Baby Quotes

“Hey. Remember what I said when Shigaraki made swiss cheese outta me? 'Stop trying to with this on your own.' But I had more to say. I needed to tell you that I got stabbed cuz my body moved on its own.

You know, I always looked down on you cuz you were quirkless. You were s'posed to be beneath me...

...But I kept feeling like you were above me.

I hated it. I couldn't bear to look at you. I couldn't accept you the way you were. So I kept you at arm's length and bullied you. I tried to act all superior by rejecting you...

...But I kept losing that fight. Ever since we got into U.A....

...Nothing's worked out how I thought it would. Instead, this past year has forced me to understand your strength and my weakness.

Now I don't expect this to change a thing between us, but I gotta speak...

...My truth.

Izuku...

I'm sorry for everything.


There's nothing wrong with the path you've been walking down since inheriting One For All and following All Might's lead.

But now... You're barely standing. And those ideals alone ain't enough to get you over the wall your facing.

We're here to step in when you can't handle everything on your own. Because to live up to those ideals and surpass All Might...

...We gotta save you, the civilians at U.A., and the people on the streets. Because saving people is how we win.

We get it."

~Katsuki Bakugo -aka- Great Explosion Murder God Dynamite”
― Kohei Horikoshi, 僕のヒーローアカデミア 33 [Boku no Hero Academia 33]

“My word, he's ugly!' Howl said. 'Chip off the old block.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Castle in the Air

“That's Great Explosion Murder God Dynamite to you!

~ Katsuki Bakugo”
― Kohei Horikoshi, 僕のヒーローアカデミア 33 [Boku no Hero Academia 33]

“The trouble with babies is that they are made like a safe – no way to see what’s inside and no guarantee that the effort will be worth the trouble.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Stone Gods

“I sigh that kiss you,
For I must own
That I shall miss you
When you have grown.”
― W.B. Yeats

“No. No. It couldn't be any baby. She was not going to have something waiting in her to make her deader, she was not.”
― Flannery O'Connor, A Stroke of Good Fortune

“My priority right now is the baby. Running comes second.”
― Kara Goucher

“A baby wasn't an idea, as love was an idea. A baby was a fact. It was a being with a mind and a nature, and you could feel about it any way you liked, but a baby wouldn't care. Just by existing, it demanded that you believe in a future: the future it would crawl in, walk in, live in. A baby was a piece of time; it was a promise you made that the world made back to you. A baby was the oldest deal there was, to go on living.”
― Justin Cronin, The Passage

“An Infant Maestro by Stewart Stafford

Baby as a bag of cats,
Grunting like an Everest climber,
Then screaming as if tortured,
Followed by innocent, cooing smiles.

Drinking milk from a rocket bottle,
Tiny hands move with satisfaction,
Conducting an invisible orchestra,
Sighing in rhythm to his gulps.

Bored stares at the ceiling,
As Baby Mama changes him,
Then eye-rolling slumber,
Floating away in the bassinet.

© Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“She was here and she was ours and she was herself---life in the midst of the dying things, born when the trees were naked and the earth and sky were all the same muddy gray color. The world beyond our window was ugly and dark, and we wrapped her in a pale blanket while she slept between us.”
― Allie Ray, Holler

“She is the smallest person I have ever held and the biggest thing I have ever seen.”
― Sophie Heawood, The Hungover Games: A True Story

“Motherhood, however, took her by surprise. She found herself so in love with her children that she felt a need to change and restructure her life to afford time with her two bundles of joy. It led to her next phase of entrepreneurship, starting a string of baby-and-mother-related businesses. CRIB is a platform for mothers and women to network, and Trehaus provides the space for working mothers to have a career and yet be there for the baby’s first moments.”
― Tjin Lee

“You are that kind of beautiful a baby would catch at first glance when it dares to enter into this ugly world”
― Paul Bamikole

“Mijnheer Smith:

Eén ding begrijp ik niet. Waarom zetten ze in de krant onder de burgerlijke stand altijd wèl de leeftijd van mensen die gestorven zijn en nooit die van pasgeborenen! Dat is onzin.”
― Eugène Ionesco, De Kale Zangeres / Ubu

“Oh well, at least I'll get a 90 minute break until the next feed. That's when my lactation consultant delivered the real tit-punch. The every-90-minute stopwatch does not start from the end of one feeding. It starts from: the beginning. I've never been great at math but if you're supposed to feed a baby every 90 minutes from the moment they start eating, and the feeding takes 90 minutes, then you are feeding a baby every minute of every hour of every 24 hour day. If I could've fainted when I heard this news I would have, but since I was already dead, I couldn't. I was in a very real sense being eaten alive.”
― Jessi Klein, I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood

“All this was in contrast to the idea that a newborn, on the basis of cortical immaturity, is a being who remembers and understands nothing: a person only within the context of the mother’s acknowledgment, blank, a species of human cabbage.”
― Antonella Gambotto-Burke, Apple: Sex, Drugs, Motherhood and the Recovery of the Feminine

