- Nov 07, 2020
Parents Quotes
On parents, and the paths they set.
This collection covers a filmmaker's frustration that an age rating kept her intended teenage audience away, and a memory of parents who worked as preachers shaping an early sense of faith. For a poetic take on family, see Shayari.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Hill
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up in Chadds Ford, Pa., I shuttled between studio space in my parents' house and my grandfather's studio just up the hill. It was a solitary childhood, but I loved it.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started using vinyl because I stole all my parents' records when I was 10. I didn't think about sound quality then, but I always loved how they sounded.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents' record collection was the music I was hearing as long as I can remember, and I would play Otis Redding over and over again.
- Nov 07, 2020
My parents trust me.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents, in their 40s, moved to a different country, started a business, bought a house, didn't speak the language, raised two kids - it's kind of amazing.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.
- Gym
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents are still married. They don't weigh 350 pounds; they go to the gym all the time.
- Fat
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was fat because my parents were a little fat themselves at that point in their lives, and I ate what they ate.
- Stars
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- Nov 07, 2020
Midwest kids got to summer camp. There is something very special about being away from your parents for the first time, sleeping under the stars, hiking and canoeing.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have three sons, a husband, parents, and I'll fight and get angry, but what is very important that I have found as I've matured, is that I have to move on.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents have always supported me, and they still come to my events and support me each day.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Parents fear for their children. Absolutely, I think it's a deep and troubling theme to explore.
- Entrepreneurial
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were always entrepreneurial.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always joked that I have three mothers. I couldn't get away with anything as a kid. Whether I got a bad mark or was told off, it would always end up getting back to my parents.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents started Party Pieces the same year I was born, so I have grown up with their entrepreneurial way of thinking, which, to me, became the norm.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020