Quotes from Lisa Ling

The city of Oia is the most magnificently romantic place I've ever been.

We're doing a partial green nursery and trying as hard as we can to do as much organic stuff for our nursery as we can.

I hadn't wanted to have a kid until I met my partner.

I like crunchy things like Baked Lays.

There are so many kids in this world, and in this country, that need homes. And so we're perfectly content to look into adoption one day, if for some reason we aren't able to have a biological child.

Personally, I've always known that I wanted to go back to work because I'm confident, and I'm certain that my daughter will have a better mother in me if I'm doing the things that I'm excited about and that I'm passionate about.

What a lot of people don't know, because in a lot of TV and movies, they have a lot of men talking about computers - it was a woman who invented the first compiler!

I have not watched 'Honey Boo Boo'.

I had a planned C-section, and I cried the entire day before I had the baby.

I hope my desire to travel so much isn't forever because it's not the most conducive lifestyle for a relationship or a family by any means.

People are starting to know more about it, but I was blown away by Almaty, Kazakhstan. It's like a future Swiss Alps. It has the potential to be an extraordinary ski resort. It is a city with beautiful mountain scapes.

Refrain from being too judgmental. You'll often be surprised by what people have to offer.

I don't cook anything.

Very often, overweight children have parents who are struggling with weight issues.

Coming from an Asian culture, I was always taught to respect my elders, to be a better listener than a talker.

There's so much grey to every story - nothing is so black and white.

It is said that the way to prevent obesity is not to allow kids to become overweight in the first place. But it takes a multi-pronged approach that has to start with parents. Kids are just too young to understand the consequences of obesity.

Make your relationship your number-one priority.

Try to accomplish things you have always dreamt of while you can. I know it sounds cliché, but the biggest lesson I have learned is that life is precious; enjoy it while it lasts.

I fancy myself as being a fairly competent person.

I'm determined to raise a strong girl.

I am a crazy online shopper. My husband always jokes, 'Another box arrived!' Airplanes used to be my sanctuary for reading books, but now I have to peruse Gilt sales.

One of the most important things I'm glad we did and am proud of is that we don't have any real grass on our property. It might not be realistic to ask people to pull out their grass, but we'll never have to think about it. We used Smart Grass, and I think it looks beautiful.

Our time on Earth is so random.