“Children have a ton of mirror neurons when they are babies and kids and they mimic what they see and so heroes are important because we are watching these heroes make a difference in these peoples lives and sacrificing their lives in some cases and I think it is really important to know that it is not just about us but about the community.” ThinkingKnowsChildrenImportantKidsCommunityDifferencesCasesSacrificeBabyHeroMirrorsMaking A DifferenceNeurons Author:John Assaraf
“I'll say this again: Her presence would be the best Mother's Day gift I could ever ask for. I know Kate Siegel a big bestselling author now, but I was sliced, no, ripped open from my boobs down to my baby cannon to bring her into this world, all but bathed in her puke for years, and acted as her own personal chauffeur for the first sixteen years of her life.” KnowsWorldYearsFirstsBigsWould BeMotherAsksThis WorldBabyBeing The BestMothers DayKateSixteenRippedMy BabyCannonsBest MotherPukeChauffeurs Author:Kate Siegel
“As any mom knows, having a baby is an extremely creative act and to love and create a baby, it's on par with any other creative act that we could come up with.” KnowsCreativeBabyMomCome UpHaving A Baby Author:Ani DiFranco
“I'm really grateful that my baby daddy is incredibly involved. But there's certain things I wish he could just telepathically know.” KnowsCertainWishBabyInvolvedGratefulDaddyMy Baby Author:Kathryn Hahn
“You know that you wouldn't take a baby on a plane without diapers, so when you leave your house, take care of you, like you would a baby. Don't leave your house without packing some healthy things.” KnowsCareHouseLike YouBabyHealthyTake CarePlanesDiapersPacking Author:Sandra Cisneros
“I had to learn quick, because I was performing in Cinco de Mayo festivals with babies crying and people lifting their beers, and you know the feather dancers would come, and they'd say, "What are you, a poet? You're next".” PeopleKnowsNextCryPoetBabyBeerPerformingDancerFeathersFestivalsLiftingCinco De Mayo Author:Sandra Cisneros
“My first experience of having a baby was about as natural as birth can be, and though I didn't know it at the time, it set my feet on a path that eventually led me to become a childbirth author and a midwife.” KnowsFirstsNaturalPathFeetBabyBirthChildbirthHaving A BabyMidwife Author:Robin Lim
“I'm a military baby, and it makes me proud to know that I'm the child of two parents that served our country. I feel very connected to our country, and I'm honored to be an American.” KnowsFeelsChildrenTwoCountryParentMilitaryBabyProudConnectedOur CountryHonored Author:Ciara
“Jews took it very seriously to marry other Jews and repopulate the Jewish bloodline, and my father's generation gets very serious in my household when they're like, "You have to marry another Jew," because that's still kind of the mentality coming from the baby boomers. So I know that type of pressure.” KnowsKindStillsFatherGenerationsSeriousLike YouBabyTypePressureJewMentalityHouseholdBoomersBaby BoomerBloodline Author:Logan Lerman
“The whole entire album is about Cry Baby, you know, being super insecure and kind of like going through her emotions until she finally realizes that she's comfortable with how crazy and insane she is and I think that I've made the exact same kind of progression , and the growth...and I don't know, like I feel like I've definitely grown into who I am and, like, I think Cry Baby is just me.” ThinkingKnowsFeelsKindMadeWholeGrowthRealizingEmotionCrazyCryBabyComfortableAlbumsWho I AmInsaneInsecureProgressionCry Baby Author:Melanie Martinez
“Cry Baby is about Cry Baby and the next album [which I think I have a title for but I don't wanna say anything yet because I don't know and it's too early] is a place in the weird town that I'm trying to create and its Cry Baby's perspective throughout this album. You're not learning about her, you're learning about the place that she's in and her perspective. Down the line for sure I will think of other characters in this world.” ThinkingKnowsWorldTryingCharacterNextLinesCryThis WorldPerspectiveBabyTownsAlbumsTitlesSay AnythingCry Baby Author:Melanie Martinez
“If you are lying down to give birth, gravity is not helping you. You know, you stand up and, you know, a baby will basically kind of fall out of you, if you keep walking 'round.” IfsKnowsGivingKindHelpingLyingFallBabyBirthWalkingRoundsGravityLying Down Author:Caitlin Moran
