Newborn Quotes
26 quotes
"There are words in the soul of a newborn baby, wanting and waiting to be written."
"For the newborn and wise, everything begins small."
"How has he moved so quickly from childlike naïvité to existential panic?"
"To some believers, being on the pill or using a condom is a nonverbal way of telling God to go to hell."
"Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent."
"One of the main functions of a push-up bra is to lower the number of mothers who seem like mothers."
"Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly."
"Our parents would not be ‘The best parents in the world’ (to us) if they were not our parents."
"It is a sign of immaturity to believe that being older than someone (automatically) makes you more (mentally) mature than them."
"Old soul cries through the tears of a newborn"
"I feel more human when I compare the cuteness of a lizard to a newborn child's sweetness. Both are God's creations filled with precious innocence"
"In soul of every newborn baby, words are waiting to be written."
"Grief was like a newborn, and the first three months were hard as hell, but by six months you'd recognized defeat, shifted your life around, and made room for it."
"The art wouldn’t complain if we leave her alone. Losing a touch with art, however, is losing a touch with our imagination."
"Nothing's scarier than having a sick child, and one so newly born, and so vulnerable. It's the worst thing for a parent."
"In the baby’s roomThe city lights areMilkyIn the curtains… Breath Gentle as rain, Sleep Quiet as snowflakes"
"The absolute dependence of a newborn infant inspired many things in me, but it did not activate any magical knowledge about what to do for the next twenty years."
"I don't have a fear of becoming a parent, but I do have a fear of taking care of a newborn because they are so tiny and vulnerable."
"Life doesn't get more real than having a newborn at home."
"The most ironic thing in the world is having no say when your name is determined for the first time (which is also for the last time for most), because newborns are not necessarily known for speaking their minds."
"A photograph of a disposable diaper floating in the arctic miles away from human habitat fueled my daily determination to save at least one disposable diaper from being used and created. One cloth diaper after another, days accumulated into years and now our next child is using the cloth diapers we bought for our firstborn."
"[Magnus] held on to the boy, newborn in grave dirt and blood, and he wished that he had found him dead."
"We are all born artists. The nature generally doesn’t discriminate among newborns with respect to art. Yet most of us try very hard as we grow, without knowing, to stop being artists."
"A newborn is murderous/but can't do anything about it."
"Lust is the blessing of the fruit of the womb."
Michael Bassey Johnson, Classic Quotations From The Otherworlds
"Those eyes so ecstatic with the gleam of new life, the wide laugh that no doubt uses up so much of the breath contained in those tiny lungs."