Quotes About Balance

I would rather hang out in my house with a couple of friends than go and rage all night.

I don't worry about running myself ragged. I worry about being bored.

All my friends with babies or husbands or full time jobs are running ragged looking after everyone and everything around them, but not themselves.

With the Raiders, you walk a little bit of a fine line. It's hard to be objective, and it's hard to be critical.

I wish I was a guy who could have pancakes and bacon and cheesy eggs, but I'd curl up and pass out. I gotta start healthy or I'll be off the rails all day.

I was very aware as a young mum that I had to be there and not go off the rails. I would go clubbing, then come home and make breakfast for the baby.

People are used to juggling multiple jobs and multiple responsibilities and multiple things on the home front, and sometimes you get a day off to read, and you just want a book that feels complete and that you can get through it on a rainy day on the couch.

I want babies before I'm 25. I want to bring my babies on the road and bring them to concerts and raise them in the studio.

Success for me its to raise happy, healthy human beings.

I had to architect my life where I could raise my children.

Point-blank, I don't want to raise a family in baseball. Maybe I just want to be normal.

We want to raise the art of living well.

If you're a young couple when you start out and are both working, trying to raise children, that is tough.

We still want to idealize moms, and sometimes we want to idealize actresses who are moms, too. I know that's something I've experienced, but we're all just doing the best we can and we're all trying to raise our kids and talk to them about everything that needs to be discussed.

I'm having a lot of fun, enjoying my life and trying to raise my children.

I had to make a major decision with myself because I just don't think you can do both: try to have a baby career and raise it and have a baby baby and raise it. And to try to do justice to either one. It was a very conscious decision on my part not to have children - which I have never regretted.

When I'm a mum, I'm not going to be one of those mums who has nannies. Actually, I might have nannies - never say never - but I'm not having someone else raise my kids.

On a piece of prose, you have to work at least six hours a day. I don't know how you can do that and teach and raise a kid and paint the house.

I was lucky enough to have it all. To be successful in business, to have children, to raise them on my own, and to travel and live my life. It was a lot of work, but it's a privilege to have been able to do it.

I don't see how a woman in documentary photography could have children. I think it's a very difficult thing to do to raise a family, and I have enormous respect for people who do it. I'd hate to do something like that and not be good at it.

My father is an engineer, and my mother raised the three children.

Domestic goddesses have infiltrated everybody's lives and raised the bar way too high.

I really wanted to be a mom. I didn't want my kids to be raised by a nanny, which would have been the case if I were working two movies in a year, you know? And I would have been hospitalized with fatigue.

I think the extent to which I have any balance at all, any mental balance, is because of being a farm kid and being raised in those isolated rural areas.