An Evening Prayer

France is a dog-hole. - William Shakespeare

The Child is father of the Man. - William Wordsworth

Adults are just obsolete children. - Dr. Seuss

All children are essentially criminal. - Denis Diderot

It takes a whole village to raise a child. - African Proverb

You can't teach a young dog old tricks. - Warren Buffet

He who lies down with dogs, rises with fleas. - English Proverb

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

The man who has a full set of tools has no children. - Unknown

Our children are only as brilliant as we allow them to be. - Eric Micha'el Leventhal

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

Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. - Neil Postman

I have very good executives and great children. They're very good. - Donald Trump

Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to. - Joe Gores

The last thing my kids ever did to earn money was lose their baby teeth. - Phyllis Diller

If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much. - Marian W. Edelman

As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula. - Dave Barry

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

Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child. - Ron Wild

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs. - Alphonse de Lamartine

Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury. Play is a necessity. - Kay R. Jamison

We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today. - Stacia Tauscher

People always ask me, "Were you funny as a child?" Well, no, I was an accountant. - Ellen DeGeneres

Every time a child is born it brings with it the hope that God is not yet disappointed in man. - Rabindranath Tagore

The value of persistent prayer is not that he will hear us, but that we will finally hear him. - William McGill

While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. - Angela Schwindt

The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose. - Garrison Keillor

I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them. - Phyllis Diller

There are only two things a child will share willingly - communicable diseases and his mother's age. - Benjamin Spock

Every boy needs a role model that he can be proud of and talk about to the other kids in the playground. - Athol Fugard

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education. - Plato

Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped. - Sam Levenson

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity there ain't nothing can beat teamwork. - Mark Twain

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. - Napoleon Hill

In most homes, the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space. - Evan Esar

Every time a child says, "I don't believe in fairies," there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead. - Sir James M. Barrie

There's a limit to how many times you can read how great you are and what an inspiration you are, but I'm not there yet. - Randy Pausch

The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist." - Maria Montessori

Just be good and kind to your children. Not only are they the future of the world, they're the ones who can sign you into the nursing home. - Dennis Miller

Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There's no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving. - Gail Tsukiyama