christmas poems for children

Who recalls when folks got along without something if it cost too much? ~Kin Hubbard



It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to. ~Annie Gottlier



Patience: A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue. ~Ambrose Bierce



God has entrusted me with myself. ~Epictetus



In June, as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them. ~Aldo Leopold



One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. ~Carl Jung One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. ~Carl Jung



Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents' pots and pans, the used things, warm with generations of human touch, essential to a human landscape. Instead, we have our paper phantoms, transistorized landscapes. A featherweight portable museum. ~Susan Sontag



Mother - that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries. ~T. DeWitt Talmage



Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. ~Groucho Marx



Today is the last day of some of your life. ~Author Unknown



The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay. ~Martin Luther



No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. ~Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book I, chapter 4



Eighteen holes of match or medal play will teach you more about your foe than will 18 years of dealing with him across a desk. ~Grantland Rice



Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. ~Jules Renard



He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. ~Friedrich Nietzsche



It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them. ~Bill Vaughan



Does "anal-retentive" have a hyphen? ~Alison Bechdel, 1990 Dykes to Watch Out For calendar (Thanks, Chelsea)



There are two kinds of light - the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures. ~James Thurber



A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. ~John Barrymore



If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants. ~Isaac Newton, letter to Robert Hooke, 5 February 1675