Roger Allam Quotes

Enjoy the little fun things - like taking your kids to school - before they're all grown up.

I don't want to wake up and see my kids going off to college and wonder what happened.

I suppose it's amazing how quick life goes by when you have children.

I used to love getting older.

My brother and I have a profound nostalgia for our youth, and I think people need to come to terms with things leaving and being gone.

I'd love to go back to when we played as kids, but things change. And that's the way it is.

For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms.

When I see friends from school I think they've all grown old and I've stayed the same.

Just the other day, it seems, the kids were running through the house, slamming doors, breaking glass, making noise. Time goes by so quickly. Sometimes everything seems so fleeting.

I wish I could freeze time or go back in time and watch my kids grow up all over again because it is just going by too fast.

I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. I can't believe it. I was young just minutes ago.

I remember way back when I was young, 10 years ago.

Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.

My only regret in life is that I didn't spend as much time with my kids as I now wish I had.

Watching a child first learn to crawl on a carpet somehow has more significance to you as you get a little older. Perhaps it is that you have suffered more.

When you're a child, it's easy to see school as the worst thing in the world. It's only later in life you realise what a wonderful time it was. Looking back, I can't believe I even wanted to leave.

Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. I suppose we all realize the degree to which fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

It's scary when you look at how kids age, because you think, 'Am I aging at that rate, too?'

Mothers of all ages delight in their children, but I don't know that, if I were younger, I would feel as acutely, profoundly, preciously grateful for every smile, squeal, and - yes - diaper blowout.

Free - I miss that band, but when I look back, we were very young.

You know you're getting older when the record executives start getting younger.

All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, ‘Oh, why can’t you remain like this for ever!’ This was all that passed between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up. You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.

Children...they string our joys, like jewels bright, upon the thread of years.