Travel by sea nearly approximates the bliss of babyhood…

A little soul scarce fledged for earth Takes wing with heaven again for goal, Even while we hailed as fresh from birth A little…

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

Teach a child good manners during babyhood.

— Nachman of Breslov

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

— Maria Montessori

And thou hast stolen a jewel, Death! Shall light thy dark up like a Star. A Beacon kindling from afar Our light of love…

— Gerald Massey

There is in every child a painstaking teacher so skillful that he obtains identical results in all children in all parts of the world.…

— Maria Montessori

Humanity is at the very beginning of its existence-a new-born babe, with all the unexplored potentialities of babyhood; and until the last few moments…

— James Jeans

Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation's picture book. Painting alone can describe every thing which can be seen, and suggest…

— William Morris Hunt

A flow'ret crushed in the bud, A nameless piece of Babyhood, Was in her cradle-coffin lying; Extinct, with scarce the sense of dying

— Charles Lamb

Baby smiled, mother wailed, Earthward while the sweetling sailed; Mother smiled, baby wailed, When to earth came Viola.

— Francis Thompson

The ladies--Heaven bless them!--are, as a general rule, coquettes from babyhood upwards.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

What is the little one thinking about? Very wonderful things, no doubt; Unwritten history! Unfathomed mystery! Yet he laughs and cries, and eats and…

— J. G. Holland

People do not spring forth out of the blue, fully formed – they become themselves slowly, day by day, starting from babyhood. They are…

— Lois Duncan

Living jewels dropped unstained from heaven.

— Robert Pollok

Liberated from the error of pagan tradition through the benevolence and loving kindness of the good God with the grace of our Lord Jesus…

— Saint Basil

Happy is that mother whose ability to help her children continues on from babyhood and manhood into maturity. Blessed is the son who need…

— Lydia Hoyt Farmer