Fathers get promoted to grandfathers.
Anon

I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather . . . Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car.
Will Shriner

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
Victor Hugo

The best place to be when you’re sad is Grandpa’s lap.
Anon

“Let’s go to the garden,” he said softly. “There may be a few things that this old man can show you yet.”
Dave Bachmann

Grandfathers are just antique little boys.
Anon

A child needs a grandparent, anybodies grandparent, to grow a little more securely into an unfamiliar world.
Charles & Ann Morse

When I was little, my grandfather used to make me stand in a closet for five minutes without moving. He said it was elevator practice.
Stephen Wright

Grandfather was well known for being stubborn in his ideas. For instance, you had to go to sleep facing east so that you would be ready to greet the sun when it returned.
Michael Dorris

One of the most powerful handclasps is that of a new grandbaby around the finger of a grandfather.
Joy Hargrove

Grandfathers are for loving and fixing things.
Anon

My grandfather and I,
We walk and talk
And watch the ants climb
The dry weed stalk.
Sometimes we stop and
Hunt four-leaf clovers
While Grandfather tells
Stories over and over.

Grandfather has hands
That are big and warm.
They soothe away hurts
And hold away harm.
My grandfather’s hands
Can build a sand castle,
Roll up a fat snowman,
Or make willow whistles.

Grandfather has time—
I guess that’s the reason
He’s a special person
Whatever the season!
by Mabel Jones Gabbott

A grandfather is someone with silver in his hair and gold in his heart.
Anon

I don’t know who my grandfather was; I’m much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
Abraham Lincoln

My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.
Louis Adamic

That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity and patience.
Titus 2:2

A grandpa is someone you never outgrow you need for . . .
Anon

My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people; those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was competition there.
Indira Ghandi

I’m going to be your grandpa! I have the biggest smile. I’ve been waiting to meet you for such a long, long while.
Billy Crystal

Grandfathers are daddies on loan.
Cindy Trendler

I would have taken time to listen to my grandfather ramble about his youth.
Erma Bombeck (Erma’s Angel)

You’ve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Irish Proverb

The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was pirate.
Bern Williams

My grandfather was a wonderful role model. Through him I got to know the gentle side of men.
Sarah Long

Grandma and Grandpa, tell me a story and snuggle me with your love. When I’m in your arms, the world seems small and we’re blessed by the heavens above.
Laura Spiess

My grandfather was a giant of a man . . . When he walked, the earth shook. When he laughed, the birds fell out of the trees. His hair caught the fire from the sun. His eyes were patches of sky.
Eth Clifford

I can talk to him about anything. He is so wise and so smart. He’s incredible . . . He says, ‘He’s just a man.’ He doesn’t see the different levels or positions of authority. He just sees everyone as equal. If he meets a president or a housewife, he reacts the same way.
Amy Pearce

He was gentle and kind, thoughtful, caring, considerate, practical and productive. A true gentleman at all times, and was the only person in the world I could describe as Stoic.
Cat Dugdale

Perhaps my love of motivation has been passed down from my Grandfather!
Catherine Pulsifer

It was Grandfather, of course. No one else would have been up this early. Sometimes he wondered if the old man ever slept.
Dave Bachmann

With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.
Job 12:12

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A garden of Love grows in a Grandmother’s hear.
Anon

. . . as grandmothers we have a sacred responsibility to encircle our grandchildren in love.
Gordon B. Hinckley

Grandmas are moms with lots of frosting.
Anon

A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.
Lois Wyse

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
Albert Einstein

A grandmother is a baby sitter who watches the kids instead of the television.
Anon

Grandmothers are just antique little girls.
Anon

Changing a diaper is a lot like getting a present from you grandmother – you’re not sure what you’ve got but you’re pretty sure you’re not going to like it.
Jeff Foxworthy

Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all and the day was complete.
Marcy DeMaree

A grandmother is a mother who has a second chance.
Anon

A house needs a grandma in it.
Louisa May Alcott

I am a grandmother now, and that means age is creeping on, creeping on.
Lille Langtry

Just about the time a woman thinks her work is done, she becomes a grandmother.
Edward H. Dreschnack

A grandmother is a little bit parent, a little bit teacher, and a little bit best friend.
Anon

When a child is born, so are grandmothers.
Judith Levy

With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.
Job 12:12

I have a role now that I think becomes me. I am a grandmother.
Gene Tierney

Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you’re just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.
Pam Brown

We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me.
Phyllis Theroux

A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.
Erma Bombeck

I always give my grandkids a couple of quarters when they go home. It’s a bargain.
Gene Perret

My grandson was visiting one day when he asked, “Gramma, do you know you and God are alike?” I mentally polished my halo while I asked, “No, how are w alike?” “You’re both old,” replied.
Anon

. . . Church is where they are going. There will be a grandma there to answer her questions about cooking or nursing . . .
Boyd K. Packer

It’s such a grand thing to be a mother of a mother – that’s why the world calls her grandmother.
Anon

Grandma serves kisses, counsel and cookies daily.
Anon

There’s no place like home except Grandma’s.
Anon

Grandmothers are the people who take delight in hearing babies breathing into the telephone.
Anon

It is as grandmothers that our mothers come into the fullness of their grace.
Christopher Morely

. . . a dusty photograph bore silent witness that Grandmother is still concerned for her grandchildren and loves us even from beyond the veil. As Estella held that picture in her hands, she was filled with emotion as she remembered Grandmother’s love. I feel that same love whenever I remember my valiant pioneer grandmother.
Alma Yanira González

Grandmas don’t just say “that’s nice” – they reel back and roll their eyes and throw up their hands and smile. You get your money’s worth out of grandmas.
Anon

If God had intended us to follow recipes, He wouldn’t have given us grandmothers.
Linda Henley

Most grandmas have a touch of scallywag.
Helen Thomson

Grandmas hold our tiny hands for just a little while, but our hearts forever.
Anon

Being a grandmother is our last chance to act like a kid without being accused of being in our second childhood.
Anon

If your baby is “beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses, sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, and angel all the time,” you’re the grandma.
Teresa Bloomingdale

Grandma’s kitchen . . . kids eat free.
Anon

A garden of Love grows in a grandmother’s heart.
Anon

A married daughter with children puts you in danger of being catalogued as a first edition.
Anon

If nothing is going well, call your grandmother.
Italian Poverb

Grandmas never run out of hugs and cookies.
Anon

If becoming a grandmother was only a matter of choice, I should advise every one of you straight away to become one. There is no fun for old people like it!
Hannah Withall Smith

Grandmother – a wonderful mother with lots of practice.
Anon

Sometimes our grandmas and grandpas are like grand-angels.
Lexie Saige

I have a warm feeling after playing with my grandchildren. It’s the liniment working.
Anon

