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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
In tennis, a lot of parents are accused of driving their kids into tennis. I would say I'm the opposite: I drove my parents into it. They didn't take it that seriously until I was about 11 or 12 years old, when they realised I had an opportunity to go pro.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Colleges prefer to enroll wealthy students because they know it's more likely that they'll pay for full tuition without needing financial aid. They're also more likely to have parents who will donate large sums of money to the school. When the privileged students graduate, they're expected to join the alumni association and also donate cash.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
Had my parents not had visas, had my parents not had the resources to hire lawyers, I would be a DREAM Act kid, too.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't relate to that angst-y kid who hates their parents because they were horrible. It's just not my life and it's not the life of a lot of my friends.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's really important for my daughter to see her parents being physically fit and for that to be a part of her life. The examples we set for her will stay with her the rest of her life.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cursed be he above all others Who's enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter.
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my clearest impressions about India as a child was that my parents' stories would have been impossible had they stayed. Of course, such a vision was self-serving, for it made a virtue of our displacement.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up where my parents would literally shove me in the car rather than have to say hello to a neighbor.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents are aging and there are difficult issues. It's strange to have children at the beginning of life and parents nearing the end.
- Nov 07, 2020
My parents pretty much realized that I would do whatever I wanted, and that was it, really.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was named after my paternal grandmother, my dadi. She died before I was born, which is why my parents named me Amy.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The building in the Bronx where I grew up was filled with mostly Holocaust survivors. My two best friends' parents both survived the camps. Everyone in my grandparents' building had tattoos. I'd go shopping with my grandparents, and the butcher, the baker, everybody in the whole neighborhood had tattoos.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was mortified by my parents - what they did, who they were, everything. I hated who I was. I hated everything, and I would live in a fantasy world and try to be different. But that's not a lot different, I think, than a lot of kids.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents came from lower-class British backgrounds. But they worked hard and, without formal education, made it where they are today.
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- Nov 07, 2020