Baby Quote by George Eliot

Old persons are sometimes as unwilling to die as tired-out children are to say good night and go to bed.

— Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Why is it that people say they 'slept like a baby' when babies wake up like every two hours?

— Anonymous

It is noticeable how intuitively in age we go back with strange fondness to all that is fresh in the earliest dawn of youth.…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Do other mothers behold their newborn sons as I did? Do they all find themselves stopped, breathless, in what they were doing to merely…

— Elizabeth C. Bunce

…their eager, childlike attention was refreshing to see as compared with the decent, deathlike apathy of weary civilized people, in whom natural curiosity has…

— John Muir

Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon fall off.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To bed, to bed; sleep kill those pretty eyes, And give as soft attachment to thy senses, As infants empty of all thought.

— William Shakespeare

What early tongue so sweet saluteth me? Young son, it argues a distemper'd head So soon to bid good morrow to thy bed: Care…

— William Shakespeare

Who sleeps at night? No one is sleeping. In the cradle a child is screaming. An old man sits over his death, and anyone…

— Marina Tsvetaeva

The seventeenth-century baby slept, as his nineteenth-century descendant does, in a cradle. Nothing could be prettier than the old cradles that have survived successive…

— Alice Morse Earle

They are asleep. This is the condition they prefer. They are afraid of the world and sleep is a way of dealing with their…

— Stephen Dobyns

“Their hair in curlers and their heads wrapped in loud scarves, young mothers, fattish in trousers, lounge about in the speedwash, smoking cigarettes, eating…

— William H Gass