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"A baby's a full time job for three adults. Nobody tells you that when you’re pregnant, or you’d probably jump off a bridge. Nobody tells you how all-consuming it is to be a mother—how reading goes out the window and thinking too." ~
Erica Jong quote
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"A baby is a blank cheque made payable to the human race." ~
Barbara Christine
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"Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last." ~
Charles Dickens
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"Making the decision to have a child--It's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body." ~
Elizabeth Stone
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"If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?"
~ Milton Berle
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"I don't know why they say "you have a baby." The baby has you."
~ Gallagher
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"Parenthood: The state of being better chaperoned than you were before marriage."
~ Marcelene Cox
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"Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now, I have six children and no theories."
~ John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
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"A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance."
~ Franklin P. Jones
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"A baby's an inestimable blessing and bother." ~ Mark Twain
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"Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare."
~ Ed Asner
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"A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm."
~ Bill Vaughan
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"If your baby's "beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses, sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all the time," you're the grandma."
~ Theresa Bloomingdale
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"People who say they sleep like babies usually don't have
them." ~ Leo J. Burke
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"Human beings are the only creatures on Earth that allow their children to come back home."
~ Bill Cosby
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"A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."
~ Ronald Knox
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"There are only two things a child will share willingly
- communicable diseases and his mother's age."
~ ~ Dr. Benjamin Spock
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"It sometimes happens, even in the best of families, that a baby is born. This is not necessarily cause for alarm. The important thing is to keep your wits about you and borrow some money."
~ Elinor Goulding Smith
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"The worst feature of a new baby is its mother's singing."
~ Kin Hubbard
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"A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest."
~ Irish Proverb
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"Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it."
~ Marshall McLuhan
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"A father is someone who carries pictures where his money used to be."
~ Anon
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"The hardest job facing kids today is learning good manners without seeing any."
~ Fred Astaire
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"I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it."
~ Harry S Truman
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"Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life."
~ Yiddish proverb
