Inspirational Newborn Quotes: A Heartwarming Collection to Celebrate New Life

"A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them."

- Victor Hugo

"Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again every time a child is born."

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- Eda LeShan

"Having a baby is like falling in love again, both with your husband and your child."

- Tina Brown

"And she loved a little boy very, very much, even more than she loved herself"

- Shel Silverstein

"Not flesh of my flesh, nor bone of my bone, but still miraculously my own. Never forget for a single minute, you didn’t grow under my heart, but in it."

- Fleur Conkling Heyliger

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

- Carl Sandburg

"It is the most powerful creation to have life that is growing inside of you. There is no bigger gift."

- Beyonce

"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

"If I have a monument in this world, it is my son."

- Maya Angelou

"When a woman is pregnant she becomes a lioness with the will of a dragon. She becomes a goddess of beauty with the colors of the rainbow. She becomes the mother of new life."

- Anthony T. Hincks

"Making the decision to have a baby is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body."

- Elizabeth Stone

"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

"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

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

- Carl Sandburg

"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 realize how much they love you back, life is very simple."

- Anita Diamant

"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

"A baby is born with a need to be loved—and never outgrows it."

- Frank A. Clark

"You know what the great thing about babies is? They are like little bundles of hope. Like the future in a basket."

- Lish McBride

"The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new."

- Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

"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

"I’ll love you forever, I’ll like you for always, as long as I’m living, my baby you’ll be."

- Robert Munsch

"There are words in the soul of a newborn baby, wanting and waiting to be written."

- Toba Beta

"In the eyes of a child…there is joy, there is laughter… there is hope, there is trust, a chance to shape the future…"

- Air Supply

"Creating a family in this turbulent world is an act of faith, a wager that against all odds there will be a future, that love can last, that the heart can triumph against all adversities and even against the grinding wheel of time."

- Dean Koontz

"Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do."

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"The circumstances surrounding your birth are not as important as the opportunity to live."

- Lailah Gifty Akita

"Like stars are to the sky, so are the children to our world. They deserve to shine!"

- Chinonye J. Chidolue

"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

"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."

- Penélope Cruz

"I brought children into this dark world because it needed the light that only a child can bring."

- Liz Armbruster

"However motherhood comes to you, it’s a miracle."

- Valerie Harper

"On the night you were born, every star, in every sky, Shone down in jealously, at the twinkle in your eye."

- Craig Castle

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

- John F. Kennedy

"We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"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

"Babies are amazing. They begin each day all warm and sleepy, smelling of promise."

- Julia Roberts

"Children make you want to start life over."

- Muhammad Ali

"A happy baby has shining eyes. It walks open-hearted into the world and spreads magic."

- Sigrid Leo

"Families don’t have to match. You don’t have to look like someone else to love them."

- Leigh Anne Tuohy

"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 realize how much they love you back, life is very simple."

- Anita Diamant

"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

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

- Eda LeShan

"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 Bundchen

"...perhaps there is no greater miracle than finding a loving home for a child who needs one."

- Bill Clinton

"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 no words that can describe the euphoria you feel when your baby recognizes you for the first time and smiles."

- Jared Padalecki

"I love you forever. I’ll like you for always. As long as I’m living, my baby you’ll be."

- Robert Munsch

"All kids need is a little help, a little hope, and somebody who believes in them."

- Magic Johnson

"And you begin again and sometimes you lose, sometimes you win, but you begin again. Even though your heart is breaking, in time the sun will shine and you will begin again."

- Barry Manilow

"Being a parent wasn’t just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life."

- Jodi Picoult

"There is such a special sweetness in being able to participate in creation."

- Pamela S. Nadav

"In the moments of labor and birth, all the forces of the universe are flowing through a woman’s body."

- Sandra K. MorningStar

"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

"It is a smile of a baby that makes life worth living."

- Debasish Mridha

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

- Eda J. Leshan

"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

"A baby is born with a need to be loved — and never outgrows it."

- Frank A. Clark

"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

"Every child begins the world again."

- Henry David Thoreau

"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

"I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us."

- Charles Dickens

"There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings."

- Hodding Carter, Jr.

"Children have neither past nor future. They enjoy the present, which very few of us do."

- Jean de la Bruyere

"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

"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

"When your first baby drops her pacifier, you sterilize it. When your second baby drops her pacifier, you tell the dog: 'Fetch!'."

- Bruce Lansky

"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

"The amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority."

- Olivia Wilde

"It was the tiniest thing I ever decided to put my whole life into."

- Terri Guillemets

"Children bring us a piece of heaven on earth."

- Roland Leonhardt

"A baby boy has a special way of bringing out the man in his father and the little boy in his grandfather."

- Tanya Masse

"A tiny daughter gives parents a life in a climate of perpetual wonder."

- Pierre Doucet

"The days are long, but the years are short."

- Gretchen Rubin

"Sometimes the littlest things take up the most room in your heart."

- Winnie the Pooh

"The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants."

- Johnny Depp

"Sons are the anchors of a mother’s life."

- Sophocles

"Mother is her son’s first god. She must teach him the most important lesson of all – how to love."

- T. F. Hodge

"A daughter is one of the best gifts this world has to give."

- Laurel Atherton

"There’s no better feeling than making your little girls laugh."

- Jerry O'Connell

"A mother’s and daughter’s love is never separated."

- Viola Shipman

"Mothers of daughters are daughters of mothers and have remained so, in circles joined to circles, since time began."

- Signe Hammer

"Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That’s what little girls are made of."

