Sleeping Baby Quotes:

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

- Eda LeShan

source: Eda J. LeShan (1967). “The Conspiracy Against Childhood”, New York : Atheneum

topic: Inspirational, Dream, Baby, Inspirational Baby, My Baby Boy

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

topic: Family, Good Night, Baby, Happy Children, Inspirational Parenting

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

- Victor Hugo

topic: Mom, Mother, Baby, Mother Son, Mom And Daughter

Sleep, baby, sleep. Thy father's watching the sheep. Thy mother's shaking the dreamland tree, and down drops a little dream for thee.

- Elizabeth Prentiss

topic: Mother, Dream, Baby, Dreamland, Sleeping Baby

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Love, Mom, Mother, Mom And Child, Mother And Baby

A grandparent is old on the outside but young on the inside. If your baby is "beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses, sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all the time," you're the grandma.

- Teresa Bloomingdale

topic: Beautiful, Baby, Grandma, Mother And Grandmother, Mother Grandmother

A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase.

- Mark Twain

topic: Baby, Angel, Wings, Inspirational Baby, Baby Love

A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men.

- Martin Farquhar Tupper

source: Martin Farquhar Tupper (1839). “Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments”, p.272

topic: Baby, Peace, Spring, Peace And Love, Wellspring

Sleep when your baby sleeps. Everyone knows this classic tip, but I say why stop there? Scream when your baby screams. Take Benadryl when your baby takes Benadryl. And walk around pantless when your baby walks around pantless.

- Tina Fey

source: "Bossypants". Book by Tina Fey, April 18, 2011.

topic: Baby, Sleep, Classic, Sleeping Baby

You are only as invincible as your smallest weakness, and those are tiny indeed - the length of a sleeping baby's eyelash, the span of a child's hand. Life turns on a dime, and - it turns out - so does one's conscience.

- Jodi Picoult

source: Jodi Picoult (2007). “Perfect Match”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

topic: Baby, Children, Sleep, Sleeping Baby

When you have a baby, sleep is not an option. You can't sleep. Even on vacation, you wake up at 6:30 a.m.

- Jimmy Fallon

topic: Baby, Dad, Sleep, Sleeping Baby

The one advice that I would give just to moms who have a child or a newborn is definitely sleep while the baby sleeps. I've heard that so many times. I never realized how true it really is. If you don't, you'll be walking around like a zombie.

- Tia Mowry

topic: Mom, Baby, Children, Sleeping Baby

It turns out that the 'Cry It Out' method of baby sleep training, where you ignore that your kid is screaming, crying and turning 40 shades of purple so that she can break herself out of the habit of being spoiled and cuddled to sleep, does more harm - way more - than good.

- Denene Millner

source: Denene Millner (2017). “My Brown Baby: On the Joys and Challenges of Raising African American Children”, p.32, Agate Publishing

topic: Baby, Sleep, Kids, Being Spoiled, Turning 40

I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son; she is the first gesture that creates a quiet that is full enough to make the baby sleep. My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen.

- Aimee Bender

topic: Life, Mother, Baby, Mother And Son, Rubber Bands