- Outside
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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
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Phil Niekro and his brother were pitching against each other in Atlanta. Their parents were sitting right behind home plate. I saw their folks more that day than they did the whole weekend.
- Farm
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lived on the farm with my parents and grandparents. I had no playmates as a young child, and I was indulged. I helped my grandmother piece quilts, and we made pretty albums, an old-fashioned pastime. We cut poems and pictures out of magazines.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
Parents will purchase the dot-com name for their baby. We have been aware of some instances where somebody didn't name their child a particular name because the dot-com wasn't available.
- Conversation
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- Nov 07, 2020
A child needs to be listened to and talked to at 3 and 4 and 5 years of age. Parents should not wait for the sophisticated conversation of a teenager.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Parents are the ultimate role models for children. Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than the parent.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
The government gets it right on Head Start. We are providing opportunities for children in underserved areas where parents may not be able to afford preschool so they can begin their schooling with a running or Head Start.
- Benny
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- Nov 07, 2020
When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor's Orphanage - he shot both his parents and moved in.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting 'experts' that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and entitled to all life has to offer.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think because both of my parents were essentially salespeople, and Italian-Americans, I always seemed to get along with people; I had a knack of finding something to talk about.
- Office
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was embarrassed when I went and told my parents that I was thinking about running for public office.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I commend the parents who are sending their children to a Catholic school, because they're making a sacrifice, and they're paying twice for their child's education: They're paying the tuition, and they're paying taxes.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were the traditional Filipino parents who didn't talk about money around the dinner table.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
As much as I loved the model of St. Francis, I realized that I couldn't afford to be poor, because unlike St. Francis, I'm not celibate. I was enlightened that God's call to me was not poverty but generosity and simplicity. And I had to go back to the lesson I learned from my parents: that is, simplicity.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020