Babies

(111 votes)   From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father have been, and their parents and their parents before them. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities. This enterprise is on the whole successful.

R. D. Laing
1927-1989, British Psychiatrist

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(100 votes)   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

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(92 votes)   A baby is born with a need to be loved and never outgrows it.

Frank A. Clark

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(89 votes)   We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(88 votes)   If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby ''it.''

Jerome K. Jerome
1859-1927, British Humorous Writer, Novelist, Playwright

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(85 votes)   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

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(79 votes)   A soiled baby, with a neglected nose, cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(79 votes)   The tiny madman in his padded cell.

Vladimir Nabokov
1899-1977, Russian-born American Novelist, Poet

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(75 votes)   Mark the babe not long accustomed to this breathing world; One that hath barely learned to shape a smile, though yet irrational of soul, to grasp with tiny finger -- to let fall a tear; And, as the heavy cloud of sleep dissolves, To stretch his limbs, becoming, as might seem. The outward functions of intelligent man.

William Wordsworth
1770-1850, British Poet

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(71 votes)   No one who has seen a baby sinking back satiated from the breast and falling asleep with flushed cheeks and a blissful smile can escape the reflection that this picture persists as a prototype of the expression of sexual satisfaction in later life.

Sigmund Freud
1856-1939, Austrian Physician - Founder of Psychoanalysis

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(68 votes)   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

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(61 votes)   Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things --wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its earth to concrete... babies are almost the only remaining link with nature, with the natural world of living things from which we spring.

Eda J. Le Shan
1922-, American Educator, Author

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