Quotes: Babies

It’s a wonderful thing to see a segment of our population that is open and eager to learn more about Chinese culture. It has filtered into the mainstream. You see credit-card ads on TV with white couples and Chinese babies.

It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.

There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies.

We are at a major epoch in human history, which is that we don’t need sex to recreate the race. You can have babies without sex. This is the first time in human history that has been true, and it means, for example, we could do some extraordinary things.

Most of us would do more for our babies than we have ever been willing to do for anyone, even ourselves.

But people that are worried about unborn babies are the same ones that vote against kindergarten programs in Indiana or school lunch funds out of the federal government.

When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother’s voice.

I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.

I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle, so all is peace.

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.