RaeLynn Quotes

I would really like to spend more time with the family. Every time I go abroad I miss them all dreadfully.

Despite my express wish, I was not left in Chicago, but taken to Paris to live, and I did not see my father for many years. But we never stopped loving each other, and in 1940 he died in my arms in Hollywood, where he had come to be near me at the end.

An elephant funeral makes me weep every time, and so does an ad with a kid leaving home for college.

Children are the first thing I see in the morning and the last thing I see at night. It hurts me to be away from them for a few hours. It really does. I love them and they're girls, so they know how to push my buttons. But I've learned a lot and I have to thank my wife for that.

Years later I would hear my father say the divorce had left him dating his children. That still meant picking us up every Sunday for a matinee and, if he had the money, an early dinner somewhere.

Ghost! I miss him! Is that weird? I miss him even though I invented him. I feel a lot of tenderness toward him. I don't write a lot of stuff that is sad or that is tender and affectionate, so that has a very special place in my heart.

I had a very lovely childhood, and, being an only child, I'm very close to my mom and my dad.

I have a little boy, and I wanted to spend a lot of time with him.

My babies and I benefited greatly from our nightly bonding sessions and co-sleeping arrangements, and I'm glad I did it for as long as I did.

I miss my kids, and they miss me. It's very difficult, but I have to do it for my country and fulfill my dreams coming to the 2012 London Olympics.

I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.

I'm oftentimes called away from my family... it's rather hard for me to be away from them. We're very close.

I'm always crying. I get a lump in my throat when I see intimacy between parents and their children.

Witnessing the bond between a parent and their little ones firsthand really brought home to me how much I was missing.

I'm never away from my boys for more than three days.

I love being with my children. They're fascinating people.

I mostly want to be friends with my children.

When I went to college, my mum was really sad, so she preserved my bedroom, like a weird time capsule.

I wish I had an extra day with my mom sometimes. Or another hour in the day with my family, husband and children.

They have to exist or not in their own right. I mean, with kids, you don't say, 'Which is your favourite,' or 'Which did you enjoy bringing up the best?'

It breaks my heart that I don't see my daughters every day, don't get to hug them and brush their hair.

When I arrived in France, I cried every day. Not because I was in France - I could have been anywhere - but because I was so far, far away from my parents. I missed them so much.

'I Know You Care' is about my dad. And I haven't seen him for a long, long time. And my parents divorced when I was really young. And I guess I just wanted a - it was my way of saying that I wasn't bitter or angry anymore. I was just sad and just felt like something was missing.

I'm so obsessed and involved with my son.

When I wanted to go away to college in Toronto, my dad said, 'You can't go.' When I got to Toronto, I bought a couch, and my dad cried for the whole weekend because, as my mum told me, 'Now you have furniture; he knows you are never coming back.'