Best baby & mother Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 3

“To get the best picture of a captured prisoner, you have to get him just as he is captured. The expression he wears then is lost forever... The human mechanism is remarkably recuperative. A half hour later, the expressions are gone, the faces have changed. The mother with the dead baby in her arms does not look griefstruck anymore, no matter what she feels.”

Feels Humans Looks Doe Matter Faces Mother Lost Hours Half Gone Forever Changed Expression Baby Arms No Matter What Prisoner Mechanism Captured Half Hours Best Picture Dead Baby

Author:Horst Faas

“It was very easy for me to dedicate myself to the care of mothers, help them have healthy babies, help them be healthy, help them in a place where they don't have opportunities. Success breeds the excitement to continue going. It's harder to get out of bed when you've failed.”

Helping Care Mother Opportunity Easy Baby Healthy Bed Harder Excitement

Author:Annie Lennox

“In the States, the HIV transmission from mother to child is almost completely preventable - the only mothers who really do transmit it are the ones who don't come in for care. If a mother in the United States or in Europe or in the UK comes to care and gets her medicines, she will have an HIV negative baby. Most people don't know that.”

People Ifs Knows Children States Care Mother United United States Baby Europe Negative Medicine Hiv Transmit Transmission

Author:Annie Lennox

“If you do nothing, if a mother doesn't come for care, if she breastfeeds her baby, the chances of the baby getting HIV are about 40%. So it's about the difference between 40% and zero. This is almost totally preventable. But it requires mothers coming for care and getting the medicines they need, and getting the education and support they need.”

Ifs Needs Care Mother Differences Chance Support Baby Medicine Zero Hiv

Author:Annie Lennox

“We need money to scale up the services that bring medicine to mothers. The United States government's doing that. There's a global fund that's providing money. mothers2mothers provides for mothers who come in who don't have education, who don't have support. mothers2mothers employs mothers with HIV, mothers who were patients recently in the very same facilities. We take those mothers who were patients who've had their babies, we bring them back, we train them, we pay them, to be health care professionals.”

“I saw a dead elephant in one of Kenya's natural reserves. Around her were footprints of her baby elephant. This was just so sad, as three days before, perhaps the mother was still taking the baby around to play and to drink water. In her mind, she probably was thinking they had a life of decades to be together. However, the poaching happened so fast and everything collapsed. Without the protection of the mother, the baby elephant is likely to die too. That moment changed me.”

“It's such an intimate and profound relationship that it cannot be unconditional. I can only compare the intimacy of sex with the intimacy of the mother with a newborn baby. But with a newborn baby, it is unconditional.”

I Can Mother Sex Baby Profound Intimacy Compare Intimate Unconditional Newborn Newborn Baby

Author:Isabel Allende

“Have to love the preemptive guilt trip! I will be visiting home for Mother's Day. Hoping for minimal "baby cannon" talk, but realistically that's going to be a big part of the day.”

Home Bigs Mother Baby Guilt Mothers Day Visiting Cannons Guilt Trip

Author:Kate Siegel

“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.”

Knows World Years Firsts Bigs Would Be Mother Asks This World Baby Being The Best Mothers Day Kate Sixteen Ripped My Baby Cannons Best Mother Puke Chauffeurs

Author:Kate Siegel

“I was adopted when I was a baby. My mother carried me for nine months and she held me for one hour, and didn't see me again.”

Mother Hours Baby Months Nine Adopted One Hour Nine Months

Author:Michael Franti

“Gentle birth, protecting mother and baby, is a solution that I believe will result in positive change for our society.”

Believe Mother I Believe Results Baby Birth Solutions Gentle Our Society Positive Change Mother And Baby

Author:Robin Lim

“I get crazy upset when I feel mothers or babies are not getting the loving care they need.”

Needs Feels Care Mother Crazy Baby Upset

Author:Robin Lim

“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.”

Thinking Knows Mother Language Powerful Baby Survival Tools Traits Possessed Mimicking Ducklings

Author:Trevor Noah

“Very often mothers go to work right away after the child is born and, unless the father or someone else stays home, this is quite serious. A baby has to be near its kin most of the time when he is little for three, four or five years. To give him this grounding, this feeling of connection, this feeling of relationship, is the most important thing.”

