Celebrate the arrival of a new baby with heartwarming, inspiring and funny new baby quotes.
Is there anything sweeter than a new baby? Those tiny little fingers and toes, the sweet noises they make and of course, the new baby smell.
Bringing home a new baby is such an exciting time for new moms and dads. No matter if you’ve welcomed a baby boy or girl, it won’t take long before you realize how much they will impact your life.
To help celebrate this incredible moment, nothing quite beats the perfect new baby quote – whether it’s funny, inspiring or heartfelt – to make this memory even more memorable and to help you get through those sleepless nights.
So congratulations parents, and welcome to your newest adventure! Enjoy these New Baby Quotes!
New Baby Quotes:
“Before you were born I carried you under my heart. From the moment you arrived in this world until the moment I leave it, I will always carry you in my heart.” – Mandy Harrison
“I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“A new baby is like the beginning of all things-wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.” – Eda J. Le Shan
“Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.” – Robert Browning
“Babies are amazing. They begin each day all warm and sleepy, smelling of promise.” —Julia Roberts
“Having a baby is like falling in love again, both with your husband and your child.” —Tina Brown
“There are no words that can describe the euphoria you feel when your baby recognizes you for the first time and smiles.” —Jared Padalecki
“Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again every time a child is born.” – George Bernard Shaw
“You know what the great thing about babies is? They are like little bundles of hope. Like the future in a basket.” —Lish McBride
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
“Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.” – John F. Kennedy
“A baby is born with a need to be loved—and never outgrows it.” — Frank A. Clark
“Every child begins the world again.” – Henry David Thoreau
“As soon as I saw you, I knew a grand adventure was about to happen.” –Winnie the Pooh
“Babies are such a nice way to start people.” – Don Herold
“A new baby is like the beginning of all things-wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.” – Eda J. Le Shan
“Motherhood: the only place you can experience heaven and hell at the same time.” – Anonymous
“Sometimes the littlest things take up the most room in your heart” – Winnie the Pooh
“Babies are bits of stardust, blown from the hand of God.” – Larry Barretto
“A baby fills a place in your heart that you never knew was empty.” – Anonymous
“Like stars are to the sky, so are the children to our world. They deserve to shine!” – Chinonye J. Chidolue
“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
“A happy baby has shining eyes. It walks open-hearted into the world and spreads magic.” – Sigrid Leo
“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
New Baby Quotes for New Parents:
“Children make you want to start life over.” – Muhammad Ali
“We never know the love of a parent until we become parents ourselves.” – Henry Ward Beecher
“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
“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
“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
“The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.” – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
“Children bring us a piece of heaven on earth.” —Roland Leonhardt
“A new baby is like the beginning of all things—wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.” – Eda J. LeShan
“Still the most magical day of my life was the day I became a mom.” – Linda Becker
“There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.” – Jill Churchill
“A mother’s joy begins when new life is stirring inside…when a tiny heartbeat is heard for the very first time, and a playful kick reminds her that she is never alone.” – Unknown
“When we encourage new parents to ‘treasure these moments because they don’t last forever,’ we need to remember to also reassure them that they will survive these moments because they don’t last forever.” – L.R. Knost
“A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on.” – Carl Sandburg
“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
“I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.” – Charles Dickens
“The days are long, but the years are short.” —Gretchen Rubin
”Having a baby is a life-changer. It gives you a whole new perspective on why you get up in the morning.” – Taylor Hanson
“A first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. You examine every turn of flesh for precocity and crow it to the world. But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming after–oh, that’s love by a different name.” ― Barbara Kingsolver
“A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It was the tiniest thing I ever decided to put my whole life into.” – Terri Guillemets
“The amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority.” —Olivia Wilde
“A happy baby has shining eyes. It walks open-hearted into the world and spreads magic.” – Sigrid Leo
“A baby is born with a need to be loved—and never outgrows it.” —Frank A. Clark
“Babies are always more trouble than you thought and more wonderful.” – Charles Osgood
“My fingers are tickled to delight by the soft ripple of a baby’s laugh.” – Helen Keller
“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
“I love you forever. I’ll like you for always. As long as I’m living, my baby you’ll be.” -Robert Munsch
