B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Babies are born free.”
“Babies are born whole and then they go through experiences in life that chip away at some of that, and it becomes learned behavior.”
“Babies are born with neither good nor bad character. Normal people - as they grow, learn and are trained - develop better or worse dispositions and habits of conduct.”
“Babies are born with the instinct to speak, the way spiders are born with the instinct to spin webs. You don't need to train babies to speak; they just do. But reading is different.”
“Babies are born without knee-caps.”
“Babies are endlessly fascinating to look at and I'm obsessed about their complete and utter lack of guile.”
“Babies are equipped at birth with a number of instinctive reflexes and behavior patterns that cause them to spend their first several years trying to kill themselves. If your home contains a sharp, toxic object, your baby will locate it; if your home contains no such object, your baby will try to obtain one via mail order.”
Source: Babies and Other Hazards of Sex: How to Make a Tiny Person in Only 9 Months, with Tools You Probably Have Around the Home
“Babies are frightening -- raw tyrants whose only kingdom is their own body.”
Source: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“Babies are idiots.”
“Babies are like the smallest, drunkest people you know.”
“Babies are little angels.”
“Babies are living dolls with dancing smiles that come from the stars to still our hearts.”
“Babies are made through an act that you will eventually find intriguing but for right now will just sort of horrify you, and also sometimes people do stuff that involves baby-making parts that does not actually involve making babies, like for instance kiss each other in places that are not on the face.”
Source: An Abundance of Katherines
“Babies are my Life”
“Babies are not brought by storks and poets are not produced by workshops.”
“Babies are saved when Christians show up.”
“Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.”
“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 feel the softness going inward, the round-cheeked flesh wobbly as custard, the boneless splay of the tiny hands. Their joints are melted rubber, and even when you kiss them hard, in the passion of loving their existence, your lips sink down and seem never to find bone. Holding them against you, they melt and mold, as though they might at any moment flow back into your body.
But from the very start, there is that small streak of steel within each child. That thing that says "I am," and forms the core of personality.
In the second year, the bone hardens and the child stands upright, skull wide and solid, a helmet protecting the softness within. And "I am" grows, too. Looking at them, you can almost see it, sturdy as heartwood, glowing through the translucent flesh.
The bones of the face emerge at six, and the soul within is fixed at seven. The process of encapsulation goes on, to reach its peak in the glossy shell of adolescence, when all softness then is hidden under the nacreous layers of the multiple new personalities that teenagers try on to guard themselves.
In the next years, the hardening spreads from the center, as one finds and fixes the facets of the soul, until "I am" is set, delicate and detailed as an insect in amber.”
Source: Dragonfly in Amber
“Babies are such a nice way to start people.”
“Babies are tedious. Kids only start to become human on their fifth birthday.”
Source: New Moon
“Babies are the buds of imagination that are ready to bloom with lights of love and affection.”
“Babies are the buds of life ready to bloom like a fresh flower to refresh humanity.”
“Babies are thinking and attracting before they are speaking. Even though you are only months old in your physical body, you are a very old and wise Creator, focused in that baby's body.”
“Babies are unreasonable; they expect far too much of existence. Each new generation that comes takes one look at the world, thinks wildly, "Is this all they've done to it?" and bursts into tears.”
“Babies aren't born knowing differences in color, gender, religions. They're taught those things. They're taught them at home. They're taught in the schools. They're taught in the churches. They're taught in the mosques, in the synagogues.”
“Babies aren't dishwasher-safe.”
“Babies aren't really born of their parents. They are born of every kind word, loving gesture, hope, and dream their parents ever had.”
“Babies breathe a lot more rapidly than adults do, and what's more, they're also growing quickly and so they're absorbing lots more into the body and they're more fragile in terms of development and so on.”
“Babies cannot eat meat but some adults like milk.”
“Babies change things, open doors you thought were shut, close others. Make you into something you never been.”
Source: Two Or Three Things I Know for Sure
“Babies come with the power of love to create their own world in our hearts and in the universe.”
“Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; in fact ... the family brings up baby by being brought up by him.”
Source: Childhood and Society
“Babies cry at birth because it is the first time they experience separation from love.”
“Babies cry, make noise, go here and there. But it annoys me when a baby cries in church and there are those who say he needs to go out. The cry of a baby is God's voice: never drive them away from the church!”
“Babies did not attract me, and I was altogether without the maternal sense so highly developed in small and adolescent girls.”
Source: In praise of imperfection: my life and work
“Babies do not have both feet squarely on Earth. They float between the worlds, not being able to clearly distinguish them. As they grow, they must become firmly established as Earth dwellers. Their memory of other worlds fades and disappears. They learn how to be human before they can, one day, recall their spiritual heritage.”
Source: Circles of Separation
“Babies do not want to hear about babies; they like to be told of giants and castles.”
Source: Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc
“Babies don't come with instruction booklets. You'd learn the same way we all do -- you'd read up on dinosaurs, you'd Google backhoes and skidders. And you don't need a penis to go buy a baseball glove.”
Source: Sing You Home
“Babies don't know who's rich and who's poor. You love 'em and they're happy.”
“Babies don't need a vacation, but I still see them at the beach... it pisses me off! I'll go over to a little baby and say 'What are you doing here? You haven't worked a day in your life!'”
“Babies don't need a vacation. But I still see them at the beach. It pisses me off.”
“Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of.”
“Babies have big heads and big eyes, and tiny little bodies with tiny little arms and legs. So did the aliens at Roswell! I rest my case.”
“Babies have much higher levels of stress in childcare.”
“Babies have not yet chunked anything. They aren't doing any high level thinking. All they're doing is sucking in all the data they experience in the world around them, and remembering it, raw. It's basically what extreme savants have happen in their brains.”
“Babies have the tendency to make adults talk like babies.”
“Babies haven't any hair; Old men's heads are just as bare; between the cradle and the grave lie a haircut and a shave.”
Source: Complete Poetry
“Babies. I want to fill you up with babies. Like, make you pregnant with babies. And have some of the babies. Babies. Babies. Caroline? Babies”
Source: Last Call
“Babies in silk hats playing with dynamite.”
“Babies just change everything. You have to become super-selfless and super-tired and super-amenable to change. They just change all the time.”