- Children
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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
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each new generation of children grows up in the new environment its parents have created, and each generation of brains becomes wired in a different way. The human mind can change radically in just a few generations.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't remember exactly how old I was when my parents gave me my first camera, but it was a Canon, and I was certainly far too young to have such a good camera.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think my parents had in mind that I would settle down at quite a young age, but I decided that being a housewife in a big country house wasn't for me.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my parents met, my mother was a waitress and my father was a dockyard worker. They were part of that post-war better-yourself generation, so they both went to night school.
- Heritage
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in the countryside and always used to wear my parents' Barbour jackets. It is a fantastic British heritage brand.
- Attempted
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I joined the freedom movement in Mississippi in my early 20s, it was to come to the aid of sharecroppers, like my parents, who had been thrown off the land they'd always known - the plantations - because they attempted to exercise their 'democratic' right to vote.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started off when I was seven years old doing musicals. I was in 'Les Miserables' and 'The Sound of Music,' and my mum's an actress. My parents divorced when I was young, and when she couldn't find a babysitter, I was in the wings, sleeping.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think your musical tastes are largely shaped at a young age by your parents, as they're in charge of what's on in the car.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believed in fictional characters as if they were a part of real life. Poetry was important, too. My parents had memorized poems from their days attending school in New York City and loved reciting them. We all enjoyed listening to these poems and to music as well.
- Nov 07, 2020
I love spending time in England, whether it's for writing, producing, or seeing my parents and siblings.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves.
- Honor
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- Nov 07, 2020