Quotes about babies
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“Baby," she says in a harsh whisper, "in this world, lots of people will try to grind you down. They need you to be small so they can be big. You let them think whatever they want, but you make sure you get yours. You get yours.”

Holly Black book Red Glove

Source: Red Glove

People, World, Thinking

“You will be at your best forever, Even now you have good moments. Occasional glimpses of your heavenly self. When you change your baby's diaper, forgive your boss's temper, tolerate your spouse's moodiness, you display traces of saintliness.”

Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer

Source: 3:16: The Numbers of Hope

Forgiveness, Change

“He looked like those paintings of baby angels - what do you call them, hubbubs? No cherubs. That's it. He looked like a cherub who'd turned middle-aged in a trailer park.”

Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief

Source: The Lightning Thief

Age, Angels, Painting

“Maybe I'd think that, too, Caesar," says Petta bitterly, "if it weren't for the baby."
There. He's done it again.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

Thinking

“I’ll stare the bastard in the face as he screams to God, and I’ll laugh harder when he whimpers like a baby. And when his eyes go dead, the hell I send him to will seem like heaven after what I’ve done to him.”

Frank Miller book The Hard Goodbye

Source: The Hard Goodbye

God, Hell, Dead

“I'm no more a wonder than anyone. And that's what makes the world magical. Every baby's a seed of wonder - that gets watered or it doesn't.”

Dean Koontz book Relentless

Source: Relentless

World, Water

“The best baby-sitters, of course, are the baby’s grandparents. You feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long periods, which is why most grandparents flee to Florida.”

Dave Barry (1947) American writer

Feeling

“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 book Slam

Source: Slam

“Those with a moral deficit put on a good show, and sleep like a baby.”

Paul Newman (1925–2008) American actor and film director

Sleep

“See… I knew baby Marissa was quality people, look how she's eating the head off the red-headed Artemis doll. Simi need to teach her to belch fire, then introduce her to the real heifer-Goddess herself(Simi)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Night Play

People

“I am Abhorsen…"
He looked at the baby again and added, almost with a note of surprise, "Father of Sabriel”

Garth Nix book Abhorsen

p. 14.
Source: "I am a necromancer, but not of the common sort, while others of the art raise the dead, I lay them to rest - or try too - and those that will not rest I bind, for I am Abhorsen..."
He turned to the baby again and added, almost with a note of surprise, "Father of Sabriel."

“Oh my god, I am so awesome!" Leo bellowed.
"So awesome!" Echo yelled back.
"He is funny," a nymph ventured.
"And cute, in a scrawny way," another said.
"Scrawny?" Leo asked. "Baby I invented scrawny. Scrawny is the new sizzling hot.”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

God, Way

“If by 'miracle kids' you mean innocent test-tube babies whose DNA was forcibly unraveled and merged with two percent avian genes, yeah, I guess that would be us," I said. "Because it's a miracle that we're not complete nut jobs and mutant disasters.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: The Final Warning

“America used to live by the motto "Father Knows Best." Now we're lucky if "Father Knows He Has Children." We've become a nation of sperm donors and baby daddies.”

Stephen Colbert book I Am America (And So Can You!)

Source: I Am America

For Father, Children

“It’s like, you know how sometimes you see a really sexy baby? Wait…”

David Levithan book Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Waiting

“Baby carrots are making me gay.”

Stephen Colbert book I Am America (And So Can You!)

Source: I Am America

“If you were to open up a baby's head - and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should - you would find nothing but an enormous drool gland.”

Dave Barry (1947) American writer

“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 (1970) memoirist, novelist, short story writer, editor, publisher

Clothes

“Babies, babies, babies. Why did God make so many babies? But no, God didn't make them. Stupid people made them.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

God, People, Stupidity

“And he thinks that if his soul had a form, this is what it would be. A baby sleeping in his arms.”

Neal Shusterman book Unwind

Source: Unwind

Soul, Thinking, Sleep

“Yes, I kidnapped that Lindberg baby.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

“Baby, I ain't trash. Trash is something you throw away. My people keep me.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Infamous

People

“There's my baby!" I cried, quite carried away, "There's my poochiekins!"
…
"Sadie," My dad said firmly, "Please do not refer to the devourer of souls as 'poochiekins'.”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

Soul

“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 (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian

“Babies and Other Hazards of Sex: How to Make a Tiny Person in Only 9 Months, with Tools You Probably Have around the Home.”

