George Harrison Quotes

Even with the best intentions, growing apart might just be an inevitable part of growing up.

However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home.

When you're with somebody for some years, sometimes you need a break from 'em. You grow in different directions.

Young people need their own private places which mothers don't belong to, even if they want mother all around the edge of that.

You may find that your parents are the most delightful people, but you don't want to live with them.

I love my mother dearly, but it wouldn't be suitable for me to live with her all the time.

I distanced myself, relatively, from my parents for a year or so in my late twenties. It was necessary for me to feel my autonomy. Other than that brief gap, we have always been a very close family.

I lived with my parents until I was 25.

I love my bro, but not always being with him is good for us.

That's kind of what we have here. I think we've just grown apart, we have different philosophies, and we're going in different directions.

This is what daughters did. They left, and came home later with lives of their own.

Maybe we've grown out of each other.

The better you are as a parent, the richer the nest you've built, the more difficult it is for your kids to leave. So they have to invent things to dislike about you. And they're brilliant at it.

Family is always irreplaceable, even when they’re also irreconcilable.

The greater the kindred is, the lesse the kindnesse must bee.

So why aren’t you living with your sister?” “She wanted to meet new people,” Cath said. “You make it sound like she broke up with you.

It is sad that the air is the only thing we share. No matter how close we get to each other, there is always air between us.

We all have this moment, when your folks first see you as someone not growing up to be them.

Maturity… is the ability to do something even though your parents have recommended it.

One night I came home. I figured, let my wife come on. I'll play it cool. Let her make the first move. She went to Florida.

Relationships, like eyebrows, are better when there is space between them.

Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away.

Couples who come to understand one another often part.

I'm only waiting for my wife to grow up.

A son is like a lopped off branch. As a falcon he comes when he wills and goes where he lists.