There are many emotions and feelings that you experience as a new parent that only other parents can understand. As a new parent, you’ll certainly relate to the following baby quotes.

How does it feel to be a new parent?

There is nothing else that can change your life the same way that a new baby can. You will experience a love that you never experienced before and also a sense of responsibility that surpasses anything else. Nothing will compare to your new little bundle of joy. 

But with that sweet baby comes sleepless nights, exhaustion, and spit-up. Thankfully the great experiences far outweigh all of those. The baby quotes below encapsulate some things you can expect as a new parent.

Also check out these baby boy quotes for expecting moms and dads.

Baby quotes that show a parent’s love

1. “Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.” – Harold Hulbert

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

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

4. “Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.” – Ricki Lake

5. “Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.” – Tina Fey

6. “People who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have one.” – Leo Burke

7. “There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.” – Jill Churchill

8. “Children make you want to start life over.” – Muhammad Ali

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

10. “A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” – Victor Hugo

Baby quotes about motherhood

11. “I like to think of motherhood as a great big adventure. You set off on a journey, you don’t really know how to navigate things, and you don’t exactly know where you’re going or how you’re going to get there.” – Cynthia Rowley

12. “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.” – Hope Bradford

13. “The biggest surprise, which is also the best, is that I didn’t know I would love motherhood as much as I do.” – Deborah Norville

​14. “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

15. “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

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16. “Giving birth is an ecstatic jubilant adventure not available to males. It is a woman’s crowning creative experience of a lifetime.” – John Stevenson

17. “Heaven on earth is looking at my little boy. The minute he was born, I knew if I never did anything other than being a mom, I’d be fine.” – Jenny McCarthy

18. “All those cliches, those things you hear about having a baby and motherhood –– all of them are true.” – Penelope Cruz

19. “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

20. “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

21. “​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

22. “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

23. “Making the decision to have a children is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.” – Elizabeth Stone

24. “A mother continues to labor long after the baby is born.” – Lisa Jo Baker

25. “Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.” – Lin Yutang

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Baby quotes about the wonderful changes babies bring

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

27. “Whether your pregnancy was meticulously planned, medically coaxed, or happened by surprise, one thing is certain – your life will never be the same.” – Catherine Jones

28. “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

29. “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

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

31. “Children bring us a piece of heaven on earth.” – Roland Leonhardt

Baby quotes about the wonder of a new baby

32. “A perfect example of minority rule is a baby in the house.” – Milwaukee Journal

33. “There are words in the soul of a newborn baby, wanting and waiting to be written.” – Toba Beta

34. “Nothing compares to becoming aware of the massive face of the universe hidden in a newborn’s stare.” – Curtis Tyrone Jones

35. “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

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

37. “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

If you’re enjoying these quotes, make sure to read our collection of mother and son quotes that put words to this unbreakable bond.

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

39. “I know now why God gave us babies. They require constant attention, of course. They make messes and disturb the peace, but their cuteness and smiles are something the only reminder of God we have in the house.” – Ann Rinaldi

40. “For me, this baby was the most precious thing I had ever had. He was my treasure, my joy, my world, my everything now.” – Preeti Shenoy

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

42. “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

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Baby quotes about the challenges of a new baby

43. “Motherhood: the only place you can experience heaven and hell at the same time.” – Anonymous

44. “A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for.” – Anonymous

45. “The amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority.” – Olivia Wilde

46. “Sleep is like the unicorn—it is rumored to exist, but I doubt I will see any.” – Unknown

47. “Babies are always more trouble than you thought – and more wonderful.” – Charles Osgood

More baby quotes

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

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49. “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

50. “Rigid plans work best if you’re building a skyscraper; with something as mysteriously human as giving birth, it’s best, both literally and figuratively, to keep your knees bent.” – Mark Sloan

Heartwarming baby quotes

51. “It’s a good thing babies don’t give you a lot of time to think. You fall in love with them and when you realize how much they love you back, life is very simple.” – Anita Diamant

52. “Babies are such a nice way to start people.” – Don Herold

53. “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

54. “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

55. “It’s all kinds of these profound things crashing on you when your child arrives into the world. It’s like you’ve met your reason to live.” – Johnny Depp

56. “A baby is a wishing well. Everyone puts their hopes, their fears, their pasts, their two cents in.” – Elizabeth Bard

57. “It’s hard to feel like much is wrong in the world when you’re looking into the eyes of a happy baby.” – Lisa Wingate

58. “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

59. “Every child begins the world again.” – Henry David Thoreau

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

Baby quotes that are full of wisdom

61. “The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.”
― Johnny Depp

62. “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

63. “Don’t stand unmoving outside the door of a crying baby whose only desire is to touch you. Go to your baby. Go to your baby a million times. Demonstrate that people can be trusted, that the environment can be trusted, that we live in a benign universe.” ― Peggy O’Mara

64. “The baby will talk when he talks, relax. It ain’t like he knows the cure for cancer and just ain’t spitting it out.” ― Justin Halpern

65. “If you were to open up a baby’s head – and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should – you would find nothing but an enormous drool gland.” ― Dave Barry

66. “Babies love fat.” ― Kathryn Stockett

67. “A baby’s cry is precisely as serious as it sounds.” ― Jean Liedloff

68. “Newborns reminded her of tiny buddhas.” ― Jodi Picoult

69. “It’s important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It’s not only life of babies, but it’s life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet.” ― George W. Bush

70. “Never give a lousy person the opportunity to create lousy babies.” ― Roberto Hogue

More baby quotes that you can relate to if you’re a parent

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

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

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

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

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

76. “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

77. “Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; in fact, the family brings up baby by being brought up by him.” — Erik H. Erikson

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

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

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

Enjoy each moment

It’s hard to enjoy the rough days when the little one is fussy or you feel like you can’t keep up with everything you need to do, however, those moments will pass faster than you can imagine. Before you know it, your little one will be not so little and you will be wondering where the time has gone. 

It’s easy to feel up-tight as a new parent. But remember to relax and trust your intuition because it goes a long way. 

Take time to enjoy these early days with your little one because they go fast. And don’t worry, you will come through stronger on the other side. 

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