https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:04:27 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-quote-makes-you-think-of-your-little-one#post-623860 Fri, 08 Mar 2013 07:45:48 +0000 betsyboop 623860@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@tinyperson: I love that one! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-quote-makes-you-think-of-your-little-one#post-623849 Fri, 08 Mar 2013 07:35:08 +0000 maybebaby 623849@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Sorry this is not a quote, but a whole poem, that DH found and shared with me--Daniel Day-Lewis's father wrote it for him the day he was born. I cried reading it imagining holding our baby boy for the first time in May...I want to print it and put it in his nursery!</p> <p>The Newborn</p> <p>This mannikin who just now<br /> Broke prison and stepped free<br /> Into his own identity--<br /> Hand, foot, and brow<br /> A finished work, a breathing miniature--<br /> Was still, one night ago,<br /> A hope, a dread, a mere shape we<br /> Had lived with, only sure<br /> Something would grow<br /> Out of its coiled nine-month nonentity.</p> <p>Heaved hither on quickening throes,<br /> Tossed up on earth today,<br /> He sprawls limp as a castaway<br /> And nothing knows<br /> Beside the warm sleep of his origin.<br /> Soon lips and hands shall grope<br /> To try the world; this speck of clay<br /> And spirit shall begin<br /> To feed on hope,<br /> To learn how truth blows cold and loves betray.</p> <p>Now like a blank sheet<br /> His lineaments appear;<br /> But there's invisible writing here<br /> Which the day's heat<br /> Will show; legends older than language, glum<br /> Histories of the tribe,<br /> Directives from his near and dear--<br /> Charms, curses, rules of thumb --<br /> He will transcribe<br /> In his own blood, to write upon an heir.</p> <p>This morsel of man I've held--<br /> What potency it has,<br /> Though strengthless still and naked as<br /> A nut unshelled!<br /> Every newborn seems a reviving seed<br /> Or metaphor of the divine.<br /> Charged with the huge, weak power of grass<br /> To split rock. How we need<br /> Any least sign<br /> That our stone age can break, our winter pass!</p> <p>Welcome to earth, my child!<br /> Joybells of blossom swing,<br /> Lambs and lovers have their fling,<br /> The streets run wild<br /> With April airs and rumours of the sun.<br /> We time-worn folk renew<br /> Ourselves at your enchanted spring,<br /> As though mankind's begun<br /> Again in you.<br /> This is your birthday and our thanksgiving. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-quote-makes-you-think-of-your-little-one#post-623770 Fri, 08 Mar 2013 05:51:37 +0000 Mrs. High Heels 623770@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This quote makes me think of my LO's: "Making a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body". - Elizabeth Stone </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-quote-makes-you-think-of-your-little-one#post-623749 Fri, 08 Mar 2013 05:42:52 +0000 shopaholic 623749@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sunny: ditto! We had a reading of "I carry your heart" for our wedding too.</p> <p>@MRS. BEEMER: I don't have a quote yet for LO (she's only a day old) but I always sing the "ho hey" song by the Lumineers to baby in my tummy. I sang it to her since she's born too and I swear she recognizes it and I painted it for an artwork for her room: "I belong with you, You belong with me, you're my sweetheart..." </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-quote-makes-you-think-of-your-little-one#post-623691 Fri, 08 Mar 2013 02:57:14 +0000 tinyperson 623691@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>“Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.”<br /> ― A.A. Milne</p> <p>Love e.e. cummings too! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-quote-makes-you-think-of-your-little-one#post-623647 Fri, 08 Mar 2013 02:00:58 +0000 sunny 623647@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't have one... but I love that poem. We used it as a reading in our wedding! (Though it was a bit of an awkward reading....) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-quote-makes-you-think-of-your-little-one#post-619967 Thu, 07 Mar 2013 10:17:13 +0000 Mrs. Beemer 619967@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Today is my little one's two month birthday. E.E. Cummings is one of my favorite poets, and this quote from one of his poems reminds me of my little one and my love for him today:</p> <p>"i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)"</p> <p>Linked here if you like: <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/179622" rel="nofollow">http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/179622</a></p> <p>What quote or poem makes you think of your little one? </p>