“I tried one [lavash], just because, I was like, "I should know what it is," once I got the part. And it's all right. It's like if a matzo and a flour tortilla had sex and had a baby. It's a dry flour tortilla.” IfsKnowsShouldSexBabyDryFlourTortillas Author:David Krumholtz
“Question the Chestnuts. Chestnuts: the new name for boobs? No. NO. Why would you even say that? Get your mind out of the gutter. No, by "chestnuts" I mean, "those old pieces of writing advice that you hear as common refrain." 'Write what you know.' 'Adverbs give Baby Jesus hemorrhoids.' 'If you write a prologue, an orphan loses his sight.' All the "old saws" need to be put on the chopping block.” IfsKnowsNeedsGivingWritingMindMeanJesusNamesLosesCommonSawsPiecesAdviceBabySightBlockWriting AdviceOrphanRefrainGuttersChoppingChestnutsAdverbsPrologueBaby JesusHemorrhoids Author:Chuck Wendig
“I, 100 percent don't think that's where the American people at, because when there's viral pictures as a baby is in Aleppo with, you know, rubble all over them going viral, and then there are celebrities tweeting why haven't we done nothing about this? And like, oh, there are actually many people for years who've been trying to send aid then and this president won't let us.” PeopleThinkingKnowsTryingYearsDonePresidentHavensBabyPercentAidsRubbleViral Author:John McCain
“If you are very religious, and your religion teaches you that conception equals a baby, I don't know how I'm ever going to win you over to my side.” IfsKnowsWinningSidesReligiousTeachKnow HowBabyConception Author:Lizz Winstead
“I was just talking to Benedict [Cumberbatch] who's got a little baby and knows his father lives in his phone. We as humans are evolving really fast, so everyday we're hit with that.” KnowsHumansLittlesFatherTalkingBabyEverydayPhonesEvolve Author:Tilda Swinton
“I had many dolls. And you know how I played with them? By performing insurrections, assemblies, scenes of arrest. My dolls were almost never babies to be nursed but men and women who attacked barracks and ended up in prison.” KnowsMenKnow HowBabySceneMen And WomenPrisonPerformingDollsAssemblyInsurrection Author:Indira Gandhi
“I think it was something I inherited from my mother, who learned to do it. You know, I, like a baby duckling, was merely mimicking the survival traits that my mother possessed. And I came to learn very quickly that language was a powerful, powerful tool.” ThinkingKnowsMotherLanguagePowerfulBabySurvivalToolsTraitsPossessedMimickingDucklings Author:Trevor Noah
“Most artists I know had one person in their life who told them they were the second coming of the baby Jesus, and another person that told them they weren't worth anything, and they believed them both, you know?” KnowsPersonsArtistJesusBabyBaby Jesus Author:Bruce Springsteen
“I'm sort of laughing and so Zach [ Galifianakis] started laughing [on the set of The Hangover]. And Todd [Phillips] was baffled because what we were saying wasn't that funny, you know what I mean? And it was like all the baby's face. So Todd was like, 'What is going on? Get it together guys.'” KnowsMeanTogetherFacesGuyLaughingBabyHangoverBaffledGet It Together Author:Ed Helms
“I was once really close to sitting down and having a conversation with a shadowy young woman who is reputed have become a millionaire by investing in Beanie Babies. She was someone that a couple people claimed to know, she seemed to exist, but she remained shadowy.” PeopleKnowsYoungBabyCoupleConversationSittingDown AndInvestingYoung WomenMillionaireSitting Down Author:William Gibson
“Your anxiety is your baby. You have to take care of it. You have to go back to yourself, recognize the suffering in you, embrace the suffering, and you get relief. And if you continue with your practice of mindfulness, you understand the roots, the nature of the suffering, and you know the way to transform it.” IfsKnowsWayCareSufferingPracticeBabyAnxietyMindfulnessRootsEmbraceTake CareRelief Author:Nhat Hanh
“If a bunch of activists want to create the concept of "gay infertility" and then tax all the rest of us to compensate them for the fact that they can't have babies, then that's gonna happen. You haven't missed anything yet. I'm just teasing you as to what's coming. Gays now think it's not fair they can't have babies, so they're calling that "infertility," and it will require mandatory health insurance because of it. Yeah, I know they're not infertile but that doesn't matter; they can't have babies.” IfsThinkingKnowsWantMatterFactsHappensHavensBabyCallingGayTaxesConceptsFairsYeahBunchActivistTeaseNot FairInfertility Author:Rush Limbaugh
