Newborn Sayings

Gifts and Memories

Newborn sayings are often printed on baby shower invitations, baby announcements, and thank you cards. However, there are other ways to use baby sayings as well. For example:

• Purchase a book of sayings.
• Create a book of sayings, using word art in Microsoft Word. If you can write using calligraphy, you can create a one-of-a-kind baby gift that will be treasured for generations.
• Use clip art and create a beautiful, matted and framed picture that features one or two newborn sayings.
• Embroider sayings on pillowcases, sheets, blankets, etc.
• Stencil baby sayings as a border around the walls of a nursery.
• Display sayings at baby showers, or have them printed on plates, cups, decorations, etc.

Favorite Newborn Sayings

The following sayings can be credited to well-known celebrities, writers, and others. If you have a saying you've written or love and would like to add, please do so in the comments section of this article.

• "It is the nature of babies to be in bliss." --Deepak Chopra
• "Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again every time a child is born." --George Bernard Shaw
• "There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies." --Winston Churchill
• "A baby is an inestimable blessing..." --Mark Twain
• "When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. And now when every new baby is born its first laugh becomes a fairy. So there ought to be." --James Matthew Barrie
• "Always kiss your children goodnight - even if they're already asleep." --H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
• "To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while." --Josh Billings
• "Your children need your presence more than your presents." --Jesse Jackson
• "It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself." --Joyce Maynard
• "If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves." --C.G. Jung,
• "Although there are many trial marriages... there is no such thing as a trial child." --Gail Sheehy
• "There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings." --Hodding Carter, Jr.
• "Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children." --Charles R. Swindoll
• "You will always be your child's favorite toy." --Vicki Lansky
• "What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give." --P.D. James
• "Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them." --Oscar Wilde
• "There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it." --Chinese Proverb
• "Whenever I held my newborn baby in my arms, I used to think that what I said and did to him could have an influence not only on him but on all whom he met, not only for a day or a month or a year, but for all eternity - a very challenging and exciting thought for a mother." --Rose Kennedy
• "When you teach your son, you teach your son's son." --The Talmud
• "A child enters your home and for the next twenty years makes so much noise you can hardly stand it. The child departs, leaving the house so silent you think you are going mad." --John Andrew Holmes
• "You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once." --Polish Proverb

Although it's not exactly a newborn saying, the following poem by Diane Loomans speaks to the thoughts and desires of all parents:

"If I had my child to raise all over again, I'd build self-esteem first, and the house later.
I'd finger-paint more, and point the finger less.
I would do less correcting and more connecting.
I'd take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes.
I'd take more hikes and fly more kites.
I'd stop playing serious, and seriously play.
I would run through more fields and gaze at more stars.
I'd do more hugging and less tugging."

--Diane Loomans, from "If I Had My Child To Raise Over Again"