- 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
My parents wanted me to grow up around horses and open spaces.
- Immigrant
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised to be kind. My parents were underdogs. Immigrant Jews. I spoke with an accent. I didn't speak English even - I spoke French and Yiddish mostly. I was picked on.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents taught me the way to deal with being picked on was to be compassionate. I had to defend myself physically, but I had to be compassionate and understand the position of those abusing me. I had to figure it out and then rise above it.
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were unfortunate in having lost our only child. Our world had come crashing down. But thanks to the world of medical miracles, we've become parents again at an age when parenthood is considered impossible.
- Inspirational
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reading was very important to me as a kid. It was very inspirational to me. I went to a school where that wasn't encouraged so much, but my parents encouraged that, and it has made me part of who I am.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm of Russian-Jewish background. Like many Soviet Jews, my parents were engineers. My family migrated from Ukraine to Israel when I was six. They arrived in Israel with very little... Within a year of arriving in Israel, the Yom Kippur War happened.
- Nov 07, 2020
My parents had always preached the virtues of hard work. But hard work is one thing; economic struggle is another.
- Explain
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were second cousins. That is enough to explain all of my peculiarities.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always loved doing accents. I have lived with my parents in a number of countries, including Italy and Jamaica.
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
To do a movie with someone like Tom Hanks that when you tell your dad, your dad knows who Tom Hanks is - it feels like you're finally giving back to your parents. It's like you've actually done something that they can recognize, and there's something in me that makes them super proud.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents are really open-minded, but with their own daughter, it's not the same thing.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were the first in our family to go to grammar school. My grandparents were in service.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a child growing up in Maine, one of my favorite things to do was to look for sand dollars on the seashores of Maine, because my parents told me it would bring me luck. But you know, these shells, they're hard to find. They're covered in sand. They're difficult to see.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020