Baby Hatching

Genius is sorrow's child. - John Adams

It takes a whole village to raise a child. - African Proverb

Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. - Carl Sandburg

A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer. - Unknown

My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on. - Joan Rivers

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth. - Erma Bombeck

If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all. - Pearl S. Buck

I'm a New Wave baby, so I got very stimulated by foreign film. - Jack Nicholson

When I was a child what I wanted to be when I grew up was an invalid. - Quentin Crisp

The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything. - Frank Sinatra

As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula. - Dave Barry

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man. - Rabindranath Tagore

Four very powerful words to say to your child: "I believe in you." - Kevin Heath

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test. - George W. Bush

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most important question in the world is, "Why is the child crying?" - Alice Walker

As a child, I always chose a false nose and some face paint and a wig for my birthday. - Ashley Jensen

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things. - Plato

If newborn babies could speak they would be the most intelligent beings on planet earth. - Jaden Smith

It's easier to build up a child than it is to repair an adult. Choose your words wisely. - Unknown

I brought children into this dark world because it needed the light that only a child can bring. - Liz Armbruster

There are only two things a child will share willingly - communicable diseases and his mother's age. - Benjamin Spock

If a child, a spouse, a life partner, or a parent depends on you and your income, you need life insurance. - Suze Orman

The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe. - Marian Wright Edelman

Why is it that people rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the people involved. - Mark Twain

The only way we can ever teach a child to say "I'm sorry" is for him to hear it from our lips first. - Kevin Leman

Let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then better be able to find out the natural bent of the child. - Plato

There's no such thing as a tough child - if you parboil them first for seven hours, they always come out tender. - WC Fields

Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped. - Sam Levenson

Menopause: because nature decided that pregnancy, labor, delivery, breastfeeding, and stretch marks wasn't enough. - Unknown

You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, 'Am I having fun?' - Christopher Meloni

The circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are. - Mewtwo

If another one of my Whole Food friends says my wife should have a home birth, I am going to punch all the soy on the planet. - Patton Oswalt

A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason; to always be curious; and to fight tirelessly for something. - Paulo Coelho

No one ever wants to see his or her name linked to anything bad. Conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can. - Harvey Mackay

My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives. - Rita Rudner

The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity. - Thomas Carlyle

Life is a child playing around your feet, a tool you hold firmly in your grip, a bench you sit down upon in the evening, in your garden. - Jean Anouilh

Our babies are like penguins; penguin babies can't exist unless more than one person is taking care of them. They just can't keep going. - Alison Gopnik