B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Babies laughing is like opium.”
“Babies learn most of what they know from interactions with their parents, but not of the formal, instructional variety. Babies learn from spontaneous, everyday events--the mailman at the door with a package to open...all of which need adult interpretation. They are real events of interest and concern to babies and young children....By contrast, infant education is artificial and out of context.”
“Babies learn through a series of increasingly self-corrected ideas. They use very sophisticated hypothesis testing strategies to find out about their world.”
“Babies like fat. Like to bury they face up in you armpit and go to sleep. They like big fat legs too. That I know.”
Source: The Help
“Babies love fat.”
Source: The Help
“Babies need not to be taught a trade, but to be introduced to a world. To put the matter shortly, woman is generally shut up in a house with a human being at the time when he asks all the questions that there are, and some that there aren't. It would be odd if she retained any of the narrowness of a specialist. Now if anyone says that this duty of general enlightenment (even when freed from modern rules and hours, and exercised more spontaneously by a more protected person) is in itself too exacting and oppressive, I can understand the view. I can only answer that our race has thought it worth while to cast this burden on women in order to keep common-sense in the world. But when people begin to talk about this domestic duty as not merely difficult but trivial and dreary, I simply give up the question. For I cannot with the utmost energy of imagination conceive what they mean. When domesticity, for instance, is called drudgery, all the difficulty arises from a double meaning in the word. If drudgery only means dreadfully hard work, I admit the woman drudges in the home, as a man might drudge at the Cathedral of Amiens or drudge behind a gun at Trafalgar. But if it means that the hard work is more heavy because it is trifling, colorless and of small import to the soul, then as I say, I give it up; I do not know what the words mean. To be Queen Elizabeth within a definite area, deciding sales, banquets, labors and holidays; to be Whiteley within a certain area, providing toys, boots, sheets, cakes. and books, to be Aristotle within a certain area, teaching morals, manners, theology, and hygiene; I can understand how this might exhaust the mind, but I cannot imagine how it could narrow it. How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one's own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone, and narrow to be everything to someone? No; a woman's function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute. I will pity Mrs. Jones for the hugeness of her task; I will never pity her for its smallness.”
Source: What's Wrong with the World
“Babies need social interactions with loving adults who talk with them, listen to their babblings, name objects for them, and give them opportunities to explore their worlds.”
“Babies on television never spit up on the Ultrasuede.”
“Babies regularly read to are the first to pass the post in life. When other kids are busy with toys, they are busy with books. They are peaceful and calculated even when the goal posts are moved.”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“Babies should be classified as an antidepressant. It's pretty hard to be in a bad mood around a 5-month-old baby.”
“Babies should enjoy the freedom to vocalize whether it be in church, a public meeting place, during a movie, or after hours when the lights are out. They have not yet learned that joy and laughter have to last a lifetime and must be conserved.”
Source: Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist
“Babies smile without any reason. Be like a baby.”
“Babies! That’s all it’s about. Who ever knew the world would be all about babies?” Samantha shouts.
“Every time I see a baby, I swear, I want to throw up,” Miranda says.
“I did throw up once.” I nod eagerly. “I saw a filthy bib, and that was it.”
“Why don’t these people just get cats and a litter box?” Samantha asks.”
Source: Summer and the City
“Babies used to make me nervous, but these squirmy things are awesome once you’ve read the manual.”
Source: Didn't Get Frazzled: humorous medical fiction
“Babies were born, old people died, stocks were traded, and someone faked an orgasm. All in those five seconds.”
Source: Wallbanger
“Babies were dangerous . . . they made you fall in love before you knew what was happening.”
Source: The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy
“Babies who have not yet been taught to speak any language are the only race of the earth, the race of man: all the rest is pretence, what we call civilization, hatred, fear, desire for strength.”
Source: The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, and Other Stories
“Babies! What a wonderful way to start people!”
“Babies, babies, babies. Why did God make so many babies? But no, God didn't make them. Stupid people made them.”
Source: Gone with the wind
“Babies, they learn how to walk and they are already trying to run away. You can't reach the doorknob, you only know us, think it through.”
“Babies, we are told, are the latest news from heaven.”
“Baby, baby, baby
Can't you stay with me tonight
Oh baby, baby, baby
Don't my kisses please you right
You were so hard to find
The beautiful ones, they hurt you everytime
Paint a perfect picture
Bring to life a vision in one's mind
The beautiful ones
Always smash the picture
Always, every time
If I told you baby
That I was in love with you
Oh baby, baby, baby
If we got married
Would that be cool?
You make me so confused
The beautiful ones
You always seem to lose”
Source: The Beautiful Ones Sheet Music
“Baby, bein’ seriously serious, you are the only thing in four years that has come close to getting me to a place where I can even begin to think I might be able to bear those flames.”
“Baby boom generation in China will start to hit retirement age in the very next few years, let's say by the end of this decade.”
“Baby Boomers are now living longer and want to stay vibrant and gorgeous for as long as possible. I've identified a need for women to learn the basics of a healthy, holistic, daily regimen, which will bring a healthy glow to their skin. It's all about allowing our true self to shine, both literally through our skin and metaphorically through our soul.”
“Baby Boomers becoming Republicans while Dems become outdated.”
“Baby boomers helped me a great deal in my career. They launched me. They were there for me to sing my song to. And I'm not saying I'm better than anyone, but I think they turned that anti-authority baby boom mentality into their own enemy. Now I identify very closely with their children.”
