- Family
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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
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I became pregnant by my first love at 17 and did what my parents thought was the right thing. I married him. My first husband and I moved to Janesville, Wis., where he worked in a Chrysler plant.
- Mama
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!
- Conquer
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- Nov 07, 2020
Theatre and opera were always the twin kingdoms that I felt I had to conquer, because they were my parents' favorites.
- Doctors
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- Nov 07, 2020
Both my parents were doctors, and my mother had her surgery in the house. There were six children.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents sacrificed so much for all of us. It makes me want to give back to them by being the best I can be.
- American Kids
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is pretty amazing. My parents, who came from Nicaragua to the U.S. - who would have thought that they would have American kids on the Olympic team? I think that's the epitome of the Olympic dream.
- High Level
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- Nov 07, 2020
Neither one of my parents played sports at a very high level when they grew up in Nicaragua.
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents liked to go dancing, and they encouraged all of us to bring our friends home. My brother had a skiffle group, and there would often be dancing in the house. And my parents would come and dance with us.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I define myself by my family: my parents or my brother or sister and their families.
- Psycho
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first trip abroad was to do a TV version of 'Les Miserables' in France with Anthony Perkins. There I was at 12 acting with the guy from 'Psycho.' My parents were teachers, and it was hard for them to relate to that world.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents took me around the world when I was young, so I caught the bug. Every person is different when he travels, and every travellers' story is uniquely his own.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fact: The new '90210' is cooler than the old '90210.' It's the lithe, streamlined Skipper to the elder series' venerable Barbie. Gone are the traditional parents - they've been replaced by a hipster mom n' pop who get busted necking in the car.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was no way that I could explain to dogs, friends, or parents my compelling need to return to Africa to launch a long-term study of the gorillas.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was going to high school, in the high school band we would play these kind of hour-long concerts for our parents. All the parents would come to the gymnasium, and the band would play an hour-long kind of orchestra piece. 'Synchestra' is supposed to be similar, like a high school band orchestra piece.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020