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The lover as baby is a less troubling idea than the baby as lover.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Fifth Selection, New York (1988).)
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Diamond bracelets Woolworth doesn't sell, Baby.
(Dorothy Fields (1904-1974), U.S. songwriter. "I Can't Give You Anything But Love," Blackbirds of 1928, Mills Music Inc. (1928).
Music composed by Jimmy McHugh (1894-1969).)
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You must have been a beautiful baby.
(Johnny Mercer (1909-1976), U.S. songwriter. "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby," Hard to Get, Remick Music Corp. (1938).
Music composed by Harry Warren (1893-1981).)
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Hasta la vista, baby.
(James Cameron, writer, and James Cameron. The Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger), in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (film) (1991).)
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How rare to be born a human being!
Wash him off with cedar-bark and milkweed
send the damned doctors home.
Baby, baby, noble baby,
Noble-hearted baby
(Gary Snyder (b. 1930), U.S. poet. Hunting (l. 1-5). . .
No Nature; New and Selected Poems [Gary Snyder]. (1992) Pantheon Books.)
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Writing a book is like rearing children—willpower has very little to do with it. If you have a little baby crying in the middle of the night, and if you depend only on willpower to get you out of bed to feed the baby, the baby will starve. You do it out of love. Willpower is a weak idea; love is strong. You don't have to scourge yourself with a cat-o'-nine tails to go to the baby. You go to the baby out of love for that particular baby. That's the same way you go to your desk.
(Annie Dillard (b. 1945), U.S. author. "To Fashion a Text," Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir, ed. William Zinsser, Houghton Mifflin (1987).)
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To worry about spoiling an infant by comforting him when he cries is needless.... If you put the baby down and the baby cries, pick him up. His crying isn't a habit you should try to break. Your baby can't be taught not to cry.
(Lawrence Balter (20th century), U.S. psychologist and author. Who's In Control? Ch. 2 (1989).)
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Other people—grandparents, sisters and brothers, the mother's best friend, the next-door neighbor—get to be familiar to the baby. If the mother communicates her trust in these people, the baby will regard them as delicious novelties. Anybody the mother trusts whom the baby sees often enough partakes a bit of the presence of the mother.
(Louise J. Kaplan (20th century), U.S. psychologist. Oneness and Separateness: From Infant to Individual, ch. 4 (1978).)
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Anyone who has breast-fed knows two things for sure: The baby wants to be fed at the most inopportune times, in the most inopportune places, and the baby will prevail.... And so the baby should, and the mom, too. Sometimes a breast is a sexual object, and sometimes it's a food delivery system, and one need not preclude nor color the other.
(Anna Quindlen (b. 1952), U.S. journalist, columnist, author. The New York Times, sect. A, p. 21 (May 25, 1994).)
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A soiled baby, with a neglected nose, cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.
(Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910), U.S. author. Complete Humorous Sketches and Tales, ed. Charles Neider (1961). Answers to Correspondents (1865).
Twain was replying to a young mother.)
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