Liv Ullmann Quotes

Even now / I am not old. / I never think of it, and yet / I am a grandmother to eleven grandchildren.

Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.

I sometimes miss the sense of excitement that I remember having when I was younger. I miss that sense of, 'Oh wow.' I think it's part of aging.

When I look in the mirror, I sometimes think I'm getting old, but then I have two generations behind me so that helps puts things into perspective. I am a grandmother now, but at least my nine-year-old grandson Jude calls me Glamma and not Granny.

It follows that if you are not a mother you are not a grandmother. Your life has become unpunctuated, whereas the lives of other women around you have these distinct phases.

Well-being changes as we move through life, which is why a child's version of it cannot be the same as an old person's.

It's strange because you - your life goes so swiftly. You look up one day you're a teenager, the next day you're a grandfather and you want to decide, 'I sure hope my kids don't make the same mistakes.'

They say that children become men, and men become children. Many generations have grown up, become men, and gone hence.

You get to a certain age and you can't judge yourself on your dad or your parents.

A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.

The second thing for me, probably a few clicks down, is the idea that The Sims smoothly age and have different concerns and motivations and needs at different age ranges.

I'm a grandmother.

Much is written about parenting - its joys and tribulations - and then about the transition into hot flushes, night sweats and (if we're lucky) a new life as a grandmother.

What is it to be normal, at 12, at 78? What is it like when you can't grow up?

Becoming a grandmother is an extension of a woman's personality. It doesn't matter how many times you become one; the excitement is the same.

The distance between the adolescent and the true adult is about five thousand miles, but the distance between the adult and the elder is almost as large.

Grandmas can shed the yoke of responsibility, relax and enjoy their grandchildren in a way that was not possible when they were raising their own children. And they can glow in the realisation that here is their seed of life that will harvest generations to come.

On the way to the delivery room, I almost changed my mind about having a baby. I wouldn't have found it so hard to go ahead with it if I had realized that having a baby was the only way I could ever become a grandmother.

You can almost measure where you are in life by the degree to which you have begun looking back rather than ahead.

I would have wanted my mom to see me settle down and to be a grandma to my kids.

I don't miss my youth. I'm glad I had one, but I wouldn't like to start over.

to know perfect happiness a woman may be a mother, but must be a grandmother.

As you get older, you change certain things.

Old age likes to dwell in the recollections of the past, and, mistaking, the speedy march of years, often is inclined to take the prudence of the winter time for a fat wisdom of, midsummer days. Manhood is bent to the passing cares of the passing moment, and holds so closely to his eyes the sheet of, "to-day," that it screens the "to-morrow" from his sight.