Amanda Shires Quotes

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

My mom told me, 'don't grow up too quickly; once you're an adult, you're an adult.'

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

Being a father at a later age is different from when I had my other two daughters when I was in my 20s and 30s. If you're in your 60s and you're with the kid every day, you're dealing with the mind of a child, so it opens up that childishness in you again.

As you get older you have more respect and empathy for your parents. Now I have a great relationship with both of them.

My daughter teases me once in a while saying, Remember when you used to be my mother and you had black hair?

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.

I can definitely say the older I've got the better I've become at being a dad and a husband.

My mom always said, 'Marry someone smarter than yourself, Katee, because No. 1, you're not that smart. And No. 2, then you'll have smart babies.'

It's much better being an older father. You don't have to go prove to the world and to yourself that you're who you want to be, for better or worse.

I've always liked older women. One sad thing about being my age is that there are no older women. I used to amuse my mother's friends even at five or six with witty turns of phrase. Somehow, I just knew how to be funny.

The young need old men. They need men who are not ashamed of age, not pathetic imitations of themselves. ... Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

I'm a lot older than I was when I was 30, which is kind of hard to believe.

Your parents leave you too soon and your kids and spouse come along late, but your siblings know you when you are in your most inchoate form.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

One should mature over 20 years.

The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.

My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric - they can behave the way they want.

I don't feel like a grandmother. I don't.

The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has had many people to love.

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.

When I look in the mirror, I sometimes think I'm getting old, but then I have two generations behind me so that helps puts things into perspective. I am a grandmother now, but at least my nine-year-old grandson Jude calls me Glamma and not Granny.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.