- Bethany Hamilton

"Still the most magical day of my life was the day I became a mom."

- Linda Becker

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

- Deepak Chopra

"Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last."

- Charles Dickens

"With every newborn baby, a little sun rises."

- Irmgard Erath

"Babies are the buds of life, ready to bloom like a fresh flower to refresh humanity."

- Debasish Mridha

"are to the sky, so are the children to our world. They deserve to shine!"

- Chinonye J. Chidolue

"Babies are such a nice way to start people."

- Don Herold

"A baby is an inestimable blessing."

- Mark Twain

"Children reinvent your world for you."

- Susan Sarandon

"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

"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

"A first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out."

- Barbara Kingsolver

"Children make your life important."

- Erma Bombeck

"Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children."

- Charles R. Swindoll

"She's a little wildflower with a lot of warrior underneath."

- Melody Lee

"Little souls find their way to you, whether they’re from your womb or someone else’s."

- Sheryl Crow

"There is nothing more beautiful than someone who goes out of their way to make life beautiful for others."

- Mandy Hale

"Adoption is a redemptive response to tragedy that happens in the broken world."

- Katie J. Davis

"There is purpose in your season of waiting."

- Megan Smalley

"We do not need to know the beginning of a child’s story to change the ending."

- Fi Newood

"Adoption is complicated, but it is also rich with narratives of strength."

- Jillian Lauren

"They say it takes a village to raise a child. Sometimes it takes a village to have a child."

- Sara Walsh

"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"Adopted. Big deal; so was Superman."

- Christ Crutcher

"Rainbows remind us that even after the darkest clouds, and the fiercest winds, there is still beauty."

- Katrina Mayer

"What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all."

- Benjamin Spock

"Babies are always more trouble than you thought and more wonderful."

- Charles Osgood

"You are my sun, my moon, and all of my stars."

- E.E. Cummings

"Make no mistake about why these babies are here — they are here to replace us."

- Jerry Seinfeld

"Flowers are words which even a baby can understand."

- Arthur C. Coxe

"A toddling little girl is a center of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other."

- George Eliot

"No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child."

- Abraham Lincoln

"The trouble with babies is that they are made like a safe — no way to see what’s inside and no guarantee that the effort will be worth the trouble."

- Jeanette Winterson

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

- John Wilmot

"Perfection only exists in babies and pastries."

- Gayle Wray

"The best baby-sitters, of course, are the baby’s grandparents. You feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long periods, which is why most grandparents flee to Florida."

- Dave Barry

"Little boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older."

- J.M. Barrie

"And though she be but little, she is fierce."

- Shakespeare

"I always wondered why babies spend so much time sucking their thumbs. Then I tasted baby food."

- Robert Orben

"May you touch fireflies and stars, dance with fairies, and talk to the man in the moon. May you grow up with love and gracious hearts and people who care. Welcome to the world, little one. It’s been waiting for you."

"For all the things my hands have held the best by far is you."

- Unknown

"A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest."

"Sometimes when I need a miracle, I look into my son’s eyes, and realize I have already created one."

- Unknown

"There has never been, nor there will ever be, anything quite special as the love between a mother and her baby son."

- Unknown

"Let her sleep, for when she wakes she will move mountains."

- Unknown

"When they finally place the baby in your arms and you notice that smile, you suddenly feel a surge of overwhelming, unconditional love that you never felt before."

- Unknown

"A new baby marks the beginnings of all things – wonder, hope, and a beautiful dream of possibilities."

- Unknown

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

- Unknown

"Having a baby is like having a bit of heaven right here on earth."

- Unknown

"In the eyes of a baby…there is joy, there is laughter… there is hope, there is trust, a chance to shape the future."

- Unknown

"You can outgrow a mother’s lap, but never her heart."

- Unknown

"There is a wonder in the birth of a baby that takes us beyond the mundane and into the realm of the divine."

"I can only imagine where these tiny feet will go in their lifetime. My only hope is that they never forget the way home."

"A baby girl always leaves a bit of sparkle and a bit of rainbow wherever she goes."

- Unknown

"She is everything that is perfect, wrapped in a tiny bundle."

- Unknown

"Baby girls are precious gifts, wrapped in love serene. Their dresses tied with sashes and futures tied with dreams."

- Unknown

"Babies smile in their sleep because they’re listening to the whispering of angels."

- Unknown

"There is no sweeter innocence than a sleeping baby."

- Unknown

"Happiness is homemade, and so are babies."

- Unknown

"A baby’s giggle is the sweetest sound of all."

- Unknown

"A baby fills a place in your heart you never knew was empty."

- Unknown

"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."

- Unknown

"A baby boy may leave smudges in the house and also on your heart."

- Unknown

"Son, you’ll outgrow my lap but never my heart."

- Unknown

"A baby boy arrives, and just like that, everything changes. The world gets bigger, hearts grow fuller, and life means more because he’s in it."

- Unknown

"You are loved for the boy you are, the man you will become, and the precious son you will always be."

- Unknown

"You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you."

"A baby makes love stronger, the days shorter, the nights longer, savings smaller, and a home happier."

- Unknown

"A baby’s tiny feet leave the biggest footprints on our hearts."

- Unknown

"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."

"The struggle is part of the story."

"She is the exclamation point in the happiest sentence I could ever write."

"Enjoy the sweetness of a baby daughter now. It will offset the saltiness that should arrive in about 14 years."

"A toddler can do more in one unsupervised moment than most people can do all day."

- Unknown