Karen Hughes Quotes

I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.

I wish I had been home more when the children were growing up. I missed a lot.

My kids don't watch my movies. What I want to do is go home and hug my kids, talk to them and engage with them.

While 'Friends' was about a 20-something population and what they were going through, they were also dealing with issues with their family.

The advantage is I have my family with me all the time. When your daughter takes her first steps or says her first words and your son is going through potty training, I'm not missing any of those things.

When he was born, I looked at my little boy and felt an unconditional love I never knew was inside me. As he grew, and I watched him stagger about, squeak his first words, and turn into a beautiful little boy, that feeling did not change.

I really enjoy the company of my kids... I'm not one of those people who goes 'Yeah, my kids are my mates', that's a dreadful kind of mother, but I'm fortunate that there are times that they do want me around, and I feel lucky that they let me into their world.

I am more relaxed at home in Scotland, and my children are of an age where I want us, as a family, to spend more time up here.

My kids seem to be more mature and older than I am now somehow. They've gotten ahead of me somehow. But they're very patient with me.

It's not enough to make time for your children. There are certain stages in their lives when you have to give them the time when they want it. You can't run your family like a company. It doesn't work.

I get to see my baby's development. I get to change diapers, I get to be a real father, something that I didn't have growing up.

We went to school board meetings, we went to Little League games, and we did everything to be normal.

In high school, I had fun in my academic clubs, watching movies with my girlfriends, learning Latin, having long, protracted, unrequited crushes on older guys who didn’t know me, and yes, hanging out with my family. I liked hanging out with my family! Later, when you’re grown up, you realize you never get to hang out with your family. You pretty much have only eighteen years to spend with them full time, and that’s it.

I went home every night to New Jersey - or most nights - and to help with the six-grade math homework or to make breakfast in the morning, just to make sure that that was there. When I was single and didn't have children, I used to laugh at this notion of quality time.

Children...they string our joys, like jewels bright, upon the thread of years.

Mama and Papa are more to blame (for delinquency) than the kids; parents should stay home and raise their children and spend less time in taverns.

I have two young boys, and my wife is at home. Most of the time, I will cook the food, and we'll eat together.

Many invest wisely in business matters, but fail to invest time and interest in their most valued possessions: their spouses and children.

Fathers and mothers are too absorbed in business and housekeeping to study their children, and cherish that sweet and natural confidence which is a child's surest safeguard, and a parent's subtlest power.

I spend a lot of time parenting because I'm home. A friend of mine told me that the average father sees each kid an average of twenty-two minutes a week, which I found almost unbelievable. Mine are in my hip pocket all the time. And I like it that way.

What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate to other people, carry on useful work and willingly give time and attention to their children.

You're children. Don't you want a home, a family?" "With, like, vitamin-fortified cereal and educational television?

In all that we do in the Church, we need to provide the way, as leaders, for parents and children to have time together as families.

Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.

I like to travel, but honestly I really like to just be at home in London and spend time with my friends.