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.
Henny Youngman

Grandmother-grandchild relationships are simple. Grandmas are short on criticism and long on love.
Anon

Grandmothers and roses are much the same. Each are God’s masterpieces with different names.
Anon

A grandma’s name is little less in love than the doting title of a mother.
William Shakespeare

His grandmother had lovingly taught him to be responsible for his own happiness and not tobe dependent upon others to bring joy and happiness into his life.
Robert D. Hales

“But your grandmother sends you presents all the time,” she said. “All that furniture for your dollhouse, new games and clothes, and now a skateboard . . .”
“Sure, that stuff’s OK, but it’s not like having a real person who can be with you . . .”
. . . maybe Caroline did have a lot of things sent to her, but she didn’t have a grandmother who played checkers with her, guessed at her riddles, and always came to school for open house. She didn’t have a smiling grandmother to give her a warm hug every Thursday night.
Patricia L. Dombrink

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Jeff Bucchino, “The Wizard of Draws”

“Sugar and spice and everything nice that’s what little girls are made of Sunshine and rainbows and ribbons for hair bows that’s what little girls are made of Tea parties, laces and baby doll faces that’s what little girls are made of”
Anon

“Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who’s sorry for a gnat or girl?”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“You came from heaven, oh, so sweet As pure as an ocean’s pearl And here on earth we finally meet Our beautiful baby girl! People will say you’ve got my eyes And daddy’s wonderful smile But we’re just happy that you came We’ve been waiting for you a while. Now every night before we sleep We thank our Father above For sending us a special gift That fills our home with love.”
Anon

“You can have fun with a son, But you got to be a father to a girl.”
Oscar Hammerstein II

“What is it that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life.”
Walt Whitman

“. . . If you can make a girl laugh – you can make her do anything . . .”
Marilyn Monroe

“There are so many girls, and so few princes.”
Liza Minnelli

“What are little girls made of? They’re made of ribbons and butterfly kisses and wonder at Christmas and birthday wishes and a heap of giggles and wiggles and love; these are the things little girls are made of.”
Anon

“Bee Witching”, a little girl dressed as a bee and another dressed as a witch for Halloween”
Kat Stewart

“When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty.”
Pope Gregory I

“Where shall we see a better daughter or a kinder sister or a truer friend.”
Jane Austen

“Wear pink and make the boys wink.”
Anon

“Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.”
Dr.Laurence J. Peter

“Life reveals her beauty one precious miracle at a time.”
Flavia

“Today, My baby, Went from a little girl, To a little lady.”
Monique Mixon

“When we asked for a daughter we were sent a princess.”
Sally Huss

“Little girls have a magic all their own.”
Anon

“It’s the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.”
Tallulah Bankhead

“The Laughter of girls is, and ever was, among the Delightful Sounds of the earth.”
Dequincey

“There’s nothing like playing dress up with your best friend.”
Anon

“To find out a girl’s faults, praise her to her girl friends.”
Benjamin Franklin

“The beauty of a girl cannot be mimicked, fabricated, or created by human means, it only occurs naturally.”
Pam Callaghan

“A daughter is a miracle that never ceases to be miraculous . . . full of beauty and forever beautiful . . . loving and caring and truly amazing.”
Deanna Beisser

“When I look at my daughter I see myself . . . only better.”
Anon

“A girl is innocence playing in the mud, beauty standing on its head and motherhood dragging a doll by the foot.”
Alan Beck

“Girls. You never know what they’re going to think.”
J. D. Salinger (from The Catcher in the Rye)

“So quickly you grow with bounds and leaps but the sweetest memories are mine for keeps!”
Anon

“A little girl can be sweeter (and badder) oftener than anyone else in the world. She can jitter around and stomp, and make funny noises that frazzle your nerves, yet just when you open your mouth she stands there demure with that special look in her eyes. A girl is innocence playing in the mud. Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot.”
Alan Black

“What the daughter does, the mother did.”
Jewish Proverb

“A baby girl…one of the most beautiful miracles in life, one of the greatest joys we can ever know, and one of the reasons why there is a little extra sunshine, laughter and happiness in your world today.”
Anon

“Daughters are little girls that grow up to be your best friend.”
Anon

“she is everything that is perfect wrapped in a tiny bundle.”
Bon Johnstone

“Forget diamonds, a girl’s best friend is chocolate!”
Midnightrain113

“Girls talk too much.”
Peter Pan

“Savor the moments that are warm and special and giggly”
Sammy Davis Jr.

“Giggles and curls,
ribbons and bow,
they’re so adorable,
from their head to their toes”
Anon

“Remember when all we had to do was to keep our ponytails straight and catch fireflies?”
Anon

“A daughter is a precious gift
A blessing from above,
She’s laughter, warmth and feminine charm;
She’s thoughtfulness and love. “
Anon

“Girls are giggles with freckles all over them”
Anon

“There is a garden in her eyes, where roses and white lilies flow.”
Thomas Campion

“A Daughter Is . . . your greatest source of pride and your greatest hope for the future . . . The happiest moment of your life was the day she was introduced to the world.”
Bettie Meschler

“Girls are like pianos, when they’re not upright, they’re grand.”
Benny Hill

“Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you!”
Fran Lebowitz

“The most important gift anyone can give a girl is a belief in her own power as an individual, her value without reference to gender, her respect as a person with potential.”
Emilie Buchwald

“Quiet little girls are rarely being good!”
Anon

“God breathes and the beauty of nature is revealed, You are His most beautiful creation & I am left breathless.”
S. Brown

“The knowingness of little girls, is hidden underneath their curls.”
Phyllis McGinley

“A daughter is a bundle of firsts that excite and delight, giggles that come from deep inside and are always contagious, everything wonderful and precious and your love for her knows no bounds.”
Barbara Cage

“God’s little princess”
Anon

“Only a TRUE PRINCESS could get away with as much as I do!”
Anon

“A daughter is a miracle that never ceases to be miraculous . . . full of beauty and forever beautiful . . . loving and caring and truly amazing.”
Deanna Beisser

“She’s the one all the boys loved because she lit up the room, and she’s the one all the girls hated for the very same reason.”
S. Brewer

“Little Girls, like butterflies, need no excuse.”
Robert A. Heinlein

“I am a princess. All girls are. Even if they live in tiny old attics. Even if they dress in rags. Even if they aren’t pretty, or smart, or young. They’re still princesses. All of us.”
Sara Crew, A Little Princess

“She will fill our lives with sunshine . . . And our hearts with love.”
Anon

“A daughter is a treasure – and a cause of sleeplessness.”
Ben Sirach

“Little Girls are Heavens Flowers”
Anon

“She is my joy and heart’s delight.”
Robert Wever

“Little girls are precious gifts like birds and brooks and streams . . . their hair is tied up with ribbons and bows . . . their hearts are tied up with dreams.”
Anon

