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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
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bigger goal of giving all parents more choices is one that will have to be discussed and undoubtedly roundly debated, but we are going to have to continue to build the case. The momentum is there on the state level in many states. That's where the energy needs to be harnessed in a new way.
- Helping
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dick and I became increasingly committed to helping other parents - parents from low-income families in particular.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that children are, by nature, very forgiving. I don't think children expect their parents to be perfect. I think they demand that their parents be real.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were complicated people. They had a complicated relationship. My home was very, very complicated.
- Clergy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Parents, teachers, clergy and physicians change lives with their words. It is hypnotic for a child or patient to hear an authority figure's words. As I am always sharing, 'wordswordswords' can become 'swordswordswords,' and we can kill or cure with either words or swords.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think musicals can be more than what people imagine. That'll be the case with 'Matilda.' It's such a clever thing to stage. Parents would have read this when they were young and will want to share it with their children because they have such a fondness for the source.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was an undercurrent of poverty throughout my childhood. We lived with my grandmother in her two-bedroom flat, and I slept with my parents. We had cheap holidays, I had to save for my bike and get a paper round as soon as I was old enough.
- Nov 07, 2020
No matter how painful something is, you have to take it. I saw that in both my parents.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all end up at least somewhat like our parents, especially in the way we deal with our children.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the average, older parents are more flexible, tolerant, understanding, and happy in child care.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
You grow up a certain way, and you make decisions within your family, but then you go to college, and the decisions become harder. You are away from home, from the influence of your parents, dealing with peer pressure. There's a lot of stuff that goes on in college.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents always knew that I loved music. They just didn't think I'd try to make it a career. They thought I'd be a painter or an art teacher or something like that.
- Distrust
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- Nov 07, 2020
Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, I grew up with guns. For my 16th birthday, in fact, I received a .357 instead of a car. But there was nothing playful about them; they were tools. My parents went through a back-to-the-land phase. Most of our vegetables and fruits came from our own garden.
- Mountain
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- Nov 07, 2020