Melina Kanakaredes Quotes

When I'm home, the heart and soul of our family is in the kitchen. Growing up, my parents both worked, so dinnertime was for family - the TV was off. I think it's important to grab that time and really make it special, even after a tough day.

I grew up in a family where everybody had a good time and we were at the lake every weekend and going to the beach and living a good life. It's been the way we always lived, and my wife's the same way - enjoy every day and have fun.

Families need to have a time when they can cook together. They can eat at the table and you can look eye-to-eye. Phones are put away and there are no interruptions. And what you do is concentrate on each other. Listen to what they have to say, and let them listen to you.

I look forward to a lot more free time, at least initially, with my wife, Lisa, and our three children.

I love being with my family and just being a regular person.

Every night at 6:30, my entire family sits down for dinner together. It's definitely the best part of my day.

Having a sit down, no screens, home cooked dinner is one of the most powerful things you can do as a parent and I believe it's the most important activity you can do as a family.

I would love to sit at home all day and play with my kids. It's my favorite thing to do in my time off.

My kids don't slow down, but they like to hang just with us, with mum and dad. They play with us and we play, too.

Sunday, for me, is all about being home with the family with no plans.

Going home, spending time with the family, I feel they're my friends as well, all of them. I look forward to meeting any one of them for a coffee, and when we all get together, I just love it.

I like to spend time with my family. The majority of my time is spent in London, but I do like to escape and spend time with them in my hometown of Brighton on the south coast.

One of the problems of our youth is that the family unit is broken up. When we'd sit down to dinner together as a family, we'd learn about each other. We had something people don't get today.

I de-stress with my family, just at home pruning roses, cutting, working in the garden.

Spend time with your family and try to spend time doing things that you enjoy doing other than basketball.

I love spending time with my friends and family. The simplest things in life give me the most pleasure: cooking a good meal, enjoying my friends.

We would finish dinner, and then we'd all sit around as a family and watch 'Roseanne.' That was a big one.

I don't think there's one thing more important you can do for your kids than have family dinner.

I like to stay home with my family.

We have dinner every single night, Monday through Friday, with our children. We sit down around 6 or 6:30 and it's a family dinner - it's time to check in, just to be around each other.

I absolutely love spending time with my family.

I think we live in a world where the most important thing is daily life: sharing a space with your family, making meals, being with your people. It's not only the idea of privacy, it's the beauty of the moment, at a time in the world when everything goes really fast - too fast.

This is what a family is all about - one another, sitting around the table at night. And it's very, very important, I think, for the kid to spend time not only around the table eating with their parents, but in the kitchen.

You never really get a chance to sit down with the people you love, unless you really make an effort to do it. It doesn't just happen naturally anymore.

When I was growing up, my mother worked, and in the evenings, the whole family would sit around the dinner table and recount the day.