Rick Riordan Quotes

I try to spend as much time as possible with God and my family. That's more important than anything I'm doing in baseball.

And they heard the roaring thunder of a third brilliantly lighted express. "Are they pursuing the first travelers?" demanded the little prince. "They are pursuing nothing at all," said the switchman. "They are asleep in there, or if they are not asleep they are yawning. Only the children are flattening their noses against the windowpanes." "Only the children know what they are looking for," said the little prince. "They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them; and if anybody takes it away from them, they cry..." "They are lucky," the switchman said.

What is the most important thing you could be working on in the world right now? ... And if you're not working on that, why aren't you?

When you have a flaming hot donut in your hand and your trying to eat it your not worried about 10 and 2

Family is hugely important to me. Having kids is the best possible way to shake off any kind of darkness that might accompany a role that you're playing.

My children are most important to me. I'm a mother and I adore my children. I live for them.

I've got kids and that's important. It's funny, you think that there's an expiration date on them and there just isn't.

Nothing is more important to me than my family, my faith, and my friends.

If everything is important, then nothing is.

I have children. I have a family to support. But I really could live in a one-room apartment, as long as the television worked. I never needed anything. Just a comfortable chair and I'm fine.

My kids are the most important people in the world to me.

Don't get too comfortable. We are here for a certain period of time, and how much of your life are you gonna choose to spend with distractions? How do you make your choices? What is important?

It is a very important matter, as a woman, to juggle everything... Your professional life, family, children etc.

The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.

Raising children is, in a sense, the reason the society exists in the first place. It's the most important thing that happens, and it's the culmination of all the tools and language and social structure that has evolved.

I really needed to have something in my life, because I realized there were other things more important than my career. So I love having my children and my family.

I put second things first, and then worry about first things.

The most important business of one generation is the raising of the next generation. Nothing else you do in life will be as deeply satisfying.

You should get married. When I was younger, I was into the fame and fortune, and now I realize that a loving wife and happy children - that's life's greatest consolation prize.

I may be the type who manages to grab all the pointless things in life but lets the really important things slip away.

Children are extremely important. They are the future of the world.

The most important thing that you can teach your children is that Well-being abounds. And that Well-being is naturally flowing to them.

Be the best father you can be to your children. Because nothing is more important.

Acting, it's not my life, my children and my family, that's life. I'll get up every morning, God willing, for that.

The essence of sports is that while you're doing it, nothing else matters, but after you stop, there is a place, generally not very important, where you would put it.