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Baby Quotes

"It's been crazy trying to tour with a baby. But it's actually working out okay."

Caroline Corr, Irish Musician

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"TV is not a baby sitter."

Luis Guzman, Puerto Rican Actor

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"I didn't worry about leaving the fast lane - I was just so consumed with my baby that it seemed like the right thing to do. I never felt like I left New York, though. If you've lived in a place and loved it, you never feel like you left it."

Sissy Spacek, American Actress

Baby, Right, Worry

"Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me."

Mahalia Jackson, American Musician

Baby, Skin, Talk

"I'm not gangly; I'm very coordinated. I do have a bit of a baby face. But I guess that just means I'll be working longer."

Tim Robbins, American Actor

"We used to have a main female vocalist. But she had a baby. Now we do the singing ourselves."

Bernie Worrell, American Musician

Baby, Now, Singing

"Well, the first year I lost my voice I didn't mind so much because I was going to have a baby and I was distracted with him anyway, I didn't even think about it that much, well, OK, this is what's happening."

Rosanne Cash, American Musician

Baby, First, Mind, Voice

"Did you know babies are nauseated by the smell of a clean shirt?"

Jeff Foxworthy, American Comedian

"We're all born bald, baby."

Telly Savalas, American Actor

"This is a serious, serious condition that is also called postpartum psychosis. And that's where, literally, you get so bad that you end up either hurting the baby or killing yourself."

Marie Osmond, American Musician

Baby, End, Killing

"I was a married woman and I had a baby. I would have adored it, but I just couldn't do it because I'm a lady."

Ruth Warrick, American Musician

Baby, Lady, Woman

"I didn't know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child."

Loretta Lynn, American Musician

"You must have been a beautiful baby, 'Cos baby just look at you now."

Johnny Mercer, American Musician

"When looking at the evidence of feeding on large prey, you can see every size tooth from hatchling to adult in one spot. The babies may have been fed in the nest until they were full grown, like in eagles and hawks."

Robert T. Bakker, American Scientist

Baby, Babies, Eagles, Hawks, May

"I was just watching baby videos of me and I was obviously an exhibitionist."

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, American Actor

"I remember li'l ol' Hank Jr. - he was just a baby back in them days, you know - but he used to hang around. His mama would bring him around. He was just a natural."

Mel Tillis, American Musician

"I was walking around with the babies so much that when I got to the Sidney Lumet picture, I would be on set in between takes and I'd be rocking back and forth. Just standing like this rocking back and forth, and Sidney would say, Why are you walking like that in between takes?"

Vin Diesel, American Actor

Baby, Babies, Walking

"Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once."

Norman Vincent Peale, American Clergyman

Baby, Babies, Promises, Theater

"We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma."

Randall Terry, American Celebrity

Baby, Babies, Being, Want

"I said I would get better with each baby, and I have."

Demi Moore, American Actress

"Most of us would do more for our babies than we have ever been willing to do for anyone, even ourselves."

Polly Berrien Berends, American Author

"This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer."

Will Rogers, American Actor

Baby, Congress, Country

"Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby."

Jack Scalia, American Actor

"Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it."

Jean Kerr, American Playwright

Baby, First, Now

"When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden."

Carlos Santana, Mexican Musician

Baby, Garden, Lilies, Spiritual

"All babies are beautiful."

Jeanne Calment, French Celebrity

"Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live."

Lucy Ellman, British Author

Baby, Being, Writing

"We were marching since we were babies and all we did was make Jane Fonda famous."

Robert Patrick, American Actor

Baby, Babies, Famous

"I'm always happy when I'm cleaning, and besides, I had just found out that I was going to have a baby."

Peggy Lee, American Musician

"I live in a house that was built in 1480. It has a moat around it. It is like a little baby castle."

Bill Wyman, British Musician

"You don't even want to look in the mirror after you've had a baby, because your stomach is just hanging there like a Shar-Pei."

Cindy Crawford, American Model

"An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful."

Queen Victoria, British Royalty

"I prefer to sing in the shower because the acoustics make you sound great, baby."

Naima Adedapo, American Musician

"I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting."

Queen Victoria, British Royalty

"And you know, the baby boomers are getting older, and those off the rack clothes are just not fitting right any longer, and so, tailor-made suits are coming back into fashion."

Amy Irving, American Actress

Baby, Clothes, Fashion, Right

"A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made."

Sammy Davis, Jr., American Entertainer

Baby, Man, Sammy Davis, Jr.

"A baby is a loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."

Ronald Knox, English Theologian

Baby, End, Responsibility, Sense

"We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

"For right now, it really is the end. Hopefully in 10 years we'll all be married and have babies."

Kelly Rowland, American Musician

Baby, Babies, End, Now, Right

"Babies have big heads and big eyes, and tiny little bodies with tiny little arms and legs. So did the aliens at Roswell! I rest my case."

William Shatner, Canadian Actor

Baby, Babies, Eyes, Rest

"I used to think about how I was conceived quite a lot when I was about 10 or 11, but I don't think about it at all now that so many other babies have been born in the same way."

Louise Brown, English Celebrity

Baby, Babies, Now

"I'm a working stiff, baby, just like everybody else."

Peter O'Toole, Irish Actor

"Babies don't need a vacation, but I still see them at the beach... it pisses me off! I'll go over to a little baby and say 'What are you doing here? You haven't worked a day in your life!'"

Steven Wright, American Comedian

Baby, Babies, Beach, Day

"Yes, and when I had Aaron, he left me, and I didn't know how to raise a child. And I wasn't close to my parents, and because I was too proud to go to my parents for help, I mistreated that little baby. I didn't want a baby."

Lynn Johnston, American Cartoonist

Baby, Help, Parents, Want

"I talked about adopting a baby when I was 20 years old, before it became 'hip.'"

Tyra Banks, American Model

Baby, Old, Years

"Blues means what milk does to a baby. Blues is what the spirit is to the minister. We sing the blues because our hearts have been hurt, our souls have been disturbed."

Alberta Hunter, American Musician

Baby, Hurt, Spirit

"It'd be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren't kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I'm not a baby sitter."

Eminem, American Musician

Baby, Kids, Responsibility

"I wanted to play the part that Mary Kay played, the lawyer who wanted to have baby and felt her clock ticking, because it was something I could relate to."

JoBeth Williams, American Actress

"It's extraordinary to look into a baby's face and see a piece of your flesh and your spirit. It makes you realize you are a part of the human race."

Liam Neeson, Irish Actor

Baby, Race, Spirit

"My initial career, really, as a baby, was as a singer."

Mel Torme, American Musician

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