Dave Barry (1947) American writer

Source: Babies and Other Hazards of Sex: How to Make a Tiny Person in Only 9 Months, with Tools You Probably Have around the Home

Sex, Home, Personality

“What do babies dream of? She must be dreaming of the before-life, just as I dream of the afterlife.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

Life, Dreams

“So I have. Let me hold the baby, Scarlett. Oh, I know how to hold babies. I have many strange accomplishments. Well, he certainly looks like Frank. All except the whiskers, but give him time.”

“I hope not. It’s a girl.”

Margaret Mitchell (1900–1949) American author and journalist

Source: Gone With the Wind

Hope, Girl, Time

“I don't want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms

Source: A Farewell to Arms

“Life is funny, baby, and that's no joke”

Rachel Cohn book Gingerbread

Source: Gingerbread

Life

“I couldn't help thinking about my dream, with Annabeth crumpled and lifeless in Luke's arms. Here I was rescuing baby monsters, but I couldn't save my friend.”

Rick Riordan book The Titan's Curse

Source: The Titan's Curse

Dreams, Thinking, Help

“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 (1978) Screenwriter and author

Source: Juno: The Shooting Script

Sport

“Leo had seen Tia Callida in action; she liked knives, snakes and putting babies in roaring fires. Yeah, definitely let's unleash her rage. Great idea.”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

Idea, Rage

“Birthdays are ghost bounty hunters that track you down to ask, "Que pasa, baby?”

Jim Harrison (1937–2016) American novelist, poet, essayist

Birthday

“It just goes to show you: every baby is born beautiful.
It's what we project on them that makes them ugly.”

Jodi Picoult book Small Great Things

Source: Small Great Things

Beauty

“Hey Baby.
Baby? You're kidding me, right?
I was trying it out. No?
No.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“I was born singing. Most babies cry, I sang an aria.”

Gail Carson Levine Fairest

Source: Fairest

Singing, Cry

“However in the world did her skin come green?" Nanny wondered, stupidly, for Melena blanched and Frex reddened, and the baby held her breath as if trying to turn blue to please them all. Nanny had to slap her to make her breath again.”

Gregory Maguire book Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

World

“I didn't want a world in which I had to choose between blind human babies and tortured monkey ones. To be frank, that's the sort of choice I expect science to protect me from, not give me.”

Karen Joy Fowler book We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Source: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

World, Science

“We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out.”

Gregory Maguire book Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Life

“What's wrong with assholes, baby?”

Charles Bukowski book Post Office

Source: Post Office

“Men, Babies, it doesn't matter… we're soulmates”

Candace Bushnell (1958) American author

Men

“Go to sleep, baby, Mama will sing. Of blue butterflies, and dragonfly wings. Moonlight and sunbeams, raiment so fine. Silver and gold, for baby of mine. Go to sleep, baby. Sister will tell, of wolves and of lambs, and demons who fell.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: Black Magic Sanction

Sister, Sleep, Singing

“(Talon pulled another beignet from the sack and held it up for her to eat.)
That stuff is hazardous to your health. (Sunshine)
Baby, life is hazardous to your health. (Talon)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon Night Embrace

Source: Night Embrace

Life, Health

“No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.”

Warren Buffett (1930) American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist

Women, Effort, Time

“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 book Showdown

Source: Showdown

“Give me lust, baby.
Flash.
Give me malice.
Flash.
Give me detached existentialist ennui.
Flash.
Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.
Flash.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

“Tough old world, baby. If you're not bolted together tightly, you're gonna shake, rattle, and roll before you turn thirty.”

Stephen King book The Shining

Source: The Shining

World

“You can’t save others from themselves because those who make a perpetual muddle of their lives don’t appreciate your interfering with the drama they’ve created. They want your poor-sweet-baby sympathy, but they don’t want to change.”

Sue Grafton (1940–2017) American writer

Source: T is for Trespass

Change

“Daddy? Daddy, I know the baby is in the mommy‟s tummy and the baby comes out of the mommy‟s tummy, but, Daddy? How do that baby get in the mommy‟s tummy?”

Robyn Carr American writer

Source: Angel's Peak

“and will I like being called a jazz baby? --You will love it.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Beautiful and Damned

Source: The Beautiful and Damned

Love

“Pulling heads off Barbies, sticking them on the TV antenna and ruining the reception. But thats how witch babies are.”

