- 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
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was a singer in a band and neither of my parents went to college, and I ended up getting into Harvard and was the first person in my family that went to college and it happened to be Harvard.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Parents and kids know they should pass up the fries for an apple and exchange the video game for a game of tag - but knowing and doing are certainly different things.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I have always been a hard worker in school and in sports and everything. Growing up, my parents encouraged me to do that from day one.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents always taught me that my day job would never make me rich; it'd be my homework.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, my parents were Roman Catholic - strict Catholics - from New Orleans. I understood the idea in the principle of spirituality. I noticed it in the stories that I read. The Trinity was something that was brought up consistently: the power of three. Things happened in threes, and I thought that was brilliant.
- Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't wish homelessness on anyone, especially when you come from where your parents work hard.
- Homeless
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- Nov 07, 2020
I watched my parents lose everything, from a house to birth certificates. We were homeless for about six months, then we stayed in Baltimore, and my parents got jobs.
- Crystal
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- Nov 07, 2020
After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nick's mother and I were attentive, probably overly attentive - part of the first wave of parents obsessed with our children in a self-conscious way.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
At some point, parents may become inured to a child's self-destruction, but I never did.
- Educating
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- Nov 07, 2020
I totally believe parents should talk to their kids about drugs. I totally believe that educating them in every way is really important. But on the other hand, I've learned it's not as simple as that.
- Drink
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a child, my parents didn't know anything about drugs. They didn't even drink.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020