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"Spend some time observing babies. They don't work; they poop in their pants, and they have no goals other than to expand, grow and explore this amazing world. Be like that baby you once were, in terms of being joyful."
"If you're trying to get somebody and this might be the only time you're going to catch him, but he is holding his baby and with his mama, you ain't gonna let that chance go by. That's the mentality of the streets. If you let that chance go by, he might catch your ass."
"There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it."
"I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven't had a lesson since."
"My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening."
"Whenever I held my newborn baby in my arms, I used to think that what I said and did to him could have an influence not only on him but on all whom he met, not only for a day or a month or a year, but for all eternity - a very challenging and exciting thought for a mother."
"Choose one thing and become a master of it. Choose a second thing and become a master of that. When you become a master of two worlds, say, engineering and business, you can bring them together in a way that will a) introduce hot ideas to each other, so they can have idea sex and make idea babies that no one has seen before and b) create a competitive advantage because you can move between worlds, speak both languages, connect the tribes, mash the elements to spark fresh creative insight until you wake up with the epiphany that changes your life."
"A grandparent is the only baby-sitter who doesn't charge more after midnight - or anything before midnight."
"To change the world, you must first change yourself. And baby, that's hard enough."
"Sure baby, mañana. It was always mañana. For the next few weeks that was all I heard––mañana a lovely word and one that probably means heaven."
"Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?"
"It is the nature of babies to be in bliss."
"A living body is not a fixed thing but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool: the shape alone is stable, for the substance is a stream of energy going in at one end and out at the other. We are particularly and temporarily identifiable wiggles in a stream that enters us in the form of light, heat, air, water, milk, bread, fruit, beer, beef Stroganoff, caviar, and pate de foie gras. It goes out as gas and excrement - and also as semen, babies, talk, politics, commerce, war, poetry, and music. And philosophy."
"Nikki lives around the corner from me and I see him all the time. We talk a lot, and of course we're still friends. That was our baby, Motley Crue, we put that band together."
"It is a little ironic that one thing a babysitter should not do is sit on a baby."
"Men lie the most, women tell the biggest lies... a man's lie is, "I'm at Tony house, I was at Kenny house!" A woman lie is like, "It's your baby!""
"Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day."
"Let's take our babies home and abide by the curfew. I want to thank you for understanding that we want to bring peace."
"If Newborn Babies Could Speak They Would Be The Most Intelligent Beings On Planet Earth."
"Baby Steps are for Babies, Not Brands. Be Amazing or Be Surpassed."
