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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
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my very first interview, at nine years old, I said I wanted to be an Olympic gold medalist. That was the first time I said it out loud in front of somebody other than my parents.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents enrolled me in a gymnastics class when I was three years old, and I just was drawn to gymnastics. I loved it. It was my playground, and I could run around and be free there.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a secret sibling that I never knew existed and who was given up for adoption at birth by my parents, and she was born without legs.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I realized I was the one doing all the training, earning the money, and my parents were living off of me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Romania, of course, gymnastics is among the most popular sports, and my parents had a dream of escaping the Ceausescu regime and giving their child a better life. So they came to the United States and put me in gymnastics.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Standing on the podium at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and receiving a gold medal was the crowning jewel in a successful gymnastics career and, most certainly, the confirmation that my parents' sacrifices were not in vain.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always traveled, as a kid my parents moved me around, a different place in Germany every four years. But I got the travel bug when I was a kid, living in different countries.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents are pretty cool people.
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up with a sister and a younger brother in a house where every evening was spent performing a dance routine in front of our parents with my sister.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents have been my biggest support. Had it not been for them, I would have not been able to be the confident and fearless person that I am today.
- Dinner
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- Nov 07, 2020
Learning can take place in the backyard if there is a human being there who cares about the child. Before learning computers, children should learn to read first. They should sit around the dinner table and hear what their parents have to say and think.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents never referenced Ethiopia that much, largely because of the circumstances under which we left. We left during a time of political upheaval, and there was a lot of loss that came with that, so my parents were reluctant to talk about those things. So I had, by and large, an American childhood.
- Lawyer
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- Nov 07, 2020
I told my parents I was going to be a doctor and then a lawyer, but I never believed it and never tried.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up with my parents screaming and yelling at each other for the rent in Bronx, New York City at the time. It was $36. So my mind hadn't stretched out to that place where I could spend a whole month's rent on a 45-minute plane flight to Fargo, N.D.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never knew I was a songwriter. I didn't even know I was a singer. My parents just got me a guitar 'cause my uncle told them to get me one, and I started fooling with it.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020