120+ Adorable Baby Quotes and Sayings You Will Love (2024)

By Author Vicky Smith

Posted on Last updated: June 27, 2024

Becoming a parent evokes feelings that are hard to put into words, but these baby quotes can do the job for you!

New parents will nod along to every one of these relatable baby sayings, from the funny ones to the emotional and inspiring words that sum up just what life with a newborn is like.

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When I became a parent it was a whirlwind of emotion and brand new experiences. No amount of reading of the baby books could prepare me for it.

Cute baby quotes

It’s hard to feel like much is wrong in the world when you’re looking into the eyes of a happy baby. —Lisa Wingate
I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.– Eleanor Roosevelt
A baby is something you carry inside you for nine months, in your arms for three years and in your heart till the day you die.
Having my baby fall asleep in my arms takes away all of my worries and stresses. A sense of complete and total peace comes over me. – Maria Jose Ovalle
When he finally was placed into my arms, I looked into his precious eyes and felt an overwhelming, unconditional love….I never felt so complete and empowered in my life. – Gisele Bündchen
It is the nature of babies to be in bliss. – Deepak Chopra
For me, this baby was the most precious thing I had ever had. He was my treasure, my joy, my world, my everything now. – Preeti Shenoy
Let me love you a little more before you’re not little anymore.
It is a smile of a baby that makes life worth living. —Debasish Mridha
Babies are such a nice way to start people. – Don Herold
Children have neither past nor future. They enjoy the present, which very few of us do. – Jean De La Bruyere
Sometimes the littlest things take up the most room in your heart. – Winnie the Pooh
I love you forever. I’ll like you for always. As long as I’m living, my baby you’ll be. – Robert Munsch
Babies are amazing. They begin each day all warm and sleepy, smelling of promise. – Julia Roberts
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
Children bring us a piece of heaven on earth. – Roland Leonhardt
A new baby is like the beginning of all things — wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. – Eda J. LeShan
A baby is an inestimable blessing. – Mark Twain
Every child begins the world again. – Henry David Thoreau

Quotes about babies

Loving a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback loop. The more you give the more you get and the more you get the more you feel like giving.– Penelope Leach

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When the baby is born, all that pain that was endured vanishes in an instant. Love for that tiny baby makes one forget the pain, the fear. And as I’ve said before, love between mother and child is the highest experience, the closest to divine love. – Hope Bradford
I know now why God gave us babies. They require constant attention, of course. They make messes and disturb the peace, but their cuteness and smiles are sometimes the only reminder of God we have in the house. – Ann Rinaldi
My fingers are tickled to delight by the soft ripple of a baby’s laugh. – Helen Keller
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings.– Hodding Carter Jr.
A baby is a wishing well. Everyone puts their hopes, their fears, their pasts, their two cents in. – Elizabeth Bard
Babies are always more trouble than you thought and more wonderful. – Charles Osgood
I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. – Nicholas Sparks
It’s a good thing babies don’t give you a lot of time to think. You fall in love with them and when you realise how much they love you back, life is very simple. – Anita Diamant
There is nothing like a newborn baby to renew your spirit and to buttress your resolve to make the world a better place. – Virginia Kelley
Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky. – Fran Lebowitz
A first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. – Barbara Kingsolver
I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us. – Charles Dickens
Children make your life important. – Erma Bombeck
A baby is a blank check made payable to the human race. – Barbara Christine Seifert
A happy baby has shining eyes. It walks open-hearted into the world and spreads magic. – Sigrid Leo
A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. – Victor Hugo
Having my baby fall asleep in my arms takes away all of my worries and stresses. A sense of complete and total peace comes over me. – Maria Jose Ovalle
There are words in the soul of a newborn baby, wanting and waiting to be written. – Toba Beta
Those eyes so ecstatic with the gleam of new life, the wide laugh that no doubt uses up so much of the breath contained in those tiny lungs. – Saim Cheeda
Nothing compares to becoming aware of the massive face of the universe hidden in a newborn’s stare. –Curtis Tyrone Jones
When we encourage new parents to ‘treasure these moments because they don’t last forever,’ we need to remember to also reassure them that they will survive these moments because they don’t last forever. – L.R. Knost

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A baby is as pure as an angel and as fresh as a blooming flower. – Debasish Mridha
Children make you want to start life over. – Muhammad Ali
Newborn babies can’t do much on their own. They can’t eat or walk or talk on the phone. But every parent is sure their creation is without a doubt a tremendous sensation.
There are places in the heart you don’t even know exist until you love a child. – Anne Lamott
The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants. – Johnny Depp
There are no words that can describe the euphoria you feel when your baby recognises you for the first time and smiles.
Babies are like little suns that, in a magical way, bring warmth, happiness and light into our lives.
Babies are the buds of imagination that are ready to bloom with lights of love and affection. – Debasish Mridha
A baby is a blank canvas, a fresh start, a new beginning full of promise and possibility.
The most precious jewels, you’ll ever have around your neck, are the arms of your children.

