- 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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised by my mom. My dad was always traveling, but she allowed me and encouraged me to be close to my dad. So I grew up with three parents: my mom, my dad and my stepmom. Ninety percent of the time I was with my mom, and 10 percent was with my dad.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm really a product of an excellent school system and supportive parents. My high school band director gave me recordings of Louis Armstrong, Kenny Ball, and contemporaries like Nicholas Payton.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Please spare us the self-pity about how tough it is to look for a job while living with your parents.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up with parents who liked the old line that they didn't leave the Democratic Party - the Democratic Party left them.
- Kid
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've wanted to be a comedian since I was a kid, and my parents were very supportive of that.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people ask what it's like to be an only child, I say it depends on who your parents are. I was lucky.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned about being positive from my parents. They're the most positive people I've ever known.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I got the 'Blue Album,' I was 11 years old, 10 years old, and then I convinced my parents to go and get my first drum kit, which was, like, 600 bucks.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
My earliest interest in game design came when I was in primary school, and my parents bought a Commodore 128 computer. I taught myself to write programs in BASIC, and then I made my own games.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents had a software company making children's software for the Apple II+, Commodore 64 and Acorn computers. They hired these teenagers to program the software, and these guys were true hackers, trying to get more colors and sound and animation out of those computers.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent summers with my mother's parents in Arkansas, where religion felt very present. My grandmother was Baptist, and my grandfather was Methodist. Double Southern whammy.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents and my grandfather on my mom's side would travel the earth. They went to Australia and China, and they went to probably every soccer game I ever played.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Number one, it was a chance to thank my parents, because they passed away a couple of years ago. They gave me so much by giving me the opportunity to play soccer, and I wanted to share the story we had together.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020