- Lifestyle
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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
- Hippies
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family, my parents are hippies.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up around a lot of aggressive guys. My parents used to take me to AA meetings when I was very young. So I know aggression, I know insanity.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, I grew up in a house doing charity work for homeless people, and my parents had a lot of homeless friends. We were always taught to not discriminate and not judge.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents, once I made it clear to them that I wanted to do science, they were totally sympathetic.
- Emotional
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trapped in the bureaucracy nightmare, real families suffer when the big banks and their servicers force foreclosures. The emotional toll on children packing up their rooms and on parents struggling to find a temporary roof is a deep one.
- Inside
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a while we lived in a tent we'd pitched inside his parents' house and we slept on pillows.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
Raffi Cavoukian was born in Cairo in 1948 and moved with his Armenian parents to Toronto when he was 10.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
In America we tell our parents to bring their child home and put him or her in a crib; as they get older, children sleep in they own room not in Mom and Dad's room. What are we training them for? It's independence, because that's what being empowered is all about.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't sure how my dad would react. There was an agent sitting behind them and he told me he was embarrassed to watch the scenes. My parents have always been very open. They trust my decisions.
- Responsibility
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you have parents who are a little out of their minds, somebody has to take responsibility.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked for a charity for a while, but... well, I started acting while I was in high school. I kind of just got lucky enough to live at my parents' house until I was actually making enough money to be somebody's roommate.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started acting, my parents gave me three rules: I had to stay good in school, stay the kid they always knew I was, and I had to have fun. If I wasn't doing those three things, then I couldn't do acting anymore.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want some day to be able to love with the same intensity and unselfishness that parents love their children with.
- Parent
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a parent, I understand that on an individual level parents would do anything for their child.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020