{"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"Anita Diamant","tags":["babies","motherhood"],"id":217,"author_id":"Anita+Diamant"},{"text":"A pair of young mothers now became the centre of interest. They had risen from their lying-in much sooner than the doctors would otherwise have allowed. (French doctors are always very good about recognizing the importance of social events, and certainly in this case had the patients been forbidden the ball the might easily have fretted themselves to death.) One came as the Duchesse de Berri with l’Enfant du Miracle, and the other as Madame de Montespan and the Duc du Maine. The two husbands, the ghost of the Duc de Berri, a dagger sticking out of his evening dress, and Louis XIV, were rather embarrassed really by the horrible screams of their so very young heirs, and hurried to the bar together. The noise was indeed terrific, and Albertine said crossly that had she been consulted she would, in this case, have permitted and even encouraged the substitution of dolls. The infants were then dumped down to cry themselves to sleep among the coats on her bed, whence they were presently collected by their mothers’ monthly nannies. Nobody thereafter could feel quite sure that the noble families of Bregendir and Belestat were not hopelessly and for ever interchanged. As their initials and coronets were, unfortunately, the same, and their baby linen came from the same shop, it was impossible to identify the children for certain. The mothers were sent for, but the pleasures of society rediscovered having greatly befogged their maternal instincts, they were obliged to admit they had no idea which was which. With a tremendous amount of guilty giggling they spun a coin for the prettier of the two babies and left it at that.","author":"Nancy Mitford","tags":["babies","humour","motherhood"],"id":5222,"author_id":"Nancy+Mitford"},{"text":"After 'cat', Lilah next learned 'flower'. Flowers (scrunch up nose as if sniffing) were everywhere, first only outside on plants, but soon she generalized to flowers on her clothes or her shoes, or in pictures in books and magazines. I wanted to hook up wires and do experiments and comparisons and studies to understand it all.'You want to do what?' Diane would say.But really, who wouldn't?","author":"Mike Brown","tags":["babies","engineers","experiments","parenting","science"],"id":8858,"author_id":"Mike+Brown"},{"text":"For me, this baby was the most precious thing I had ever had. He was my treasure, my joy, my world, my everything now.","author":"Preeti Shenoy","tags":["babies","motherhood"],"id":9840,"author_id":"Preeti+Shenoy"},{"text":"Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o’clock at night. It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to cry, simultaneously.","author":"Charles Dickens","tags":["babies","birth","clocks","coincidence","famous-beginnings","heroes","midnight"],"id":10731,"author_id":"Charles+Dickens"},{"text":"Hold puppies, kittens, and babies anytime you get the chance.","author":"H. Jackson Brown","tags":["you","hold","babies "],"id":14729,"author_id":"H.+Jackson+Brown"},{"text":"Parents expect only two things from their children, obedience in their childhood and respect in their adulthood.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["adage","adulthood","advertisement","alliterations","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri-writer","babies","blog","blogging","book-writing","caring-for-others","catch-lines","catchphrases","characters","child","childhood","children","creative-writing","dad","daddy","daughter","essay","family","father","growing-up","inspirational","knowledge","mom","mother","motivational","movie","movie-dialogue","mummy","novel-writing","obedience","parenthood","parenting","parents","philosophy","proverbs","public-speaking","punchline","quotes","respect","rhetoric","script","script-writing","scriptwriting","slogans","social-networking","son","speech","speechwriting","story","tag-lines","wisdom","wit","witty","writing"],"id":23847,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"I watched my friend Eleanor give birth,' she said. 'Once you've seen a child born, you realize a baby's not much more than a reconstituted ham and cheese sandwich. Just a little anagram of you and what you've been eating for nine months.","author":"Lorrie Moore","tags":["anagram","babies","baby","benna","birth","humor"],"id":27779,"author_id":"Lorrie+Moore"},{"text":"Let your child be the torch of truth and they shall shine over the entirety of the human society brightening even the darkest corners.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["babies","braveheart","character-building","child-psychology","children","courageous","parenthood","parenting","parenting-101","parenting-advice","parenting-children","parenting-teenagers","parents","parents-advice","parents-and-children","parents-and-responsibility","parents-and-teenagers","parents","parents-responsibility","raising-a-child","raising-children","raising-kids","service-of-humanity","service-to-others","strength-of-character","strength-of-mind","truth","truthful","words-of-wisdom"],"id":30634,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"To profoundly understand a baby, you must first be a mother.","author":"Debasish Mridha","tags":["babies","baby","being-a-mother","debasish-mridha","debasish-mridha-m-d","inspirational","motherhood","philosophy","quotes"],"id":34373,"author_id":"Debasish+Mridha"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":138,"pages":14,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}