Iman Quotes

My kids seem to be more mature and older than I am now somehow. They've gotten ahead of me somehow. But they're very patient with me.

I think I'm a much better father as an older man than I was with my first kids. Occasionally, I have to yell at the little guys, but they don't take me seriously. 'Listen to the old guy,' they say. 'Isn't he great? He's mad.'

If you want to be with someone who is 15 or 20 years younger, that's fine, but I've found that if you haven't been knocked down a little bit, then you're probably not going to be hanging with me too much.

And I think in your 40s, you land a little bit, physically and mentally, you arrive at a place where you feel you've learned some stuff. Having children at that point meant I had something very useful to do for the next 20 years.

If you are 20 you don't have the same life experiences as at 25.

Even the people I surround myself with... are wiser, a little bit older than me, where before, all my boyfriends were younger.

I think over the years, being a mother, I've matured in so many ways.

What I've learned about being a parent is how much you sort of secretly learn from everyone else and how valuable it is.

I'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25.

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

And getting older, what's happening is, I play only mothers.

For me, there's a big difference between having a baby in your 20s and having a baby in your 40s.

We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's.

My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.

I urge you children to be patient with your parents. If they seem to be out of touch on such vital issues as dating, clothing styles, modern music, and use of family cars, listen to them anyway. They have the experience that you lack.

The longer you live, the smarter you get because you've been around. You've seen things. You've gone through different emotional experiences in your own life, and hopefully, you understand things better. And that makes you a better actress.

If you get a child when you're 50, you'll understand what children are.

I'm OK being the veteran, but I'm still just a kid.

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

My father was 40 when he had me, so he was more a grandparent than a parent.

A man doesn't have to have all the answers; children will teach him how to parent them, and in the process will teach him everything he needs to know about life.

Like anyone, you could love someone, and it doesn't mean that you're equipped or you were taught or have the patience or the love or the wherewithal to be a good parent. One has nothing to do with the other.

I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me.

Its not age as much as the experiences I have had.

My sister and my brother, of whom I have not spoken before, were considerably older than I; it seemed almost as if we belonged to different generations.