- Plants
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- 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
- Dinner
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were immigrants who started a nursery as a way to get us kids through school. I learned around the dinner table about customer service and cash flow and paying bills.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
- Immigrants
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents are Jamaican immigrants and both have a multiracial background. They're Jamaican but my genetic makeup is West African, European, Asian.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents had a house on the Jersey shore - I grew up right there, going down there every summer and living there. It is home for me.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something about a divorce in that even if your parents still love you, the fact that they can't live with each other makes you feel there's something wrong with you.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play I ever did.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were laborers so we lived on South Park, which was a low-income region of Seattle. You had a choice - you either joined or formed a gang or you let others bully you.
- Plastic
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 3, my parents strapped on a pair of Playskool plastic roller skates to my feet, and that's where the story begins.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything I do is for my parents and my family. The car is nice, the house is nice, but none of this matters without them. If it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be here. I don't know where I would be, honestly.
- Champion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything I do is for my parents, None of this matters without them. If it weren't for them, I wouldn't be here... If it wasn't for them, if it wasn't for the structure and the backbone that I have, I wouldn't be able to mess up and keep coming back and sit in front of you as a world champion.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first came into the league, I followed my parents for everything. Now, I'm really doing stuff on my own.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology to securing the keys to an executive bathroom.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020