- 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
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know how sobering and exhausting parenthood is. But the reality is that our children's future depends on us as parents. Because we know that the first years truly last forever.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents did divorce, but my dad has always been present for me and loving me and my mom as well when she was alive.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had always loved comedy, and acted out Steve Martin and Bill Cosby albums with my sister for my parents on road trips and stuff, and I loved to laugh and make people laugh.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
If my parents really understood how much I've learned that I could never learn in school, they'd be very proud. Instead, I'm still their crazy kid, sagging his pants and dancing around on the laptop.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I taught myself English. My English teacher was the sitcom 'Friends.' Back in the days when I was, like, 15, 14, it was like a syndrome for Korean parents to make their kids watch 'Friends.' I thought I was a victim at that time, but now I'm the lucky one.
- Hometown
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was like a cliche for the parents in my hometown to let their kids watch 'Friends.' I had no interest at first, because I could not understand a word.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cultivating a thoughtful citizenry is a project for educators, parents, and religious and community leaders as much as tech leaders.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents, man, they're just the most loving, encouraging... They're like those people who define themselves through their role as parents before people in their own rights.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
We didn't have everything we wanted when we were younger, but there was never a moment we didn't feel our parents weren't doing everything they could.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really say too much to my parents. If they ask me to do something I just do it and get it out of the way.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know I want to have children while my parents are still young enough to take care of them.
- Grad School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think my parents wanted me to be whatever I wanted to be. But I do remember them - when I first moved out to L.A. - sending me applications to grad school for teaching.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm probably the only kid in history whose parents made him stop taking music lessons. They made me stop studying the accordion.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020