- Education
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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
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Roman Catholic Church and its rituals were so much part of life that, although my parents would often question a small matter of dogma and none of us seemed more religious than anyone else, no one ever questioned the rituals or the basic tenets of belief.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once I got to college, it seemed that the Hamptons were a little bit too posh for me and didn't represent the kind of values I was embracing in my late teens. So, I didn't go out there, except to visit my parents, for a long time. And then, after 9/11, I discovered it was a nice, mellow place to hang out.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was 7 years old when 'Roots' was first broadcast, and my parents gathered all us kids around the TV to learn about how we got here. But it wasn't until I sat down and immersed myself in the research that I got the barest inkling of what it meant to be a slave.
- Nov 07, 2020
In any kid's relationship with their parents, there's always an influence there. You always want to do them proud.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought boxes were the best toy. When my parents got a new car, I ran to my mother and said, 'Did it come in a box?'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a wonderful home life. My parents are the ultimate, wonderful supporters, so there was never a moment where I felt like I had to get away.
- Someone
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm coming to that realization that I'm going to be seen as a mom to someone, and it makes you think about your own parents. You know, who were they?
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up a competitive swimmer. I wanted to go the Olympics. Both my parents were professional swimmers. I competed internationally quite often, right up until I moved to California to pursue music.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were crazy. They just wanted to do everything they could for their kids.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents gave us all a chance to accomplish our goals,and I was blessed with that - I was lucky with that - and I learnt at a very young age that anything less than my best wasn't acceptable.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents raised me and my siblings in an armor of advice, an ocean of alarm bells so someone wouldn't steal the breath from our lungs, so that they wouldn't make a memory of this skin.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
My 'act' was schoolwork. I was your basic, garden-variety, ambitious, upwardly mobile, hard-working Jewish boy from Brooklyn. I was bound to go beyond my parents. It was simply the way things were.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1966, I bought my parents a carriage clock for their silver wedding anniversary. It was last wound 30 years later, in December 1996, the month my father died.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always felt lucky because my parents included my sister and I in their cultural life.
- Joke
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always joke around with my parents and say that if Hollywood doesn't work out I'll go to Broadway!
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020