90 Beautiful And Inspiring Baby Quotes

Welcoming your baby into this world is a happy, momentous occasion like none other. But sometimes you may find it difficult to express the joy and love that you feel for your baby. This is where baby quotes come in handy.

Below is a compilation of some beautiful and inspiring baby quotes that are cute, heartwarming, funny, contemplative, and can help you articulate your feelings aptly.

As a new parent, you can use these baby quotes in the following ways:

• Read them aloud to your baby.

• Write them down in a baby book.

• Use them as captions on your social media posts.

• Read them to yourself in rough times, to remember why it’s all worth the effort.

Newborn Baby Quotes

Your cute little bundle of joy is an expression of your love. Here are some adorable baby quotes that represent the happiness you’re feeling on becoming new parents:

1. “Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.” — Rabindranath Tagore

2. “There are places in the heart you don’t even know exist until you love a child.” — Anne Lamott  

3. “Just as there is no warning for childbirth, there is no preparation for the sight of a first child. There should be a song for women to sing at this moment or a prayer to recite. But perhaps there is none because there are no words strong enough to name that moment.” — Anita Diamant

4. “A baby is something you carry inside you for nine months, in your arms for three years and in your heart till the day you die.” — Mary Mason

5. “You may hate being pregnant, but the minute the baby is born, she is God's precious child, given to you as a gift.” ― Sandra Dallas

6. “While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.” — Angela Schwindt

7. “We never know the love of a parent until we become parents ourselves.” — Henry Ward Beecher

8. “With every newborn baby, a little sun rises.” — Irmgard Erath

9. “Children reinvent your world for you.” — Susan Sarandon

10. “A baby is an inestimable blessing.” — Mark Twain

11. “When the baby is born, all that pain that was endured vanishes in an instant. Love for that tiny baby makes one forget the pain, the fear. And as I’ve said before, love between mother and child is the highest experience, the closest to divine love.” — Hope Bradford

12. “Every child begins the world again.” — Henry David Thoreau

13. “Babies are such a nice way to start people.” — Don Herold

14. “It is a smile of a baby that makes life worth living.” — Debasish Mridha

15. When he finally was placed into my arms, I looked into his precious eyes and felt an overwhelming, unconditional love….I never felt so complete and empowered in my life.” — Gisele Bündchen

Baby Girl Quotes

A baby girl fills your life with joy, happiness, and a touch of magic. Here are some beautiful baby girl quotes that’ll cheer and inspire you:

1. “A daughter is one of the best gifts this world has to give.” — Laurel Atherton

2. “A baby girl arrives, and just like that, everything changes. The world gets bigger, hearts grow fuller and life means more because she’s in it.” — Unknown

3. “Though she is little, she is fierce.” — Unknown

4. “There’s no better feeling than making your little girls laugh.” — Jerry O’Connell

5. “A baby girl would dance her way into your heart, whirling on the tips of angel wings, scattering gold dust, and kisses in your path.” — Unknown

6. “Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That’s what little girls are made of.” — Bethany Hamilton

7. “Girl: a giggle wrapped in sunshine and glitter.” — Unknown

8. “A tiny daughter gives parents a life in a climate of perpetual wonder.” — Pierre Doucet

9. “A baby daughter is always a Daddy’s girl and Mommy’s world!” — Unknown

10. “A toddling little girl is a center of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.” — George Eliot

11. “When you have a baby girl, you realize that there is something far more precious than the most precious jewels.” — Unknown

12. “She is the exclamation point in the happiest sentence I could ever write.”  — Unknown

13. “A daughter may outgrow your lap, but she will never outgrow your heart.” — Unknown

14. “No matter what the moment, a baby girl will always render sunshine in your life with her adorable smile.”  — Unknown

15. “A daughter is a bundle of firsts that excite and delight, giggles that come from deep inside and are always contagious, everything wonderful and precious and your love for her knows no bounds.” — Barbara Cage

Baby Boy Quotes 

A baby boy brings adventure and excitement into your life. Here are some beautiful and inspiring baby boy quotes for you:

1. “Baby boys have a pocket full of mischief and a saddle always overflowing with joy and excitement.” — Unknown

2. “Something tells me I am going to love him forever.” — Unknown

3. “And she loved a little boy very, very much, even more than she loved herself.” — Shel Silverstein

4. “If I have a monument in this world, it is my son.” — Maya Angelou

5. “His little hands stole my heart. His little feet ran away with it!” — Unknown

6. “The excitement on the face of your baby boy is certainly the most exhilarating part of parenthood.” — Unknown

7. “A baby boy has a special way of bringing out the man in his father and the little boy in his grandfather.” — Tanya Masse

8. “You’ll be his first kiss, his first love, his first friend, you are his momma, and he is your whole world. He is your little boy.” — Unknown

9. “I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow, my baby boy.” — Unknown