“A daughter is one of the most beautiful gifts this world has to give.”
Laurel Atherton

“Little girls are precious gifts wrapped in love serene. Their dresses tied with sashes and futures tied with dreams”
Gay Talbot-Boasay

“Our daughters are the most precious of our treasures, the dearest possessions of our homes and the objects of our most watchful love.”
Margaret E. Sangster

“A girl without freckles is like a night without stars.”
Anon

“Little girls are the nicest things that happen to people. They are born with a little bit of angelshine about them, and though it wears thin sometimes there is always enough left to lasso your heart—even when they are sitting in the mud, or crying temperamental tears, or parading up the street in mother’s best clothes.”
Alan Beck

“My name is NO NO but grandma calls me precious.”
Anon

“A tiny daughter gives parents a life in a climate of perpetual wonder.”
Pierre Doucet

“Little girls dance their way into your heart, whirling on the tips of angel wings, scattering gold dust & kisses in our paths.”
Anon

“A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.”
George Eliot

“Little girls dance their way into your heart, whirling on the tips of angel wings, scattering gold dust and kisses in our paths”
Anon

“Little girls bring such delight with hearts so warm and smiles so bright!”
Anon

“Be to her virtues very kind,
Be to her faults a little blind.”
Matthew Prior

“Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn’t matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.”
Anne Frank

“Like star dust glistening on fairies’ wings
Little girls dreams are of magical things.”
Sherry Larson

“Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.”
William L. Phelps

“Daughters are love coming from a mother vine.”
Anon

“In love to our wives there is desire, to our sons there is ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.”
Joseph Addison

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Jeff Bucchino, “The Wizard of Draws”

Thank you Mother for all that you are and all that you help me be. (Anon)

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. (Rajneesh)

A man loves his sweetheart the most; his wife the best, but his mother the longest. (Irish Proverb)

A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. (Tenneva Johnson)

God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. (Jewish Proverb)

If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother in the other, the whole world would kick the beam. (Lord Langdale)

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to making leaning unnecessary. (Dorthy Canfield Fisher)

Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field, since the payment is pure love. (Mildred B. Vermont)

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother. (Lin Yutang)

A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by care forever after. (Peter DeVries)

The phrase “working mother” is redundant. (Jane Sellman)

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her. (George Washington)

A mother understands what a child does not say. (Jewish Proverb)

I remeber my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. (Abraham Lincoln)

He is a poor son whose son ship does not make him desire to serve all man’s mothers. (Harry Emerson Fosdick)

Some mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together. (Pearl S. Buck)

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his. (Oscar Wilde [The Importance of Being Earnest])

A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters. (George Herbert)

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. (Mark Twain)

My mother’s menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it. (Buddy Hacket)

To a child’s ear, “mother” is magic in any language. (Arlene Benedict)

The heart of a mother is a deep abysss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. (Honore’ de Balzac)

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in you thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. (Sophia Loren)

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men – from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)

Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)

A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother. (Anon)

Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life. (Sophocles)

Women’s Liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It’s the men who are discriminated against. They can’t bear children. An no one’s likely to do anything about that. (Golda Meir)

A man’s work is from sun to sun, but a mother’s work is never done. (Anon)

Sweater, n.: garment worn by a child when its mother is feeling chilly. (Ambrose Bierce)

Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see. (Pope Paul VI)

Thou art thy mother’ glass, and she in thee
Calls back the lovely April of her prime.
(William Shakespeare)

The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother–which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician. (Sidney J. Harris)

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. (Spanish Proverb)

A mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart – a heart so large that everybody’s grief and everybody’s joy found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation. (Mark Twain)

The sweetest sounds to mortals given
Are heard in Mother, Home and Heaven
(William Goldsmith Brown)

Only mothers can think of the future-because they give birth to it in their children. (Maxim Gorky)

She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn’t take them along. (Margaret Culkin Banning)

Mothers all want their sons to grown up to be president, but they don’t’ want them to become politicians in the process. (John F. Kennedy)

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. (Meryl Streep)

The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom. (Henry Ward Beecher)

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands. (Milton Berle)

Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort. (John Lancaster Spalding)

The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world. (W. R. Wallace)

Motherhood is priced
Of God, at price no man may dare
To lessen or misunderstand.
(Helen Hunt Jackson)

A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. (Victor Hugo)

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. (Aristotle)

My mom is a never ending song in my heart of comfort, happiness, and being. I may sometimes forget the words, but I always remember the tune. (Graycie Harmon)

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Jeff Bucchino, “The Wizard of Draws”

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
(Theodore M. Hesburgh)

God bless you, dear fathers. May He bless you with wisdom and judgment, with understanding, with self-discipline and self-control, with faith and kindness and love. And may He bless the sons and daughters who have come into your homes, that yours may be a fortifying, strengthening, guiding hand as they walk the treacherous path of life.
(Gordon B. Hinckley)

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, “You’re tearing up the grass.” “We’re not raising grass.” Dad would reply. “We’re raising boys.”
(Harmon Killebrew)

By profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact, But I am prouder–infinitely prouder–to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys.
(Douglas Macarthur)

You fathers can help with the dishes, care for a crying baby, and change a diaper. And perhaps some Sunday you could ge the children ready for Church, and your wife could sit in the car and honk.
(Russell M. Nelson)

He didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
(Clarence Budington Kelland)

Fifty years old: I’d give anything if Dad were here now so I could talk this over with him. Too bad I didn’t appreciate how smart he was. I could have learned a lot from him.
(Anon)

Not to be overlooked is the hand of a father. Whether he be a skilled surgeon, a master craftsman, or a talented teacher, his hands support his family.
(Thomas S. Monson)

A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.
(Anon)

To support mother and father, to cherish wife and child and to have a simple livelihood; this is the good luck. (Buddha)

In order to strengthen the father in the home, I make two simple suggestions: first, sustain and respect the father in his position; second, give him love, understanding, and some appreciation for his efforts.
(James E. Faust)

Father! – to God himself we cannot give a holier name.
(William Wordsworth)

Any man can be a father, but it takes a special person to be a dad.
(Proverb)

As fathers we need to set priorities to guide us in allocating our time . . . In giving time to his children, a father should be able to demonstrate that he has enough love for them to command as well as discipline them.
(James E. Faust)

On father is more than a hundred Schoolmaster. (George Herbert)

My father taught me that one of the most important abilities in life is to be able to take the pain and persevere, and for years this lesson had served me well.
(Yanni)

Yes, son.
Are you awake?
Yes, my son, I am awake.”
Dad, I love you a million, trillion times!
And immediately he was asleep.
(F. Melvin Hammond)

It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
(Anne Sexton)

We know that a father’s role does not end with presiding, providing, and protecting family members. On a day-to-day basis, fathers can and should help with the essential nurturing and bonding associated with feeding, playing, story telling, loving, and all the rest of the activities that make up family life.
(M. Russell Ballard)

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!
(Lydia M. Child)

You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together.
(Erika Cosby)

Only a dad with a tired face,
Coming home from the daily race,
Toiling and striving from day to day,
Facing whatever may come his way,
Glad in his heart that his own rejoice
To see him come home and to hear his voice.