Francesca Lia Block (1962) American children's writer

“Just leave her alone. You're annoying her.'
'I'm not annoying her. She doesn't even know how to be annoyed. She's, what, a week old?'
'She's three months.'
'She's three months in our years, but what is she in baby years?”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: Death Bringer

“Here she is,” her mum said, cooing at the baby, “my special girl.”
“Oh, cheers,” Valkyrie said, rolling her eyes.”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: Death Bringer

Girl

“Oh, I know that. You know me, baby, I cannot be broken. Takes a giant to snap me in half.”

Zadie Smith On Beauty

Source: On Beauty

“YEAH! WHO DIED? WHO CAME BACK? WHO’S YOUR FREAKIN’ SUPERSIZED McSHIZZLE NOW, BABY? WOOOOOOOO!”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

“For the record? I have never been her baby. In fact, I reject the notion of coming out of her body. I prefer to believe I was hatched, or perhaps purchased.”

Jen Lancaster (1967) American writer

Source: Pretty in Plaid

“At the age of 25 most people were finished. A whole god-damned nation of assholes driving automobiles, eating, having babies, doing everything in the worst way possible, like voting for the presidential candidate who reminded them most of themselves.”

Charles Bukowski book Ham on Rye

Ham On Rye (1982)
Source: Ham on Rye
Context: The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little more off you, until there was nothing left. At the age of 25 most people were finished. A whole goddamned nation of assholes driving automobiles, eating, having babies, doing everything in the worst way possible, like voting for the presidential candidate who reminded them most of themselves. I had no interests. I had no interest in anything. I had no idea how I was going to escape. At least the others had some taste for life. They seemed to understand something that I didn't understand. Maybe I was lacking. It was possible. I often felt inferior. I just wanted to get away from them. But there was no place to go.

God, People, Age, Way

“She's my baby girl, Quinn. I want love for her. Real love. The kind that makes a man crazy inside.

-Gibraltar to Quinn”

Karen Marie Moning book To Tame a Highland Warrior

Source: To Tame a Highland Warrior

Love, Girl

“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 (1955) American author, poet and essayist

Soul

“You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.”

Warren Buffett (1930) American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist

Women

“A baby has brains, but it doesn't know much. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.”

L. Frank Baum book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Source: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Knowledge

“I mused for a few moments on the question of which was worse, to lead a life so boring that you are easily enchanted or a life so full of stimulus that you are easily bored. But then it occurred to me that musing is a pointless waste of anyone's time, and instead I went off to see if I could find a Baby Ruth candy bar, a far more profitable exercise.”

Bill Bryson (1951) American author

Source: The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America (1989)

Life, Exercises, Question, Time

“The hitter can never be the judge. Only the receiver of the blow can tell you how hard it was, whether it would kill a man or make a baby just yawn.”

Edward P. Jones The Known World

Source: The Known World

“Time can play all sorts of tricks on you. In the blink of an eye, babies appear in carriages, coffins disappear into the ground, wars are won and lost, and children transform, like butterflies, into adults.”

Brian Selznick book The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Source: The Invention of Hugo Cabret

War, Children, Appearance, Time

“Immortality,' said Crake, ' is a concept. If you take 'mortality' as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the fear of it, then 'immortality' is the absence of such fear. Babies are immortal. Edit out the fear, and you'll be…”

Margaret Atwood book Oryx and Crake

Source: Oryx and Crake

Death, Fear

“Babies, we are told, are the latest news from heaven.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

“I saved the baby. I saved her. For you."
- Bran”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Burns

“We have to actually choose a name," Kane murmured above her head. "We can't keep calling him 'baby.' When he's fifteen he might resent it.”

Christine Feehan American writer

Source: Ruthless Game

“Sweetest baby ever,” my mother said with a sigh.
“You mean second sweetest, right?” I corrected.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: The Ruby Circle

“What kind of shapeshifter has orange fur anyway?" "Weredingo." Now I'd seen everything. Well, at least he didn't steal my baby.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Strikes

“Having a baby is painful in order to show how serious a thing life is.”

Lisa See book Shanghai Girls

Source: Shanghai Girls

Life, Pain

“Though you may hear me holler,
And you may see me cry--
I'll be dogged, sweet baby,
If you gonna see me die.”

Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist

Dogs, Cry

“(The baby sneezed. Wulf jumped as fire shot out of its nostrils and almost singed his leg.)
Excuse me. I almost made Dark-Hunter barbecue, which would be really sad ‘cause I ain’t got no barbecue sauce with me. (Simi)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Kiss of the Night

Sadness, Singing

“Is there something wrong?” he asked.
She gave a short negative motion with her head. And then words, so sweet, like a cool northern breeze blowing off the lake. “You could hold me now.”
It was almost his undoing.
“Ah baby.”

Maya Banks (1964) Author

Source: The Darkest Hour

“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 book A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Boy, Time

“I don't need a baby growing inside me for nine months. If I'm going to feel nauseous and achy when I wake up, I want to achieve that state the old-fashioned way: getting good and drunk the night before.”

Ellen DeGeneres (1958) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress

Way, Feeling, Fashion, Night

“You really are here. (Thanatos)
Hair of the dog, baby. Sooner or later, we all dance with the devil. Tonight, it’s your turn. (Zarek)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Dance with the Devil

Source: Dance with the Devil

Dogs, Dance

“I mean that it's all right to go to bed with an asshole but don't ever have a baby with one.”

David Gilmour (1946) guitarist, singer, best known as a member of Pink Floyd

Source: The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and Son

“Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.”

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist

People, Learning

“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 Perfect Match

Source: Perfect Match

Life, Sleep

“I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book Middlesex

Source: Middlesex

Girl, Boy

“Sure baby, mañana. It was always mañana. For the next few weeks that was all I heard––mañana a lovely word and one that probably means heaven.”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Source: On the Road

Love

“The baby understands that its mother loves it. […] Words have their origin in baby talk, so words have their origin in love.”

Yasunari Kawabata (1899–1972) Japanese author, Nobel Prize winner

Source: First Snow on Fuji

Love, Understanding

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

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

God

“…he murmured. “Of course, you’re my favorite ride.”
“Aw, that’s sweet, baby. And you’re my favorite joystick.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Source: Entwined with You

“I had a dream that all the babies prevented by the pill showed up. They were mad.”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

Dreams, Madness

“Always respect Mother Nature. Especially when she weighs 400 pounds and is guarding her baby.”

James Rollins book Ice Hunt

Source: Ice Hunt

Nature

“Avoid men who call you Baby, and women who have no friends, and dogs that scratch at their bellies and refuse to lie down at your feet. Wear dark glasses; bathe with lavender oil and cool fresh water. Seek shelter from the sun at noon.”

Alice Hoffman book Practical Magic

Source: Practical Magic

Women, Men, Lie, Dogs

“Shut up Jas, you are not Baby Jesus”

Louise Rennison (1951–2016) British writer

Source: Startled by His Furry Shorts

“He [Percy] pleaded with those sea-green eyes, like a cute baby seal that needed help. Piper wondered how Annabeth ever won an argument with this guy.”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

Guy, Help, Sea

“I asked you, baby,
If you understood-
You told me that you didn't,
But you thought you would.”

Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist

“We're shooting the scene where I swallow your heart and you make me
spit it up again. I swallow your heart and it crawls
right out of my mouth.
You swallow my heart and flee, but I want it back now, baby. I want it back.”

Richard Siken (1967) American poet

Source: Crush

Heart

“Which is worse, Risa often wondered, to have tens of thousands of babies that no one wanted or to silently make then go away before they were even born”

Neal Shusterman book Unwind

Source: Unwind

“Most countries are static, all they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight.”

Neal Stephenson book Snow Crash

Source: Snow Crash

Country

“The news of life is carried via telephone. A baby's birth, a couple engaged, a tragic car accident on a late night highway - most milestones of the human journey, good or bad, are foreshadowed by the sound of a ringing.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

Source: The First Phone Call from Heaven

Life, Cars, Birth, Night

“until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Variant: That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one
Source: Vanishing Acts

“I want babies too," he said huskily. "Daughters as beautiful as you are.”

Maya Banks (1964) Author

Source: Rush

Beauty, Daughters

“Anyway that other thing we almost did in Paris-that's probably off the table for a while. Unless you want that whole baby-I'm-on-fire-when-we kiss thing to become freakishly literal”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Kiss

“This was heaven. "Hey, baby," Hugh said. Heaven just got canceled.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Breaks