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New baby quotes

I knew I would love you. I had no idea just how much.
You are the missing piece of the puzzle I didn’t even realise I needed.
For all the things my hands have held the best by far is you.
A newborn in the house is the perfect example of minority rule.
The littlest feet made the biggest footprints in our hearts.
Newborns reminded her of tiny buddhas. –Jodi Picoult
I don’t know who you’ll be, but I know you’ll be my everything.
So tiny, so small, so loved by all.
A baby fills a place in your heart that you never knew was empty.
Sometimes it’s the smallest things that take up the most room in your heart.
Your first breath took ours away.
Holding you is like holding a little piece of heaven in my arms.
We made a wish and you came true.
Twinkle Twinkle little star, do you know how loved you are.

Inspiring baby quotes

What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.-Benjamin Spock
Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears. – Kate Winslet
I understood once I held a baby in my arms, why some people keep having them. – Spalding Gray
Children reinvent your world for you. – Susan Sarandon
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
Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing. – Ricki Lake
Like stars are to the sky, so are the children to our world. They deserve to shine! – Chinonye J. Chidolue
Having a baby is like falling in love again, both with your husband and your child. – Tina Brown
Babies are a link between angels and humans.
Children have neither past nor future. They enjoy the present, which very few of us do. – Jean De La Bruyere

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I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle. – Vincent Van Gogh
It is a moment of pure ecstasy and satisfaction when you see a smile flicker on baby’s lips, just as they gently pass into a deep slumber.
All those cliches, those things you hear about having a baby and motherhood—all of them are true. And all of them are the most beautiful things you will ever experience. – Penelope Cruz
And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered. – Nicholas Sparks
You know what the great thing about babies is? They are like little bundles of hope. Like the future in a basket. – Lish McBride
Babies are bits of stardust, blown from the hand of God. – Larry Barretto
Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; in fact, the family brings up baby by being brought up by him. – Erik H. Erikson
I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity. – Eleanor Roosevelt
Loving a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback loop. The more you give the more you get and the more you get the more you feel like giving. – Penelope Leach
This is a place where grandmothers hold babies on their laps under the stars and whisper in their ears that the lights in the sky are holes in the floor of heaven. – Rick Bragg
I loved you from the very start. You stole my breath, embraced my heart. Our life together has just begun. You’re part of me, my little one.
Having my baby fall asleep in my arms takes away all of my worries and stresses. A sense of complete and total peace comes over me. – Maria Jose Ovalle
A baby is every beautiful word that you can possibly think of.

Funny baby quotes

Perfection only exists in babies and pastries. – Gayle Wray
Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky. – Fran Lebowitz
If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? – Milton Berle
Make no mistake about why these babies are here—they are here to replace us. – Jerry Seinfeld
I always wondered why babies spend so much time sucking their thumbs. Then I tasted baby food. – Robert Orben
When your first baby drops her pacifier, you sterilise it. When your second baby drops her pacifier, you tell the dog: ‘Fetch!’. – Bruce Lansky
People who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have one. – Leo Burke
And then my soul saw you and it kind of went “Oh, there you are. I’ve been looking for you”.
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. – Franklin P. Jones
A child enters your home and for the next twenty years makes so much noise you can hardly stand it. The child departs, leaving the house so silent you think you are going mad.” – John Andrew Holmes
A parent is someone who carries pictures where their money used to be.
Before I got married I had six theories about raising children. Now, I have six children and no theories. – John Wilmot
The amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority. – Olivia Wilde
You’ll learn to lower your expectations about what you can accomplish in a day. Some days, it will be all you can do to keep baby safe, warm, and fed. And that will be enough.
A baby makes love stronger, the days shorter, the nights longer, savings smaller, and a home happier.
Having a baby is just living in the constant unexpected. – Blake Lively

Short baby quotes

Babies are the perfect beginning to a lifelong love story.
A baby makes love stronger, the days shorter, the nights longer, savings smaller, and a home happier.
A baby is a little bit of heaven sent down to earth.
Babies are a link between angels and humans.
A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on. – Carl Sandburg
A baby is born with a need to be loved, and never outgrows it. – Frank A. Clark
Children reinvent your world for you.– Susan Sarandon
You’re my favourite reason to lose sleep.
You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars. – E.E. Cummings
Happiness is homemade

Baby girl quotes

A tiny daughter gives parents a life in a climate of perpetual wonder.– Pierre Doucet
And though she be but little, she is fierce. – Shakespeare
A baby girl is a miracle that never ceases to be miraculous.
A daughter is one of the best gifts this world has to give. – Laurel Atherton
Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That’s what little girls are made of. —Bethany Hamilton
There’s no better feeling than making your little girls laugh. – Jerry O’Connell
You are still so young, baby girl, you have a lot of potentials just waiting to be explored today.
A baby girl would dance her way into your heart, whirling on the tips of angel wings, scattering gold dust and kisses in your path.
A little girl is sugar and spice and everything nice – especially when she’s taking a nap.
Let her sleep, for when she wakes she will move mountains.
My baby girl is one of my greatest treasures in life and I would give her the world if I can.
I want to live forever to watch you grow, to see what a great woman you will surely become.

Baby boy quotes

A baby boy has a special way of bringing out the man in his father and the little boy in his grandfather.– Tanya Masse
And she loved a little boy very, very much, even more than she loved herself. – Shel Silverstein
My sweet baby boy, when I look at you, I am constantly reminded of how much love there is in my life.
There is this little boy who stole my heart. He calls me mom.
Little boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older. – Peter Pan
If I have a monument in this world, it is my son. – Maya Angelou

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