, where roses and white lilies flow. — Thomas Campion

My sister taught me everything I really need to know, and she was only in sixth grade at the time. — Linda Sunshine

A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double. — Toni Morrison

He [Percy] pleaded with those sea-green eyes, like a cute baby seal that needed help. Piper wondered how Annabeth ever won an argument with this guy. — Rick Riordan

Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby - awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess. — Daniel Handler

I add a smile to everything I wear and that has worked great for me. — David White

Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood. — Louisa May Alcott

More than Santa Claus, your sister knows when you've been bad and good. — Linda Sunshine

It stands to reason that we love chocolate cake because it is sweet. Guys go for girls like this because they are sexy. We adore babies because they're so cute. And, of course, we are amused by jokes because they are funny. This is all backwards. It is. And Darwin shows us why. — Daniel Dennett

There's no better friend than a sister. — Mary Engelbreit

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More First Baby Quotes

In the best of times, our days are numbered anyway. So it would be a crime against nature for any generation to take the world crisis so solemnly that it put off enjoying those things for which we were designed in the first place: the opportunity to do good work, to enjoy friends, to fall in love, to hit a ball, and to bounce a baby. — Alistair Cooke

There are people who think that we cannot rule ourselves because the few times we tried, we failed, as if all the others who rule themselves today got it right the first time. It is like telling a crawling baby who tries to walk, and then falls back on his buttocks, to stay there. As if the adults walking past him did not crawl, once — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

You don't have to get it perfect, you just have to get it going. Babies don't walk the first time they try, but eventually they get it right — Jack Canfield

When you hold your baby in your arms the first time, and you think of all the things you can say and do to influence him, it's a tremendous responsibility. What you do with him can influence not only him, but everyone he meets and not for a day or a month or a year but for time and eternity. — Rose Kennedy

The smile that flickers on a baby’s lips when he sleeps- does anyone know where it was born? Yes, there is a rumor that a young pale beam of a crescent moon touched the edge of a vanishing autumn cloud, and there the smile was first born in the dream of a dew-washed morning. — Rabindranath Tagore

Stored away in some brain cell is the image of a long-departed aunt you haven't thought of in 30 years. Stored away in another cell is the image of a pink pony stitched on your first set of baby pajamas. All it takes to get that aunt mounted on the back of that pony is to eat a hunk of meatloaf immediately before going to bed. — Robert Breault

I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic. — Winston Churchill

I have cervical cancer. I'm what they call a DES baby... I have been cancer free for 7 years now... I had it the first time when I was 19 and then it came back a few years later after I went through treatment. — Amy Weber

It is so easy to close down to risk, to protect ourselves against change and growth. But no baby bird emerges without first destroying the perfect egg sheltering it. We must risk being raw and fresh and awkward. For without such openness, life will not penetrate us anew. Unless we are open, we will not be filled. — Patricia Monaghan

Here's something else to think about: calling when you say you're going to is the very first brick in the house you are building of love and trust. If he can't lay this one stupid brick down, you ain't never gonna have a house baby, and it's cold outside. — Greg Behrendt

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

To change the world, you must first change yourself. And baby, that's hard enough. — Alonzo King

For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life. — Ellen Key

There's more magic in a baby's first giggle than in any firestorm a wizard can conjure up, and don't let anyone tell you any different. — Jim Butcher

I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby. — Barack Obama

Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again. — Jimmy Piersall

The first gathering of salads, radishes and herbs made me feel like a mother about her baby - how could anything so beautiful be mine? — Alice B. Toklas

Yes, I'm a nice man and I enjoy babies. I'm a sensitive guy. I held a baby the other day and it was the first time either of us cried. — Garry Shandling

I am the princess of G.O.O.D. Music, the first lady of G.O.O.D. Music, the baby of G.O.O.D. Music. I'm kinda the spoiled brat right now. I could get whatever I want. — Teyana

God has such gladness every time he sees from heaven that a sinner is praying to Him with all his heart, as a mother has when she sees the first smile on her baby's face. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

What's it like to be a baby? It's like being in love in Paris for the first time after you've had three double espressos. — Alison Gopnik

If you take off your pants and her first reaction is, "Awwww, look at it...like a little baby Jesus." Time to buy a Porsche. — Dave Attell

In setting out the walls of a city the choice of a healthy situation is of the first importance: it should be on high ground, neither subject to fogs nor rains; its aspects should be neither violently hot nor intensely cold, but temperate in both respects. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. — James M. Barrie

Maternity leave is over for Tina Fey of Saturday Night Live. She'll be back behind the Weekend Update anchor desk for this week's episode, her first show since giving birth to daughter Alice on Sept. 10. I had to get back to work, .. NBC has me under contract; the baby and I have only a verbal agreement. — Tina Fey

Wish on everything. Pink cars are good, especially old ones. And stars of course, first stars and shooting stars. Planes will do if they are the first light in the sky and look like stars. Wish in tunnels, holding your breath and lifting your feet off the ground. Birthday candles. Baby teeth. — Francesca Lia Block

Why must the woman apologize for not having a baby just because she happened to get pregnant? It's as if we think motherhood is the default setting for a woman's life from first period to menopause, and she needs a note from God not to say yes to every zygote that knocks on her door. — Katha Pollitt

Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

If the feminist program goes to pieces on the arrival of the first baby, it's false and useless. — Crystal Eastman

I first understood the changes that were necessary in this world, because the waiters in the restaurant, when I cried, used to say, "Leave her on the hillside to die. She's only a girl baby." I think they said it somewhat as a joke, maybe not, but it made me understand that being born female in this world was very different from being born male. — Grace Lee Boggs

Why not have your first baby at sixty, when your husband is already dead and your career is over? Then you can really devote yourself to it. — Fran Lebowitz

It seems disingenuous for the intellectual elite of the first world to dwell on the subject of too many babies being born in the second- and third-world nations while virtually ignoring the over-population of cattle and the realities of a food chain that robs the poor of sustenance to feed the rich a steady diet of grain-fed meat. — Jeremy Rifkin

Nowadays people talk about PayPal's founders as prescient geniuses who would inevitably change the world. It was, however, not so obvious that PayPal would taste its first major success by helping people sell Beanie Babies on eBay. But they had a vision, a hope, and the perseverance to try multiple iterations until they got it right. — Eric Ries

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

Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it. — Jean Kerr

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