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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
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women are more sensitive, more practical, more intelligent, more balanced, better able to deal with people, better cooks, better parents, better carers, better leaders, and so on and so forth.
- Brother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were 30 years older than I was, and my parents had my brother and I ten years apart. My parents grew up in segregation, and they both lived in all-black neighborhoods and grew up with large black families. I didn't have any of that, and I didn't understand feeling so differently and being treated so differently.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our parents didn't let us watch a lot of television growing up. We had Disney on Sunday nights, and at 8:30, they were like, 'Turn it off! Go to bed!'
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were all about education. My mother was a librarian - she retired after 30 years - and she made sure that we were always at museums, that we went to plays.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've really learned a lot from Zac Brown over the years. He is someone that I consider to be one of my best friends, and besides my parents, he has taught me more than anyone else. Zac is, by nature, a giving and understanding person.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised in a very religious home with two parents who were deeply involved in the black church. When I was young, I went to a small black AME church in New Jersey.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned about community organizing from my parents. As a child, their stories were so instructive.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
After Yale Law School, I was proud to try to live up to my parents' example and began my career working for The Urban Justice Center in the streets of Newark, organizing residents to fight for better housing conditions.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
My love of reading and the English language is something given to me by my parents, and I've passed it on to my children.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents did not pay a cent for my education; they didn't give me a car or furniture - I did that 100% on my own. I had to pay back a lot.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, acting was just in me and I tried to avoid it. I didn't want to do what my parents did, you know?
- Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
My acting career began at age three and my parents got me into it. I was in a McDonald's commercial.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do well with peoples' parents, but I've certainly had friends who were not. One of my best friends is pretty consistently reviled by his girlfriends' parents!
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents listened to a lot of music when I was really little. They used to listen to people like Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and I used to be really into that.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
One year, my parents hired someone in the village to dress up as Krampus for a surprise visit to our home - and they regretted it for ever. I went to the door and this huge creature was standing there. I think I passed out.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020