Peter Ustinov Quotes

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

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.

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

As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children.

Parents have too little respect for their children, just as the children have too much for the parents.

when we are young our parents run our life; when we get older, our children do.

At some point as adults we cease to be our parents' children and we become our children's parents instead.

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

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

I have four grown children and two tiny grandchildren.

How do you tell your mother that you feel you're getting... old? If I'm... old, then what is she?

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

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

You know when you have a child and then as you get older, your parents start becoming more like your friends and then telling you things they wouldn't have told you when you were 14 or 15, answering questions about the past or whatever.

Kids are generally rotten until the age of about six, when they become people.

I think there is a time in every person's life where they have to let their parents go and figure out what being a parent means for themselves.

As children, we develop some scorn for our parents and their imperfections.

The children of childish parents age quickly.

We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the rising generation. I am an oldster myself and might be expected to take the oldsters' side, but in fact I have been far more impressed by the bad manners of parents to children than by those of children to parents.

Parents aren’t the people you come from. They’re the people you want to be, when you grow up.

It's not only children who grow. Parents do too.

Why do our parents have the ability to make us feel like children even when our hair is graying and we have a mortgage that feels like a Third World debt? (135)

If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away.

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.

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