Quotes

Does anyone have any good baby, pregnancy, or parent quotes??

I'm looking to send out a 'flyer' or maybe even on our announcements or shower invites, some cute quotes along w/ our info !

Any help would be appreciated!!

TIA!

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I just copied & pasted from a few websites – so many are duplicates.



· "A baby's a full time job for three adults. Nobody tells you that when you’re pregnant, or you’d probably jump off a bridge. Nobody tells you how all-consuming it is to be a mother—how reading goes out the window and thinking too." ~ Erica Jong quote

· "A baby is a blank cheque made payable to the human race." ~ Barbara Christine Seifert quote

· "Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last." ~ Charles Dickens quote

· "Making the decision to have a child--It's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body." ~ Elizabeth Stone quote

· "If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?" ~ Milton Berle quote

· "I don't know why they say "you have a baby." The baby has you." ~ Gallagher

· "Parenthood: The state of being better chaperoned than you were before marriage." ~ Marcelene Cox

· "Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now, I have six children and no theories." ~ John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester quote

· "A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quote

· "You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance." ~ Franklin P. Jones quote

· "A baby's an inestimable blessing and bother." ~ Mark Twain quote

· "Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare." ~ Ed Asner quote

· "A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm." ~ Bill Vaughan quote

· "If your baby's "beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses, sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all the time," you're the grandma." ~ Theresa Bloomingdale

· "People who say they sleep like babies usually don't have them." ~ Leo J. Burke quote

· "Human beings are the only creatures on Earth that allow their children to come back home." ~ Bill Cosby quote

· "A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other." ~ Ronald Knox quote

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

· "It sometimes happens, even in the best of families, that a baby is born. This is not necessarily cause for alarm. The important thing is to keep your wits about you and borrow some money." ~ Elinor Goulding Smith quote

· "The worst feature of a new baby is its mother's singing." ~ Kin Hubbard quote

· "A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest." ~ Irish Proverb

· "Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it." ~ Marshall McLuhan

· "A father is someone who carries pictures where his money used to be." ~ Anon

· "The hardest job facing kids today is learning good manners without seeing any." ~ Fred Astaire

· "I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it." ~ Harry S Truman

· "Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life." ~ Yiddish proverb



A baby is God’s way of saying the world should go on. ~ Doris Smith

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies. ~ Winston Churchill

Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last. ~ Charles Dickens

A baby is a blank cheque made payable to the human race. ~ Barbara Christine Seifert

A baby is an inestimable blessing and a bother. ~ Mark Twain

Children are our most valuable natural resource. ~ Herbert Hoover

Making the decision to have a child--It's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~ Elizabeth Stone

A baby is a full time job for three adults. Nobody tells you that when you’re pregnant, or you’d probably jump off a bridge. Nobody tells you how all-consuming it is to be a mother—how reading goes out the window and thinking too. ~ Erica Jong

Loving a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback loop. The more you give the more you get and the more you get the more you feel like giving. ~ Penelope Leach

But what am I?
An infant crying in the night:
An infant crying for the light,
And with no language but a cry. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

To heir is human. ~ Dolores E. McGuire

Having a baby is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head, ~ Carol Burnett

"A new baby is like the beginning of all things-wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities."

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LOL I wouldn't put this one in your cheery birth announcement!

· "A baby's a full time job for three adults. Nobody tells you that when you’re pregnant, or you’d probably jump off a bridge. Nobody tells you how all-consuming it is to be a mother—how reading goes out the window and thinking too." ~ Erica Jong quote

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my MOM definitely loves this one!

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Barbara~ those are great!!!