170 Sleeping Quotes

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Famous Sleeping Quotes

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse. — William Shakespeare

No one would look at an infant baby asleep, and say 'What a lazy baby!' — Matthew Walker

Sleep is the best meditation. — Dalai Lama

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. - Victor Hugo

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. — Victor Hugo

Dream sleep provides a fascinating neurochemical soothing balm. — Matthew Walker

There should be a children's song: 'If you're happy and you know it, keep it to yourself and let your dad sleep'. — Jim Gaffigan

Sleep is the Swiss army knife of health. — Matthew Walker

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

It is the nature of babies to be in bliss. — Deepak Chopra

Sleep is not a luxury, it’s a necessity for good health. — Rhonda Patrick

Sleep is beautiful because it makes your training jobs advance. — Andrej Karpathy

Sleep is Mother Nature's best effort yet to counter death. — Matthew Walker

When sleep is abundant, there is vitality and health. — Matthew Walker

Short Sleeping Quotes

  • If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito. — Dalai Lama
  • If you want your dreams to come true, don't over sleep. — Yiddish Proverbs
  • Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. — Francis Bacon
  • God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man. — Ibn Arabi
  • If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die. — Warren Buffett
  • I came from a big family. As a matter of fact, I never got to sleep alone until I was married. — Lewis Grizzard
  • Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool. — Napoleon Bonaparte
  • The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep. — Rumi
  • Dreams are not what you see in your sleep, dreams are things which do not let you sleep. — Cristiano Ronaldo
  • By night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two together in their sleep will defeat the darkness — Pablo Neruda

Sleeping Image Quotes

May the eyes of cowards never sleep - Khalid ibn al-Walid quote

May the eyes of cowards never sleep — Khalid ibn al-Walid

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine. - Thomas Aquinas quote

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine. — Thomas Aquinas

Sleeping quote Sleep doesn't help if it's your soul that's tired.
Sleep doesn't help if it's your soul that's tired.
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know? - Ernest Hemingway quote

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know? — Ernest Hemingway

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night. - William Blake quote

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night. — William Blake

Sleeping quote A tiger doesn't lose sleep over the opinion of sheep.
A tiger doesn't lose sleep over the opinion of sheep.
Pussy put his ass to sleep, now he calling me NyQuil - Nicki Minaj quote

Pussy put his ass to sleep, now he calling me NyQuil — Nicki Minaj

Only those who are asleep make no mistakes. - Ingvar Kamprad quote

Only those who are asleep make no mistakes. — Ingvar Kamprad

I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books. - Jorge Luis Borges quote

I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books. — Jorge Luis Borges

Sleeping quote It's hard to sleep when your heart is at war with your mind.
It's hard to sleep when your heart is at war with your mind.
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. - Anthony Burgess quote

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. — Anthony Burgess

I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death. - Nas quote

I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death. — Nas

All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand! Oh, oh, oh! - William Shakespeare quote

All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand! Oh, oh, oh! — William Shakespeare

Sleeping quote Dream... but don't sleep.
Dream... but don't sleep.
No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. - Erma Bombeck quote

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. — Erma Bombeck

I want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don’t want to die. - Laurie Halse Anderson quote

I want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don’t want to die. — Laurie Halse Anderson

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep. - Homer quote

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep. — Homer

Sleeping quote Every morning you pick between two choices: Continue to sleep with your dreams, or wake up and chase
Every morning you pick between two choices: Continue to sleep with your dreams, or wake up and chase them. Good morning.
Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in. - Evan Davis quote

Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in. — Evan Davis

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day. - Friedrich Nietzsche quote

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains! - Humphrey Bogart quote

Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains! — Humphrey Bogart

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep. - Thomas De Quincey quote

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep. — Thomas De Quincey

God gave us sleep to remind us we are not him. - Charles Spurgeon quote

God gave us sleep to remind us we are not him. — Charles Spurgeon

Some people sleep until morning. Others know they have to bring the morning. - Shlomo Carlebach quote

Some people sleep until morning. Others know they have to bring the morning. — Shlomo Carlebach

The only time I have problems is when I sleep. - Tupac Shakur quote

The only time I have problems is when I sleep. — Tupac Shakur

Sleeping quote The best thing in life are free.
The best thing in life are free.

Sleeping Baby Quotes

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

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

A grandparent is old on the outside but young on the inside. If your baby is "beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses, sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all the time," you're the grandma. — Teresa Bloomingdale

Sleeping quote You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.

