Sammi Hanratty Quotes

Sometimes you have to disconnect to stay connected. Remember the old days when you had eye contact during a conversation? When everyone wasn't looking down at a device in their hands? We've become so focused on that tiny screen that we forget the big picture, the people right in front of us.

It's important for me to have my family close.

When I tell children that they are far too dependent on their gizmos, they do not deny it. But they really don't care. This is their real life - texting about trivial things; listening to numbing music on their private headphones. The machines block everything out - you create your own little trivial world.

I enjoyed my grandparents very much. My mother and father would always allow me to stay with them.

I'm very tech-forward. However, I also think hitting the pause button is not a bad thing, and really connecting with people one-to-one viscerally, having a connection with someone, is really important.

I see my boys about 10 days every month. And, yes, they are the most important people in my life.

I love spending time with my dog, my niece and my family. I'm very family-oriented.

I don't use e-mail; I phone and fax. I think people who are hunched over their computer screens all day should get a life.

I love seeing my family.

Christmas for me is a time for being close to my family and those close to me.

Fifteen years ago, the internet was an escape from the real world. Now the real world is an escape from the internet.

I'm a father myself for the first time in my life, and I had very very loving parents.

I am a total loser, in every aspect of my life. I rarely go out. I have a great family and we spend all our time together. I work hard and play hard with them.

To be honest, my husband and my children are my best friends.

In hindsight, I see the great value of family and how it moulded my life and kept me together. So now family means everything to me.

We're the kind of family that gets together for Sunday lunch. I see my younger sister all the time.

Computers and smart devices are among the greatest intellectual gifts ever created for man but, if not balanced with human contact, may offer little to develop one's heart.

I really savor the times of me and all my best friends and family members getting together.

I think that we're reducing who we are as human beings to these cell phones and these devices; now we don't even want to pick up a telephone to talk - we just text.

Family time means so much to me.

If people look at me and, certainly, my brothers, and they see strength and guts, they'd have to know my parents. If they wanted to know why we're so close as a family, that closeness comes from my mother and father.

I am on the phone with my sisters every day.

I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things.

There's just nothing like sharing the spotlight or anything else with your sisters and your mom. It's always fun for me to get my sisters dolled up and my mom.

I'm from a very close-knit family, and there was something very... I guess you could say normal, about it, and I so appreciate that. We all ate dinner together every single night, and my mom stayed at home with us. I owe a lot to my parents.