75+ Heartwarming (& All Too True) First Child Quotes

The first child, the one who makes you a parent… there is something special about them! Of course, there are also many struggles that come along with being a first-time parent too. I remember being so excited, so nervous, and so in love all at the same time. So, here are some first child quotes to help you put that feeling into words!

75 QUOTES ABOUT YOUR FIRST CHILD

My Favorite Quotes About First Borns!

“The child must know that he is a miracle. That since the beginning of the world there hasn’t been, and until the end of the world, there will not be, another child like him.” – Pablo Casals

“The moment that changed me forever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy, filled with hope, and thought, ‘Now I understand the whole point of work, of life, of love.’” – Paul Theroux

“A first-born child is your own personal time machine, taking you back to the past while also giving you hope for the future.”

“You are my sun, my moon, and all of my stars.” – E.E. Cummings

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“One girl is worth more than twenty boys.” – Peter Pan

“Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.” -Winnie the Pooh

“You’re the best thing I never knew I needed.” – The Princess and the Frog

“Join them in their world when they’re little so you’ll be welcome in their world when they get big.” – L.R. Knost

“Children bring us a piece of heaven on Earth.” – Roland Leonhardt

“Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.” – Rabindranath Tagore

“A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” – Victor Hugo

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Quotes About First Born Sons

“The most important mark I leave on this world is my son.” – Sarah Shahi

“If I have a monument in this world, it is my son.” – Maya Angelou

“A baby boy has a special way of bringing out the man in his father and the little boy in his grandfather.” – Tanya Masse

“Little boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older.” – J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“You don’t raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they’ll turn out to be heroes, even if it’s just in your own eyes.” – Walter M. Schirra Sr.

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“A boy needs a father to show him how to be in the world. He needs to be given swagger, taught how to read a map so that he can recognize the roads that lead to life and the paths that lead to death, how to know what love requires, and where to find steel in the heart when life makes demands on us that are greater than we think we can endure.” – Ian Morgan Cron

“Sons are the anchors of a mother’s life.” – Sophocles

“I live for my sons. I would be lost without them.” – Princess Diana

“And she loved a little boy very, very much even more than she loved herself.” – Shel Silverstein

“I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.” – Maya Angelou

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Quotes About First Born Daughters

“Though she be but little, she is fierce.” – William Shakespeare

“Let her sleep, for when she wakes she will move mountains.” – Napoleon

“To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.” – Euripides

“Every day is Father’s Day to me when I’m with her: when I’ll be able to hold my daughter and see her grow and see her smile. That’s Father’s Day to me every day.” – Saquon Barkley

“Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters, there is something which there are no words to express.” – Joseph Addison

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“A daughter is a bundle of firsts that excite and delight, giggles that come from deep inside and are always contagious, everything wonderful and precious and your love for her knows no bounds.” – Barbara Cage

“Absolutely, I don’t believe in rules. As I tell my daughter when she is mischievous, ‘Well-behaved women rarely make history’” – Nia Vardalos

“Who can describe the transports of a beam truly parental on beholding a daughter shoot up like some fair and modest flower, and acquire, day after day, fresh beauty and growing sweetness, so as to fill every eye with pleasure and every heart with admiration?” – George Fordyce

“Our daughters are the most precious of our treasures, the dearest possessions of our homes and the objects of our most watchful love.” – Margaret E. Sangster

“My daughter is the biggest gift; I’ve said it so many times and it sounds like a cliche, but the thing about being a parent is when you think you’ve cracked it, and you’re on top of your game, they change again and you have to catch up and adjust. I feel such a responsibility to instill good values in her, to be polite, to have discipline.” – Geri Halliwell

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Quotes on Sibling Relationships

“Being a first-born is like being part of a grand experiment, shaping the family dynamics for those who come after.”

“A first-born often paves the way for their siblings, leaving footsteps for them to follow.”

“First-borns are like a bridge between parents and younger siblings, learning from the former and guiding the latter.”

“The bond between first-borns and their younger siblings is a special blend of leadership, protection, and camaraderie.”

“A first-born’s journey is a story of growth, evolution, and the birth of a new kind of love in a family.”

“First-borns are the pioneers of our families, showing us what it means to learn, adapt, and embrace change.”

