Seal Quotes

I do love my work, but Daddy likes a little break, too.

My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.

Since retiring I have spent a lot of time with my family, on my boat, and playing football.

I want to do as little as possible when I finish playing ball - just spend a lot more time with my family.

My mother was a sociologist and an intellectual, and my father was an industrialist with a business in copper and aluminum wire. He was very strict and he wanted me to work in the family business - for him, the worst thing was having a daughter who worked in fashion.

My mother didn't want me to be in fashion. She was in the fashion business, so was my brother, and she thought it was too crazy for me. She wanted me to be married with children, to be independent, yes, but not to have a crazy life.

My older brother's really good at making fun of me for just being a workaholic and never taking time for myself. Even when we go on vacation, I'm always working.

I'm very about football and very about my job, which doesn't get reported or won't get reported, but I am going to enjoy my time off. That's I think what everybody else does, and that's what I should do.

Days off are few and far between in the restaurant business. But on an hour off, I like to have a glass of wine with my wife.

Though my grandmother had picked up modern ideas in America, she still had some conflicting 19th-century Irish notions. She believed that daughters, educated though they may be, should continue to live at home until they were married.

I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, 'Get the hell off my property.'

At night, I don't do business meetings, because I think it sends the wrong message. I do dinner with friends, game night, or concerts.

I take so much from my life. I have my shooting and my fishing. I have my working life. I have my relationship with my children.

I have a son, but I've never had a daughter. I have a sister, and my sister had a fairly tempestuous relationship with my dad when she was young, and that was gripping and sometimes upsetting.

How families interact is not some abstract concept of mother, son, father, daughter; it has to do with economic circumstances, the work they do, the time they can spend with each other.

Who hasn't had an argument with their mother-in-law?

I'm quite boring away from football, chilling with my mates and having down time with my family.

The best part of aging in this business is losing that obsession about work and being able to spend a little more time with family.

We also ought to recognize that unpaid labor falls predominantly to women. The other thing I would do in countries like the U.S. is to show more men, even in TV ads, doing household work. Only two percent of ads show men doing chores, and yet we know they actually do several hours of it in real life. Those images affect young boys and girls.

Family are the people who must make you feel ashamed when you are deserving of shame.

My mother won't admit it, but I've always been a disappointment to her. Deep down inside, she'll never forgive herself for giving birth to a daughter who refuses to launder aluminium foil and use it over again.

People come into work and actually go home to their families. They want to go there and explore and have a good time, but they also want to go home, which is the best kind of working environment. You go in and do your job, and then you go home and enjoy your life.

Young men may enjoy dropping their work at five or six o'clock and slipping into a dress suit for an evening of pleasure; but the habit has certain drawbacks.

Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.

It strikes me that whatever advantages there are to being a boy--getting to stay out late and having other people wash your clothes and bring you plates of stuff--get undercut by having to play football.