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Quotes about Baby


What will you put in the stocking of the Baby Jesus? screenwriter of The Bishop's Wife with Cary Grant, Loretta Young, and David's Niven.

Leonardo Bercovici

A good way to threaten somebody is to light a stick of dynamite. Then you call the guy and hold the burning fuse up to the phone. 'Hear that?' you say, 'That's dynamite, baby.'

Jack Handey

There's a woman in China having a baby every 6 minutes. They're trying to find her to stop her.

O Anna Jr

But all lost things are in the angels' keeping, Love; No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, Love; The years of Heaven with all earth's little pain Make Good Together there we can begin again In babyhood.

Helen Hunt Jackson (Helen Hunt)

I can remember the lush spring excitement of language in childhood. Sitting in church, rolling it around my mouth like marbles--tabernacle and pharisee and parable, tresspass and Babylon and covenant.

Penelope Lively

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

Carl Sandburg

A Babylonish dialect Which learned pedants much affect.

Samuel Butler (1)

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

Enid Bagnold

Babylon in all its desolation is a sight not so awful as that of the human mind in ruins.

Scrope Davies

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

Alfred Hitchcock

They are all in the lily-bed, cuddled close together-- Purple, Yellow-cap, and little Baby-blue; How they ever got there you must ask the April weather, The morning and the evening winds, the sunshine and the dew.

Ellen Mackay Hutchinson Cortissoz

For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver.

Pierre Jean de Bible

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

James Reston

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

Mark Russell

The public! why, the public's nothing better than a great baby.

Thomas Chalmers

Synods are mystical Bear-gardens. Where Elders, Deputies, Church-wardens, And other Members of the Court, Manage the Babylonish sport.

Samuel Butler (1)

And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed: And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights: And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.

Mrs. Anna Letitia Bible

Sleep on, Baby, on the floor, Tired of all the playing, Sleep with smile the sweeter for That you dropped away in! On your curls' full roundness stand Golden lights serenely-- One cheek, pushed out by the hand, Folds the dimple inly.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The smile that flickers on baby's lips when he sleeps--does anybody know where it was born? Yes, there is a rumor that a young pale beam of a crescent moon touched the edge of a vanishing autumn cloud, and there the smile was first born in the dream of a dew-washed morning.

Sir Rabindranath Tagore

My sister's expecting a baby, and I don't know if I'm going to be an uncle or an aunt. (explaining to Coach Jim Valvano why he appeared nervous at practice, 1982)

Chuck Nevitt

My sister's expecting a baby and I don't know if I'm going to be an uncle or an aunt.

Chuck Nevitt

I don't like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don't like them crossing one another, and I kind of have them hidden in the corner. I put baby powder on the ends. I think it's essentially a matter of taking care of what takes care of you.

Wayne Gretzky

Summer time an' the livin' is easy, Fish are jumpin' an' the cotton is high. Oh, yo' daddy's rich, and yo' ma' is good-lookin', So hush, little baby, don' yo' cry.

Ira Gershwin and DuBose Heyward

No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby-so helpless and so ridiculous.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The stars which shone over Babylon and the stable in Bethlehem still shine as brightly over the Empire State Building and your front yard today. They perform their cycles with the same mathematical precision, and they will continue to affect each thing on earth, including man, as long as the earth exists.

Linda Goodman

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