Only a dad, but he gives his all,
Smoothing the way for his children small,
Doing with courage so stern and grim
The deeds that his father did for him.
These are the lines that for him I pen,
Only a dad–but the best of men.
(Anon)

Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.
(Ruth E. Renkel)

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
(Mark Twain)

One new father wrote: “Often as I watch my son watch me, I am taken back to moments with my own dad, remembering how vividly I wanted to be just like him. I remember having a plastic razor and my own can of foaming cream, and each morning I would shave when he shaved. I remember following his footsteps back and forth across the grass as he mowed t he lawn in summer.
(Jeffrey R. Holland)

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
(Jim Valvano)

A father carries pictures where his money used to be.
(Anon)

Be kind to thy father, for when thou wert young,
Who loved thee so fondly as he?
He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue,
And joined in thy innocent glee.
(Margaret Courtney)

The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering-galleries, they are clearly heard at the end and by posterity.
(Jean Paul Richter)

I talk and talk and talk, and I haven’t taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.
(Mario Cuomo)

The greatest gift I ever had
Came from God;
I call him Dad!
(Anon)

A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.
(Marlene Dietrich)

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.
(Charles Wadsworth)

Dad you guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. (Anon)

Why are men reluctant to become fathers? They aren’t through being children.
(Cindy Garner)

A man’s children and his garden both reflect the amount of weeding done during the growing season.
(Anon)

Inside every father is a little boy wanting to come out and play again.
(Ron McDonald)

Fifth Command: “Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.”
(Exodus 20:12)

There are three states of a man’s life: He believes in Santa Claus, he doesn’t believe in Santa Claus, he is Santa Claus.
(Anon)

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.
(Sigmund Freud)

It’s only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home–it’s only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love.
(Margaret Truman)

Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers – and fathering is a very important stage in their development.
(David M. Gottesman)

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
(Abraham Lincoln)

A wise son maketh a glad father.
(Proverbs 10:1)

None of you can ever be proud enough of being the child of such a Father who has not his equal in this world – so great, so good, so faultless. Try, all of you, to follow in his footsteps and don’t be discouraged, for to be really in everything like him none of you, I am sure, will ever be. Try, therefore, to be like him in some points, and you will have acquired a great deal.
(Queen Victoria of England)

Son, the only wish I have for you, is that you have a son just like you! (Anon)

Quotes Topic List – Fathers is a post from: ezscrap.net

From the list below select the nursery rhyme you would like to view–rather than scrolling down the entire page. You will be taken to that particular nursery rhyme.

Alphabetical Listing of the Nursery Rhymes

A Wise Old Owl

A wise old owl lived in an oak
The more he saw the less he spoke
The less he spoke the more he heard.
Why can’t we all be like that wise old bird?

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An Apple A Day

An apple a day keeps the doctor away
Apple in the morning – Doctor’s warning
Roast apple at night – starves the doctor outright
Eat an apple going to bed – knock the doctor on the head
Three each day, seven days a week – ruddy apple, ruddy cheek

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As I Was Going To St Ives

As I was going to St. Ives I met a man with seven wives,
Each wife had seven sacks, each sack had seven cats,
Each cat had seven kits: kits, cats, sacks and wives,
How many were going to St. Ives?

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Baa Baa Black Sheep

Baa, baa, black sheep
Have you any wool?
Yes sir, yes, sir
Three bags full;
One for the master,
And one for the dame,
And one for the little boy
Who lives down the lane.

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Burnie Bee

Burnie Bee, Burnie Bee
tell me when your wedding be.
If it be to-morrow day,
take your wings and fly away

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Christmas is Coming

Christmas is coming, the geese are getting fat
Please to put a penny in the old man’s hat;
If you haven’t got a penny, a ha’penny will do,
if you haven’t got a ha’penny,God bless you

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Cry Baby Bunting

Cry Baby Bunting
Daddy’s gone a-hunting
Gone to fetch a rabbit skin
To wrap the Baby Bunting in
Cry Baby Bunting

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Diddle Diddle Dumpling

Diddle, diddle, dumpling, my son John,
Went to bed with his trousers on;
One shoe off, and one shoe on,
Diddle, diddle, dumpling, my son John!

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Ding Dong Bell

Ding dong bell, pussy’s in the well
Who put her in? Little Johnny Flynn
Who pulled her out? Little Tommy Stout
What a naughty boy was that, try to drown poor Pussycat,
Who ne’er did any harm
But killed all the mice in the Farmer’s barn!

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Doctor Foster

Doctor Foster went to Gloucester
In a shower of rain.
He stepped in a puddle right up to his middle
And never went there again!

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Eency Weency Spider

Eency weency spider climbed up the water spout,
down came the rain and washed the spider out,
out came the sun and dried up all the rain,
now eency-weency spider went up the spout again.

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For Want Of A Nail

For want of a nail the shoe was lost.
For want of a shoe the horse was lost.
For want of a horse the rider was lost.
For want of a rider the battle was lost.
For want of a battle the kingdom was lost.
And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.

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Georgie Porgie

Georgie Porgie,pudding and pie,
Kissed the girls and made them cry;
When the boys came out to play,
Georgie Porgie ran away.

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Goosie Goosie Gander

Goosie goosie gander where shall I wander,
Upstairs, downstairs and in my lady’s chamber
There I met an old man who wouldn’t say his prayers,
I took him by the left leg and threw him down the stairs.

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Hark Hark The Dogs Do Bark

Hark hark the dogs do bark
The beggars are coming to town
Some in rags and some in jags
And one in a velvet gown.

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Here Is The Church

Here’s the church, and here’s the steeple
Open the door and see all the people.
Here’s the parson going upstairs,
And here he is saying his prayers.

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Hey Diddle Diddle

Hey diddle diddle
the cat and the fiddle
the cow jumped over the moon.

The little dog laughed
to see such sport
and the dish
ran away with the spoon.

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Hickory Dickory Dock

Hickory dickory dock
The mouse ran up the clock
The clock struck one
The mouse ran down
Hickory dickory dock.

