Rachel Johnson Quotes

I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes.

I have a daughter, she's twenty years old.

Having children truly ends adolescence. We are all either parents or children: responsibility-takers or those who demand from others.

When you have kids you do grow up. I have just started realising it now-it changes the world, having children.

Hopefully I'll be able to mature one of these days, get serious, and at least have them [kids] pretty fast.

I am now at an age when they wanted me to play her mother.

You can't be 16 forever.

At 23 it was all about acting. Today it's getting my kids to school, making sure that they've done their homework. I'm in my fifties, and I'm turning into a square.

Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't.

Now there is this whole terror about getting old. Today, that fascination with youth is overrated. What's so special about being young? I just say that because I'm old.

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.

I'm currently raising a 15 year old son and an 18 year old daughter, which a guess is my punishment for a wild youth!

The only thing that makes me feel old is when I can see your ankles and you have on pants.

Parenthood has made me more cautious.

When you're young - I probably still am at 23, though I don't feel so young anymore - you have your ups and downs.

The young need old men. They need men who are not ashamed of age, not pathetic imitations of themselves. ... Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

One doesn't remain a teenager forever.

Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.

My mom told me, 'don't grow up too quickly; once you're an adult, you're an adult.'

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

My kids think I'm old and over the hill.

Starting at about, I guess, forever, I've always looked forward to getting older. When I was 14, I couldn't wait to be 16 and get a driver's license.

As people get older, we all know, you get married and you have a child and that becomes your family, but when you're 16 years old, especially, your family is your friends.

My daughter's the greatest thing that's happened to me in my life and she turned me into a more responsible man, as opposed to just someone who's a perpetual teenager, thinking you're a man when you're not.