Quality Time Quotes

I'm having to learn to get the balance right, because if you want a full-time career, and you also want to be a mother who is there for your child, then you have to make sure that when you do spend time together, you're really there for them.

A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

People are really happier with friends than they are with their families or their spouse or their child.

My favorite days are at home. Spend some time in the garden, cook a couple of nice meals, watch a couple of movies. I'm pretty boring.

Given a choice between great food and boring company or boring food and great company, I'll take the great company any day.

I'm a true country Southern girl that has always been built around family, cookouts and gatherings and being together on the holidays, singing together and laughing together. So whenever God opened doors for me to be able to travel the world and sing and do all the great things that I've done, I didn't want to lose that part so family first for me.

The great thing about small children is they're portable, so we take them everywhere, but when it comes to 2015, Zachary's going to school, and I want to be there to drop him off and pick him up. I don't want to just be the father who reads them a bedtime story.

After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.

I think of myself as a mum who finds the time to go to work. I have to check myself for baby sick before I walk out of the house in the morning. I am really a mum... I know I am a great mother.

I am a son, husband and father of two children. I have to take care of their needs and concerns.

I thought I'd finally get to relax with Dimitri.

You count the hours you could have spent with your mother. It's a lifetime in itself.

Children basically need one thing: to be played with.

My favorite thing about summer is just the idea of having a little time off to do things for you, whether that be going on a vacation, spending more time with your friends, or going to places you've never been before.

We certainly had our moments when I was growing up. But the great thing was, if Mom was working on a night shoot, she'd be up making breakfast before school.

Having children is a huge responsibility, and I just don't want to hand them off to a nanny or my mom to take care of them.

We waste a lot of our lives sometimes. There are people sitting across from us who would make the whole world better if we spent more time with them in it, but we can't get across that gully.

I just like to hang out with friends.

I enjoy certain things, but I don't go out; I don't party. I just like watching movies, making fun music, and having a good time hanging out with the people who helped me get here - I'm a really simple guy.

It's good to get out there and kind of move the body around a little bit, play some hockey, enjoy Nashville as a city and spend some time with family and friends.

When I am shooting a film, and it has a big schedule, I make sure that I take a week off with the family. It gives you new energy.

This is what a family is all about - one another, sitting around the table at night. And it's very, very important, I think, for the kid to spend time not only around the table eating with their parents, but in the kitchen.