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Horsey Horsey

Horsey horsey don’t you stop
Just let your feet go clippetty clop
The tail goes swish and the wheels go round
Giddy up, we’re homeward bound.

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Hot Cross Buns

Hot cross buns! Hot cross buns!
One a penny two a penny – Hot cross buns
If you have no daughters, give them to your sons
One a penny two a penny – Hot cross buns.

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Humpty Dumpty

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the King’s horses, And all the King’s men
Couldn’t put Humpty together again!

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Hush A Bye Baby

Hush-a-bye, baby, on the tree top,
When the wind blows the cradle will rock;
When the bow breaks, the cradle will fall,
And down will come baby, cradle and all.

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Jack and Jill

Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water
Jack fell down and broke his crown
And Jill came tumbling after.
Up got Jack, and home did trot As fast as he could caper
He went to bed and bound his head
With vinegar and brown paper.

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Jack Be Nimble

Jack be nimble
Jack be quick
Jack jump over
The candlestick.

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Jack Sprat

Jack Sprat could eat no fat
His wife could eat no lean
And so betwixt the two of them
They licked the platter clean.

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Lady Bird Lady Bird

Ladybird ladybird fly away home,
Your house in on fire and your children are gone,
All except one and that’s little Ann,
For she crept under the frying pan.

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Little Bo-peep

Little Bo peep has lost her sheep
And doesn’t know where to find them.
Leave them alone and they’ll come home,
Bringing their tails behind them.
Little Bo peep fell fast asleep
And dreamt she heard them bleating,
But when she awoke, she found it a joke,
For they were all still fleeting.

Then up she took her little crook
Determined for to find them.
She found them indeed, but it made her heart bleed,
For they left their tails behind them.
It happened one day, as Bo peep did stray
Into a meadow hard by,
There she espied their tails side by side
All hung on a tree to dry.

She heaved a sigh, and wiped her eye,
And over the hillocks went rambling,
And tried what she could,
As a shepherdess should,
To tack again each to its lambkin.

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Little Boy Blue

Little Boy Blue come blow your horn,
The sheep’s in the meadow the cow’s in the corn.
But where is the boy who looks after the sheep?
He’s under a haystack fast asleep.
Will you wake him? No, not I – for if I do, he’s sure to cry.

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Little Hen

I had a little hen, the prettiest ever seen,
She washed up the dishes and kept the house clean.
She went to the mill to fetch us some flour,
And always got home in less than an hour.
She baked me my bread, she brewed me my ale,
She sat by the fire and told a fine tale!

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Little Jack Horner

Little Jack Horner sat in the corner
Eating his Christmas pie,
He put in his thumb and pulled out a plum
And said “What a good boy am I!”

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Little Miss Muffet

Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet
Eating her curds and whey,
Along came a spider,
Who sat down beside her
And frightened Miss Muffet away.

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Little Robin Redbreast

Little Robin Red breast sat upon a tree,
Up went pussy cat and down went he;
Down came pussy, and away Robin ran;
Says little Robin Red breast, “Catch me if you can”.
Little Robin Red breast jumped upon a wall,
Pussy cat jumped after him and almost got a fall;
Little Robin chirped and sang, and what did pussy say?
Pussy cat said, “Meeow!” and Robin jumped away.

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Little Tommy Tucker

Little Tommy Tucker sings for his supper,
What shall we give him? Brown bread and butter.
How shall he cut it without a knife?
How shall he marry without a wife?

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Mary Had A Little Lamb

Mary had a little lamb its fleece was white as snow;
And everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go.
It followed her to school one day, which was against the rule;
It made the children laugh and play, to see a lamb at school.
And so the teacher turned it out, but still it lingered near,
And waited patiently about till Mary did appear.
“Why does the lamb love Mary so?” the eager children cry;
“Why, Mary loves the lamb, you know” the teacher did reply

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Mary Mary Quite Contrary

Mary Mary quite contrary,
How does your garden grow?
With silver bells and cockle shells
And pretty maids all in a row.

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Monday’s Child

Monday’s child is fair of face,
Tuesday’s child is full of grace,
Wednesday’s child is full of woe,
Thursday’s child has far to go,
Friday’s child is loving and giving,
Saturday’s child works hard for his living,
And the child that is born on the Sabbath day
Is bonny and blithe, and good and gay.

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Old King Cole

Old King Cole was a merry old soul, and a merry old soul was he;
He called for his pipe in the middle of the night
And he called for his fiddlers three.
Every fiddler had a fine fiddle, and a very fine fiddle had he;
Oh there’s none so rare as can compare
With King Cole and his fiddlers three.

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Old Mother Hubbard

Old Mother Hubbard
Went to the cupboard
To get her poor doggie a bone,
When she got there
The cupboard was bare
So the poor little doggie had none.

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Old Woman in a Shoe

There was an old woman who lived in a shoe,
She had so many children she didn’t know what to do!
So she gave them some broth without any bread,
And she whipped them all soundly and sent them to bed!

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One Two Buckle My Shoe

One two buckle my shoe
Three, four, knock at the door
Five, six, pick up sticks
Seven, eight, lay them straight
Nine, ten, a big fat hen
Eleven, twelve, dig and delve
Thirteen, fourteen, maids a-courting
Fifteen, sixteen, maids in the kitchen
Seventeen, eighteen, maids in waiting
Nineteen, twenty, my plates empty

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One Two Three Four Five

One, two, three, four, five.
Once I caught a fish alive,
Six, seven, eight, nine ,ten,
Then I let it go again.
Why did you let it go?
Because it bit my finger so.
Which finger did it bite?
This little finger on the right.

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Oranges And Lemons

“Oranges and lemons” say the bells of St. Clement’s
“You owe me five farthings” say the bells of St. Martin’s
“When will you pay me?” say the bells of Old Bailey
“When I grow rich” say the bells of Shoreditch
“When will that be?” say the bells of Stepney
“I do not know” say the great bells of Bow
“Here comes a candle to light you to bed
Here comes a chopper to chop off your head
Chip chop chip chop – the last man’s dead.”

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Pease Porridge Hot

Pease porridge hot,
Pease porridge cold,
Pease porridge in the pot
Nine days old.
Some like it hot,
Some like it cold,
Some like it in the pot
Nine days old.

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Pat A Cake Pat A Cake

Pat a cake, Pat a cake, baker’s man
Bake me a cake as fast as you can;
Pat it and prick it and mark is with a ‘B’,
And put it in the oven for baby and me.

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Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater

Peter Peter pumpkin eater,
Had a wife and couldn’t keep her!
He put her in a pumpkin shell,
And there he kept her very well!

