Quotes About Babies And Books

#1. Businesses, like babies and books, need nurturing, time, energy, love, planning and, yes, money to develop, grow and prosper.

Rachael Bermingham

#2. The thousands of possible lives that used to spread out in front of me have snapped shut into one, and all I get is what I've got. It's time to pass on the possibilities, all those deliciously half-open doors, to my children, and drive them to the airports, and wish them bon voyage.

Barbara Holland

#3. The darkest period of my life, so far, arrived the summer I was pregnant with my eldest son. The future was growing in me with all of its terrifying unpredictability, and I found myself anxious, unable to work and woefully at sea.

Lauren Groff

#4. Babies are a nuisance, of course. But so does everything seem to be that is worthwhile - husbands and books and committees and being loved and everything. We have to choose between ease and rich unrest.

Vera Brittain

#5. The sage gives more than he takes;
how can he do this?
because he has the richness of Tao

Lao-Tzu

#6. I want Books and Babies and Beef stews.

Sylvia Plath

#7. You don't want to OD on improvisation.

Patti Smith

#8. In the past, we'd talked about books and other people, but now we talked only of our respective babies, hers sweet-faced and docile, mine at war with the world.

Jenny Offill

#9. I used to envy people who had written books, the way I think women envy other women who've had babies. I was resentful, shy, and inhibited around people who had written books. They'd done things I wanted to do.

Joan Juliet Buck

#10. All photography is propaganda.

Martin Parr

#11. He has let her in not because he genuinely loved her, but only because she played so well into his preconceived fantasies.

Shulamith Firestone

#12. New books feel special," said Hawthorne. "They're like babies born into the skin of old men.

Mark Beauregard

#13. Children need loving attention, closeness and deep affection and also loving touch. Love will make them feel safe.

Deepak Chopra

#14. In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails, why should one condemn oneself to live day-in, day-out with people one does not like, and sell oneself to chaperone and correct them?

Ruth Benedict

#15. Babies move more than books and aren't as conveniently shaped.

Gabrielle Zevin

#16. Ours is an age of pedagogy. Anxious parents instruct their children more and more, at younger and younger ages, until they're reading books to babies in the womb.

Alison Gopnik

#17. I've always enjoyed seeing how things are made.

Patricia A. Woertz

#18. Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier.

Bruce Lee

#19. A writer's subconscious is one of the filthiest places there are: as a matter of fact, you can find the whole world there.

Romain Gary

#20. What a happy woman I am, living in a garden, with books, babies, birds and flowers, and plenty of leisure to enjoy them. Sometimes I feel as if I were blest above all my fellows in being able to find happiness so easily.

Rosamunde Pilcher