- Me
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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
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents are high school sweethearts.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favorite holiday memory was sitting at home all day in my pajamas during winter break for school watching a bunch of old Christmas movies like 'Jack Frost' and 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer' with my siblings and parents.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
When politicians say, 'Oh, parents should supervise their kids' Internet use,' it drives me crazy.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Parents cannot be in the same physical space as their children at all times.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up with my parents in the kitchen discussing the audition my dad had that day or moaning about something or other in the industry, so it was unglamourised and normalised for me from a very young age.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up watching WWE, they used to have bra-and-panties matches or pillow fights, and that's why my mom didn't want me to watch wrestling. But when my parents divorced, I was able to watch wrestling again, and that's when I started to really get into wrestlers like Ivory.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew everything in the forest. I had a secret home tree, where I pretty much lived. I also liked rooftops and streetlamps. My parents would get calls saying 'He's out there again.'
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.
- Grandfather
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our parents came home one day and heard us, and they thought it was the radio, but our grandfather told them it was us.
- Hated
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.
- Losing
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- Nov 07, 2020
After everything I've been through - the foster care, the losing my parents and stuff like that, I was never one to kind of go, 'I'm gonna just not try.' I used it all as ammunition.
- Enchanting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was lucky enough to have parents that took me out from country to country and go to school and learn how to be a better person.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020