Giving Years Children Littles Important Feelings Home Mother Three Father Born Five Four Serious Baby Connections Important Things Five Years Grounding

Author:Laura Huxley

“I'm a mother of five, and raising five babies, little children, you have to make use of time in a very effective way. So, I think that may have trained me.”

Thinking Way May Children Littles Use Mother Five Baby Use Of Time

Author:Nancy Pelosi

“We're very enthused about the idea that in the third trimester we actually give the mother a vaccine and her antibodies, the protective things that the immune system makes, actually pass through to the baby, both when the baby is born, and through the mother's milk. Because the baby's immune system is actually not very strong for that first few months, using the mother's immune system to do this - it's a very exciting idea and something that we're investing heavily in.”

Giving Firsts Ideas Mother Strong Born Baby Months Thirds Exciting Investing Milk Very Strong Protective Immune Vaccines Immune System Antibodies

Author:Bill Gates

“Rilke has a very bizarre relationship to women because his mother had an older child, a girl who died when she was a baby. So when Rilke was born she named him Sophie and dressed him as a girl until he was 7. And psychologically, the repercussions of that made him the genius that he is. By the time he was 35, he was continuously falling in love with older women, mother figures, spiritual mothers.”

Children Made Spiritual Mother Fall Girl Born Figures Baby Genius Died Falling In Love Bizarre Sophie Repercussions Older Women

Author:Laura Marling

“"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.”

Thinking Knows Way Kind Mean Children Said Two Together Lying Mother Parent Chance Quality Responsibility Streets Car Baby Mom Mets Intelligent Including My Mom Liberated Eleanor

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.”

Knows Feelings Mother Baby Guts Having A Baby

Author:Eartha Kitt

“I might sound crazy about this but, years ago, my mom told me: "We almost died when you were born. Both of us." I was a Caesarean baby, and the doctor who delivered me later told me, "I opened your mother up, and you were right there. It freaked me out because everything was broken and out-there." I've thought about it a lot - could this have something to do with the fact that I'm only happy when I'm at home and alone? Maybe I was just freaking out for two weeks before I was born, feeling really insecure.”

Feelings Home Mother Week Crazy Broken Baby Mom My Mom Insecure Doctor Who

Author:Fiona Apple

“It's interesting to talk to my mom about her character in Wild at heart, because she sees her as a mother who's just trying to protect her baby from a bad boy. I think that's why it works so beautifully - she has conviction about what she's doing.”

Thinking Trying Heart Character Mother Interesting Boys Baby Mom Protect Conviction My Mom Bad Boy

Author:Laura Dern

“Sure, they were simple desk lamps with only a minimal amount of movement, but you could immediately tell that Luxo Jr. was a baby, and that the big one was his mother. In that short little film, computer animation went from a novelty to a serious tool for filmmaking.”

Littles Bigs Film Mother Actors Simple Movement Serious Baby Amount Computer Tools Movie Filmmaking Desks Lamps Animation Novelty Computer Animation

Author:John Lasseter

“Congratulations are in order for Woody Allen - he and Soon Yi have a brand new baby daughter. It's all part of Woody's plan to grow his own wives.”

Mother Order Grows Wife Plans Baby Daughter Brands Congratulations Brand New Woody Baby Girl Baby Boy New Baby New Baby Boy My Baby Boy

Author:David Letterman

“I am positive - determined to move forward with my life, bring up my babies, and do the best job I can as a mother, entertainer, and person.”

Persons I Can Jobs Moving Mother Baby Determined Moving Forward Do The Best Entertainers Best Job My Baby

Author:Jennifer Lopez

“When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.”

“A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.”

Children Persons States Political Mother Politics Goal Black Born Challenges White United United States Rights Baby Racism Motherhood Mississippi Baby Born

Author:Thurgood Marshall

“Being a mother is the best thing that ever happened to me. Before you have your first baby you are a girl and then you become a mother. There is no transition into being a woman; you literally become a mum and being a mum means you always love someone else more than yourself and it is an unexplainable situation.”

Firsts Mean Mother Girl Situation Happened Baby Best Things Transition Mum Love Someone Being A Woman Being A Mother Unexplainable Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me First Baby

Author:Brigitte Nielsen

“I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.”

Ifs Want Years Firsts Two Mother Values Mistake Moral Teach Baby Daughter Two Daughters Values And Morals

Author:Barack Obama

“Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you.”

