- Money
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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
I have always been a singer, a writer, and a musician, not as a prodigy or as in a trade handed to me by my parents, but because of an inner voice or maybe a command from beyond reality as it is usually defined.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.
- Industry
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents had a factory, so I was linked to the textile and fashion industry.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter when you were born or where, puberty is the same. It's the same for your parents as it is for you - what's happening in your body dictates everything.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was always a purpose in what I did on the court because at the end of the day, my parents, they sacrificed for me and my brother. I had to do it for them.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were hugely supportive like that. I was always the best - it's so embarrassing, isn't it? I was always the best at everything.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to a monthly poetry periodical, and as a teenager I was introduced to Denise Levertov, who was an influence.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
To the children of yesterday, who have grown up and become parents, and to the children of today, who perhaps shout 'Tottigol,' I'd like to think that, for you, my career has become a fairytale for you to pass on.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very lucky because my eyes work with almost any hair color. Thanks for the genetics, parents.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My name is Frances Louise McDormand, formerly known as Cynthia Ann Smith. I was born in Gibson City, Ill., in 1957. I identify as gender-normative, heterosexual, and white-trash American. My parents were not white trash. My birth mother was white trash.
- Struggle
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- Nov 07, 2020
Would-be adoptive parents have to struggle for years through a bureaucratic obstacle course at an average cost of $30,000.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The United Nations Children's Fund reports that more than 18 million children worldwide have lost both parents to the ravages of AIDS, starvation, war or natural disasters.
- Path
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- Nov 07, 2020