“Baby Boomers represent the largest and wealthiest market consumer segment in the Japanese economy”
Source: Baby Boomers and the New Japanese Student
“Baby boomers selling your rumors of their history, forcein' youth away from the truth of what's real today”
“Baby booty, juicy fruity, truck stop cutie, road side beauty, I'm in love with you.”
“Baby boy, go hire a squadron
My crib got more poles than a fire department.”
“Baby bye Here's a fly, Let us watch him. you and I, How he crawls Up the walls Yet he never falls.”
Source: THE SEXTON'S TALE, AND OTHER POEMS
“Baby carrots are making me gay.”
“Baby Cooper and Aaron running around causing trouble,” Dad said, setting an album on Lark’s lap. “Aaron was a very good baby. Didn’t cry at all. Not once.”
When I laughed, Dad gave me a wink. “Here was our boy at three months.”
Lark looked at the picture and laughed. Knowing exactly what she thought was so funny, I explained, “They thought they were adopting a girl, so I wore pink those first few months.”
“Babies grow so fast at that age,” Mom said. “No reason to waste money on new clothes when he wouldn’t know the difference.”
Lark laughed at this comment and kept laughing until the pictures reached when I was three.
Her eyes moistened and again I was the one to explain. “Lark’s little brother died around that age.”
As Mom and Dad descended on her with hugs, I never saw my girl look so startled. Life was different for her now. No longer was she struggling to survive in a dysfunctional family of revolving fathers and a cold mother. Now, she was a Barnes and we were fully functional and only slightly on the weird side.
“You have curls,” she cooed, running her finger over a picture of me at five.
“I loved those curls,” Mom said.
“She put barrettes in those curls,” I muttered, standing behind the three of them as they looked through the album. Ignoring my parents’ laughter, I continued, “I begged to have my hair shaved short. Once it was, I never looked back.”
Source: Damaged and the Cobra
“Baby deer left without their moms. Orphans. Abandoned kittens.”
Source: Knot for Me
“Baby don't wake me, let me take you on an endless journey. We touch and the softest kiss explodes with lust. It's real and you can't deny the heat you feel. And if I die before I wake, baby that's all right.”
“Baby...drummers bang all night long!”
“Baby eagles can never soar under their family's wing.”
“Baby get ready, get set, please don't go.”
“Baby girl, I am so sorry," I whisper under my breath. Because there she is, a masterpiece of diamond-like crystal atop an altar of death, her face caught in a scream, a dagger buried deep and gleaming into her heart.”
Source: Liminal
“Baby girl
Wake up and
Worry a little less today
Be brave and strong
Open the doors and receive
All the light
Let the rays of sunshine come in”
Source: The Curved Rainbow
“Baby girl,
You tried,
You tried so hard,
Don't you worry?
You have all the right,
To sleep tight at night!”
Source: The Forest of Feelings
“Baby girl, Cross is a tsunami.”
Source: The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day
“Baby Girl," I say. "I need you remember everything I told you. Do you remember what I told you?" She still crying steady, but the hiccups are gone. "To wipe my bottom good when I'm done?" "No, baby, the other one. About who you are.”
“Baby Harper and I were having dinner together, as we had done every Saturday night for close to a year by then. We went into Shelby and sat in our usual booth at Bridges Barbecue Lodge. We each ordered a pulled pork sandwich, a side of coleslaw, fries with an extra order of barbecue sauce for dipping, peach cobbler (only available on Saturdays), and a bottle of Cheerwine, a cherry-flavored cola, bottled in nearby Salisbury, which my great-uncle said brought out the "fruit" in Bridges's sauce. Bridges Barbecue Lodge had two things going for it, which was more than I could say for the other dining options in town, Pizza Inn, Waffle House, Arby's, Roy Rogers, and Hardee's. In the mid-eighties the greater Boiling Springs-Shelby area attracted only the B-list fast-food chains. Bridges was in a league of its own. The first thing that made Bridges special was that, even by the standards of North Carolina barbecue, Bridges's sauce was extraordinarily vinegary, which meant it was extraordinarily good.”
Source: Bitter in the Mouth
“Baby?” he called and he felt her eyes on him.
“Yeah?” she replied, her sweet voice soft, another tone he was getting used to and this was because the last couple of days it had started to come at him often.
“Do me a favor?”
“Sure.”
“In a second, I’m gonna pull over, get out my gun and give it to you. When I do, shoot me with it.”
“What?” she whispered.
“I’m facin’ another hour and a half of your music. I’d rather be dead.”
Silence then, “Shut up.”
Source: Lady Luck
“Baby,” his voice gentled, “this is me seein’ to that soft spot when I say quiet-like that I... will... be... there... in ten. And what I mean is, when I get there in ten, your ass better be there.”
Oh boy.
“Are you coming on your bike?”
“Yeah.”
“I’m in a tight, short, little aquamarine dress with high heels. I can’t get on a bike.
“You’re in a tight, short dress and high heels?” Tack asked.
“Yes.”
“I’ll be in there in five.”
Source: Motorcycle Man
“Baby human died, baby cat died yesterday... dead is part of our life beyond and above us!”
“Baby I ain't trash. Trash is something you throw away. My people keep me." (Nick Gautier)”
Source: Infamous
“Baby, I bear remnants of you on my body, on my soul. I always have, I always will, gladly. I just want you to know that.’
('Left from Dhakeshwari')”