Incipient beings. [ Carlyle ]
A babe is a mother's anchor. [ Beecher ]
Sweet sleep, with soft down
Weave thy brows an infant crown!
Sweet sleep, angel mild,
Hover over my happy child. [ William Blake ]
Heaven lies about us in our infancy! [ Wordsworth ]
Hush, my dear, lie still and slumber.
Holy angels guard thy bed!
Heavenly blessings without number
Gently falling on thy head. [ Watts ]
The public? The public is just a great baby. [ Dr. Chalmers ]
But what am I? An infant crying in the night;
An infant crying for the light;
And with no language but a cry. [ Alfred Tennyson ]
Bent over her babe, her eye dissolved in dew;
The big drops, mingling with the milk he drew. [ John Langhorne ]
What instruction the baby brings to the mother! [ T. W. Higginson ]
As living jewels dropped unstained from heaven. [ Pollock ]
Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace.
Secret joys and secret smiles. Little pretty infant wiles. [ William Blake ]
A sweet new blossom of humanity, fresh fallen from God's own home to flower on earth. [ Gerald Massey ]
Of all the joys that brighten suffering earth, what joy is welcomed like a new-born child? [ Mrs. Norton ]
A tight little bundle of wailing and flannel, Perplex'd with the newly found fardel of life. [ Fred. Locker ]
The little babe up in his arms he bent, who with sweet pleasure and bold blandishment 'gan smile. [ Spenser ]
What is it that makes a complete stranger dive into an icy river to save a solid gold baby? Maybe we'll never know. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
A babe in a 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. [ Tupper ]
A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy: the smile that accepts the lover before the words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first-born baby, and assures it of a mother's love. [ Haliburton ]
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 an insurrection. [ Mark Twain, The Babies ]
Give him gold enough, and marry him to a puppet, or an aglet-baby; or an old trot with never a tooth in her head, though she have as many diseases as two and fifty horses; why, nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal. [ William Shakespeare ]
The coarsest father gains a new impulse to labor from the moment of his baby's birth; he scarcely sees it when awake, and yet it is with him all the time. Every stroke he strikes is for his child. New social aims, new moral motives, come vaguely up to him. [ T. W. Higginson ]
The idea that a baby doesn't amount to anything! Why, one baby is just a house and a front yard full by itself. One baby can, furnish more business than you and your whole Interior Department can attend to. He is enterprising, irrepressible, brimful of lawless activities. [ Mark Twain, The Babies ]
I wouldn't be surprised if someday some fisherman caught a big shark and cut it open, and there inside was a whole person. Then they cut the person open, and in him is a little baby shark. And in the baby shark there isn't a person, because it would be too small. But there's a little doll or something, like a Johnny Combat little toy guy - something like that. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]