An Evening Prayer

Let sleeping dogs lie. - French Proverb

Old men are twice children. - Greek Proverb

Genius is sorrow's child. - John Adams

Dogs that bark at a distance never bite. - Unknown

A child's first teacher is its mother. - Peng Liyuan

One hour with a child is like a ten-mile run. - Joan B. Samuelson

It's never too late for a happy childhood. - Gloria Steinem

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. - George Santayana

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

Vaseball: A game of catch played by children in the living room - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. - George Bernard Shaw

Only a biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window. - Unknown

When I was a child what I wanted to be when I grew up was an invalid. - Quentin Crisp

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

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

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

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

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

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. - Mark Twain

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden. - Corrie ten Boom

No more massive injections. Tiny children are not horses - one vaccine at a time, over time. - Donald Trump

Judging a child taking his first steps for not being able to run a marathon is shortsighted. - Tyler Winklevoss

Five main components of worship: the Lord's Supper, teaching, prayer, praise, and giving. - Ravi Zacharias

The most beautiful thing in the world is, precisely, the conjunction of learning and inspiration. - Wanda Landowska

Children aren't happy without something to ignore, and that's what parents were created for. - Ogden Nash

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. - Oscar Wilde

The Irish Catholic side was married to the life of an actor and I found out acting could be a form of prayer. - Liam Neeson

Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you're positive, good things happen. - Deep Roy

When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news. - John B. Bogart

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm. - Aldous Huxley

Play is a vital learning medium for a child. In a sense play is his work. And he discovers knowledge for himself. - Raymond Moore

Pain is a sign that we are alive. Problems are a sign that we are strong. Prayer is a sign that we are not alone. - Unknown

Tarry a moment to watch the chaos of a playground, crayola-colored shirts of running children, all trying out their wings. - Dr. SunWolf

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be. - Horace Bushnell

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man. - Mark Twain

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

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

Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again. - Dag Hammarskjold

Dogs display reluctance and wrath
If you try to give them a bath;
They bury bones in hideaways
And half the time they trot sideaways. - Ogden Nash

Rather than pushing children to think like adults, we might do better to remember that they are great learners and to try harder to be more like them. - Seymour Papert