Baby Quotes

“What happened?"
"This happened." He shifted his arms to reveal a bundle of tiny, knobby joints and fluffy patches of black and white.
A newborn goat.
"Oh, my goodness." She knelt behind him, peering over his shoulder. "Surely not Marigold?"
"I told you so," he said irritably.
As if she'd be intimidated by gruff words from a man cradling a newborn goat in his arms. She'd always known he had a capacity for gentleness.
I told you so, too.
She reached to stroke the little goat's fur.
Gabriel's shoulder muscle flinched in annoyance. "My shirt was ruined, I'll have you know. Completely unsalvageable. And then this runtish little thing wouldn't stop shivering."
"Would it help if I told you that I've never found you so wildly attractive as I do in this moment?"
"No.”
― Tessa Dare, The Wallflower Wager

“This is why people have babies...because it's exhausting not to know what you're supposed to do next. A baby is basically a nonnegotiable map for the next two decades.”
― Glynnis MacNicol, No One Tells You This

“Gabriel nudged her with his shoulder. "Look."
The newborn goat was standing on his own wobbly legs, taking drunken steps. When he toppled sideways, he bleated indignantly.
Gabriel started to reach for him, but Penny held him back. "Wait."
Marigold roused herself and ambled over to her kid, licking him about the head until George lurched and swayed himself to his hooves, and when he nosed at her swollen underside, she allowed him to nurse.
"Oh. That's lovely." Penny snuggled under Gabriel's arm.
"Thank God she finally took to him," he said.
"How could she not? Look how adorable he is. Best little goat in the world.”
― Tessa Dare, The Wallflower Wager

“That was really the question. Would I be okay without a child?

Each night I sat with [my infant nephew] Connor and forced myself to go down the path of imaginary motherhood, suspicious of myself that this would be something that I would be willing to reject. Every night I expected to have a change of heart and come up with a different, more recognizable answer. But it never happened.

Instead, sitting in the dark and quiet, something quite unexpected occurred. My life, precisely as it was--the product of good and bad decisions--began to come into focus for me. Sitting there, I could see it for the first time as something I'd chosen. Something I'd built intentionally, and not simply a makeshift thing I'd constructed as a for-the-time-being existence until something came along that would make me a whole person in the eyes of the world. Once I began to see it as such, it dawned on me that I had no wish to escape from it. On the contrary: I wanted it. I was choosing my life. I was willing to risk it.”
― Glynnis MacNicol, No One Tells You This

“The actions of an adult are clearly distinguishable from that of a baby. He clears every doubt without a doubt thereby proving beyond all reasonable and unreasonable doubts that his maturity is not superficial.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu

“Hello world, goodbye womb.”
― Steven Magee

“She set the kid on the floor, and George gamboled about the room, making high-pitched, chirping bleats. "He prances. Sideways. It's adorable."
The kid attempted to admit it was rather adorable. Especially the way the newborn goat made its way to him from across the room, stopping at his boots to issue an entitled bleat. He was a demanding little thing already.
Gabe bent to give the kid a scratch between the ears.”
― Tessa Dare, The Wallflower Wager

“He could go to hell for all she cared but Journey was a loss clawing at her throat each morning.”
― Ben Ditmars

“When Jacob was a baby, I would find myself feeling more assured with each month he lived, as if the longer he stayed in this world, the more deeply he would become anchored to it, as if by being alive, he was staking claim to life itself.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“A baby is the most powerful person on earth, for they are born with the power of pure love and precious hope.”
― Apollo

“Returning, for clarification, to DNA as our archetypal replicator, its consequences on the world are of two important types. Firstly, it makes copies of itself, making use of the cellular apparatus of replicases, etc. Secondly, it has effects on the outside world, which influence the chances of its copies’ surviving.”
― Richard Dawkins, The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene

“But there is nothing magic about Darwinian fitness in the genetic sense. There is no law giving it priority as the fundamental quantity that is maximized. Fitness is just a way of talking about the survival of replicators, in this case genetic replicators. If another kind of entity arises, which answers to the definition of an active germ-line replicator, variants of the new replicator that work for their own survival will tend to become more numerous. To be consistent, we could invent a new kind of ‘individual fitness’, which measured the success of an individual in propagating his memes.”
― Richard Dawkins, The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene

“Whatever the claims of memes to be regarded as replicators in the same sense as genes, the first part of this chapter established that individual organisms are not replicators.”
― Richard Dawkins, The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene

“If the organism is not a replicator, what is it? The answer is that it is a communal vehicle for replicators. A vehicle is an entity in which replicators (genes and memes) travel about, an entity whose attributes are affected by the replicators inside it, an entity which may be seen as a compound tool of replicator propagation.”
― Richard Dawkins, The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene

“The reason I continue to is because they have awakened me to the impossibility of happiness based on my previous world view: that I am the centre of the world and that what I want is important.”
― Russell Brand, Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions

“Selection favours those genes which succeed in the presence of other genes, which in turn succeed in the presence of them.”
― Richard Dawkins, The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene

“Tienes que despertarte cada día decidido si quieres acostarte satisfecho.”
― Hal Elrod, Mañanas milagrosas: Los 6 hábitos que cambiarán tu vida antes de las 8:00

“I understood that this sister of mine was going to live somewhere else, away from us...This information did not make me thing of the baby as less mine. She was my sister, like my brother was my brother and my mother was my mother. The adoptive parents' claim on my developing sister did not negate mine, she was not a kingdom or a territory or a thing with a deed; she was a person. This baby girl would be both my sister and these other people's daughter, and my mom's daughter. there would be moments when one claim took focus-- as right now this baby girl was more Ours than Theirs, and one day she would be more Theirs than Ours, but none of those connections could completely erase the others. It would be easier, perhaps, if they could, if after she was gone we could forget this baby ever belonged to us. But that's not how people work.”
― Mary Anna King, Bastards: A Memoir

“Never upset the person that wipes your bum!”
― Steven Magee

“A baby comes from heaven with a smile as the most precious present for parents and for the universe.”
― Apollo

“A baby's eyes reflect the refreshing lights of love, which enlighten and melt our heart in a single moment.”
― Apollo

“Ah, baby! A smiling angel from heaven who came down to earth to steal our hearts.”
― Apollo

“With the warmth of a baby's innocent smile, our heart is always ready to melt.”
― Apollo

“A baby's bright smile is the most precious gift of our lives.”
― Apollo

“For grandparents, a baby represents them, their hopes and their desires for the future.”
― Apollo

“We know from the lives of the saints and from Holy Scripture that from their mother’s womb, children can sense the presence of God.”
― Sister Magdalen, Children in the Church Today: An Orthodox Perspective

“Let a man radically alter his thoughts, and he will be astonished at the rapid transformation it will effect in the material conditions of his life. Men imagine that thought can be kept secret, but it cannot; it rapidly crystallizes into habit, and habit solidifies into circumstance.”
― Napoleon Hill, The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity

“Thank”
― Nona J. Fairfax, The Princess Unicorn

“In the References section, I’ve included a website address and a QR code for the full list of the nearly five thousand citations referenced throughout this book.”
― Michael Greger, How Not to Diet

“She said... welcome to the world little one. The world can now be a better place with your guidance, love and grace. Your life will be packed full with travel, school and yes of course so many rules. Remember to keep God first, be kind and always be fair. I love you more than words can say and for you I will always pray!”
― Positively Sherry