Sleeping Baby Quotes

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

  Eda LeShan

  Inspirational, Dream, Baby

  Eda J. LeShan (1967). “The Conspiracy Against Childhood”, New York : Atheneum

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• Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Family, Good Night, Baby

  "Fictional character: Jennifer Jareau". "Criminal Minds" ("Boxed In", Season 10, Episode 5), October 29, 2014.

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

  Victor Hugo

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (Fantine)”, p.160, Wildside Press LLC

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• 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

  Mother, Dream, Baby

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• There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Mom, Mother

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• 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

  Beautiful, Baby, Grandma

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• A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase.

  Mark Twain

  Baby, Angel, Wings

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• A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Baby, Peace, Spring

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1839). “Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments”, p.272

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• Sleep when your baby sleeps. Everyone knows this classic tip, but I say why stop there? Scream when your baby screams. Take Benadryl when your baby takes Benadryl. And walk around pantless when your baby walks around pantless.

  Tina Fey

  Baby, Sleep, Classic

  "Bossypants". Book by Tina Fey, April 18, 2011.

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• 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

  Baby, Children, Sleep

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Perfect Match”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• When you have a baby, sleep is not an option. You can't sleep. Even on vacation, you wake up at 6:30 a.m.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Baby, Dad, Sleep

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• The one advice that I would give just to moms who have a child or a newborn is definitely sleep while the baby sleeps. I've heard that so many times. I never realized how true it really is. If you don't, you'll be walking around like a zombie.

  Tia Mowry

  Mom, Baby, Children

  "Teen Actress Tia Mowry, Grown Up, Talks Motherhood". Interview with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. May 22, 2012.

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• It turns out that the 'Cry It Out' method of baby sleep training, where you ignore that your kid is screaming, crying and turning 40 shades of purple so that she can break herself out of the habit of being spoiled and cuddled to sleep, does more harm - way more - than good.

  Denene Millner

  Baby, Sleep, Kids

  Denene Millner (2017). “My Brown Baby: On the Joys and Challenges of Raising African American Children”, p.32, Agate Publishing

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• I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son; she is the first gesture that creates a quiet that is full enough to make the baby sleep. My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen.

  Aimee Bender

  Life, Mother, Baby

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