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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once your kid reaches middle school, parents are really supposed to fade out of the social picture. Kids are supposed to make their own plans, keep up with sophisticatedly crude discussions, and be able to go out on their own without supervision.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents have always been very supportive. I didn't go to school because my home was my school.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents listened to music in our house all the time when we were growing up. It was everything from Dolly Parton to Paul Simon... We packed in everything.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's in my blood: both of my parents are very hard workers and were always working when I was growing up. I love working and what I do.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Parents spend a lot of time talking over kids. My son went through a vocabulary burst as I was writing 'The Bear.' I thought, 'What if I just stopped and listened?'
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm lucky I had parents willing to be open and believe that an 11-year-old might know what she wanted to do. Or maybe they thought I'd find out that's what I didn't want to do.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents are Italian and British. They live in Berkeley now - we all moved there four years ago.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm thankful I don't have parents that I feel I need to get their attention. They've always been there for me.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a Roman Catholic. Or was. I was brought up that way and used to say my prayers every night, but I don't pray to God any more. I might use the usual phrases I picked up from my parents, 'Oh, if God spares me next year...' or 'Please God...' but they're only phrases.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to make sure parents and coaches are aware of the dangers an on the look-out for the warning signs. Performance enhancing drugs are too damaging to young people for parents and coaches to not be involved.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I actually was brought up by an Airedale. I don't really remember my parents, especially my mother. It was only the dog that I saw.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't want my parents to know about 4chan at first because of the adult content. By the time I was 18 and could talk about it, the site had become notorious for its exploits and the adult content on there.
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- Nov 07, 2020
So much were we together that Nanny became almost a part of me. Consequently, it was my occasional encounters with my parents that stand out as the events of the day.
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- Nov 07, 2020