Marcus Aurelius Quotes

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.

I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.

While 'Friends' was about a 20-something population and what they were going through, they were also dealing with issues with their family.

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.

I don't think my father was a bad man, all in all.

So you’ll have to wait for approval from your grandchildren.” “I wonder what our grandchildren will be like!” “Are you suggesting by that ‘our’ that you and I will have mutual grandchildren? Fie, Mrs. Kennedy!

When families are strong and stable, so are children - showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong - either through family breakdown or a damaged parental relationship - the impact on a child's later life can be devastating.

There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about.

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

I think moms need to share information on a regular, intimate basis.

If you want the meaning of families and life and religion and philosophy rolled into one package, all you need to read is 'The Brothers Karamazov.'

I was actually raised around a lot of children. So, I'm very comfortable around children.

I always wondered what it was like to be just a normal kid growing up in trying times or during a great moment in history.

I was interested about how relationships change as you get older. You are great friends in your 20s. In your 30s, you get married. Your 40s are all about your kids. In your 50s, you get divorced, and your friendships become primary again.

Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.

At this stage I am not involved with young adults as closely as many other writers. My children are grown up and my grandchildren are still quite young.

I'm not entirely sure why I write about family, but I do know that it hasn't stopped interesting me. You meet and leave other people at different stages of your evolution, whereas family is made up of people who are constant links in your life, who know you over the course of time and have your complete curriculum vitae in their heads.

You never know what your parents are going to say when you tell them you're getting married - especially when it's with someone they haven't met yet.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

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!

My grandfather criticized me thousands of times, and he gave me a compliment once.

My daughter, Anna, is almost 15, and my son, Ben, is almost 10.

My mom always said, 'Marry someone smarter than yourself, Katee, because No. 1, you're not that smart. And No. 2, then you'll have smart babies.'

When you're little, your father is your hero. Mine was. Then it all becomes more complicated.

When I was five years old, I told my parents that I wanted to take ballet. So, ballet was the focus of my life... until puberty. Then I discovered boys and started dating a guy with a mohawk who'd come to my ballet class and freak everybody out. Shortly after that is when I quit.