To become a mother is one of life’s greatest blessings. It is a lifelong event that forever changes you. Becoming a mother changes your heart, your thoughts, and your actions. However, you may soon wish you had a few extra hands.
As a mother, you find that they first tug on your sleeve and later on your heartstrings.
To share in some of the joys of newborns, here are some popular baby quotes:
A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase. ~Author Unknown
Babies are always more trouble than you thought – and more wonderful. ~Charles Osgood
Babies are such a nice way to start people. ~Don Herrold
When babies look beyond you and giggle, maybe they’re seeing angels. ~Quoted in The Angels’ Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994
It was the tiniest thing I ever decided to put my whole life into. ~Terri Guillemets
A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on. ~Carl Sandburg
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
A new baby is like the beginning of all things-wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. ~ Eda J. Le Shan
A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for.
A baby is born with a need to be loved – and never outgrows it.
My friend has a baby. I’m recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.
~ Stephen Wright
I can’t think why mothers love them. All babies do is leak at both ends. ~ Douglas Feaver
Laughter is like changing a baby’s diaper. It doesn’t permanently solve any problems, but it makes things more acceptable for a while ~ Unknown
If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? ~ Milton Berle
I always wondered why babies spend so much time sucking their thumbs. Then I tasted baby food.
~ Robert Orben
Parents have the glorious opportunity of being the most powerful influence, above and beyond any other, on the new lives that bless their homes.
~ L. Tom Perry
The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children. ~ Elaine Heffiner
Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be. ~ David Bly