10. “Little boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older.” — J.M. Barrie

11. “A baby boy may leave smudges in the house and also on your heart.” — Unknown

12. “Hold him a little longer, rock him a little more. Read him another story, you’ve already read him four. Let him sleep on your shoulder, rejoice in his happy smile, he is only a little boy for such a little while.” — Unknown

13. “The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.” ― Jane Austen

14. “Of all things that I held, my baby boy is the most beautiful and precious.” — Unknown

15. “Your baby boy will hold your hand only for a little time, but he will hold your heart for a lifetime.” — Unknown

Cute Baby Quotes

Here are some sweet and inspiring baby quotes that will warm your heart and make you smile:

1. “There are no words that can describe the euphoria you feel when your baby recognizes you for the first time and smiles.” — Jared Padalecki

2. “Perfection only exists in babies and pastries.” — Gayle Wray

3. “I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle.” — Vincent Van Gogh

4. “One can resist everything in the world except the smile of a baby.” — Unknown

5. “Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.” — Elizabeth Stone

6. “All those cliches, those things you hear about having a baby and motherhood—all of them are true. And all of them are the most beautiful things you will ever experience.” — Penelope Cruz

7. “There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings.” — Hodding Carter Jr.

8. “Even babies understand the language of smiles. I think that speaks a lot for how universal language happiness is.” — Unknown

9. “You know what the great thing about babies is? They are like little bundles of hope. Like the future in a basket.” — Lish McBride

10. “Having a baby is like falling in love again, both with your husband and your child.” — Tina Brown

11. “A baby’s smile can give you power… enough to even struggle through tears.” — Unknown

12. “All the sleepless nights make it worth the effort when you are rewarded with a baby’s adorable smile.” — Unknown 

13. “What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.” — Benjamin Spock

14. “Having my baby fall asleep in my arms takes away all of my worries and stresses. A sense of complete and total peace comes over me.” — Maria Jose Ovalle

15. “And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time.” — Nicholas Sparks

Funny Baby Quotes

Parenting could be an emotional rollercoaster, full of beautiful, inspiring, and humorous moments. Here are some rib-tickling baby quotes that capture the funny side of parenting: 

1. “Having a new baby is like suddenly getting the world’s worst roommate.” — Anne Lamott

2. “If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?” — Milton Berle

3. “A toddler can do more in one unsupervised moment than most people can do all day.” — Unknown

4. “Make no mistake about why these babies are here—they are here to replace us.” — Jerry Seinfeld

5. “I always wondered why babies spend so much time sucking their thumbs. Then I tasted baby food.” — Robert Orben

6. “When your first baby drops her pacifier, you sterilize it. When your second baby drops her pacifier, you tell the dog: ‘Fetch!’.” — Bruce Lansky

7. “You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.” — Franklin P. Jones

8. “A baby changes your dinner party conversation from politics to poops.” — Maurice Johnston

9. “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

10. “Before I got married I had six theories about raising children. Now, I have six children and no theories.” — John Wilmot

11. “(24/7) once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.” ― Jodi Picoult

12. “The quickest way for a parent to get a child's attention is to sit down and look comfortable.” ― Lane Olinghouse

13. “In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn’t danced on television.” — Erma Bombeck

14. “Spit up is my new favorite accessory. No outfit is complete without it.” — Unknown

15. “I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.” — Harry S. Truman

Short Baby Quotes

If you’re looking for short baby quotes to create personalized party favors or gifts for your little one, here are a few beautiful and inspiring quotes to get you sorted:

1. “A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on.” — Carl Sandburg

2. “Children make you want to start life over.” — Muhammad Ali

3. “Your first breath took ours away.” — Unknown

4. “Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.” — Arthur C. Coxe

5. “A baby’s smile is an antidote to melt your day’s stress away.” — Unknown

6. “Children bring us a piece of heaven on earth.” — Roland Leonhardt

7. “A baby fills a place in your heart that you never knew was empty.” – Unknown

8. “It was the tiniest thing I ever decided to put my whole life into.” — Terri Guillemets

9. “A baby is born with a need to be loved—and never outgrows it.” — Frank A. Clark

10. “The littlest feet make the biggest footprints in our hearts.” — Unknown

11. “A new baby is like the beginning of all things—wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.” — Eda J. Le Shan

12. “Babies are bits of stardust, blown from the hand of God.” — Larry Barretto

13. “A happy baby has shining eyes. It walks open-hearted into the world and spreads magic.” — Sigrid Leo

14. “Fairy tales do come true. Look at us, we had you.” — Unknown

15. “Sometimes, the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.” — A. A. Milne

While you can read aloud these adorable and heartwarming baby quotes to your child, learning about other activities that can help you keep your baby occupied and entertained throughout the day is a good idea. To know more about such activities, check out this blog.