- 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
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents came to America in the late 1960s because my father studied for a Ph.D. in Indiana. My mother joined him later. We had ancestors who came over at the turn of the century. One worked in a laundry, as is typical of Chinese-American immigrants.
- Give
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents did give me a lot of books - biographies of Marie Curie - and I did read them, because I was interested.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents used books as bribes: if I got straight A's on my report card, they would buy me one book. This was completely unnecessary, as I always got A's, and they bought me books all the time anyway, and we all knew it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now that I have a child of my own, I'm in awe of - and deeply grateful for - the time my parents spent in taking me to bookstores.
- Bilingual
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents are both Belgian-born, and so am I, actually. I'm bilingual, so I had experience with French.
- Diversity
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to help students and parents cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this community - and this nation.
- Big Part
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents are really funny. Laughter was a big part of my childhood. Of course, they tell a lot of bad jokes - but so do I. I tell a lot of bad jokes.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I meet other parents and they're more 'mumsy' than I am - you know, I don't want to be 'mumsy,' but I'm like, 'Were you always like that or... what happened?'
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
All parents believe their children can do the impossible. They thought it the minute we were born, and no matter how hard we've tried to prove them wrong, they all think it about us now. And the really annoying thing is, they're probably right.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Seeing the show is like a visit to the fountain of youth for parents and the children.
- Cracking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always very active as a kid. I would climb on roofs and jump off using my parents' bed sheet, hoping it would open like a parachute. I was always getting hurt, breaking a leg, you know, bruising, cracking my head open.
- Cracking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would climb on roofs and jump off using my parents' bed sheet, hoping it would open like a parachute. I was always getting hurt, breaking a leg, you know, bruising, cracking my head open.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020