“You know how women have this clock when they want to have a baby? I had this clock where I wanted to win a national award by thirty, be at a big press by thirty-five. I was always working with these self-driven goals.” KnowsWantSelfBigsWantedWinningGoalKnow HowFiveBabyPressesDrivenClockThirtyAwardsAlways Working Author:Sandra Cisneros
“[CNN, USA Today] they've got 24 hours to fill. You know, how many times can Anna Nicole Smith's baby get a new father?” KnowsTodayFatherHoursKnow HowBabyUsaAnnaCnnNicoleNew Father Author:Jon Stewart
“I always wanted to be married for a little while before a baby. You know what? It does make me choose my wardrobe differently because if I wear something a little baggy, I'm like, "No, it looks like I'm having a baby!"” IfsKnowsLooksLittlesDoeWantedBabyMarriedBeing MarriedWardrobeHaving A Baby Author:Carrie Underwood
“I think, is a cultural thing, too. You know, everyone wants to see the baby. Everybody's bringing gifts for the baby.” ThinkingKnowsWantBaby Author:June Diane Raphael
“I had several moms who knew and didn't bring gifts for the baby and instead brought me food, candles, journals - the women who were like, "Actually, I know this is a tough time for you, and it's much more important that I show up here instead of to the baby shower."” KnowsImportantShowsBabyMomToughCandleShowersJournalTough Times Author:June Diane Raphael
“You know, I always like being the bad guy. It just comes more natural to me. I don't gotta smile, I don't gotta kiss babies. It's easier to tell people at airports at four in the morning that I'm not signing their stuff.” PeopleKnowsGuyStuffNaturalMorningFourBabyEasierKissingAirportsBad GuysSigning Author:CM Punk
“Certainly, black horror movie fans have, you know, been particularly vocal. I mean, there's the whole Eddie Murphy routine about, you know, black people in a horror movie wouldn't last very long. Right? They just walk in - you hear get out. Too bad we can't stay, baby.” PeopleKnowsMeanLongWholeLastsBlackWalksFansBabyHorrorRoutineBlack PeopleVocalMurphy Author:Jordan Peele
“"Baby, you know?" my mother once said to me. "I think you're the greatest woman I've ever met - and I'm not including my mother or Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt in that." She said, "You are very intelligent and you're very kind, and those two qualities do not often go together." Then she went across the street and got in her car, and I went the other way down to the streetcar. I thought, "Suppose she's right. She's intelligent - and she's too mean to lie." You see, a parent has the chance - and maybe the responsibility - to liberate her child. And my mom had liberated me when I was 17.” ThinkingKnowsWayKindMeanChildrenSaidTwoTogetherLyingMotherParentChanceQualityResponsibilityStreetsCarBabyMomMetsIntelligentIncludingMy MomLiberatedEleanor Author:Maya Angelou
“I am a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my gut. I have a baby and then you send him off to war. No wonder the kids rebel and take pot.” KnowsFeelingsMotherBabyGutsHaving A Baby Author:Eartha Kitt
“Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it's like they are holding the baby of you.” PeopleKnowsLooksCryBabyHealLament Author:Anne Lamott
“I want to have and adopt. I always have, ever since I was 18 I wanted a baby and I wanted to have and adopt because there are a lot of kids. I want to adopt an American baby though, you know what I mean, no offense. Just because there are so many kids here that need our help.” KnowsWantNeedsMeanHelpingKidsWantedBabyOffense Author:Queen Latifah
“I've helped launch 49 careers - those that have been in PiL. To me, they are my babies; whatever they get up to, they know I love them. They've been living in my pockets, and they should show more gratitude.” KnowsShouldHas BeensShowsCareersBabyGratitudeGet UpPocketsMy Baby Author:John Lydon
“I didn't know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child.” KnowsChildrenMadeFunnySexKnow HowBabyWittyPregnancyFourthPregnantMy BabyBaby BoyNew BabyWere PregnantMy Baby BoyCute Baby BoyCute Baby Author:Loretta Lynn
“Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.” IfsKnowsMenWayMeanSimpleCommonBabyCommon SenseSimple Ways Author:Bob Marley
