Parental Age Quotes

My mother just died at 103, so that's a start. You should live 20 years longer than your parents.

I always tell people I think my mom had me when I was 5 feet, 3 inches - I don't remember ever growing.

I was a late child from my parents, so I grew up surrounded by people a lot older than me. I think even when I was 21, I felt like I was a 70-year-old man.

My parents waited to have me and my sister - my dad was 43 when my mother had me, and my mom was 38. They purposefully waited until they had had their adventures in life so that we wouldn't represent the end of their freedom.

Paul McCartney had a baby when he was 61; Rod Stewart was 66; Rupert Murdoch was a stunning 72. Not only does that mean they'll have less stamina than the average dad, that means they'll, well, check out a lot sooner too.

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.

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

I was an only child, a very late child, born to parents who were both 39 at the time, which was very late back then. That kind of confirmed my sense of being the center of the universe, which I guess every child feels - children and poets both tend to feel.

You cannot properly bring up children when you are 69 or 70 and they are 12 and at the height of their madness. You can physically do it, but I don't think it's morally justified.

The difference between rearing a child in your 20s and one in your 50s is one of patience.

My mom had me when she was 19 or 20. And my father was 22 or something. They were working on whatever they could, both of them aiming to be actors in theater.

My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s.

Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit.

But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24.

I was born on September 27, 1918, the second of five children.

There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.

I think I'm lucky that I had kids as spread out as much as I did, 'cause my son, my oldest, was born when I was 21. And my youngest is 15 now. He was born when I was 40, you know?

Every batch of sperm represents an opportunity for genetic typos - called de novo mutations - to be passed on. A 20-year-old man and woman will each pass on about 20 de novo mutations to a baby they conceive. By the time the couple is 40, a woman's total has remained at 20, while a man's has jumped to 65 - and it keeps climbing from there.

I was 24 when Samori was born. His mom was 23.

A father's and a mother's age must be borne in mind; with joy on the one hand, fear on the other.

Women are now very comfortable to have babies into their late 30s. You can be a father in your 50s. I'm not saying it's for everybody, and I think people have to get their own life secure before they take on the responsibility of a partner and children.

My mom had me when she was 24, so I want to be a young, cool dad.

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

I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.

My mother was 18 when I was born. She split with my father when I was 6, and married another man when I was about 7. My mother was about 25, my stepfather was about 26, I'm six or seven, I was looking at them and I knew they were just too young.