50 Beautiful Quotes to Celebrate a New Baby

"A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on."

— Carl Sandburg

"Every child begins the world again."

— Henry David Thoreau

"A new baby is like the beginning of all things — wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities."

— Eda LeShan

"A baby is a blank canvas, and you are holding the brush."

— Anonymous

"Babies are bits of stardust, blown from the hand of God."

— Larry Barretto

"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

"Before I had a child, I didn't know what love at first sight felt like."

— Anonymous

"A child is the greatest poem ever known."

— Christopher Morley

"There is no love like the love for a child. There is no love like the love from a child."

— Astrid Alauda

"You are the closest I will ever come to magic."

— Sylvia Plath

"Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Heaven lies about us in our infancy!"

— William Wordsworth

"It is the nature of babies to be in bliss."

— Deepak Chopra

"Where do babies come from? Don't bother asking adults. They don't know either."

— Norman Lindsay

"The soul is healed by being with children."

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future."

— John F. Kennedy

"Every baby is a new star born into this world to shine its own unique light."

— Anonymous

"Having a baby is a life-changer. It gives you a whole other perspective on why you wake up every day."

— Taylor Hanson

"A baby is something you carry inside you for nine months, in your arms for three years, and in your heart until the day you die."

— Mary Mason

"The birth of a child is the beginning of a new story, full of joy and possibility."

— Anonymous

"Having children is like living in a frat house — nobody sleeps, everything's broken, and there's a lot of throwing up."

— Ray Romano

"Babies don't need a vacation, but I still see them at the beach."

— Steven Wright

"Before I had kids, I had six theories about raising children. Now I have six kids and no theories."

— John Wilmot

"A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don't have a top for it."

— Jerry Seinfeld

"Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility."

— Kate Douglas Wiggin

"A new baby is like the dawn: full of light and possibility."

— Anonymous

"Children reinvent your world for you."

— Susan Sarandon

"You were once too small to hold yourself, yet I held you — and that was enough to change everything."

— Anonymous