Baby, Babies

Cleaning and scrubbing can wait till tomorrow
For babies grow up, weve learned to our sorrow
So quiet down, cobwebs
Dust, go to sleep
Im rocking my baby, and babies dont keep. – Anon.

I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee! – William Blake

Except that right side up is best, there is not much to learn about holding a baby. There are one hundred and fifty-two distinctly different ways –and all are right! At least all will do. – Heywood Broun

You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the years that have passed there has never been another child like you. Your legs, your arms, your clever fingers, the way you move. You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel. – Pau (Pablo) Casals

It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last. – Charles Dickens

Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby it. – Jerome K. Jerome

A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. – Ronald Knox

Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it. – Marshall McLuhan

Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act. – Lewis Mumford

The tiny madman in his padded cell. – Vladimir Nabokov

We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground. – Mark Twain

A baby sitter is someone who watches your TV set While your kids cry themselves to sleep. – Source Unknown

I dont dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting. – Queen Victoria

Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, theyll just have to learn how to be babies longer. – Andy Warhol