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

Go to sleep, baby,Mama will sing. Of blue butterflies, and dragonfly wings. Moonlight and sunbeams, raiments so fine. Silver and gold, for baby of mine. Go to sleep, baby. Sister will tell, of wolves and of lambs, and demons who fell.-Pierce's Lullaby Kim Harrison (Black Magic Sanction) — Kim Harrison

You are only as invincible as your smallest weakness, and those are tiny indeed - the length of a sleeping baby's eyelash, the span of a child's hand. Life turns on a dime, and - it turns out - so does one's conscience. — Jodi Picoult

Sleeping quote If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

As soon as you lay down, that's when the most bizarre things start coming out of her mouth. 'Goodnight, baby.' 'Do you think we were together in a past life?' 'Yeah, and I died of sleep deprivation. Go to bed.' 'Don't you feel like we're soul...' — Adam Ferrara

Sleep, baby, sleep. Thy father's watching the sheep. Thy mother's shaking the dreamland tree, and down drops a little dream for thee. — Elizabeth Prentiss

Sleep on, Baby, on the floor, Tired of all the playing, Sleep with smile the sweeter for That you dropped away in! On your curls' full roundness stand Golden lights serenely-- One cheek, pushed out by the hand, Folds the dimple inly. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

It's morning when I go to sleep In the distant dawn a church bell rings Another day is coming on A baby's born, an old man dies Somewhere young lovers kiss good-bye I leave my soul and just move on And wish that I was there to sing this song — Jon Bon Jovi

Sleeping Child Quotes

Silent night, holy night. All is calm, all is bright. Round yon Virgin Mother and Child. Holy Infant so tender and mild. Sleep in heavenly peace. Sleep in heavenly peace. — Joseph Mohr

The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child. - J. H. Oldham

The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child. — J. H. Oldham

Nothing is more shameful than attacking sleeping children. — Ban Ki-moon

Sleeping quote Wake up determined to go to sleep satisfied.
Wake up determined to go to sleep satisfied.

Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile. — Soren Kierkegaard

Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem — Kahlil Gibran

I’m like a child inside and I really get excited, so sometimes when I’m trying to go to bed, I’m so excited about the next day that I can’t go to sleep. — Puff Daddy

Sleeping quote Dreams dont help you sleep.. Dreams wake you up.
Dreams dont help you sleep.. Dreams wake you up.

I was a nervous child, I was a bedwetter. I used to sleep with an electric blanket and I was constantly electrocuting myself. — Woody Allen

The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep. — Chanakya

You spend all this time, as a child, coming up with these fantasy stories, and here I am, sleeping in a treehouse, in the middle of Canyon de Chelly, shooting a Western. That's a bit of a once-in-a-lifetime experience. — James Badge Dale

The witching hour, somebody had once whispered to her, was a special moment in the middle of the night when every child and every grown-up was in a deep deep sleep, and all the dark things came out from hiding and had the world all to themselves. — Roald Dahl

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

Sleeping quote Legend says, when you can't sleep at night It's because you're awake in someone else's dream
Legend says, when you can't sleep at night It's because you're awake in someone else's dream

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

Cute Baby Quotes

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

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

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

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

Newborn Baby Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Baby Smile Quotes

They say money can't buy happiness? Look at the smile on my face. Ear to ear, baby! — Ben Affleck

Ooh baby, baby, it's a wild world, it's hard just to get by upon a smile. — Cat Stevens

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

Everyone talks about how hard it is to have a kid, and that scares you into waiting. It obviously is tough [to be a parent], but when you feel that love, and it's instant, and it's so cool, so fun. When your baby smiles at you or when you just hold your baby, it's a pretty awesome feeling. — Clayton Kershaw

My heart's never smiled so hard Baby. Lovin' you is fun. — Easton Corbin

Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace, Secret joys and secret smiles, Little pretty infant wiles. — William Blake

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

Smiling babies should actually be categorized by the pharmaceutical industry as a powerful antidepressant. — Jim Gaffigan

A pregnant woman and her spouse dream of three babies--the perfect four-month-old who rewards them with smiles and musical cooing,the impaired baby, who changes each day, and the mysterious real baby whose presence is beginning to be evident in the motions of the fetus. — T. Berry Brazelton

If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. — Vincent Van Gogh

Baby Birth Quotes

Humanizing birth means understanding that the woman giving birth is a human being, not a machine and not just a container for making babies. Showing women-half of all people-that they are inferior and inadequate by taking away their power to give birth is a tragedy for all society. — Marsden Wagner

I usually claim that pregnant women should not read books about pregnancy and birth. Their time is too precious. They should, rather, watch the moon and sing to their baby in the womb. — Michel Odent

It's not just the making of babies, but the making of mothers that midwives see as the miracle of birth. — Barbara Katz Rothman

It's very healthy for a young girl to be deterred from promiscuity by fear of contracting a painful, incurable disease, or cervical cancer, or sterility, or the likelihood of giving birth to a dead, blind or brain-damaged baby (even ten years later when she may be happily married). — Phyllis Schlafly

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

Birth is about making mothers... strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength — Barbara Katz Rothman

To demand that others should provide you textbook prognoses is like asking a strange woman to give birth to your baby. There are insights that can be born only of your own pain, and they are the most precious. — Janusz Korczak

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

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

There is no scientific evidence that doing over 10 percent of births with a cesarean improves the outcome for the woman or improves the outcome for the baby. — Marsden Wagner

