Quotes About Priorities

When I first came in, family life wasn't at the forefront of your career or who you were as an artist. You was even supposed to be projected as a single man for the public.

I thought running for Congress paled in comparison to being a parent and being a mom - especially a single mom of three kids.

I just decided to take some time off. I've been modeling since '93, '92, and that's a pretty long time. I'm a single mother and I chose to focus on her.

I'm a hockey coach and a single mother of two who commutes. I don't watch TV. I watch news, and that's it!

I am a single mother of two sons and politics demands 100 per cent commitment.

I wish, mainly, that I could have a job and work all the time and also not have to leave my kids. If there was a way to clone myself and be at every parent-teacher meeting and be there to put my kids to bed every single night and also star on Broadway, that's what I would do.

I'm always working, and I'm a single parent, so I don't think I have time for stuff most normal people do.

I can understand why a single parent, working two jobs, would find it easier to stop at McDonald's with the kids rather than cook something from scratch at home.

When you have kids you sometimes have to do things you don't want to but every single thing I do is for my family.

No one can complain about earning good money, but for me, it's being able to help my family out, put my brother and sister through school, take my family on holiday. That's where I get the biggest buzz, not buying a pair of £500 shoes.

My sister does all this community-service type stuff in Portland that makes the world a much better place. And I make as much in a two-day commercial shoot as she does in five years, which is ridiculous.

When my mother died, it sort of put a damper on things. My career didn't have the same significance or excitement. It had always been about doing well for my family - my brothers, sisters, father, mother. Then something interesting and important happened - I started doing things for me.

We sit down with the kids every single night, not that I want to every night - sometimes I'd rather be out with my husband having a martini at a swanky restaurant - but we sit down with our kids every night at dinner.

When children arrive, or when some crisis occurs, couples don't have the resources to deal with it because they've been so busy getting on with their lives. They haven't learned how to sit down and discuss things.

My mom always worked, and I certainly don't want to look back and think, 'Well, I don't have kids, but I'm glad I did that sitcom.'

And, I believe that if a man dies with a single penny still sitting in the bank, he's a fool.

When I have a full schedule like that, I don't see myself sitting there for a couple of months, doing the research, going through a painful process, it's just not my thing anymore.

When I used to work, I used to come home every evening and see my kids. Now sometimes we can be on the road for six days a week or three weeks at a time.

You know Bad News, 'The Young Ones?' I learned not to spend a buttload of money on a sixth member.

I didn't want to go to Chelsea, because I wanted to play the Champions League and they were sixth in the league.

My priorities are making sure we reduce class size and close the achievement gap.

It's about learning what's important and what's not important, and at the end of the day, what size you are does not matter at all. I don't have time to worry about that stuff; I'm going to be healthy.

I burnt myself out of skating. I was ready to focus on being a mom.

Part of the strength that Charlie and I have as a team is we've been able to keep our priorities straight through our entire partnership. We've been able to maintain a life outside of skating, and though we've given up a lot of things and we've been training really hard our entire lives, we've been able to maintain great social lives.