Missing Moments Quotes

There were times I should have been completely emotionally available to my kids and I wasn't there, even for reading a book with them or watching TV or tucking my daughter into bed.

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

I'm afraid to miss out on the important events in my families' lives or that something might happen to them or myself, and I won't be there for them.

I can be a friend from a million miles away. I can play basketball in China. The only thing I can't do is be a father. I missed my kids' first basketball game. I missed birthdays. I can talk to you from a million miles away, but I was missing the dad part of life.

Sometimes when you're going through life you're not really noticing it.

I wish I could say I see my little brother more. We used to fight all the time but now that I don't see him very often I cherish the time I have with him.

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

I'm never home. I miss birthdays. I miss holidays. I miss anniversaries. I miss special moments. I'm not always there for important times, because I'm out on the road trying to make people laugh. I give up my privacy. I give up the ability to walk somewhere and relax.

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

I don't want to wake up and see my kids going off to college and wonder what happened.

I was missing the opportunity to see my friends' children grow up, to have my son go to his friends' homes and be involved with their parents.

We don't know that we've lost half a minute from our lives but we feel it somehow, we feel its absence. Something is missing, we think. And so we long for the thing we've missed and can't name, and out of that wanting - well, everything else rises, good and bad. What do you think leads us to the windows in the first place? The light in your eyes shines because of the longing in your soul. And the longing in your souls rises because you are looking for the lost half minute.

My mom and I don't have a lot of photos of my early years.

Being on tour, it's really easy to stop knowing people that you want to know, because you're not sharing experiences; you're not existing in the minor moments of somebody's life.