It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.
A new baby is like the beginning of all things - wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.
A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.
Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it.
A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.
Babies are always more trouble than you thought and more wonderful.
Babies are such a nice way to start people.
Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.
I didn't know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child.
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
The worst feature of a new baby is its mother's singing.
When you have a baby, love is automatic, when you get married, love is earned.
There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.
Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
The more you give, the more you live.
The more you give, the more you can give.
Men are often bad, but babies never are.
Children reinvent your world for you.
Loving a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback loop. The more you give the more you get and the more you get the more you feel like giving.
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