Once in royal David's city Stood a lowly cattle-shed, Where a mother laid her baby In a manger for his bed. Mary was that mother mild, Jesus Christ her little child.

-Alexander, Cecil Frances
  'Once in Royal David's City'.

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.

-Barrie, SirJ(ames) M(atthew)
  Peter Pan (published1928), act1.

And is it true? And is it true, This most tremendous tale of all, Seen in a stained-glass window's hue, A Baby in an ox's stall? The Maker of the stars and sea Become a Child on earth for me?

-Betjeman, SirJohn
  A Few Late Chrysanthemums,'Christmas'.

Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^9  Nicholas Nickleby, ch.36.

Contrary to reports that I took the loss badly,I slept like a babyöevery two hours I woke up and cried. 278

-Dole, Bob (RobertJoseph)
  On losing the presidential nomination.  ABC  T V broadcast,14  Aug.

The Montreal Olympics can no more have a deficit than a man can have a baby.

-Drapeau,Jean
  Comment at press conference, Montreal, 29  Jan. The games went well over budget.

Now why did you name your baby 'John'? EveryTom, Dick and Harry is named 'John'.

-Goldwyn, Sam(uel) originally  Schmuel Gelbfisz
Attributed. Quoted in Fred Metcalf (ed)  The Penguin Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1986).

The baby, assailed by eyes, ears, nose, skin, and entrails at once, feels it all as one great blooming, buzzing confusion.

-James,William
  The Principles of Psychology, ch.13.

Where did you come from, baby dear? Out of the everywhere into here.

-MacDonald, George
At the Back of the North Wind, ch.33,'Song'.

Theyall were looking for a king To slay their foes and lift them high: Thou cam'st, a little baby thing That made a woman cry.

-MacDonald, George
  'That Holy Thing', stanza1.

The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.

-Mailer, Norman Kingsley
  'The Siege of Mailer: Hero to Historian', in Village Voice, 21  Jan.

Gimme visky†ginger ale on the side. And don't be stingy baby.

-Marion, Frances originally Frances Marion Owens
  Opening lines delivered by Greta Garbo in  Anna Christie.

And he who gives a child a treat Makes joy-bells ring in Heaven's street, And he who gives a child a home Builds palaces in Kingdom come, And she who gives a baby birth Brings Saviour Christ again to Earth.

-Masefield,John Edward
  'The Everlasting Mercy'.

   A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

-Sandburg, Carl
  Remembrance Rock, ch.2.

Hasta la vista, baby.

-Schwarzenegger, Arnold
Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

   In youth, before I waxe'  d old, The blind boy,Venus' baby, For want of cunning made me bold, In bitter hive to grope for honey.

-Spenser, Edmund
  Amoretti,'Anacreontics', no.1.