Mar 20 2009
Quotes by Famous People on Babies
http://www.worldofceleb.com/Quotes/Babies/Babies2.html
I came across this yesterday and figured some of these are worth sharing:
“Except that right side up is best, there is not much to learn about holding a baby. There are one hundred and fifty-two distinctly different ways –and all are right! At least all will do.”
– Heywood Broun
1888-1939, American Journalist, Novelist
Yes, I have seen kids held all different, weird, and wacky ways when I worked at the local mall. Even upside down! But the kid doesn’t seem to mind it. With all of those constantly changing positions, it’s like riding on the Whirligig at the local amusement park.
“Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
This seems to be especially true of men. Watch a father in public with his kid. Really, he is trying to be a big buddy to the grommet.
“A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.”
– Ronald Knox
1888-1957, British Scholar, Priest
LOL! Isn’t it interesting how there is a cover for that “other end” but not the first end? LOL!
“Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it.”
– Marshall Mcluhan
1911-1980, Canadian Communications Theorist
This is the best one yet. Awesome.
“A soiled baby, with a neglected nose, cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.”
– Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer
This must have been one of those times when Twain was being serious.
“I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.”
– Queen Victoria
1819-1901, Queen of Great Britain
This, from an era where lesbianism was perfectly legal and male homosexuality, illegal. Whatever.
More here:
http://workinghumor.com/quotes/babies.shtml
“Watching a baby being born is a little like watching a wet St. Bernard coming in through the cat door.” - Jeff Foxworthy.
How true.
“We have far too many kids. At one time in the playpen there was standing-room only. It looked like a bus stop for midgets. It used to get so damp in there, we’d have a rainbow above it. - Phyllis Diller.
That Phyllis Diller is so funny.
More:
http://www.gaia.com/quotes/topics/babies?page=2
“I didn’t know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child.” - Loretta Lynn
Lynn was married at the age of 14 to an older man where she was born and raised in Kentucky. Kind of a sad statement to not know that babies are the result of sexual intercourse. But that was back in in 1950’s.
