- Matter
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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
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were adorable. They were very kind, and very broad-minded compared to people of their generation.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that it is our human right to be parents and women. And there's no contradiction between feminism, which means women should have all that they are entitled to, all that they can do, all the opportunities that they can take advantage of they should have.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were passionate about what they did, very cheap, and very focused on doing good in society.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spend a lot of my spare time with my family. My sisters, parents, and in-laws all live nearby.
- School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to a performing arts school. I went to an audition for a musical, 'Les Miserables,' in the West End, and I got in, and my parents were like, 'Oh, you can sing?' So I kind of started singing properly when I was, like, seven.
- Nov 07, 2020
I've got 'trust' tattooed on me, and I have a tattoo on my finger that's for my parents.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was quite shy. I used to write stories all the time, and I think that was a worry for my parents.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
What mothers need, as well as fathers, spouses, and the children of aging parents, is an entire national infrastructure of care, every bit as important as the physical infrastructure of roads, bridges, tunnels, broadband, parks and public works.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Believe it or not, we will actually be better and happier workers if we are allowed to be better parents. We might even rediscover our capacity for fun.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.
- Questions
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a profound resistance to the idea that a reader could say, 'Oh, well, that's her story.' We should all be interested, no matter where we come from, or who our parents are. It's not my province; it's ours. These questions concern us all.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were into The Mills Brothers, Perry Como, Ella Fitzgerald, Bing Crosby, Sarah Vaughn, and all those people sung the most wonderful songs - and even when I got into rock 'n' roll, that stayed with me.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents thought I was crazy. When I graduated, you didn't hear of basketball players going to Japan. Everyone went to Europe somewhere.
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- Nov 07, 2020