Bonding Time Quotes

When you hold a baby in your arms, you don't want to put it in a basket right away. You want to keep the baby close.

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.

If I'm working in the city, then as soon as I'm home, I try to lock in on my son for a few hours. Every day. I see how important it is that he's starting to come into my world now. It's just an effort to give him that male mode of being.

My father is my best friend. He's my idol and my boss. We work side by side and spend every weekend together.

It doesn't take money to turn off the television and cultivate real bonding time.

My dog Tucker likes to walk late at night because it is a good way to keep me awake. Apparently, the one time I took him for a stroll around midnight represented, to him, a commitment similar to marriage.

When I say to a parent, "read to a child", I don't want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate.

I was very close to my mother as the youngest of three. She was my playmate.

Maternity leave is for women to hide and heal their disintegrating body.

We have an obligation to read aloud to our children. To read them things they enjoy. To read to them stories we are already tired of. To do the voices, to make it interesting, and not to stop reading to them just because they learn to read to themselves. Use reading-aloud time as bonding time, as time when no phones are being checked, when the distractions of the world are put aside.

Kids need rituals. They need the security of them, the bonding time of them.

Once a month, I get together with my girlfriends and we usually check into a hotel or go to someone else's house. We can talk for 15 hours, and it just flies by.

A long time ago, my grandfather used to play blackjack with me, when I was very small, and I quite enjoyed that.

We spend less time with each other now than we did during the presidency. When you're president, you're usually out and back in the same day - at least I was. I just came from a trip to the Middle East last week, where I was gone for five nights, and when I left, Laura [Bush] was out of town.

I calculated the amount of time I spent with my father during my entire life... the total amount of time I had with him, if you add up the hours, was about two months. My father was a busy man... we had very few opportunities to really sit down and talk as father and son.

You have to understand that during the course of our show, we were a family for five hours a day, five days a week, maybe four days a week. And we experienced the same things that we experienced in our own family.

My father and I used to watch movies all the time. That was our bonding time, so that's when I kind of fell in love with acting.

I love and appreciate the bonding time with Mason. Nursing is surprisingly one of my favorite things.

Good family time means everything.

When my mother was around, she would insist on celebrating my birthdays.

I'm most proud of my family.

Go home and read to your adult. We forget how much we love to be read to.

Akshay's idea of a romantic date is a six-kilometre jog, followed by 500 crunches... together! Eeeeks!

When I come to visit my mom - every two or three months - I generally spend five or six hours with her each day. She's always immensely glad to see me, her eldest child, her only son.

It's interesting that whenever I meet some of the other Bond girls, I always have something in common, and it is an interesting sorority. We all share about our Bonds. 'Did your Bond do that?' 'Yes mine did!' So it is quite funny conversations. We may as well be in high school.