An Evening Prayer

A dog has the soul of a philosopher. - Plato

All children are essentially criminal. - Denis Diderot

Old men are children for a second time. - Aristophanes

Never have children, only grandchildren. - Gore Vidal

Inspiration and genius - one and the same. - Victor Hugo

Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way. - Quentin Tarantino

The best way to make children is to make them happy. - Oscar Wilde

The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day. - John Milton

A new toy is something a child uses to break his old toys. - Joe-kster

More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of. - Alfred Tennyson

A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to. - Robert Brault

You should never have more children than you have car windows. - Erma Bombeck

Children are one third of our population and all of our future. - Unknown

Children see things very well sometimes - and idealists even better. - Lorraine Hansbury

A dog has lots of friends because he wags his tail and not his tongue. - Unknown

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. - Benjamin Disraeli

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

There's only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. - English Proverb

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression. - Haim Ginott

Inspiration at its best means breath, and only too frequently means wind. - G K Chesterton

We have to make our inspiration first before our inspiration can build us. - Sanjive K Sharma

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child. - Marie Curie

A father is a man who expects his children to be as good as he meant to be. - Carol Coats

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

Children are paparazzi. They take your picture when you don't want them to. - Jamie Lee Curtis

Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us. - Golda Meir

Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? - Maurice Freehill

The most important question in the world is, "Why is the child crying?" - Alice Walker

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. - Pablo Picasso

Having a baby is like falling in love again, both with your husband and your child. - Tina Brown

Sometimes I wish I had a terrible childhood, so that at least I'd have an excuse. - Jimmy Fallon

If you're going to write a book on how to raise children, do it before you have them. - Bob McLaren

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. - Agatha Christie

What a pity Hell's gates are not kept by O'Flynn
The surly old dog would let nobody in. - Patrick Ireland

If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth. - William Maxwell

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

I look back on my childhood and thank the stars above. For everything you gave me, but mostly for your love. - Wayne F Winters

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

It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings. - Ann Landers

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity. - Eleanor Roosevelt