Quotes About Bonding

You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.

You couldn't not like someone who liked the guitar.

I realize that I will never fully understand the millions of bizarre ways that music brings people together.

I like to be with my friends and my family, listen to music and read books. Things like that relax me.

With my daughter, we do arts and crafts, we read a lot, we listen to music, and we cut the strings off balloons and bounce them around after birthday parties.

The propensity to make strong emotional bonds to particular individuals [is] a basic component of human nature

In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.

It is very hard to dislike someone you have helped

Polo is a great thing to do with your kids and your family - it is a great day out. And to me, horses are amazing creatures that give you this cable to Earth and put you in contact with nature.

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.

It isn't the size of the family, it's the interactions of the members inside.

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.

In mere moments of togetherness, families forge their most indelibe memories.

What's a good investment? Go home from work early and spend the afternoon throwing a ball around with your son.

One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.

What a difference it makes to come home to a child!

~[My son] is at that age now where he's so loving and says the sweetest things to me. Of course, I still get karate chops and all those other sort of things, too.~

They say that parenting is like dancing. You take one step, your child takes another.

What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies.

Time spent with cats is never wasted.

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.

Reverse petting zoo. You pet the animals, and they pet you back.

It often happens that a man develops a deeper love and friendship with his pet cat or dog than he does with most of the other humans in his life.

As with all my new pets, I gently bit each kitten on the face. This is how I let my animals know that I am now their mother.