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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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything.
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- Nov 07, 2020
WWE is a PG and a family product. Everybody can watch and enjoy WWE, whereas in the past, the parents were worried about what their kids were watching because of the blood, foul language, etc.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm really connected to people, and my relationships with people are paramount, so I write about relationships, particularly strong female ones. In my family, there were six girls born in five years. We were best friends. And my parents raised all of us as first-class citizens.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents offered me the idea of ceilinglessness. There was no limit in terms of what was possible; no messages sent to me to say that I couldn't do anything.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a kid, I was listening to Aretha Franklin, Etta James and hip-hop as well as music my parents were listening to, like Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a lot of fun being a child actress. It suited me. I don't think it suits everybody, but I was in it because I had a passion, not because my parents wanted me to make money. If other kids want to do it, and they really like acting, go for it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Osama bin Laden characterized his terrorist activities as 'defensive jihad,' provoked by 'debauched infidels' bent on enslaving the Muslim world. The lead industry blamed 'ignorant parents' for applying lead paint to juvenile furniture.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have often been struck by the fact that most parents who are experiencing positive and rewarding relationships with their pre-adolescent children are, nevertheless, waiting apprehensively and bracing themselves for the stormy adolescent period.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.
- Nov 07, 2020
My brothers and I were raised by our parents to respect everyone regardless of background or race.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were not at all involved in science. In fact, neither of them went to college.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Parents don't reveal how often they have bitten their tongue, fought back the tears, or been too tired to take off their clothes after a day of childcare. The parent loves, but they do not expect the favour to be returned in any significant way.
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- Nov 07, 2020