Cathleen Schine Quotes

A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.

I spend a lot of time thinking about this business of letting go - letting go of the children God gives to us for such a brief time before they go off on their own; letting go of old homes, old friends, old places and old dreams.

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.

It's not sinking in, as I still believe I am a kid! And now I am going to have a kid. I'm slowly digesting it.

The little boy had wandered away from his mother, tacking across the grass toward the play structure. His mother watched him go, proud, tickled, unaware that every time they toddled away from you, they came back a little different, ten seconds older and nearer to the day when they left you for good. Pearl divers in training, staying under a few seconds longer every time.

I'm excited for my little girls. When they left the nest, I was excited because they were winging their way into life.

It's easy to say you're more mature because all of a sudden you have a child, but it's a process.

I'd never really babysat. I feel like I'm Blair, or 'Gossip Girl.' A teenager, basically - and now suddenly I'm a mom?

My mom sees her sons as baby boys. Well, I stopped being her baby boy a long time ago.

Motherhood has most definitely changed me and my life. It's so crazy how drastic even the small details change - in such an amazing way. Even silly things, like the fact that all of my pictures on my cell phone used to be of me at photo shoots - conceited, I know! - but now every single picture on my phone is of Mason.

I have been a parent since I was 25. That's a large chunk of my adult life. Mother or father, it transforms you completely.

All our children are grown up and have their own lives.

It was hard to find that transition to adult roles.

I looked at my parents when I was 17, and I said, 'I'm moving to L.A.'

I feel like I grew up in such a big way in the past couple of years, in a way that I never thought I would. You can't be the enfant terrible when you have the enfant at home.

My son is 14, and I only have this time with him. True, it's not like before when I couldn't explain to a little boy why I can't read him his bedtime story six nights a week. And he's even said to me, 'Mom, if you want to do a show somewhere, you should go.'

Motherhood has made me a much better person. I see everything from a new perspective - with a sense of wonderment.

Once you're done with the film, it's almost like empty nest syndrome: your kid has moved out of the house.

I lived with my parents until I was 25.

I moved from home in Scotland to home in WWE, and that was the first time being out on my own in my life.

I lived at home until I was 23.

I think it's harder when you get older and you start having children because you've got to get up in the morning and you've got actual responsibilities instead of just writing music for yourself.

Most parents' goal is to launch their children into the world with all the tools they need to make it on their own.

Seeing our kids as grown up and taking their places in the world is just fantastic.

I had to grow up very quickly.