- Love
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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
- Reason
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- Nov 07, 2020
I became a minister of the Eucharist when I was 17. My parents aren't very strict Catholics, but for some reason I decided this is what I want to do, and I have kept it up.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents met in music school and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing. There was a lot of Mozart and the Beatles.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents met in music school, and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing.
- Paint
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked in my parents' decorating store from six. My mum would get me in every Saturday polishing the paint and straightening the wallpaper for 50p.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.
- Listening
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've grown up with my parents' music tastes, listening to Fleetwood Mac and the Rolling Stones.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been quite mature because of the way my parents brought me up. They were very good at talking to me like a person rather than a baby, and I was around so many actors and directors from such a young age because my dad is an actor. I was more comfortable with adults rather than actually being an adult child.
- Beef
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are occasions when I've had beef, but I generally tend to avoid it, as a nod towards my parents' culture.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
We lived above my father's launderette. Both my parents ran the launderette, but my father was also a factory supervisor, and my mum worked part-time in an accounts office.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I think of Chinese parents, I think of people who weep upon hearing Beethoven, but who can't necessarily bring that joy to others.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of us stay married because we're in competition with our divorcing 1960s and 1970s parents, who made such a hash of it. What looks appealing to us now, in an increasingly frenetic, digital world, is the 1950s marriage.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Typically, middle-class educated parents' search for their children's schools takes on the feel, if not of teen girls trying on different outfits, of adolescents trying on various selves.
- Fine
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- Nov 07, 2020