Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amanda Beard

In swimming, everyone calls me grandma, because I'm the oldest there. Then with my friends, I'm the youngest and I'm the baby. It's definitely bizarre.

Allen West

I do not believe having a baby is punishment.

Roger McDowell

The excitement hasn't worn off. Now, the preparation starts to come to fruition. It's like with a new baby ? that first day is an ecstatic high. Now, it's time to go to work.

Joanne Carner

Well, that lot's full. Let's see if I can park this baby someplace else.

Alexander McQueen

I am constantly trying to reflect the way women are treated. It's hard to interpret that in clothes or in a show but there's always an underlying, sinister side to women's sexuality in my work because of the way I have seen women treated in my life. Where I come from, a woman met a man, had babies, moved to Dagenham, two up two down, made the dinner, went to bed. That was my image of women and I didn't want that. I wanted to get that out of my head.

A. J. Jacobs

The Bible improved my ethical IQ. I started to act like a good person. I tried not to gossip, and lie, and covet, and just by pretending I was a good person, I think I actually became a little bit better of a person. I'm not Gandhi or Angelina Jolie, but it was a baby step.

The data show that Americans are ill-prepared for retirement, and gained virtually no ground over these three years. The low saving rate and weaker returns in the stock market held back wealth, despite strong gains in housing. With the baby boomers rapidly approaching retirement, we need to start saving fast, and are showing no signs of doing so.

Adriana Lima

If you look around Brazil you see pregnant women everywhere. Here you don't see that as much. There the only thing they do is babies, babies, babies! Especially the poor families.

Adora Svitak

The fact that a baby can be born today and condemned to a life of hardship, struggle, and discrimination simply because of sex is enraging.

Abraham Maslow

There seems no intrinsic reason why everyone shouldn't be (self-actualising). Apparently every baby has possibilities for self-actualisation, but most get it knocked out of them ...I think of the self-actualising man not as an ordinary man with something added, but rather as the ordinary man with nothing taken away.

Abraham Maslow

If you treat your children at home in the same way you treat your animals in the lab, your wife will scratch your eyes out. My wife ferociously warned me against experimenting on her babies.

We started with six birds and the kids love this part. Every day they want to see how much the baby birds have progressed.

Alexander Woollcott

Babies in silk hats playing with dynamite.

We'd like to try to have at least two children. Seeing how happy my wife is and how happy I am and how healthy the baby is, we'd like to try again.

We do full face painting and balloon sculpturing. I think we're even going to start doing baby showers where the stork shows up with gifts.

Abigail Johnson

Sometimes you can gradually improve things. But sometimes, they don't work, and you've just got to just say: Let's grind this baby to a halt.

Aaron Neville

If you want something to play with go find yourself a toy, baby, my time is too expensive and I'm not a little boy.

Cynthia Heimel

[On peanut M&Ms:] It is the eggness of them. A shell, chocolate placenta, proteiny peanut baby. Life shape, birth shape, cell shape, protoplasmic-ooze shape. A shape that calls straight through civilization to our reptilian brains.

Cynthia Heimel

Pity the poor infant. Born perfect into the world from imperfect parents.

Clive Bell

Civilized people can talk about anything. For them no subject is taboo.... In civilized societies there will be no intellectual bogeys at sight of which great grownup babies are expected to hide their eyes.

I have never understood the appeal of babies, they seem such horrible creatures most of the time!

Douglas Coupland

Time, Baby - so much, so much time left until the end of my life - sometimes I go crazy at how slowly time passes yet how quickly my body ages. But I shouldn't allow myself to think like this. I have to remind myself that time only frightens me when I think of having to spend it alone. Sometimes I scare myself with how many of my thoughts revolve around making me feel better about sleeping alone in a room.

Donald Trump

The press came out with headlines. Trump throws baby out of arena. I don't throw babies out, believe me. I love babies.

Donald Trump

That has been the same [my opinion on deportation], correct. But, again, you have to start with baby steps.

Donald Trump

First of all, these lenders are not babies. These are total killers. These are not the nice, sweet little people you think. You're living in a world of make-believe.

Duke Ellington

Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn't do nothing.

Douglas William Jerrold

Troubles are like babies - they only grow by nursing.

Touch your lips just so I know in your eyes, love, it glows so Im bare boned and crazy for you when you come crash into me, baby and I come into you...

Ethan Allen

Today we are reaching from younger people to? baby boomers and up.

Anne Lamott

Having a baby is like suddenly getting the world's worst roommate.

Anne Lamott

I just can't get over how much babies cry. I really had no idea what I was getting into. To tell you the truth, I thought it would be more like getting a cat.

Anne Lamott

one thing about having a baby is that each step of the way you simply cannot imagine loving him any more than you already do, because you are bursting with love, loving as much as you are humanly capable of- and then you do, you love him even more.

Anne Lamott

You fall so deeply in love with your grandbaby. It's so so so much easier than being a parent, because you really don't have much responsibility. And just when you are at the end of your rope with exhaustion, the parents take the baby away. So it's the best of both worlds.