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Polly Put The Kettle On

Polly put the kettle on,
Polly put the kettle on,
Polly put the kettle on,
We’ll all have tea.
Sukey take it off again,
Sukey take it off again,
Sukey take it off again,
They’ve all gone away.

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Poor Babes in the Woods

My dear do you know,
How a long time ago,
Two poor little children,
Whose names I don’t know,
Were stolen away
On a fine summers day,
And left in a wood,
As I’ve heard people say,
Poor babes in the wood! poor babes in the wood!
Oh! don’t you remember the babes in the wood?

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Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat

“Pussycat, pussycat, where have you been?”
“I’ve been up to London to visit the Queen.”
“Pussycat, pussycat, what did you dare?”
“I frightened a little mouse under her chair”
“MEOWW!”

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Rain Rain Go Away

Come again another day.
Little Johnny wants to play;
Rain, rain, go to Spain,
Never show your face again!

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Red Sky At Night

Red sky at night,
Sailor’s delight;
Red sky at morning,
Sailor’s take warning.

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Remember Remember

Remember remember the fifth of November
Gunpowder, treason and plot.
I see no reason why gunpowder, treason
Should ever be forgot…

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Ride A Cock-Horse

Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross
To see a fine lady upon a white horse
With rings on her fingers and bells on her toes
She shall have music wherever she goes

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Ring A Ring O Rosies

Ring a ring o’ rosies
A pocketful of posies
“Atishoo, Atishoo”
We all fall down!

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Rock A Bye Baby

Rock a bye baby on the tree top,
When the wind blows the cradle will rock,
When the bough breaks the cradle will fall,
And down will come baby, cradle and all.

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See Saw Marjory Daw

Seesaw Marjorie Daw
Johnny shall have a new master
He shall earn but a penny a day
Because he can’t work any faster

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Simple Simon

Simple Simon met a pieman going to the fair;
Said Simple Simon to the pieman “Let me taste your ware”
Said the pieman to Simple Simon “Show me first your penny”
Said Simple Simon to the pieman “Sir, I have not any!”
Simple Simon went a-fishing for to catch a whale;
All the water he had got was in his mother’s pail.
Simple Simon went to look if plums grew on a thistle;
He pricked his fingers very much which made poor Simon whistle.
He went for water in a sieve but soon it all fell through;
And now poor Simple Simon bids you all “adieu”

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Sing a Song of Six Pence

Sing a song of sixpence a pocket full of rye,
Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie.
When the pie was opened the birds began to sing,
Oh wasn’t that a dainty dish to set before the king?
The king was in his counting house counting out his money,
The queen was in the parlour eating bread and honey
The maid was in the garden hanging out the clothes,
When down came a blackbird and pecked off her nose!

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Star Light Star Bright

Star light star bright,
The first star I see tonight,
I wish I may, I wish I might,
Have the wish I wish tonight.

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The Cocks on a Woodpile a-Blowing His Horn

The Cocks on the woodpile a-blowing his horn
The Bulls in the barn a-threshing of corn
The Maids in the meadow are making of hay
The Ducks in the river are swimming away.

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The Old Grand Duke of York

Oh, the grand old Duke of York he had ten thousand men
He marched them up to the top of the hill
and he marched them down again.
When they were up, they were up
and when they were down, they were down
and when they were only halfway up
they were neither up nor down.

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The Lion And The Unicorn

The lion and the unicorn were fighting for the crown
The lion beat the unicorn all around the town.
Some gave them white bread, and some gave them brown;

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The North Wind Doth Blow

The North wind doth blow and we shall have snow,
And what will poor robin do then, poor thing?
He’ll sit in a barn and keep himself warm
and hide his head under his wing, poor thing.

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The Owl And The Pussy Cat

The Owl and the Pussycat went to sea
In a beautiful pea-green boat,
They took some honey, and plenty of money,
Wrapped up in a five pound note.
The Owl looked up to the stars above,
And sang to a small guitar,
“O lovely Pussy! O Pussy, my love,
What a beautiful Pussy you are, you are, you are,
What a beautiful Pussy you are.”
Pussy said to the Owl “You elegant fowl,
How charmingly sweet you sing.
O let us be married, too long we have tarried;
But what shall we do for a ring?”
They sailed away, for a year and a day,
To the land where the Bong-tree grows,
And there in a wood a Piggy-wig stood
With a ring at the end of his nose, his nose, his nose,
With a ring at the end of his nose.
“Dear Pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling your ring?”
Said the Piggy, “I will”
So they took it away, and were married next day
By the Turkey who lives on the hill.
They dined on mince, and slices of quince,
Which they ate with a runcible spoon.
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand.
They danced by the light of the moon, the moon, the moon,
They danced by the light of the moon.

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The Queen Of Hearts

The Queen of Hearts she made some tarts all on a summer’s day;
The Knave of Hearts he stole the tarts and took them clean away.
The King of Hearts called for the tarts and beat the Knave full sore
The Knave of Hearts brought back the tarts and
vowed he’d steal no more.

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There Was A Crooked Man

There was a crooked man and he walked a crooked mile,
He found a crooked sixpence upon a crooked stile.
He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse.
And they all lived together in a little crooked house

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Three Blind Mice

Three Blind Mice, three Blind Mice,
See how they run, see how they run,
They all ran after the farmer’s wife,
Who cut off their tails with a carving knife,
Did you ever see such a thing in your life,
As three blind mice?

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Three Little Kittens

Three little kittens,
They lost their mittens,
And they began to cry,
Oh, mother dear,
We sadly fear
Our mittens we have lost.
What! Lost your mittens,
You naughty kittens!
Then you shall have no pie.
Mee-ow, mee-ow, mee-ow, mee-ow.
You shall have no pie.

The three little kittens,
They found their mittens,
And they began to cry,
Oh, mother dear,
See here, see here,
Our mittens we have found.
What! Found your mittens,
You darling kittens!
Then you shall have some pie.
Mee-ow, mee-ow, mee-ow, mee-ow.
You shall have some pie.

The three little kittens,
Put on their mittens,
And soon ate up the pie;
Oh, mother dear,
We greatly fear
Our mittens we have soiled.
What! Soiled your mittens,
You naughty kittens!
Then they began to sigh,
Mee-ow, mee-ow, mee-ow, mee-ow.
They began to sigh.

The three little kittens,
They washed their mittens,
And hung them out to dry;
Oh mother dear,
Look here, look here,
Our mittens we have washed.
What! Washed your mittens,
You’re such good kittens.
I smell a rat close by!
Hush! Hush! Hush! Hush!
Hush! Hush! Hush!
I smell a rat close by.

