Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.
Research has shown that a barren environment is much more damaging to baby animals than it is to adult animals. It does not hurt the adult animals the same way it damages babies.
The 'anchor baby' thing needs to be fixed... Anchor babies are an unconstitutional declaration of citizenship to those born of non-Americans. It's wrong, and it's immoral.
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.
My wife and I would be very comfortable having a baby at home or using one of the terrific nurse-midwives at the hospital.
My earliest acting memory is making up a play for my mom and dad called The Lonesome Baby. I have no idea what The Lonesome Baby was about. I just remember the title. But I'm sure it was an epic.
I did babysit a little bit when I was young. I prefer babysitting for babies. I always loved babies. I was not as great with kids that wanted to be entertained and that wanted to talk.
Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.
Babies don't need a vacation, but I still see them at the beach... it pisses me off! I'll go over to a little baby and say 'What are you doing here? You haven't worked a day in your life!'
We are really looking at all of our options. I mean, listen, whether it's IVF or whatever it is, we want to have a baby and we will have a baby.
You know there is a person inside every baby, right? And anybody who has ever met a baby knows there is already a person in there.
Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it.
Su-Chin: [protesting in front of the abortion clinic] All babies want to get borned! All babies want to get borned!
I will take a short time out from being in Parliament when the baby is born but I'll still be doing my constituency work - just with another baby in tow.
Detective Remy Bressant: Kids forgive, they don't judge, they turn the other cheek, and what do they get for it?
The Bride: [her first words upon waking from the coma] My baby! My baby!
Fabienne: Whose motorcycle is this? Butch: It's a chopper, baby. Fabienne: Whose chopper is this? Butch: It's Zed's. Fabienne: Who's Zed? Butch: Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead.
Jane: You mean all this time we could have been friends?
When you see a merger between two giants in a declining industry, it can look like the financial version of a couple having a baby to save a marriage.
My little girl, Anja, is really excited. We had a baby shower yesterday and she took the presents from everyone for me and was telling them, 'No, it's my baby.'
I'm one of the lucky few who never had to face the whole 'Oh, you've had a baby, and now work will have to suffer' bit. It just wasn't a big deal when I got married and had a baby.
