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“I am very sure that my children thrive on structure and need boundaries. I know my children need to know what time they are going to bed or how many more minutes until they are leaving for school, and so I have imposed a structure that allows them to know where they are all day long, every day in life.”

Knows Needs Children Long School Minutes Bed Structure Leaving Boundaries My Children Thrive

Author:Jessica Seinfeld

“Cry to god. If you do that just for a couple minutes with your whole being, just like a child who so badly wants a cookie. You will break through the barrier of the mind.”

Ifs Want Mind Children Whole Break Minutes Cry Couple Barriers Cookies Visualization Break Through

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Typing is an essential skill, but it can be painful. Some children just don't know where the letters are. Typing a three-page story, when they have to spend minutes hunting for every letter, can take forever. Yet we tend to assume that children can type, partly because quite a lot of us know where quite a lot of the letters are, so we assume that children do, too.”

Knows Children Stories Three Forever Minutes Type Skills Essentials Pages Letters Assuming Painful Hunting Typing

Author:Susan Mitchell

“Every minute with a child takes seven minutes off your life.”

Children Minutes Seven

Author:Barbara Kingsolver

“Thomas Gordon, founder of P.E.T. (Parent Effectiveness Training), observed that when children are behaving in a way that interferes with your ability to meet your needs, shouting direct orders to them doesn't work very well. So, he advised sending I messages. That is, a better alternative to, Your room is a disaster area-clean it up this minute, would be something like, I get embarrassed when Mrs. Johnson is visiting and sees your room looking this messy, so I need you to clean it up.”

“Our generation, unfortunately, is stuck to our phones - and, like, Twitter - constantly, which I have no problem with. I'd say we're not describing the children of America or anything like that, but there is something to take from it: It is kind of sad how we can't go thirty minutes without checking our phone.”

Kind Children Problem America Generations Minutes Phones Stuck Thirty No Problem Describing Our Generation

Author:Israel Broussard

“children are made of eyes and ears, and nothing, however minute, escapes their microscopic observation.”

Children Made Eye Minutes Ears Observation

Book:Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839

Source: Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839

“If you cannot come to the party, do not cancel at the last minute or give a message to a child to inform the host. And don't bother explaining why you can't attend because anything after 'because' is bullshit.”

Ifs Giving Children Lasts Party Minutes Messages Bother Host Bullshit Explaining Last Minute

Author:Amy Sedaris

“children are simply human beings who are allowed to do what everyone else really desires to do, as for instance, to fly kites, or when seriously wronged to emit prolonged screams for several minutes.”

Humans Children Desire Human Beings Minutes Instance Scream Kites Wronged

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“All parents believe their children can do the impossible. They thought it the minute we were born, and no matter how hard we've tried to prove them wrong, they all think it about us now. And the really annoying thing is, they're probably right.”

Thinking Believe Children Matter Hard Parent Can Do Born Impossible Minutes Prove Annoying Prove Them Wrong Annoying Things

Author:Cathy Guisewite

“You know what we can be like: see a guy and think he's cute one minute, the next minute our brains have us married with kids, the following minute we see him having an extramarital affair. By the time someone says, 'I'd like you to meet Cecil,' we shout, 'You're late again with the child support!'”

Thinking Knows Children Kids Guy Next Brain Support Minutes Like You Late Married Affair Following Cute One Minute

Author:Cynthia Heimel

“As a child growing up in a grey-skied Yorkshire village, I would occasionally happen upon a Bollywood movie on the television. After a few minutes watching a bunch of sari-clad dancers cavorting on a Swiss mountain to tuneless music, I would switch over to some proper drama about housing estates and single mothers.”

“The reality is that terrorists can attack any time at any minute, 24 hours a day, using a variety of techniques, in any place at all. And it's not possible to defend in every place, against every technique, against every conceivable approach. It means that you can't stop every terrorist attack. Innocent men, women and children are going to be killed if terrorists are determined to do it.”

Ifs Men Mean Children Reality Hours Minutes Approach Determined Technique Terrorist Innocent Variety Men Women Terrorist Attacks Innocent Man

Author:Donald Rumsfeld

“I explain to everyone I deal with-co-workers, children, friends-that I'm transitionally challenged and they should call me on my cell phone if I'm even a few minutes late. Such calls often come in when I'm happily writing or rearranging the furniture. The monochrones in my life are so organized, they have no trouble remembering to remind me to show up.”

Ifs Should Writing Children Shows Remember Deals Trouble Minutes Late Workers Phones Cells Organized Call Me Furniture Cell Phone Co Worker Rearranging

Author:Martha Beck

“Is it not common to say to a child, 'Put your finger in that candle, can you bear it even for one minute?' How then will you bear Hell-fire? Surely it would be torment enough to have the flesh burnt off from only one finger; what then will it be to have the whole body plunged into a lake of fire, burning with brimstone?”

