''I
have no name:'' I am but two days old. ''What shall
I call thee?'' I happy am, ''Joy is my name.'' sweet
joy befall thee!
-- William Blake
1757-1827, British
Poet, Painter
I have
no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call
thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall
thee!
-- William Blake
1757-1827, British
Poet, Painter
Except
that right side up is best, there is not much to
learn about holding a baby. There are one hundred
and fifty-two distinctly different ways --and all
are right! At least all will do.
-- Heywood Broun
1888-1939, American
Journalist, Novelist
A baby
is born with a need to be loved and never outgrows
it.
-- Frank A. Clark
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It is a
pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete
answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of
the human species, that every baby born into the world is a
finer one than the last.
-- Charles Dickens
1812-1870, British Novelist
Moving between
the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling,
grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to
take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager
to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance
of the Christmas tree.
-- T. S. Eliot
1888-1965, American-born
British Poet, Critic
Infancy
conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe
commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle
and play to it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet,
Essayist
Everyone knows
that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of
man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us
hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would
give them help at that age?
-- Desiderius Erasmus
c.1466-1536, Dutch Humanist
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