- 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
- Church
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- Nov 07, 2020
We went to church twice a week. My parents were employed in ministry; we prayed before dinner. We rollerbladed in the summer. We were allowed to watch the 'Simpsons.' I fought with my younger brother over Legos.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents came to the United States in the early years of this century as part of a wave of Russian Jewish immigrants seeking freedom and opportunity in the New World.
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents are proud to be Canadian, as I am. They had a lot to do with my success and sacrificed a lot over the years.
- Exchanges
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- Nov 07, 2020
Emotional intelligence begins to develop in the earliest years. All the small exchanges children have with their parents, teachers, and with each other carry emotional messages.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents always went to rallies and demonstrated against certain things; my generation, we often have a political conscience, but we're not that involved.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
We had some Stevie Wonder and Luther Vandross, but there’s a lot of hip-hop and other black music that I just never grew up on. My parents didn’t listen to anything other than black gospel.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just saw a clip of Maria Bamford. She has a comedy show that was filmed and performed from her bed - the whole thing supposedly takes place in her bedroom at her parents house in Duluth, MN. I thought it was great and really strange - to have a comedy special without having to leave your bed.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I call myself Zimerican. I was born in the Midwest to Zimbabwean parents. My father was a professor at Grinnell College in Iowa.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were just really weird and protective about the music I listened to. Whenever I wanted to buy an album, they would have to buy it first and listen to it and let me know if I could have it.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was weird - my parents would let me have some Green Day albums but not all Green Day albums.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents gave me a practical example of what life was about, and I won't forget that.
- Entertainment World
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got into the entertainment world and started modelling when I was 15. When I told my parents that was what I was going to do for a living, it was very shocking for them.
- Dominican Republic
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents moved to the states when I was 6, so I was raised by my grandma in the Dominican Republic and didn't see them again until I was 10.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
After years of begging, I got my parents to get me a little Craig tape recorder, a reel to reel. Then I started recording voices, or recording Jonathan Winters off television and stuff like that.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020