Literary Quotations and Sayings for New Baby Cards
Posted on April 21, 2008
Filed Under Baby Card Sayings, New Baby Cards & Birth Announcements, New Baby Sayings |
Sometimes the arrival of a new baby can leave us so astonished and overcome with joy that it’s difficult to come up with appropriate words to describe the occasion. Lucky for us, many of history’s greatest wordsmiths found the inspiration to capture just the right thoughts. Some of these new baby sayings are listed below for your benefit. You can use these sayings to write the inscription on the inside of a card, to make a toast, or to accompany a gift for the new baby.
Only a baby small,
Dropt from the skies;
Small, but how dear to us
God knoweth best.
~Matthias Barr
Babies…are angels of God in disguise
His sunlight still gleams in their tresses
His glory still gleams in their eyes.
~Charles M. Dickinson
May the blessing of Life await you…may the sun of glory shine around you. and may the gates of plenty, honor and happiness be ever open to you.
~Charles Dickens
Of all created things, the loveliest and most divine are children.
~William Canton
Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again every time a child is born.
~George Bernard Shaw
A baby’s feet, like sea-shells pink
Might tempt, should heaven see meet,
An angel’s lips to kiss, we think,
A baby’s feet.
~Algernon Charles Swinburne
Lo, children are a heritage of the Lord:
and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
~Psalm 127:3
I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.
~Charles Dickens
Ye Sun, Moon, Stars, all ye that move in the heavens, I bid you hear me! Into your midst has come a new life. Make its path smooth, that it may reach the brow of the first hill.
~Indian Prayer
Watch over thy child, O Lord, as his days increase; bless and guide him…Strengthen him when he stands; comfort him when discouraged or sorrowful; raise him up if he fall; and in his heart may thy peace which passeth understanding abide all the days of his life…
~Book of Common Prayer
The sweetest flowers in all the world-A baby’s hands.
~Algernon Charles Swinburne
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