Quotes About Priorities

The kids get a vote. That's very important when it comes to raising kids. And always keep the bigger picture in mind.

I was raising seven kids. I lived in the bedrooms, in the laundry room, in the kitchen, in the car - car pooling all over. I just didn't have time to sit down and watch a lot of TV. So I really didn't.

I don't get that with the nannies. What's your point if you have a child and you aren't raising it?

It's not ideal to always be one eye on the Blackberry and two arms around my children. For the sake of mothers out there who don't have the Blackberry but do have the children and are hoping someone will be raising their voice on their behalf, it's a great privilege.

It seemed that I was more interested in raising my children, not in pursuing my husbands.

I had my daughter when I was pretty young, 28, and I had to sacrifice not going out with my friends, and I had to figure out how to juggle both raising her and also a very demanding job.

My hobby is raising my children.

My wife runs the house. She raised our kids with me only partly there. It's just what coaching is. A lot of times, you're raising other people's children, sometimes at the expense of your own. I hope that wasn't the case with my children, but at times, it probably was.

After marriage, I was only concerned about raising my daughter, Ariana. I didn't want to miss her even for a second. I thought that's the best phase of my life, and I was enjoying it, far more than films.

With the amount of money I have, it's difficult raising children the way I was raised.

Throughout my 20s and early 30s, I had jobs that I loved. I worked in city government. I ran a youth organization. I served as an associate dean at a university. And I couldn't imagine how a baby would fit into all of that.

I ran on fixing the roads... I ran on cleaning up drinking water.

I ran for Congress to give Kansans a real voice in Washington, D.C. - not to let our priorities be drowned out by special interests.

I ran for Governor to change the priorities in Raleigh because middle class shouldn't mean second-class.

We spend a lot of time at the ranch. And June and I spend as much time as w can with the kids. I learned with my first two how fast they grow up.

I was going to be the head wrangler at a ranch in Wyoming, and the reason I didn't take the job is because I couldn't have my family there - the family had to stay in town. I just wasn't willing to do that.

In a funny way, when things went wrong in my life - and it is my fault that they went wrong, it is not anyone else's fault - and all the glittering outside things were taken away, I was left with the things of most value.

If I had to choose between clothes and furniture, I'd choose furniture.

I haven't got time in my life to do all the things I should be doing, like running and dieting and decorating my house, buying some furniture.

I tell my children now that they are older, 'If something happens to me... don't make no big fuss over me. Don't make no big expense on my funeral. Don't put any pressure on the rest of the family. I've loved everybody, and I hope they loved me. But don't create this big expense for the family.'

I was averaging about one movie a year my whole career, and that was because I'm fussy. I probably could have done more.

Don't make career choices on short-term financial gain. Job satisfaction and career enjoyment are far more important.

Anyone who has been through failed relationships - even people in successful relationships - understand that you gain perspective about what is important to you.

Most of our lives are dictated by money and when we lose or gain some, we change so much as an individual.