animal poems for children

I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off. ~Jack Paar



As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall. ~Virginia Woolf



To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet. ~Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1825



Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable. ~Bruce Lee



Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines. ~Erich Fromm



The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business. ~Wendell Phillips, attributed



Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. ~Erica Jong



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



There is no great genius without some touch of madness. ~Lucius Annaeus Seneca, "On Tranquillity of the Mind," Moral Essays



All the other colors are just colors, but purple seems to have a soul. Purple is not just a noun and an adjective but also a verb - when you look at it, it's looking back at you. ~Uniek Swain



Life... is like a box of chocolates - a cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that no one ever asks for, unreturnable because all you get back is another box of chocolates. So, you're stuck with mostly undefinable whipped mint crap, mindlessly wolfed down when there's nothing else to eat while you're watching the game. Sure, once is a while you get a peanut butter cup or an English toffee but it's gone too fast and the taste is fleeting. In the end, you are left with nothing but broken bits filled with hardened jelly and teeth-shattering nuts, which, if you are desperate enough to eat, leaves nothing but an empty box of useless brown paper. ~The X-Files



Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. ~Sam Keen



Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first. ~Josh Billings



Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine were taken away. ~Anaxagoras



Name is a fence and within it you are nameless. ~Samuli Paronen



Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels. ~Author Unknown



The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. ~William Blake



Elephants and grandchildren never forget. ~Andy Rooney



It is not easy to be crafty and winsome at the same time, and few accomplish it after the age of six. ~John W. Gardner and Francesca Gardner Reese



Really, all you need to become a good knitter are wool, needles, hands, and slightly below-average intelligence. Of course, superior intelligence, such as yours and mine, is an advantage. ~Elizabeth Zimmerman