Men Real Mother Fall Theory Baby Gay Down And Someday Addict Falling Down Gay Men Bisexual Newborn Newborn Baby

Author:Anna Quindlen

“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!”

Knows Children Play Mother Left Attention Trouble Middle Brother Baby Older Brother Middle Child

Author:John C. Reilly

“If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?”

“I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.”

Source: What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt

“What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.”

Source: Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care: 9th Edition

“The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.”

“I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.”

Mother Courage Baby Motherhood Explanation Baby Girl

Author:Elizabeth Taylor

“My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.”

Source: Twain: Wit and Wisecracks

“Sorry, there's nothing like a screaming baby to make a mother twitch.”

Mother Baby Sorry Screaming Babies

Author:Sam Taylor-Wood

“I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son; she is the first gesture that creates a quiet that is full enough to make the baby sleep. My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen.”

Life Firsts Enough Mother Sleep Son Baby Quiet Band Structure Distance Genes Gestures Apology Rope Meadows Unspoken Amen Rubber Mother And Son Rubber Bands Sleeping Baby

Author:Aimee Bender

“If you're like most members of the Baby Boom generation, you decided somewhere along the line, probably after about four margaritas, to have children. This was inevitable. Mother Nature, in her infinite wisdom, has instilled within each of us a powerful biological instinct to reproduce; this is her way of assuring that the human race, come what may, will never have any disposable income.”

Source: The World According to Dave Barry

“A mother's body remembers her babies-the folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her nose. Each child has it's own entreaties to body and soul.”

Children Soul Body Remember Mother Baby Flesh Noses Folds

Book:The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

“I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks?”

Littles Use Humor Funny Mother Baby Humorous Witty Tiny Chinese Sarcastic Forks Spoons Toothpicks

Author:George Carlin

“I think of the chimp, the one with the talking hands. In the course of the experiment, that chimp had a baby. Imagine how her trainers must have thrilled when the mother, without prompting, began to sign her newborn. Baby, drink milk. Baby, play ball. And when the baby died, the mother stood over the body, her wrinkled hands moving with animal grace, forming again and again the words: Baby, come hug, Baby come hug, fluent now in the language of grief.”

Source: The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel

“Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.”

Source: Professor At The Breakfast Table

“I never asked my mother where babies came from but I remember clearly the day she volunteered the information....my mother called me to set the table for dinner. She sat me down in the kitchen, and under the classic caveat of 'loving each other very, very much,' explained that when a man and a woman hug tightly, the man plants a seed in the woman. The seed grows into a baby. Then she sent me to the pantry to get placemats. As a direct result of this conversation, I wouldn't hug my father for two months.”

Men Two Remember Mother Father Sex Grows Results Information Baby Months Conversation Direct Tables Plant Dinner Seeds Classic Sat Kitchen Hug Two Months Pantry

Author:Sloane Crosley

“That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one”

Mother Realizing Missing Strange Baby Strange Things Being A Mother

Book:Vanishing Acts

Source: Vanishing Acts

“I know it's hard being a single mother baby, he said, but we're talking fundamentals here. Homemade cookies are one of the best parts of christmas. It's an absolute fundamental.”

Knows Said Hard Mother Talking Baby Absolutes Fundamentals Cookies Homemade Single Mother Homemade Cookies

Book:Strangers

Source: Strangers

“Stephanie,' Valerie said. 'She's going to have a baby, and she's getting married.' My father was confused. He looked around the room. No Joe. No Ranger. His eyes locked on Diesel. 'Not the psycho,' he said. Diesel blew out a sigh. My father turned to my mother. 'Get me the carving knife. Make sure it's sharp.”

Said Eye Mother Father Rooms Baby Married Confused His Eyes Knives Locked Sigh Getting Married Psycho Rangers Diesel Carving

Author:Janet Evanovich

“When you're pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again; yet after giving birth you realize that the biggest part of you is now somehow external, subject to all sorts of dangers and disappearance, so you spend the rest of your life trying to figure out how to keep her close enough for comfort. That's the strange thing about being a mother: Until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one.”

Source: The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes

“Traveling is the great true love of my life... I am loyal and constant in my love of travel. I feel about travel the way a happy new mother feels about her impossible, colicky, restless newborn baby - I just don't care what it puts me through. Because I adore it. Because it's mine. Because it looks exactly like me.”

Baby Quotes

Related topics

Baby Quotes