“Always be available to your kids. Because if you say, 'Give me five minutes, give me ten minutes,' it'll be 15, it'll be 20. And then when you get there, the shine will have worn off whatever it is they wanted to share with you.” IfsGivingKidsWantedFiveShareMinutesTenGive MeShiningAvailableWornFive Minutes Author:Michael J. Fox
“Even then, our family was extraordinary, with ten kids.” KidsTenExtraordinaryOur Family Author:Mink Stole
“My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While other kids were playing pedestrian war games, I'd be Horatius keeping the bridge.” WarKidsMotherFatherLiteratureGamesTaughtTenLaysAncientBridgesRomeElevenEnglish LiteraturePedestriansAncient RomeWar Games Author:Bernie Taupin
“I thought of all the different kinds of love in the world. I could think of ten without even trying. The way parents love their kids, the way you love a puppy or chocolate ice cream or home or your favorite book or your sister. Or your uncle. There's those kinds of love and then there's the other kind. The falling kind.” ThinkingWorldWayTryingKindBookDifferentHomeKidsFallParentTenIceChocolateDifferent KindsCreamUnclesIce CreamPuppyKinds Of LoveYour FavoriteParents LoveFavorite BookChocolate Ice CreamDifferent Kinds Of Love Author:Carol Rifka Brunt
“I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas feels like ten years. I used to go to bed to try and go to sleep to try and make it go faster.” FeelsTryingYearsTwoKidsRememberUsedSleepWeekBedTenEndlessChristmasFasterTwo WeeksGoing To SleepBeing A KidEndless Time Author:Andrea Arnold
“Sit down at ten o'clock in the morning and write anything that comes into my head until twelve. One of the few things I've discovered about writing is to form a habit that becomes an addiction so that if you don't put something down on paper every day, you get really mean and awful with withdrawal symptoms, and your wife and your dog and your kids are going to kick your ass until you get back to it because they can't bear you in that state of mind.” IfsWritingMindMeanStatesKidsFormMorningWifeDogBearsHabitTenPaperAddictionAssAwfulClockKicksGet BackState Of MindTwelveSymptomsGet RealReally MeanWithdrawal Author:Frank Pierson
“No matter how successful, beloved, influential her work was, when a woman author dies, nine times out of ten, she gets dropped from the lists, the courses, the anthologies, while the men get kept. ... If she had the nerve to have children, her chances of getting dropped are higher still. ... So if you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.” IfsMenWantWritingChildrenStillsMatterKidsDiesCoursesChanceSuccessfulTakenHe ManHigherTenSuicideListsNineCommitBelovedNervesInfluentialAnthology Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“What people don't realize is that fame, whatever your worst experience in high school, when you were being bullied by those ten kids in high school, fame is that, but on a global scale, where you're being bullied by millions of people constantly.” PeopleKidsSchoolRealizingMillionsWorstFameTenHigh SchoolScalesBulliedBeing Bullied Author:Megan Fox