"What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey."

-- Mark Twain

#Father Quotes #Men Quotes #Monkeys Quotes

“Silence makes me feel vulnerable.”
“The beautiful 1940s women were a strong influence for me.”
“Why do I have to feed the kids? They just ate twelve hours ago!”
“I'll teach you how to jump on the wind's back, and then away we go.”
“So you go on and on, with this intellectual fly down, your underwear exposed, and toilette paper hanging out the back of your pants.”
“New York has one of the largest school systems in the country, but it's one of the best school systems in the country. I worked on an initiative called Family Strengthening. What it meant was we began to work with families, people coming out who were incarcerated, connecting them back to the family. Kids today, some of them need psychological help, not just providing for them. We have issues - we have to break cycles. We need to be accountable and we need to assess what's working and what's not working.”
“I don't like PG-13 horror movies. I think they're a contradiction in terms.”
“Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse?”

Source : Jane Nelsen, Ed.D. (2011). “Positive Discipline: The Classic Guide to Helping Children Develop Self-Discipline, Responsibility, Cooperation, and Problem-Solving Skills”, p.303, Ballantine Books

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