Baby Quotes - Page 30

• A mother's body remembers her babies-the folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her nose. Each child has it's own entreaties to body and soul.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Mother, Children, Soul

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.320, Faber & Faber

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• The disgraced Usurer Yankel D took the baby girl home that evening... He made a bed of crumpled newspaper in a deep baking pan and gently tucked it in the oven, so that she wouldn't be disturbed by the noise of the small falls outside... When he pulled her out to feed her or just hold her, her body was tattooed with the newsprint... Sometimes he would rock her to sleep in his arms, and read her left to right, and know everything he needed to know about the world. If it wasn't written on her, it wasn't important to him.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Girl, Fall, Home

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• There are many differences between a baby and an I-Pod. And one of the biggest is, no ones going to mug you for your baby.

  Nick Hornby

  Differences, Mug

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• I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks?

  George Carlin

  Funny, Sarcastic, Mother

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• But what I really want is to just swim around in a warm baby pool of these friends, jump in their dry leaf pile-to rub them all over myself, without words and clothes.

  Dave Eggers

  Clothes, Swim, Dry

  Dave Eggers (2014). “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: Picador Classic”, p.367, Pan Macmillan

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• I think of the chimp, the one with the talking hands. In the course of the experiment, that chimp had a baby. Imagine how her trainers must have thrilled when the mother, without prompting, began to sign her newborn. Baby, drink milk. Baby, play ball. And when the baby died, the mother stood over the body, her wrinkled hands moving with animal grace, forming again and again the words: Baby, come hug, Baby come hug, fluent now in the language of grief.

  Amy Hempel

  Mother, Grief, Moving

  Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• There are few ways in which good people do more harm to those who take them seriously than to defend the gospel with arguments that won't hold water. Many of the difficulties encountered by young people going to college would be avoided if parents and teachers were more careful to distinguish between what they know to be true and what they think may be true. Impetuous youth, upon finding the authority it trusts crumbling, even on unimportant details, is apt to lump everything together and throw the baby out with the bath.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Teacher, College, Thinking

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• Until I can feel as ecstatic about having a baby as I felt about going to New Zealand to search for giant squid, I cannot have a baby.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Squids, Giants, Giant Squid

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.11, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Slaughterhouse Five, Dull, Slaughterhouse 5

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

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• There are two kinds of people,’ she’d said. ‘Those who coast through life like ducks in a row, following one after the other, and those who ride the waves.’” Tears spilled down my cheeks, and my voice cracked. “‘Ride the waves, baby, and live. Live.

  Gena Showalter

  Two, Voice, Ducks

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• Sufficient unto the day is one baby. As long as you are in your right mind don't you ever pray for twins. Twins amount to a permanent riot; and there ain't any real difference between triplets and a insurrection. - The Babies speech 1879

  Mark Twain

  Real, Differences, Long

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.2171, GENERAL PRESS

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• What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!--and you, Garcia Lorca, what were you doing down by the watermelons?

  Allen Ginsberg

  Husband, Night, Shopping

  Allen Ginsberg (2001). “Howl and Other Poems: Pocket Poets Number 4”, p.29, City Lights Publishers

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• Let's say that when I was a little baby, and all my bones soft and malleable, I was put in a small Episcopal cruciform box and so took my shape. Then, when I broke out of the box, the way a baby chick escapes an egg, is it strange that I had the shape of a cross? Have you ever noticed that chickens are roughly egg-shaped?

  John Steinbeck

  Eggs, Shapes, Littles

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.108, Penguin

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• And I apologize to all of you who are the same age as my grandchildren. And many of you reading this are the same age as my grandchildren. They, like you, are being royally shafted and lied to by our Baby Boomer corporations and government.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Reading, Grandchildren, Government

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

  William Blake

  Sweet, Joy, Secret

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.155, Pearson Education

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• There is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle.

  George Eliot

  Beauty, Order, Ducks

  George Eliot (1859). “Adam Bede”, p.72, London

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• Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo

  James Joyce

  Boys, Once Upon A Time, Littles

  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ch. 1 (1916)

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• Oh my God, baby, you are in so much trouble.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Trouble

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.20, A&C Black

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• And will I like being called a jazz-baby?
  You will love it.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Jazz

  "The Beautiful and the Damned".

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• Baby get ready, get set, please don't go.

  Billy Ray Cyrus

  Ready, Please

  Song: Get Ready. Get Set, Don't Go, 2007

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• Shoulda gone to China. They give away babies like free iPods. They put them in guns and shoot them out at sporting events.

  Diablo Cody

  Gun, Ipods, Giving

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• The baby bat Screamed out in fright, 'Turn on the dark, I'm afraid of the light.

  Shel Silverstein

  Inspirational, Life, Fear

  Shel Silverstein, “Batty”

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• For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Shoes, Worn

  "10 works of literature that were really hard to write" by Mark Juddery, www.cnn.com. January 16, 2011.

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• Baby, high school's over. High school's never over.

  Karen Joy Fowler

  School, High School

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• Born of Black and White, Eaten with worms, I'm a Saint, a Sinner, a Siren of the Word, The Circle knows me, the rest just wanna trip on Grace Juice, Baby Showdown at midnight

  Ted Dekker

  Black And White, Circles, Grace

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