- Nerdy
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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
- Encouragement
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents didn't know how to provide me with the encouragement I needed to achieve my dreams.
- Supportive
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were very supportive.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
While there have been news reports of recent college graduates living with their parents because they have been unable to find a job paying a salary sufficient to move out, their near and long-term career prospects remain far brighter than for those without a college degree.
- Nov 07, 2020
My parents felt so uncomfortable coming to the kind of theater I was in; they had nothing to say about it.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reagan cut through irrational federal regulations to allow children to live with their parents, where they could receive care that would cost the taxpayer one-sixth as much as institutional care. By contrast, Obamacare has added thousands of pages of bureaucratic regulations and will cost the federal government untold billions.
- Class
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- Nov 07, 2020
Both parents supported my becoming a world class athlete.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
- Obstacles
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- Nov 07, 2020
The inner me was always under attack by authority, by the way my parents wanted me to be brought up, by these English schools I went to. So I've always felt this kind of anti-authoritarian strain in me, pushing to express itself despite the obstacles.
- Depression
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up, until age 6, in Chicago. My parents rented their apartment and, at the end of the Depression, my parents wanted to replicate that situation. So, again, we lived in a somewhat suburban setting outside of New York City, and again, they rented.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Paradoxically, since gay men rarely have gay parents, cultural transmission must come from friends or strangers (a problem since the generations so seldom mix in gay life).
- Italian
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents could not be more Italian.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
My kids have never seen me scream at anybody. They've never seen an argument. There's never been even a cold silence. And those are things that I grew up with because my parents did end up divorcing.
- Bedroom
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- Nov 07, 2020