A baby is a blank cheque made payable to the human race.
- Barbara Christine Seifert

Children are our most valuable natural resource.
- Herbert Hoover

Making the decision to have a child--It's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
- Elizabeth Stone

A baby is a full time job for three adults. Nobody tells you that when you’re pregnant, or you’d probably jump off a bridge. Nobody tells you how all-consuming it is to be a mother—how reading goes out the window and thinking too.
- Erica Jong

The law of heredity is that all undesirable traits come from the other parent.
- Anonymous

Loving a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback loop. The more you give the more you get and the more you get the more you feel like giving.
- Penelope Leach

But what am I?
An infant crying in the night:
An infant crying for the light,
And with no language but a cry.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

To heir is human.
- Dolores E. McGuire

Having a baby is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head,
- Carol Burnett