Ally Walker Quotes

I'm a complete technophobe. I can't even email.

I'm a technophobe. I can't crack the iPhone, and the extent of my multitasking is being able to talk while I make a drink.

I'm not really a computer man, to be honest. I check my emails every couple of weeks.

I'm not a big computer person.

Computers used to petrify me before I figured it was just a matter of getting used to them.

My two kids take a lot of my focus, which I'm grateful for.

I look forward to a time when lawyers aren't in the top three calls every day, and all you care about is how your kids are doing in school or what the weather's like and the great day you had with your family.

A final word: I am not knowledgeable about the internet. I do not have a computer. I guess that at 74 years of age, I don't have the patience to learn.

I don't particularly like being angry about stuff. I'd rather hang out with my daughter and write my little books.

I love the routine. I love getting up in the morning and getting breakfast and packing lunches and doing the school run. Those things are really important to me. Because I think that those small but key moments are crucial for a kid.

I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.

I've never sent an email in my life. My kids laugh. I often hand the phone to them and say, 'Can you text this message to somebody.' I don't even have a computer on my desk.

Well, I've got two small children and this is a very important time for me to be around them.

We're a nation of latchkey children. Manners start at home, and no one is at home teaching manners so that children have respect for others.

Our life before moving to Washington was filled with simple joys... Saturdays at soccer games, Sundays at grandma's house... and a date night for Barack and me was either dinner or a movie, because as an exhausted mom, I couldn't stay awake for both.

I think its important, particularly when you've got young children, to spend some time with them.

I want to give the music attention and be in the studio. I want to give all my attention to my music, my kids, my family, so I just wanna focus on certain things besides social media.

Educated parents find more time to spend with their children by reducing time dedicated to home-based activities that involve little interaction with children.

I'm going to spend some time with my family. My kids are really in the years where I'm starting to miss more stuff, and we're going to stay very involved in politics.

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.

As a father and now a grandfather to three wonderful grandchildren, I know how magical the first year of a child's life is but also how much hard work it takes. Being able to spend as much time as possible with your loved ones is absolutely vital, especially early on.

The time that Ted and I spend talking about our careers is almost infinitesimally small. We mostly talk about our kids and our grandkids. I think we talk about our careers if something funny happened at work. We're very childlike in many ways.

That was something that shaped my thinking regarding Estonia: the idea that we should be getting our young people to work with computers.

I try to turn off the TV and play with my kids as much as I can, and I always hope they're having as good a time as Mormon kids.

I'm a bit of a technophobe.