Such babies may be exposed to more health risks in later life.

When one of Lisa’s baby teeth fell out here, the tooth fairy left her 50 cents. Another tooth fell out when she was with her father in Las Vegas, and that tooth fairy left her $5. When I told Elvis that 50 cents would be more in line, he laughed. He knew I was not...

Karen- Grace. It’s Christmas, for goodness sake. Think about the baby Jesus: up in that tower, letting his hair down… so that the three wise men can climb up and spin the dradel and see if there are six more weeks of winter.

Saturday, baby. We’re going to get it.

Go on, glare your eyes at me, and cry and plead, and talk tome about money and what it can buy. But it can’t buy back a child once he’s dead!

Being nearly four years old, she was certainly a child: and children are human (if one allows the term “human” a wide sense): but she had not altogether ceased to be a baby: and babies are of course not human–they are animals, and have a very ancient and ramified culture, as cats have, and fishes,...

Don’t stand unmoving outside the door of a crying baby whose only desire is to touch you. Go to your baby. Go to your baby a million times. Demonstrate that people can be trusted, that the environment can be trusted, that we live in a benign universe.

Nick and the CandlestickI am a miner. The light burns blue. Waxy stalactitesDrip and thicken, tearsThe earthen wombExudes from its dead boredom. Black bat airsWrap me, raggy shawls, Cold homicides.They weld to me like plums.Old cave of calcium Icicles, old echoer.Even the newts are white,Those holy Joes.And the fish, the fish —-Christ! they are panes...

The groove is so mysterious. We’re born with it and we lose it and the world seems to split apart before our eyes into stupid and cool. When we get it back, the world unifies around us, and both stupid and cool fall away.I am grateful to those who are keepers of the groove. The...

It had been six weeks since I brought my second child, my daughter, kicking and screaming into the world. Six weeks, that magic number men everywhere look forward to and women dread.

She watched as he settled down on the bed with Naya skin to skin on his chest. His hand all but covered her tiny body as he stroked her in that changeling way, bonding with her on the most elemental level. Then he purred, and Naya made a happy little sound of delight, very much...

The numbers are down here (in the United States) for HIV and AIDS babies, thank goodness, but it’s an epidemic there.

Big Baby is a monster. He is not the player of the year for nothing.

For the holiday babies, we put stockings on their beds.

Big Baby is a monster. He’s going to get his regardless.

We’ve got sick babies, sick old people and everything in between. We’ve seen strokes, chest pain, diabetes patients passing out, seizures, people without medicine, people with the wrong medicine. It’s been busy.

Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.

When Jordan was a baby he sat on top of me much as a fly rests on a hill of dung. And I nourished him as a hill of dung nourishes a fly, and when he had eaten his fill he left me.Jordan…I should have named him after a stagnant pond and then I could...

Still the most magical day of my life was the day I became a mom.

There are various methods by which you may achieve ignominy and shame. By murdering a large and respected family in cold blood and afterward depositing their bodies in the water companies’ reservoir, you will gain much unpopularity in the neighborhood of your crime, and even robbing a church will get you cordially disliked, especially by...

We have a new puppy and that’s enough! Two babies and three dogs is enough.

You know what the great thing about babies is? They are like little bundles of hope. Like the future in a basket.

A mother does not become pregnant in order to provide employment to medical people. Giving birth is an ecstatic jubilant adventure not available to males. It is a woman’s crowning creative experience of a lifetime.

Every bride is beautiful. It’s like newborn babies or puppies. They can’t help it.

We’ve hired the calmest babies in the world to play the hysterical Thomas. One did finally start to cry but stopped every time Chris [Newman (assistant director)] yelled ‘Action’. … Babies smiled all afternoon. Buddhist babies. They didn’t cry once. We, however, were all in tears by 5 p.m.

My girlfriend just had a baby. We’ve known each other for six months, so I’m pretty stunned to find myself becoming a father so soon. I hope the baby looks like me!

Imagine that the world had created a new ‘dream product’ to feed and immunize everyone born on earth. Imagine also that it was available everywhere, required no storage or delivery, and helped mothers plan their families and reduce the risk of cancer. Then imagine that the world refused to use it.

A baby is born with a need to be loved and never outgrows it.

God save me ere I have any babies. They are grabby, clingy creatures who steal your figure and always want a ribbon or a wooden sword. And who sometimes make you die bearing them.

I haven’t the faintest idea how babies are born, probably because I fainted on the day I was born.

I wonder if babies could be made more efficiently on a conveyer belt.

The baby was a little bit warm — I mean, fair to say, because of the sun — but the baby was fine.

With all of these people walking around, someone could have just grabbed the baby and taken him away.

These wretched babies don’t come until they are ready.

As he took them in his arms, the crying of the babies permeated the night like a trail of blood calling out to a predator.

Then I had a baby and went on the mommy track,

Ain’t nothing worse to a mama than losing her baby—

Don’t go to sleep, Ginger-Sun.””Draz-“”I know,” he muttered, “‘Behave, Baz. She’s been through a lot. And don’t make a baby for at least three months.'””They told you not to touch me for three months?””Let’s just say it was strongly suggested.

It was reported that four babies had their heads crushed in. When people surrendered, they were summarily executed. This was wholesale butchery.

It’s a good thing babies don’t give you a lot of time to think. You fall in love with them and when you realize how much they love you back, life is very simple.

Movement turns dead dogs into maggots and daisies, and flour butter sugar an egg and a tablespoon of milk into Abernethy biscuits, and spermatozoa and ovaries into fishy little plants growing babyward if we take no care to stop them.

Million Dollar Baby

So many people think that they are not gifted because they don’t have an obvious talent that people can recognize because it doesn’t fall under the creative arts category—writing, dancing, music, acting, art or singing. Sadly, they let their real talents go undeveloped, while they chase after fame. I am grateful for the people with...

Bevve un sorso di caffè e si sporse in avanti per ravvivare il fuoco, poi prese un libro dal tavolino e cercò di concentrarsi nella lettura.Tentativo patetico e inutile.Pensò allora a come sarebbe stato condividere il ranch con una donna, un pensiero che negli ultimi tempi ritornava spesso. Pensò a Renée che se ne era...

Il pastore augurò Buon Natale, il coro riprese a cantare e l’organo a suonare. Fu in quel momento che Maggie sentì che lui era vicino. Si girò appena e lo vide. Se ne stava in piedi nel corridoio centrale, a qualche passo da lei, lo Stetson fra le mani, un’espressione indecifrabile sul volto. Il sangue...

He is still a bit of a baby. He’ll get an entry for Cheltenham but not against Denman.

Look at you, standing there in your iron- gray dress, feeling piousand self- righteous while you starve small children!

the first legislation to pass in this country that will rescue babies.

Never give a lousy person the opportunity to create lousy babies.

I never would have left if I thought I wouldn’t be back, … Those are my babies. I raised them from the time they were 5 weeks old.