Children Enough Whole Body Would Be Common Hell Fire Minutes Bears Fingers Flesh Mythology Burning Lakes Candle Torment One Minute Hell Fire Fire Burning Burning In Hell

Book:Sermons on Several Occasions

Source: Sermons on Several Occasions

“If I revise a children's book, if I'm spending three hours on the first draft, I'm probably spending 30 minutes revising it. I mean, come on! But to redo a painting? That's hard work.”

Ifs Firsts Mean Children Book Hard Three Hours Minutes Painting Hard Work Spending Children's Books Revising Redos

Author:Michael Ian Black

“You can't write a children's book that takes more than five or six minutes to read, because it will drive the parents batty. It has to be compact. Nobody thinks about the parents when they write these stupid books. I could write longer children's books, but it would actually be bad if I did.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Children Book Parent Five Minutes Stupid Six Children's Books Compact

Author:Michael Ian Black

“It takes a while to master the art of hammock-lounging. At first I could only manage five minutes or so before I thought I ought to get out and go and help a child learn how to swim or something. But after observing the Mexicans' capability for staring into space for hours on end, I decided to put in some proper practice.”

Firsts Children Art Ends Helping Hours Space Practice Five Minutes Masters Ought Decided Manage Staring Swim Capability Five Minutes Observing Hammocks Lounging Staring Into Space

Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“If a married couple with children has fifteen minutes of uninterrupted, non-logistical, non-problem-solving talk every day, I would put them in the top 5% of all married couples. It's an extraordinary achievement.”

Ifs Children Problem Minutes Couple Achievement Married Extraordinary Fifteen Problem Solving Married Couples Extraordinary Achievement

Author:William J Doherty

“I cannot be alone in being pretty nauseated by Red Nose Day, or at least its television manifestation. Do I think that wretchedly poor children in Africa should get food and life-saving drugs? Of course. Do I want to be hectored into contributing by celebrities who earn more in a 10-minute slot than many of these families get in a year? Nope.”

Thinking Want Should Years Children Courses Poor Minutes Television Drug Red Saving Noses Manifestation Contributing Life Saving Being Pretty Poor Children

Author:Simon Hoggart

“Dogs are quick to show their affection. They never pout, they never bear a grudge. They never run away from home when mistreated. They never complain about their food. They never gripe about the way the house is kept. They are chivalrous and courageous, ready to protect their mistress at the risk of their lives. They love children, and no matter how noisy and boisterous they are, the dog loves every minute of it. In fact, a dog is still competition for a husband. Perhaps if we husbands imitated a few of our dog's virtues, life with our family might be more amiable.”

Source: The Quotable Billy Graham

“Spouses should spend at least one full hour each day talking together about subjects that have nothing to do with their work or business. Children need at least ten minutes of face-to-face contact with their parents each day.”

Needs Should Children Together Faces Parent Hours Talking Minutes Subjects Ten Contact Each Day Spouse Face To Face

Author:Brian Tracy

“If God made Adam and Eve, they had children... wait a minute... that means someone banged their sister!”

Ifs Mean Children Made Waiting Minutes Adam Adam And Eve

Author:Carlos Mencia

“Children are not unforgiving. You can punish them and they will hug you in a few minutes.”

Children Minutes Hug Unforgiving Hug You

Author:T. D. Jakes

“The minute your child is born, your life is changed forever. I think I've become so aware of how important balance is in life.”

Thinking Children Important Life Is Born Forever Minutes Changed Balance Our Children Your Children

Author:Nia Long

“It's an ethical pact I've made with myself and with the reader - not to invent. And when I can't remember, I say I can't remember. I'm just appalled by the memoirs published by people who regurgitate dialogue, conversations from when they were small children, and they go on for three or four pages. I can't even remember what we said to each other ten minutes ago! How can I remember what was said sixty years ago? It's not possible.”

People Years Children Made Said I Can Remember Three Four Minutes Goes On Reader Ten Conversation Pages Years Ago Memoir Dialogue Ethical Sixty Small Child Pact

Author:Paul Auster

“I think my father was sick of being on the sidelines watching a bunch of incompetents in his mind. And in our world, in our business world, these people wouldn't last five minutes in real companies, and he's sick of them making decisions that are costing our children, their children behind them, trillions of dollars and really giving up the great power that we've built up over the last 200 years.”

“The European problem is that it assumes that the minute a woman has a child, the mother identity subsumes the professional identity. Now she's the mother, above all, and we must give her all this time.”

Giving Children Problem Mother Minutes Identity Assuming

Author:Anne-Marie Slaughter

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