birthday poems for kids

I thank God I was raised Catholic, so sex will always be dirty. ~John Waters



I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night. ~Marie Corelli



Here in America we are descended in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower, address, Columbia University, 31 May 1954



A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. ~Thomas Paine



I may not be there yet, but I'm closer than I was yesterday. ~Author Unknown



Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap. ~Doug Larson



Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men. ~Chinese Proverb



Welcome to Arizona, where summer spends the winter - and hell spends the summer. ~Popular saying, modified from a booster slogan in the 1930s



If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor. ~Nicholas de Chamfort



Give crayons. Adults are disturbingly impoverished of these magical dream sticks. ~Dr SunWolf



Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old. ~John Ciardi



When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part. ~G.B. Shaw, Getting Married, 1908



A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Americans like fat books and thin women. ~Russell Baker



Mediocrity is a hand-rail. ~Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, Mes pensees



Beauty... is the shadow of God on the universe. ~Gabriela Mistral, Desolacion



Failure seems to be regarded as the one unpardonable crime, success as the all-redeeming virtue, the acquisition of wealth as the single worthy aim of life. The hair-raising revelations of skullduggery and grand-scale thievery merely incite others to surpass by yet bolder outrages and more corrupt combinations. ~Charles Francis Adams



If I hit it right, it's a slice. If I hit it left, it's a hook. If I hit it straight, it's a miracle. ~Author Unknown



An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff. ~Adlai Stevenson, as quoted in You Said a Mouthful edited by Ronald D. Fuchs



Day, like a weary pilgrim, had reached the western gate of heaven, and Evening stooped down to unloose the latchets of his sandal shoon. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion