- Proud
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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
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back in the early '40s, they used to call Down syndrome infants and babies 'mongoloids.' It's very hard for parents.
- Sometimes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've watched parents sometimes on the touchlines at youth games, and they are screaming and shouting, which is not the way to go.
- Lawyers
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were both lawyers and were very active in social causes when I was young.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got my first instrument for Christmas when I was three or four years old. My parents got me a mandolin because it was the only instrument that would fit me because I was so small. I went straight from that into the drums when I was six, and then I started playing guitar when I was seven or eight.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every successful artist comes from a family - parents or siblings or both - who, although equally gifted, chose not to pursue the treacherous and difficult path of the artist.
- Carol
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember watching 'The Carol Burnett Show' with my parents as a kid. All those weird outfits she wore, like turtlenecks and long skirts, really stayed in my head.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the one hand, I'm this guy who grew up in the suburbs of New York City to very conservative parents, and the other side of me is fascinated by the peripheries of our culture, maybe because that's where our culture is most in transition and where there's likely to be conflict.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was supposed to go to a certified kindergarten that's supposed to teach you actual things like how to read, I went to a daycare that my parents thought was a kindergarten. I was Crayola-ing inside the lines with no fundamental education at all. So I walked into the first grade with no formal education at all.
- Nov 07, 2020
People ask where I'm from, and I say 'Los Angeles.' Then they ask again. 'Well, my parents are from Korea.'
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Competing in my first Olympics in the country where my parents came from is pretty insane. I'm feeling nothing but excitement.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first time I went to therapy, I had to stop going because they were making me hate my parents.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020