Newborns

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A sleeping baby

A newborn is the very young offspring of human beings.

Quotes on Newborns:[edit]

On reflection, it is a very pleasant thing, and provides a complete answer to those who argue about the gradual degeneration of the species, that every newborn in this world is always more beautiful than the last. (Charles Dickens)

  • Baby (s.m.). This is the name given to that shapeless creature, without age, sex or social status, whose particular prerogative is constituted by the violence of the feelings of love and hate that it unleashes in others, without any involvement on its part. (Ambrose Bierce)
  • Nice in the band, ugly in the square. [1] (Tuscan proverb)
  • Ugly in the band, beautiful in the square. [2] (Tuscan proverb)

I believe that the eyes of newborn babies, these eyes that do not yet see and in which one can barely see, these eyes without white, deep and uncertain, are made of a particle of the abyss from which they have ascended. (Jules Renard)

  • And it will all be as new as a newborn with a belly in the air | after my transition from belly to air. (Caparezza)
  • I've learned that when a newborn baby first squeezes his father's finger in his little fist, he holds it tight forever. (Johnny Welch)
  • The infant greets himself by shaking his hand with his foot. (Ramón Gómez de la Serna)
  • The birth of a child should always be an event that brings joy; The embrace of a newborn baby normally arouses feelings of attention and care, of emotion and tenderness. (Pope Benedict XVI)
  • This blind little man, a few days old, who turns his head in all directions looking for who knows what, this naked skull, this original baldness, this lowly monkey who has stayed for months in a latrine and who soon, forgetting his origins, will spit on the galaxies... (Emil Cioran)
  • A newborn represents God's conviction that the world must go on. (Carl Sandburg)

Asha Phillips:[edit]

  • Newborns are finely tuned to the behavior and moods of those around them.
  • Receiving a response to his communication, feeling that we reflect on interventions that have worked in the past gives the newborn the feeling of being helped and prevents him from feeling a sense of disintegration.
  • You have to feel like an individual distinct from your parents, you have to believe in yourself and be convinced that the world has a lot to offer.

Note:[edit]

  1. Those who look good like babies often get ugly with age.
  2. Those who look ugly like a newborn often become a handsome young man.

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