“With the birth of a first-born, a family’s story begins anew, unfolding in ways that only the heart can truly understand.”

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First Born Quotes for Dads

I remember how sweet it was to see my husband with our first child. You could see this big goofball fall in love with our little guy instantly. My husband once said that he had absolutely no clue what he was doing with the baby, but did not want to let me down so he would just find a way to figure it out. (I really wish he would have asked instead). Here are some great dad and first child quotes. 

“Some dads liken the impending birth of a child to the beginning of a great journey.” – Marcus Jacob Goldman

“The nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you’re unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while doing it.” – John Green

“That is the thankless position of the father in the family ‘the provider for all, and the enemy of all.’” – J. August Strindberg

“Every father should remember one day his son will follow his example, not his advice.” – Charles Kettering

“My father didn’t tell me how to live. He lived and let me watch him do it.” – Clarence Budington Kelland

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“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.” – Sigmund Freud

“Anyone who tells you fatherhood is the greatest thing that can happen to you, they are understating it.” – Mike Myers

“It is a wise father that knows his own child.” – William Shakespeare

“I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren’t trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.” – Umberto Eco

“[Man adopts] a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life.” – Tom Wolfe

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Sweet Baby Quotes About Your First Born

“A baby is as pure as an angel and as fresh as a blooming flower.” – Debasish Mridha

“Babies are such a nice way to start people.” – Don Herold

“A happy baby has shining eyes. It walks open-hearted into the world and spreads magic.” – Sigrid Leo

“A new baby is like the beginning of all things-wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.” – Eda J. Le Shan

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“Babies are always more trouble than you thought and more wonderful.” – Charles Osgood

“Make no mistake about why these babies are here, they are here to replace us.” – Jerry Seinfeld

“Ah, babies! They’re more than just adorable little creatures on whom you can blame your farts.” – Tina Fey

“People who say, they sleep like a baby, usually don’t have one.” – Leo Burke

“Babies are bits of stardust, blown from the hand of God.” – Larry Barretto

“It is a smile of a baby that makes life worth living.” – Debasish Mridha

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Quotes About Parenting Your First Child

“Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.” – Elizabeth Stone

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“When your first baby drops her pacifier, you sterilize it. When your second baby drops her pacifier, you tell the dog: ‘Fetch!’” –  Bruce Lansky

“It was the tiniest thing I ever decided to put my whole life into.” – Terri Guillemets

“If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?” – Milton Berle

“Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re already asleep.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr

“For having a baby’s sweet face so close to your own, for so long a time as it takes to nurse ’em, is a great tonic for a sad soul.” – Erica Eisdorfer

“A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on.” – Carl Sandburg

“The amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority.” – Olivia Wilde

“As soon as I saw you, I knew a grand adventure was about to happen.” – Winnie the Pooh

“The best way of training the young is to train yourself at the same time; not to admonish them, but to be seen never doing that of which you would admonish them.” – Plato

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Quotes All About Mothering Your First Child

“Giving birth and being born brings us into the essence of creation, where the human spirit is courageous and bold and the body, a miracle of wisdom.” – Harriette Hartigan

“The biggest surprise, which is also the best, is that I didn’t know I would love motherhood as much as I do.” – Deborah Norville

“A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.” – Amy Tan

“A mother continues to labor long after the baby is born.” – Lisa Jo Baker

“A baby is something you carry inside you for nine months, in your arms for three years and in your heart till the day you die.” – Mary Mason

“The first-born is like a trial run for parenthood, teaching us lessons we’ll carry throughout our lives.”

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“Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.” – Barbara Kingsolver

“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.” – Maya Angelou

“I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.” – Oprah

“When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.” – Sophia Loren

“We have a secret in our culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that women are strong.” – Laura Stavoe Harm

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Quotes About Miracle First Children

“Miracle: any outcome outside of the realm of what you believe is probable for you.” – Hal Elrod

“Sometimes we are in the middle of the miracle, we just don’t know it yet.” – Jonathan Ray

“Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.” – Augustine of Hippo

“Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?” – Henry David Thoreau

“Miracles happen every day. Not just in remote country villages or at holy sites halfway across the globe, but here, in our own lives.” – Deepak Chopra

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