154 quotes found
“Go on, glare your eyes at me, and cry and plead, and talk tome about money and what it can buy. But it can't buy back a child once he's dead!”
“Look at you, standing there in your iron- gray dress, feeling piousand self- righteous while you starve small children!”
“Being nearly four years old, she was certainly a child: and children are human (if one allows the term "human" a wide sense): but she had not altogether ceased to be a baby: and babies are of cours...”
“Memory loss is the key to human reproduction. If you remembered what new parenthood was actually like you wouldnt go around lying to people about how wonderful it is, and you certainly wouldnt ever...”
“We are all born rude. No infant has ever appeared yet with the grace to understand how inconsiderate it is to disturb others in the middle of the night.”
“Nick and the CandlestickI am a miner. The light burns blue. Waxy stalactitesDrip and thicken, tearsThe earthen wombExudes from its dead boredom. Black bat airsWrap me, raggy shawls, Cold homicides....”
“Smile at the Fates and you will feel less their Slave.”
“Family is all politics. Everyone hates each others guts, if theyre honest Most brothers and sisters try to top each other, given the chance; you always get the worst wars in countries with big fami...”
“Businesses, like babies and books, need nurturing, time, energy, love, planning and, yes, money to develop, grow and prosper.”
“Let your child see you doing a good deed instead of you telling him or her to do it, and the little child shall one day grow up to become a real kind human being.”
“There are those wonderful moments of clarity in life when one is reminded how irreparably flawed we humans are. Once, when I was nineteen, on the subway in Boston I lost my balance slightly and bum...”
“She gave me money to buy condoms, and instead I bought a book of baby names. Thats life. Thats love. Thats fiscally irresponsible.”
“America used to live by the motto "Father Knows Best." Now we're lucky if "Father Knows He Has Children." We've become a nation of sperm donors and baby daddies.”
“Abandoned babies are unfortunate unwanted results of a once urgent desire to have an orgasm”
“There is not much you can say about a baby unless you are talking with its father or another mother or nurse; infants are not part of the realm of ordinary language, talk is inadequate to them as t...”
“Aint nothing worse to a mama than losing her baby”
“A baby is a dancing joy of life.”
“To profoundly understand a baby, you must first be a mother.”
“On Sundays, Presbyterians were not allowed to eat hot food or read the funny papers or travel the shortest journey; parents believed in Hell and believed tiny babies could go there. Baptists were n...”
“He was a small, chubby little man with a perpetual air of sadness about him, making him look like a baby that has dropped its rattle.”
