- Look
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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 13, my parents bought me a mini snooker set for my birthday. From the moment I first held a cue in my hands, I was transfixed.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
SpongeBob is just made of cellulose, but he has parents who are natural sponges - he got the square gene.
- Diabetes
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my parents died they both were 47, and they died of complications of different diseases; one being diabetes.
- Diabetes
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my parents died, they both were 47, and they died of complications of different diseases, one being diabetes. I became a diabetic at 17 and went on this road of kind of self-destruction, eating-wise, until I was 40.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think because my parents died in their early 50s, mid 50s, I always thought I would die young. And that's been both a useful thing and I suspect something that's haunted me a little bit.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, it was about finding a way to entertain myself outdoors. We spent all the summers on the beach, camping with my family a bunch, and traveling as much as we could. My parents wouldn't let me watch too much TV growing up or play video games, or anything like that.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not long ago, I got to meet some troopers whose lives had been saved. They came with their wives, their children, their parents. It was a very moving occasion.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why do people - gay or straight - need the state's permission to marry? For most of Western history, they didn't, because marriage was a private contract between two families. The parents' agreement to the match, not the approval of church or state, was what confirmed its validity.
- Angels
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents are angels. They've always been encouraging of anything I do. Total support, 100 percent.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents didn't know what to do with me, so they just pretended I was normal, and that worked out quite well for me.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Deep down, I do not believe that there are any really good parents out there - the same way that I do not believe there were any really good doctors in the 10th century.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a city - it's called Lawrence, Massachusetts. It's about half an hour north of Boston. When my parents got divorced, I moved to New Hampshire because my father worked up there.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents weren't very sporty, and football wasn't part of my everyday life. I was never a massive football fan either, but, like everyone else, I used to watch matches on TV.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child, I was lucky to have the support of my parents because starting a tennis career is a very expensive adventure.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't take anything for granted. In the beginning, my parents put a lot of money on the table so I could live my dream, without putting any pressure on us. We made our own way. But I've seen so many players come and go that I never, not for one minute, thought I could rack up millions on the tour.
- Close Proximity
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- Nov 07, 2020