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It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last. (Queen Victoria )
Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree. (Queen Victoria )
Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it. (Queen Victoria )
Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age? (Queen Victoria )
No one who has seen a baby sinking back satiated from the breast and falling asleep with flushed cheeks and a blissful smile can escape the reflection that this picture persists as a prototype of the expression of sexual satisfaction in later life. (Queen Victoria )
If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby it. (Queen Victoria )
A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. (Queen Victoria )
From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father have been, and their parents and their parents before them. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities. This enterprise is on the whole successful. (Queen Victoria )
Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it. (Queen Victoria )
Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act. (Queen Victoria )
Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things --wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its earth to concrete... babies are almost the only remaining link with nature, with the natural world of living things from which we spring. (Queen Victoria )
A soiled baby, with a neglected nose, cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty. (Queen Victoria )
We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground. (Queen Victoria )
Mark the babe not long accustomed to this breathing world; One that hath barely learned to shape a smile, though yet irrational of soul, to grasp with tiny finger -- to let fall a tear; And, as the heavy cloud of sleep dissolves, To stretch his limbs, becoming, as might seem. The outward functions of intelligent man. (Queen Victoria )
I said I would get better with each baby, and I have. (Queen Victoria )
We made out, and they had a baby. (Queen Victoria )
Babies act out when they're hungry, cold, tired. They do this for survival. (Queen Victoria )
“I want more babies.” (Queen Victoria )
Besides having a baby, directing was the hardest thing I've ever done. And it's been the most rewarding in terms of my career. (Queen Victoria )
Did you know babies are nauseated by the smell of a clean shirt? (Queen Victoria )
[Watching a baby being born] is a little like watching a wet St. Bernard coming in through the cat door. (Queen Victoria )
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