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“Get a life in which you notice the smell of salt water pushing itself on a breeze over the dunes, a life in which you stop and watch how a red-tailed hawk circles over a pond and a stand of pines. Get a life in which you pay attention to the baby as she scowls with concentration when she tried to pick up a Cheerio with her thumb and first finger.”

Firsts Water Pay Attention Watches Baby Picks Red Fingers Smell Circles Pay Attention Concentration Pushing Salt Breeze Thumbs Ponds Hawks Salt Water

Author:Anna Quindlen

“I took little interest in fleshly infants; it being my private opinion that their attractions did not justify the fuss that was made about them. I had, for instance, early discovered that, if you gave a baby a finger to hold, it held it. This was perhaps interesting, but it wanted greatly in the dear element of surprise.”

Ifs Littles Made Wanted Interest Interesting Opinion Baby Elements Surprise Fingers Dear Attraction Instance Justify Infant Element Of Surprise

Book:The Singing Gold

Source: The Singing Gold

“I'm always telling people who say two men can't make a baby: 'Anything is possible for God. I'm going to keep inseminating my husband and keep my fingers crossed.'”

People Men Two Baby Husband Fingers My Husband Anything Is Possible Fingers Crossed

Author:Dan Savage

“Prayer sometimes dulls the hunger of the pauper, like a mother's finger thrust into the mouth of her starving baby.”

Sometimes Mother Prayer Baby Mouths Fingers Hunger Starving Thrust Like A Mother

Author:I. L. Peretz

“Boys are found everywhere - on top of, underneath, inside of, climbing on, swinging from, running around or jumping to. Mothers love them, little girls hate them, older sisters and brothers tolerate them, adults ignore them and Heaven protects them. A boy is Truth with dirt on its face, Beauty with a cut on its finger, Wisdom with bubble gum in its hair and the Hope of the future with a frog in its pocket.”

“I'm making good money but I ain't rich. Even if I don't wanna rap I still gotta work. Pride don't feed the babies. I'm going to do whatever it takes. As long as my fingers and toes move Im'ma get money.”

Ifs Long Stills Moving Rich Pride Baby Fingers Rap Toes Whatever It Takes Get Money Good Money Fingers And Toes

Author:Sean Price

“The editing process, to use a slightly grim analogy, is like the slow suffocation of lots of babies. It's like, which finger do you want to cut off first?”

Want Firsts Use Process Cutting Baby Fingers Editing Grim Analogies

Author:Edgar Wright

“You can have my credit card, baby, but keep your red hot fingers off of my heart, lady.”

Heart Baby My Heart Red Hot Fingers Credit Cards Credit Card Red Hot

Author:George Michael

“From the first opening of our eyes, it is the light that attracts us. We clutch aimlessly with our baby fingers at the gossamer-motes in the sunbeam, and we die reaching out after an ineffable blending of earthly and heavenly beauty which we shall never fully comprehend.”

Firsts Light Eye Dies Baby Fingers Opening Reaching Heavenly Reach Out Clutch Ineffable Sunbeams

Book:The Unseen Friend

Source: The Unseen Friend

“Franny has the measles, for one thing. Incidentally, did you hear her last week? She went on at beautiful length about how she used to fly all around the apartment when she was four and no one was home. The new announcer is worse than Grant - if possible, even worse than Sullivan in the old days. He said she surely dreamt that she was able to fly. The baby stood her ground like an angel. She said she knew she was able to fly because when she came down she always had dust on her fingers from touching the light bulbs.”

Ifs Said Home Light Able Lasts Beautiful Used Four One Thing Week Baby Angel Fingers Dust Length Grants Touching Apartment Old Days Bulbs Light Bulb Measles Announcers

Author:J. D. Salinger

“Oh baby," he whispers. Steps back. Out of the doorway. His face ashen. He walks slowly back to the kitchen. Leans over the counter. Puts his head in his hands. His hair falls over his fingers. The bathroom door clicks shut. She stays there for a long time. He's pulling his hair out.”

Long Hands Faces Fall Walks Steps Doors Hair Baby Long Time Fingers Kitchen Pulling Bathroom Clicks Doorways

Author:Lisa McMann