- Blessing
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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
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
My own parents were touchy-feely.
- Cool People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents used to throw great New Year's Eve parties. They invited such an eclectic mix of showbiz people. All those cool people were always hanging out at our apartment.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Benedict' means 'blessed.' My parents liked the sound of the name and felt slightly blessed because they'd been trying for a child for a very long time.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remove a lot of the pressure from myself by saying I'm not competing with my parents. They are the persons who taught me my ideology. They actively practiced what they preached. They're the exemplars and the role models. So how does one compete with a mentor?
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life used to be a rite of passage in and of itself. But it's not our parents' generation anymore.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having children truly ends adolescence. We are all either parents or children: responsibility-takers or those who demand from others.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents are doctors, both my sisters are doctors, so I figured I'd just be a doctor too. Sometime in my junior year, I had this sudden realization that maybe that wasn't for me. I was sort of lost at sea.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents showed me by example that they could balance their work and family lives.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
At 15 I had moved out of my parents' place, and my options were looking pretty narrow. But I had this acting thing and I just wanted to be able to keep going because it was really good. That was all I wanted.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd probably be one of these terribly over-protective parents whose children become a neurotic wreck because they've never been exposed to real life.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would hide behind my parents' legs at social events, I was even shy in front of my sisters. I was a really, really ridiculously shy boy. But the one thing I took from my public school education was confidence.
- Lego
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- Nov 07, 2020