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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 Aug 03, 2026
- Deception
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- Nov 07, 2020
All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think a lot of us are a lot more cautious with marriage because of what we saw happening with our parents. I see a lot more healthy marriages in my generation than they probably saw in theirs.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were pretty cool about letting me listen to whatever I wanted. The only objection might have been playing music too loud.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started taking piano lessons when I was about 5, and there was always a lot of music in my family: my parents both play instruments, my grandparents were classical violinists, and my grandfather was actually a music professor and a conductor.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're around the kids, you feel like you act the most grown up just because you're supposed to lead. I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm around the kids I feel like I act the most grown-up just because you're supposed to. And I say things, like every other day, that remind me of my own parents.
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were actors. And so I was born in New York City, and when I was 7, they quit acting and went back to medical school at the University Of Chicago.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was young, I loved the feeling of escaping to the rocks on a Friday afternoon with my parents.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started climbing thanks to my parents, who have been going with me on the rocks since I was a baby.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably the only thing my parents wouldn't complain about.
- Empathize
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- Nov 07, 2020
In theory, parents are supposed to empathize with one other - find common cause in the fervent desire to preserve and protect the world for the next generation, and connect on some deep, almost mystical level that those poor souls who have not experienced this kind of all-consuming love cannot possibly comprehend.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020