The difference between most mothers and me is that I didn't sit around drinking coffee at baby group for 12 months after the birth of my baby. No, in three weeks I was back in my suit, back at my desk earning profit for my business and I don't see why other women shouldn't do the same. — Sayings

Baby Teeth Quotes

When I look in the mirror I see the girl I was when I was growing up, with braces, crooked teeth, a baby face and a skinny body. — Heather Locklear

Life is a rush into the unknown. You can duck down & hope nothing hits you, Or stand as tall as you can, show it your teeth & say: "Dish it up, baby, and don't be stingy with the jalapenos." - must be female ;-) — Grey Owl

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething. — Mark Twain

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

You don't become a Republican until you lose all your baby teeth and fall down a lot and get the croup and then become angry and bitter. — Margaret Cho

The last thing my kids ever did to earn money was lose their baby teeth. — Phyllis Diller

When I was a baby I had no teeth. I couldn't get a job and I couldn't eat meat. — Bobcat Goldthwait

Watching teething babies is like watching over a thermonuclear reactor-it is best done in shifts, by well-rested people. — Anthony Doerr

I'm here. Soon I won't be. Zoey's baby is here. Its pulse tick-ticking. Soon it won't be. And when Zoey comes out of that room, having signed on the dotted line, she'll be different. She'll understand what I already know- that death surrounds us all. And it tastes like metal between you teeth. — Jenny Downham

cute," she announced. "and oh,baby doll,you do give off a powerful vide,don't you? makes me want to touch you." with your teeth,id bet.i say to myself — Gena Showalter

Sleep Well Quotes

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. - Virginia Woolf

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. — Virginia Woolf

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. - Leonardo da Vinci

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. — Leonardo da Vinci

Well, it is all over now. The battle is lost, and many of us are prisoners, many are dead, many wounded, bleeding and dying. Your Soldier lives and mourns and but for you, my darling, he would rather, a million times rather, be back there with his dead, to sleep for all time in an unknown grave. — George Pickett

A well-spent day brings happy sleep. - Leonardo da Vinci

A well-spent day brings happy sleep. — Leonardo da Vinci

How well you slept last night and when you felt sleepy to go to bed, and how you felt on waking are MAINLY controlled by how early and how much sunlight you viewed before 10am in the preceding 2-3 days. Other factors matter but that’s the biggie folks. Non-negotiable biology. — Andrew Huberman

Sleep might be the most important aspect of building a great business and having a high-performing body. — Lewis Howes

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death. — Leonardo da Vinci

Eat plants, sleep well, train hard, work harder, meditate hardest, believe in yourself, give in service, and most of all love deep & wide. — Rich Roll

Manage distress tolerance and keep the window of well-being wide through exercise, sound sleep, good nutrition, time with family, and deep social connections. — Peter Attia

I cannot sing the old songs Though well I know the tune, Familiar as a cradle-song With sleep-compelling croon; Yet though I'm filled with music, As choirs of summer birds, I cannot sing the old songs-- I do not know the words. — Robert Jones Burdette

Baby Boy Quotes

Dear Mama, don't cry, your baby boy's doin' good, Tell the homies I'm in heaven, and they ain't got hoods. Seen a show with Marvin Gaye last night, it had me shook, Drippin' peppermint Schnapps, with Jackie Wilson, and Sam Cooke. — Tupac Shakur

Dear mama, yo baby boys doing fine tell the homies I'm in heaven and they aint got hoods. — Tupac Shakur

The truth is, after Boys Don't Cry, I realized how few and far between the great roles are. I am beyond thankful for finding Million Dollar Baby. — Hilary Swank

I may be a real bad boy, but baby I'm a real good man. — Tim McGraw

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

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

I'd love kids. I'm obsessed with babies. Of course I've thought about baby names. A million times. I like Alfie for a little boy. — Cheryl Cole

One of the most obvious results of having a baby around the house is to turn two good people into complete idiots who probably wouldn't have been much worse than mere imbeciles without it. — Georges Courteline

Children reinvent your world for you. — Susan Sarandon

Baby boy, go hire a squadron My crib got more poles than a fire department. — Cam'ron

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More Sleeping Quotes

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep. - Mahatma Gandhi quote

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep. — Mahatma Gandhi

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war. - Homer quote

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war. — Homer

Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep. — Le Corbusier

Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake. — Voltaire

The wolf will never lose sleep, worrying about the feelings of sheep. But no-one ever told the sheep, that they outnumber the wolves. — Bray Wyatt

Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer! — Martin Luther

And I'm not sure why I'm infatuated with death, My imagination is surely an aggravation of threats... Maybe cause I'm a dreamer, and sleep is the cousin of death, Really stuck in the scheme of wondering when I'mma rest. — Kendrick Lamar

When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car. — Will Rogers

I don't know how long it has been since my ear has been free from the roll of a drum. It is the music I sleep by, and I love it.... I shall remain here while anyone remains, and do whatever comes to my hand. I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them. — Clara Barton

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