An Evening Prayer

A hungry dog will eat dirty puddings. - Latin Proverb

An angry dog is best led by its tail. - Unknown

Old men are children for a second time. - Aristophanes

The soul is healed by being with children. - Fyodor Dostoyevski

Goat Herder: A person who likes to work with kids - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Inspiration fires you up; motivation keeps you burning. - Stuart Aken

Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen. - Unknown

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood. - Louise J. Kaplan

Hot Dog: The only animal that feeds the hand that bites it - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

No man should live where he can hear his neighbor's dog bark. - Nathaniel Macon

I continue to stay young, right? I produce children, I stay young. - Donald Trump

As a child, the only clear thought I had was "Get candy." - Jerry Seinfeld

Jackpot: When all the kids stay at friends' homes for the night - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Bed and Breakfast: Two things the kids will never make for themselves - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Anybody who doesn't know what soap tastes like never washed a dog. - Franklin P Jones

Women should not have children after 35. Really? 35 children is enough. - Bill Murray

Creative play is like a spring that bubbles up from deep within a child. - Joan Almon

The trees in Siberia are miles apart - that's why the dogs are so fast. - Bob Hope

Oh my God! Space aliens! Don't eat me! I have a wife and kids. Eat them! - Homer Simpson

I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me. - Brendan Behan

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. - Josh Billings

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age. - William Feather

Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas. - Kin Hubbard

Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow. - Jeff Valdez

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? - George Eliot

Hopefully, kids realize you can do anything you want. Skateboarding can be that gateway. - Ryan Sheckler

If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been. - Robert Brault

I am the indoctrinated child of two lapsed Irish Catholics. Which is to say: I am not religious. - Meghan O'Rourke

When you do not know what you are doing, and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration. - Robert Bresson

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much. - Jacquelyn Kennedy

I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration. - William P Young

Parents should leave books lying around marked "forbidden" if they want their children to read. - Doris Lessing

Ever wonder where you'd end up if you took your dog for a walk and never once pulled back on the leash? - Robert Brault

The child should gain no request by anger; when he is quiet let him be offered what was refused when he wept. - Seneca

Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs. - P J O'Rourke

Whatever happened to a sense of idealism and embracing an idea that will help people and, in this case, children? - Rod Blagojevich

Spare the rod and spoil the child - that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well. - Martin Luther

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children. - Alex Haley

In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along. - Antonin Scalia

Most of what we object to as misconduct in children is a natural rebellion against the intrusion of an unimaginative adult despotism in their lives. - Floyd Dell