“There are places in the heart you don’t even know exist until you love a child.” – Anne Lamott
“A baby is a wishing well. Everyone puts their hopes, their fears, their pasts, their two cents in.” – Elizabeth Bard
“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
“There is nothing like a newborn baby to renew your spirit and to buttress your resolve to make the world a better place.” – Virginia Kelley
“A baby is as pure as an angel and as fresh as a blooming flower.” – Debasish Mridha
“With every newborn baby, a little sun rises.” – Irmgard Erath
“Nothing compares to becoming aware of the massive face of the universe hidden in a newborn’s stare.” – Curtis Tyrone Jones
“Every child begins the world again.” – Henry David Thoreau
Baby Boy Quotes
“A baby boy has a special way of bringing out the man in his father and the little boy in his grandfather.” – Tanya Masse
“If I have a monument in this world, it is my son.” – Maya Angelou
“And she loved a little boy very, very much, even more than she loved herself.” – Shel Silverstein
“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” – Frederick Douglass
“To be a mother of a son is one of the most important things you can do to change the world. Raise them to respect women, raise them to stand up for others, raise them to be kind.” – Shannon L. Alder
“Sons are the anchors of a mother’s life.” – Sophocles
“A baby boy arrives, and just like that, everything changes. The world gets bigger, hearts grow fuller, and life means more because he’s in it.” —Unknown
“He has made everything beautiful in his time.” – Ecclesiastes 3:11
“Little boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older.” – Peter Pan
“Sometimes when I need a miracle, I look into my son’s eyes, and realize I have already created one.” —Unknown
“Sons are born to make their fathers better men.” – Mekael Shane
New Baby Girl Quotes
“Though she be but little, she is fierce.” – William Shakespeare
“A tiny daughter gives parents a life in a climate of perpetual wonder.” – Pierre Doucet
“A daughter is one of the best gifts this world has to give.” — Laurel Atherton
“A baby girl always leaves a bit of sparkle and a bit of rainbow wherever she goes.” —Unknown
“There’s no better feeling than making your little girls laugh.” —Jerry O’Connell
“Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That’s what little girls are made of.” — Bethany Hamilton
“A mother’s and daughter’s love is never separated.” – Viola Shipman
“A daughter is one of the best gifts this world has to give.” – Laurel Atherton
“I think my mom put it best. She said, ‘Little girls soften their daddy’s hearts.’” – Paul Walker
“A tiny daughter gives parents a life in a climate of perpetual wonder.” – Pierre Doucet
“There are words in the soul of a newborn baby, wanting and waiting to be written.” – Toba Beta
Funny New Baby Quotes
“Baby’s room should be close enough to your room that you can hear baby cry, unless you want to get some sleep, in which case baby’s room should be in Peru.” – Dave Barry
“Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.” – Fran Lebowitz
“People who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have one.” – Leo Burke
“Having an infant son alerts me to the fact that every man, at one point, has peed on his own face.” – Olivia Wilde
“Before I got married I had six theories about raising children. Now, I have six children and no theories.” —John Wilmot
“A baby’s cry is precisely as serious as it sounds.” ― Jean Liedloff
“The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.” —Johnny Depp
“When your first baby drops her pacifier, you sterilize it. When your second baby drops her pacifier, you tell the dog: ‘Fetch!’.” — Bruce Lansky
“Having children is like living in a frat house – nobody sleeps, everything’s broken, and there’s a lot of throwing up.” – Ray Romano
“Perfection only exists in babies and pastries.” — Gayle Wray
“Make no mistake about why these babies are here—they are here to replace us.” — Jerry Seinfeld
“I always wondered why babies spend so much time sucking their thumbs. Then I tasted baby food.” —Robert Orben
“If your baby is beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses, sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all the time – you’re the grandma.” – Theresa Bloomingdale
Best Wishes for Your New Baby
Welcome to the world, angel! So much love has been waiting for you!
Welcoming your new baby with wishes of health, happiness and plenty of sleep.
At last your beautiful baby is here. Best wishes to you all.
Wishing you lots of love and happiness to you and your little miracle.
Congratulations on this new adventure! It’s sure to be a great one.
Welcome to the world, little one! You’re already so loved.
Best wishes on the arrival of your first baby!
A baby makes love stronger, days shorter, savings smaller, and a home happier.
Cheers to the new appreciation for the words “me time” you will soon have!
Final Thoughts on New Baby Quotes
Celebrating the arrival of a new baby is an incredibly special and exciting moment! New baby quotes are a perfect way to commemorate the special occasion of bringing home a new baby.
Whether you’re welcoming a baby boy or girl into your family, these quotes can be heartwarming, and touching and some are funny. They remind first-time parents of the precious moments that come with having a child and share words of encouragement for the journey ahead.
Which one of these new baby quotes is your favorite?