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Thirty Days Hath September

Thirty days hath September,
April, June and November;
All the rest have thirty one
Except for February which has twenty eight!
(And twenty nine each leap year)

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This Little Piggy

This little piggy went to market,
This little piggy stayed at home,
This little piggy had roast beef,
This little piggy had none.
And this little piggy went…
“Wee wee wee” all the way home…

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This Is The House That Jack Built

This is the house that Jack built.

This is the malt
That lay in the house that Jack built.

This is the rat,
That ate the malt
That lay in the house that Jack built.

This is the cat,
That killed the rat,
That ate the malt
That lay in the house that Jack built.

This is the dog,
That worried the cat,
That killed the rat,
That ate the malt
That lay in the house that Jack built.

This is the cow with the crumpled horn,
That tossed the dog,
That worried the cat,
That killed the rat,
That ate the malt
That lay in the house that Jack built.

This is the maiden all forlorn,
That milked the cow with the crumpled horn,
That tossed the dog,
That worried the cat,
That killed the rat,
That ate the malt
That lay in the house that Jack built.

This is the man all tattered and torn,
That kissed the maiden all forlorn,
That milked the cow with the crumpled horn,
That tossed the dog,
That worried the cat,
That killed the rat,
That ate the malt
That lay in the house that Jack built.

This is the priest all shaven and shorn,
That married the man all tattered and torn,
That kissed the maiden all forlorn,
That milked the cow with the crumpled horn,
That tossed the dog,
That worried the cat,
That killed the rat,
That ate the malt
That lay in the house that Jack built.

This is the cock that crowed in the morn,
That waked the priest all shaven and shorn,
That married the man all tattered and torn,
That kissed the maiden all forlorn,
That milked the cow with the crumpled horn,
That tossed the dog,
That worried the cat,
That killed the rat,
That ate the malt
That lay in the house that Jack built.

This is the farmer sowing his corn,
That kept the cock that crowed in the morn,
That waked the priest all shaven and shorn,
That married the man all tattered and torn,
That kissed the maiden all forlorn,
That milked the cow with the crumpled horn,
That tossed the dog,
That worried the cat,
That killed the rat,
That ate the malt
That lay in the house that Jack built.

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Tom Tom The Pipers Son

Tom Tom the pipers son
Stole a pig and away he ran,
The pig was eat and Tom was beat
And Tom went roaring down the street.

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Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are.
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are!

When the blazing sun is gone,
When there’s nothing he shines upon,
Then you show your little light,
Twinkle, twinkle, through the night.
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are!

In the dark blue sky so deep
Through my curtains often peep
For you never close your eyes
’Til the morning sun does rise
Twinkle, twinkle, little star
How I wonder what you are

Twinkle, twinkle, little star
How I wonder what you are

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Two Little Dicky Birds

Two little dicky birds sitting on a wall,
One named Peter, one named Paul.
Fly away Peter, fly away Paul,
Come back Peter, come back Paul!

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What Are Little Boys Are Made Of?

What are little boys made of?
Snips and snails, and puppy dogs tails
That’s what little boys are made of!”
(This rhyme is often said along with “What Are Little Girls Made Of? – Quoted Below)

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What Are Little Girls Are Made Of?

What are little girls made of?
“Sugar and spice and all things nice
That’s what little girls are made of!”
(This rhyme is often said along with “What Are Little Boys Made Of” – Quoted Above)

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Wee Willie Winkie

Wee Willie Winkie runs through the town,
Upstairs and downstairs in his nightgown,
Tapping at the window and crying through the lock,
Are all the children in their beds, it’s past eight o’clock?

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Who Killed Cock Robin

“Who killed Cock Robin?” “I,” said the Sparrow,
“With my bow and arrow, I killed Cock Robin.”
“Who saw him die?” “I,” said the Fly,
“With my little eye, I saw him die.”
“Who caught his blood?” “I,” said the Fish,
“With my little dish, I caught his blood.”
“Who’ll make the shroud?” “I,” said the Beetle,
“With my thread and needle, I’ll make the shroud.”
“Who’ll dig his grave?” “I,” said the Owl,
“With my pick and shovel, I’ll dig his grave.”
“Who’ll be the parson?” “I,” said the Rook,
“With my little book, I’ll be the parson.”
“Who’ll be the clerk?” “I,” said the Lark,
“If it’s not in the dark, I’ll be the clerk.”
“Who’ll carry the link?” “I,” said the Linnet,
“I’ll fetch it in a minute, I’ll carry the link.”
“Who’ll be chief mourner?” “I,” said the Dove,
“I mourn for my love, I’ll be chief mourner.”
“Who’ll carry the coffin?” “I,” said the Kite,
“If it’s not through the night, I’ll carry the coffin.”
“Who’ll bear the pall? “We,” said the Wren,
“Both the cock and the hen, we’ll bear the pall.”
“Who’ll sing a psalm?” “I,” said the Thrush,
“As she sat on a bush, I’ll sing a psalm.”
“Who’ll toll the bell?” “I,” said the bull,
“Because I can pull, I’ll toll the bell.”
All the birds of the air fell a-sighing and a-sobbing,
When they heard the bell toll for poor Cock Robin.

Quotes Topic List – Nursurey Rhymes is a post from: ezscrap.net

Jeff Bucchino, “The Wizard of Draws”

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy’s life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure. (Mark Twain)

One of the best things in the world is to be a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one. (Charles D. Warner)

Boys are beyond the range of anybody’s sure understanding, at least when they are between ages of 18 months and 90 years. (James Thurber)

When you can’t do anything else to a boy, you can make him wash his face. (Ed Howe)

What Little Boys Are Made Of?
What are little boys made of, made of?
What are little boys made of?
“Snips and snails, and puppy dogs tails;
And that’s what little boys are made of, made of.”
(Nursery Rhyme)

Little Boy Blue
Little Boy Blue come blow your horn,
The sheep’s in the meadow the cow’s in the corn
But where is the boy who looks after the sheep?
He’s under a haystack fast asleep.
Will you wake him? No, not I – for if I do, he’s sure to cry.
(Nursery Rhyme)

“In the eyes of a child . . . there is joy, there is laughter . . . there is hope, there is trust, a chance to shape the future . . .” (Air Supply – Musical Group)

You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in Your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed. (Psalm 139:16)

In the sheltered simplicity of the first days after a baby is born, one sees again the magical closed circle, the miraculous sense of two people existing only for each other. (Anne Morrow Lindbergh)

You don’t raise heroes; you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they’ll turn out to be heroes, even if it’s just in your own eyes. (Walter Schirra Sr. – Astronaut)

Maternal love, like an orange tree, buds and blossoms and bears at once. When a woman puts her finger for the first time into the tiny hand of her baby and feels that helpless clutch which tightens her very heartstrings, she is born again with her newborn child. (Kate Douglas Wiggin)

You came from heaven, oh, so sweet
A precious bundle of joy
And here on earth we finally meet
Our beautiful baby boy!
Some people say you look like your dad
Some think you look like me
But either way is OK
You’re all that we hoped you would be.
Now every night before we sleep
We thank our Father above
For sending us a special gift
That fills our home with love.
(Anon)

A baby is God’s opinion that life should go on. (Carl Sandburg)

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

A brand new little baby boy, to fill our lives and hearts with joy. (Anon)

The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping baby. (Anon)

A child fills a place in your heart that you never knew was empty. (Anon)

The first woman a little boy falls in love with is his mom. (Anon)

A wee bit of heaven
drifted down from above-
A handful of happiness,
a heart full of love.

