"A baby is a blank cheque made payable to the human race." - Barbara Christine Seifert

"A new baby is like the beginning of all things: wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." - Edna L. Le Shan

"If your baby's 'beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses, sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all the time,' you're the grandma."  -  Theresa Bloomingdale

"The hardest job facing kids today is learning good manners without seeing any."  -  Fred Astaire

"A baby is born with the need to be loved and never outgrows it.." - Frank A. Clark

"A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on." - Carl Sandburg

"Close your eyes

Have no fear

The monsters gone

he's on the run

And your Daddy's here

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful Boy. "

--  John Lennon

"A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm."  - Bill Vaughan

"Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life."  -  Yiddish proverb

"Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body." - Elizabeth Stone

"In the sheltered simplicity of the first days after a baby is born, one sees again the magical closed circle, the miraculous sense of two people existing only for each other." - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"Father asked us what was God’s noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad; babies never are." - Louisa May Alcott

"Being a father, well, I don’t know if this is a change, but it makes me want to get out of here faster. Get off the clock. Just ‘cause the baby is my reason for living, my reason for coming to work." - Richard Dean Anderson