“My husband is a composer, so he plays piano all the time and I sit there and clap telling my unborn child, 'Hear me clap, hear the music.' I know music, in general, is supposed to be good for babies to hear.” KnowsChildrenPlayBabyHusbandBe GoodSupposed To BePianoMy HusbandComposerUnbornUnborn Child Author:Danica McKellar
“Isn't it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.” ThinkingKnowsChildrenSometimesYoungLosesBreakLaughingFourBabyAdultsAverageYoung ChildrenToddler Author:Joel Osteen
“Yes, I'm having a baby. I think it's so hard as a woman to give yourself a break. It's great to be healthy but you have to set a good example for your kids and know that it's not about a number on a scale but how you feel.” ThinkingKnowsGivingFeelsHardKidsNumbersBreakExampleBabyHealthyScalesHow You FeelGood ExamplesHaving A Baby Author:Busy Philipps
“I was more like a middle child. My youngest brother was the baby, so he got all the attention that the baby gets. And my older brothers were getting into so much trouble that I was left in the middle, doing plays. I was up to no good, but my mother didn't know it!” KnowsChildrenPlayMotherLeftAttentionTroubleMiddleBrotherBabyOlder BrotherMiddle Child Author:John C. Reilly
“Anybody who knows about having a premature baby, it's horrific. He was part of a twin, and I lost his sister.” KnowsLostBabyTwinsPrematureHorrific Author:Sherri Shepherd
“I have been affected by gossip and I know people who have been, too. I've seen marriages destroyed by gossip. It is cruel. At the end of the day, all that matters is: Do you love what you see when you look in the mirror? That is it, baby.” PeopleKnowsLooksHas BeensEndsMatterBabyMirrorsDestroyedThe End Of The DayAffectedGossip Author:Jada Pinkett Smith
“Everyone knows now how early a fetus becomes a baby. Women who have been pregnant have seen their babies on ultrasounds. They know that there is a terrible truth to those horrific pictures the anti-choice fanatics hold up in front of abortion clinics.” KnowsHas BeensChoicesFrontsBabyTerribleAbortionPregnantFanaticsHorrificClinicFetusUltrasounds Author:Ayelet Waldman
“I need one of those baby monitors from my subconscious to my consciousness so I can know what the hell I'm really thinking about.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsI CanConsciousnessHellBabySubconscious Author:Steven Wright
“The disgraced Usurer Yankel D took the baby girl home that evening... He made a bed of crumpled newspaper in a deep baking pan and gently tucked it in the oven, so that she wouldn't be disturbed by the noise of the small falls outside... When he pulled her out to feed her or just hold her, her body was tattooed with the newsprint... Sometimes he would rock her to sleep in his arms, and read her left to right, and know everything he needed to know about the world. If it wasn't written on her, it wasn't important to him.” IfsKnowsWorldMadeImportantSometimesHomeBodyFallGirlLeftSleepWrittenRocksBabyArmsNeededBedNewspapersNoiseEveningDisturbedBakingOvensBaby GirlTattooed Author:Jonathan Safran Foer
“Born of Black and White, Eaten with worms, I'm a Saint, a Sinner, a Siren of the Word, The Circle knows me, the rest just wanna trip on Grace Juice, Baby Showdown at midnight” KnowsBlackBornWhiteGraceBabySaintCirclesSinnerBlack And WhiteKnow MeMidnightWormsJuiceSirensShowdowns Author:Ted Dekker
“Down in the city are the nice houses and the so-so houses and the lovers making out in dark yards and the babies crying for their moms, and I wonder if, other than Jesus, has this ever happened before. Maybe it happens all the time. Maybe there's angry dead all over, hiding in rooms, covered with blankets, bossing around their scared, embarrassed relatives. Because how would we know?” IfsKnowsHappensHouseJesusDarkRoomsCitiesWonderNiceHappenedCryBabyMomLoversAngryScaredCoveredHidingEmbarrassedYardsBlanketNice House Author:George Saunders
“Witch Baby wanted to ask Ping how to find her Jah-Love angel. She knew Raphael was not him, even though Raphael had the right eyes and smile and name. She knew how he looked--the angel in her dream--but she didn't know how to find him. Should she roller-skate through the streets in the evenings when the streetlights flicker on? Should she stow away to Jamaica on a cruise ship and search for him in the rain forests and along the beaches? Would he come to her? Was he waiting, dreaming of her in the same way she waited and dreamed?” KnowsWayShouldDreamEyeWantedAsksNamesWaitingKnow HowStreetsBabyAngelRainForestsShipsEveningBeachWitchCruiseSkatesFlickerJamaicaRaphaelPingCruise Ships Author:Francesca Lia Block