“The likelihood of my baby being injured during co-sleeping was, in reality, significantly lower than it would have been had I left her in the hospital cot. In the UK, 90 percent more babies die alone in baskets or cots – Sudden Infant Death Syndrome – than they do when they securely, rather than hazardously, co-sleep with their mothers.”
― Antonella Gambotto-Burke, Apple: Sex, Drugs, Motherhood and the Recovery of the Feminine

“Funny how a baby can start things up. How a baby can give direction to a life that turned meaningless...”
― Neil Mach, The Patternmaker and the Tide

“I know I will never be alone. The baby will make me a god. When I am a god, I can create whatever I want.”
― Ani Baker, Handsome Vanilla

“When a gift to a child passes along the palm of a mother's hand, it becomes more precious.”
― Abram J. Ryan, A Crown for Our Queen

“There are no people more peaceful than infants.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“hes so baby girl”
― whosjupiter

“Have you seen those kids nowadays? What they’re like? They’re f****** nightmares. And you do feel like strangling them. At times.
They scream like banshees or maniacs. They’re mini sociopaths in the making. It should be illegal to scream like they do. It’s criminal. They should be arrested or silenced with———————. Yeah, whatever.
While you wonder why the f*** they’re screaming like crazy, their mom shows up and tell you that they actually sh** their pants. Sorry. ‘Diapers.’ They sh** their ‘diapers’. So, take a hint.
And turns out that all along, they were hungry, thirsty for coconut water. Or is it milk? Oh that’s right, ‘nuts.’
Babies are pros at juggling nuts while having colic nanoseconds ago.
Either way, they’re diminutive unruly monsters whose terrorizing skills should not be underestimated.”
― unknown writer

“Have you seen those kids nowadays? What they’re like? They’re f****** nightmares. And you do feel like strangling them. At times.
They scream like banshees or maniacs. They’re mini sociopaths in the making. It should be illegal to scream like they do. It’s criminal. They should be arrested or silenced with———————. Yeah, whatever.
While you wonder why the f*** they’re screaming like crazy, their mom shows up and tell you that they actually sh** their pants. Sorry. ‘Diapers.’ They sh** their ‘diapers’. So, take a hint.
And turns out that all along, they were hungry, thirsty for coconut water. Or is it milk? Oh that’s right, ‘nuts.’
Babies are pros at juggling nuts while having colic nanoseconds ago.
Either way, they’re diminutive unruly monsters whose terrorizing skills should not be underestimated.”
― N.I

“When Vivekananda explained the dangers of personal love to Margaret Noble in October 1897, he suggested that 'the best leader ... is one who 'leads like the baby.'' The baby, he said, is 'the king of the household. At least to my thinking, that is the secret ....' The sentiment owed much to Ramakrishna; the baby's gift is to be the neediest, the most precious, the most fragile. A baby's unworldliness was its greatest spiritual offering. [...] Roxie Blodgeett, who tended Vivekanda in Southern California, noted how 'the child side of Swamiji's character ... was a constant appeal to the Mother quality in all good women.”
― Ruth Harris, Guru to the World: The Life and Legacy of Vivekananda

“Many female devotees 'babied' Vivekananda. Sara Ellen Waldo traveled for hours in a jogging horsecar to care for him and was pleased when the cooked for her; he said he 'found genuine rest and relaxation in the freedom and quiet of Miss Waldo's simple home.' There he 'invented new dishes or tried experiments with Western provisions and ran back and forth from one room to the other like a child at play.' Josephine MacLeod loved the combination of holiness and childlike absorption when, after a talk on Jesus, he 'seemed to radiate a white light from head to foot.' On the way home, she did not want to interrupt his 'great thoughts,' but was delighted to learn that, despite the halo 'over his head,' he was in fact pondering 'the best way to complete a recipe for mulligatawny soup.' The admired his 'learning of a university president' or 'dignity of an archbishop,' but loved the 'child side' when the 'prophet and sage would disappear.' Maud Stumm, who gave Vivekananda drawing lessons, loved to watch him 'lying at full length on the green couch in the hall, sound asleep like a tired child.' Sometimes, he would get up after a meal to smoke or think, but he lured back to the table by ice cream: 'he would sink into his place with a smile of expectancy and pure delight seldom seen on the face of anybody over sixteen.”
― Ruth Harris, Guru to the World: The Life and Legacy of Vivekananda

“People do not really understand what they are getting into by having kids. Just one bad one can ruin your life!”
― Steven Magee

“There is not a lot you can do with a damaged child, you raise them as best you can.”
― Steven Magee

“The baby's eyes glimmered through the water like their namesake emeralds, and she wriggled with undeniable delight. Bubbles flowed around her, iridescent in the fading light. She smiled through them, as if she had created them on purpose for their perfect shapes and rainbow colors.”
― Louisa Morgan, The Witch's Kind

“American culture really sucks regarding mothers having babies! Europe is so much better.”
― Steven Magee