- Done
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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents had a gardener when I was growing up, and he and I would dig in the dirt together - my mom and dad were definitely not digging with me! When I was 5, he helped me plant some corn in our backyard, and I remember how fascinating it was to watch it grow. Little did I know that 50 years later I'd be growing corn in a different way.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without parents, you sort of lose the gravity that keeps your feet on the earth.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents really wanted me to get out of New York, be exposed to other people, other ways of life.
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whatever genetic limitations were given to us by our parents and whatever kinds of environmental opportunities are available.
- Feudal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received.
- Correction
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- Nov 07, 2020
Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was the product of very young parents, and they had wild ways. My mother was in a punk band. Rebelling would have been learning to play piano.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents encouraged thought. You'll get through life better if you learn how to think.
- Labor
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we'd grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the very start, if there was a spotlight, I would step into it. My parents wondered what to do with this insufferable show-off. They chose acting for me, and I'm very grateful I can still make a living from it.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
If anyone has to leave their homeland by boat, they all have difficult stories. But my parents had a difficult journey, and their story always seems like a movie to me.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020