The mystery of life,
so sacred and sweet-
The giver of joy
so deep and complete.

Precious and priceless,
so lovable, too-
The world’s sweetest miracle,
baby, is you.
(Helen Steiner Rice)

Ten tiny little fingers that always want to play,
That never stop exploring the wonder of today.
Ten tiny little fingers that from the very start,
Will reach out for tomorrow yet always hold your heart.
(Anon)

Baby’s fishing for a dream,
fishing near and far.
His line a silver moonbeam is,
his bait a silver star.
(Alice C.D. Riley)

Ten little fingers, Ten tiny toes,
The sweetest of smiles
And a cute little nose.
All these add up
To a very special
thing — A BABY
The greatest of gifts
That life can bring
(Anon)

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat,
and humble and gentle in victory. (General Douglass MacArthur)

Special Things Come in Small Packages. (Anon)

Daddy will you read to me as I sit upon your knee, I’ll hold the world in my little hands and like you one day I’ll be a man. (Bobi Nixdorf)

People who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have one. (Leo J. Burke)

For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Our Very Own Son
Born not from our flesh,
but born in our hearts,
You were longed for and wanted
and loved from the start.
Conceived from a blessing
sent straight from above,
Our very “own” son
at last home to love.
(Anon)

How soft and fresh he breathes!
Look! He is dreaming! Visions sure of joy
Are gladdening his rest; and, ah! who knows
But waiting angels do converse in sleep
With babes like this!
(Bishop Coxe)

Nothing is as precious or brings home so much love, as a brand new baby sent from above. (Anon)

If I have a monument in this world, it is my son. (Maya Angelou-National Poet )

May your life be filled with beautiful sunsets, great waves and sand between your toes. (Chere Nordstrand)

Little boy (or Little Girl) Under Construction (Anon)

A boy is Truth with dirt on it’s face,
Beauty with a cut on its finger,
Wisdom with bubble gum in its hair,
and the Hope of the future with a frog in its pocket. (Anon)

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Jeff Bucchino, “The Wizard of Draws”

I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. (Abraham Lincoln)

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. (Albert Einstein)

Beware the hobby that eats. (Benjamin Franklin)

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. (Douglas Adams)

Bridge is a game that separates the men from the boy. It also separates husbands and wives. (George Burns)

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough. (Groucho Marx)

I don’t mind growing old. I’m just not used to it. (Victor Borge)

The way to fight your wife is with your hat . . . grab it and run. (Anon)

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. (Abraham Lincoln)

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. (Albert Einstein)

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. (Benjamin Franklin)

You live and learn. At any rate, you live. (Douglas Adams)

By the time you’re eighty years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it. (George Burns)

Although it is generally known, I think it’s about time to announce that I was born at a very early age. (Groucho Marx)

Laughter is the closest distance between two people. (Victor Borge)

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he’ll go to sleep before you finish saying it. (Helen Rowland)

Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them. (Albert Einstein)

God heals and the doctor takes the fee. (Benjamin Franklin)

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring close-knit family in another city. (George Burns)

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. (Groucho Marx)

Santa Claus has the right idea: visit people once a year. (Victor Borge)

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure. (Herbert Samuel)

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former. (Albert Einstein)

Keep your eyes open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards. (Benjamin Franklin)

If you live to the age of a hundred you have it made because very few people die past the age of a hundred. (George Burns)

I’ve known and respected your husband for many years . . . and what’s good enough for him is good enough for me. (Groucho Marx)

Who ever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy. (Groucho Marx)

You’ve got the brain of a four-year-old boy, and I’ll bet he was glad to get rid of it. (Groucho Marx)

Marriage is the chief cause of divorce. (Groucho Marx)

Marrying a man is like buying something you’ve been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may live it when you get it home, but it doesn’t always go with everything else in the house. (Jean Kerr)

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means. (Albert Einstein)

Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise to late. (Benjamin Franklin)

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years. (George Burns)

Now there’s a man with an open mind – you can feel the breeze from here. (Groucho Marx)

We took pictures of the native girls, but they weren’t developed . . . but we’re going back next year. (Groucho Marx)

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once. (Albert Einstein)

Never confuse motion with action. (Benjamin Franklin)

She got her good looks from her father. He’s a plastic surgeon. (Groucho Marx)

There are two kinds of cruises – pleasure and with children. (George Burns)

There’s only one way to find out if a man is honest . . . ask him. If he says ‘yes,’ you know he is a crook. (Groucho Marx)

When you’re finished changing, your finished. (Benjamin Franklin)

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. (Douglas Adams)

When the solution is simple, God is answering. (Albert Einstein)

There’s one thing I always wanted to do before I quit . . . retire! (Groucho Marx)

Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it. (Benjamin Franklin)

The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. (Groucho Marx)

I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. (Woody Allen)

Few things are harder to put up with than a good example! (Mark Twain)

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Jeff Bucchino, “The Wizard of Draws”

An angel is someone who helps you believe in miracles again! (Anon)

An Angel can illuminate the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision. (St. Thomas Aquinas)

See, I am sending an angel before you, to guard you on the way and bring you to the place I have prepared. (Exodus 23:20)

Angels and ministers of grace defend us. (Shakespeare)

Angels exist, only sometimes they haven’t got wings and we call them friends. (Anon)

“Every time a bell rings, an angel gets it’s wings . . .” (From “It’s a Wonderful Life” – Movie)

Your charms have not gone unnoticed by all the angels. (Chinese Fortune Cookie)

Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly. (Anon)

Music is well said to be the speech of angels. (Thomas Carlyle)

Everyone has an angel
Given to us from the start
Trust and faith is what we need
To hear them in our heart.
(Maria Schembri)

If you don’t believe in angels, then obviously you haven’t heard me sing. (Anon)

I once held an angel in my arms. (Anon)

If we do not live, speak and think in the language of enchantment, including naming angels and recognizing spirits . . . then the soul will go out of our lives and communities, and we will wonder why nothing seems to hold together and nothing seems to have value anymore.
(Thomas Moore)

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