We have this idea that babies are maybe poor listeners, but in fact, they’re not.

We’re looking at the coming of spring like we look at the coming of babies we never considered aborting; Hopeful.

We have to take baby steps before we can take giant leaps.

Imagine the state of one’s mind if they were to recall its details. All those months cocooned and then the onslaught of this ugly world. Lights and noise and strangeness. It’s no wonder we scream...

In infancy, our blood is strong and our energy is plentiful. Mind and body, thought and action are one. Everything we do is in harmony with the natural order. The infant is not affected by...

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

I had a horrifying, frightful encounter with the paparazzi while I was with my baby.

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.

It’s important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It’s not only life of babies, but it’s life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet.

Since I had the baby I can’t tolerate anything violent or sad, I saw the Matrix and I had my eyes closed through a lot of it, though I didn’t need to. I would peek,...

There are those wonderful moments of clarity in life when one is reminded how irreparably flawed we humans are. Once, when I was nineteen, on the subway in Boston I lost my balance slightly and...

When my friends began to have babies and I came to comprehend the heroic labor it takes to keep one alive, the constant exhausting tending of a being who can do nothing and demands everything,...

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

Babies are soft. Anyone looking at them can see the tender, fragile skin and know it for the rose-leaf softness that invites a finger’s touch. But when you live with them and love them, you...

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

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

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

If your baby has a toothache, you don’t shoot the baby.

HEARSE, n. Death’s baby-carriage.

I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle, so all is peace.

Agatha told me she was late, and I thought, I haven’t slept with her in years—she really must be late. I’m going to be a father!

Memory loss is the key to human reproduction. If you remembered what new parenthood was actually like you wouldn’t go around lying to people about how wonderful it is, and you certainly wouldn’t ever do...

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...

If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite,...

A first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. You examine every turn of flesh for precocity, and crow it to the world....

I love how babies look like old people. I saw a baby the other day that looked exactly like my grandpa, only taller.

Is she a good baby? People would ask me. Well, no, I’d say.That swirl of hair on the back of her head. We must have taken a thousand pictures of it.

Having a baby is part of a woman’s life, and it is surely a great waste to be afraid of life.

Her body accepted my brutal seed and took it to swell within, just as the patient earth accepts a falling fruit into its tender soil to cradle and nourish it to grow. Came a time,...

The most out-there thing I’m saying is, ‘Don’t have babies. Don’t get married and have kids. Have a larger life than that.

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

She believed that Maggie was God’s baby and was persistent that she needed to find a way to give her back to God. She tried to find a way to give Maggie back to the...

We started out with seven ‘baby Bells’ and AT and T back in 1984 with the divestiture. Prior to that there was basically one company, AT and T. Today there are many companies offering telephone,...

We are all born rude. No infant has ever appeared yet with the grace to understand how inconsiderate it is to disturb others in the middle of the night.

I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.