A selection of quotations for use on birth announcements, holiday cards, greeting cards, etc. Feel free to suggest quotations by visiting the Guestbook. Babies 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 A new baby is like the beginning of all things….wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. ~Eda J LeShan The sweetest flowers in all the world – a baby’s hands. ~Algernon Swinburne I am here to live out loud! ~Èmile Zola …a star danced and under that I was born. ~William Shakespeare Every child born into the world is a new thought, a fresh and radiant possibility. ~Unknown We are blessed by love and the miracle of birth. ~Unknown …and he was beautiful before God… ~Acts 7:20 Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me, Starlight and dewdrop are waiting for thee… ~Stephen Collins Foster …it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us. ~Charles Dickens …But trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy. ~William Wordsworth Blessings on thee, little man… ~John Greenleaf Whittier Children For children, is there any happiness which is not also noise? ~Frederick W Faber Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision. ~Aldous Huxley Who would ever think that so much can go on in the soul of a young girl? ~Anne Frank Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness. ~Henri Frédéric Amiel How delicate the skin, how sweet the breath of children! ~Euripides Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms. ~Oscar Wilde A child is the root of the heart. ~Carolina María de Jesús Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. ~Henry Ward Beecher It is not easy to be crafty and winsome at the same time, and few accomplish it after the age of six. ~D. Sutten We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing. ~Aristotle Youth is wholly experimental. ~Robert Louis Stevenson The soul is healed by being with children. ~Fyodor Dostoevsky Little girls are the nicest things that happen to people. ~Allan Beck The jewel of the air is the sun; the jewel of the house is the child. ~Chinese proverb Children are the reward of life. ~Congolese proverb Raising children is presented at first as a true-false test, then becomes multiple choice, until finally, far along, you realize that it is an endless essay. No one knows anything. ~Anna Quindlen My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. ~Mark Twain Family Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. ~Jane Howard A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. ~Dutch proverb Blessed in the influence of one true, loving human soul on another. ~George Eliot Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. ~George Burns The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes. ~Harold B. Lee Love We grow by love. ~William Ellery Channing Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy… ~Louisa May Alcott Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love… everything that comes from love is a miracle. ~Unknown Love begets love. ~Theodore Roethke That love is all there is, is all we know of love. ~Emily Dickinson We can do no great things; only small things with great love. ~Mother Theresa To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven. ~Karen Sunde Love is what makes you smile when you’re tired. ~Terri, age 4 Love is what’s in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen. ~Bobby, age 7