- 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 01, 2026
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never saw my parents kiss.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents are very cool and wildly supportive - maybe almost too much. I want to tell them to chill out.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents split up when I was nine years old, and I started taking karate lessons at that point. I was very dedicated to my karate, and I looked up to my karate instructor kind of like a second father.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like my parents but they are just not good parents. They are nice enough people. I'm not interested in hurting their feelings.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were Zionists born in Poland. My father was a rabbi who didn't know much about science and ran a grocery store in the neighborhood with my mother's help.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
My childhood was great, honestly. I have all these incredible memories of my childhood. I was an only child. I always had all my cousins around. I had my grandparents around. I had my parents around. I had my uncles around - whatever.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
So I consider myself a dog person. Kind of. Had dogs when I was a kid, but my parents would never have dreamed of having them in the house.
- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second families, perhaps I should say.
- Essential
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents' divorce was very difficult. Divorce is essentially incredibly painful, but it's also an essential part of life.
- Pretty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a pretty heartbroken 13-year-old. That was the year my grandmother died and my parents split up.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were not poor, I mean we were a very average middle-class family of academics, but my grandfather happened to have built house literally next to one of Kolkata's largest slum.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020