- Life
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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
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over the years, I think, more and more, I've come to recognize that my parents - not in a didactic or explicit way, but in a very powerful way by their example - gave me a sense that government could be a force for good.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got lucky with my parents. They were unfailingly loving and supportive, which gave me confidence about my place in the world.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents put the New Yorker in my crib. I saw Vogue and Vanity Fair around the house before I could read.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents didn't go to university and weren't brought up in England. They hadn't heard of any other universities other than 'Cambridge' or 'Oxford.'
- Bummed
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I found out my parents wanted to homeschool me, I was so bummed out. I missed all my friends. But now I realise that if I wasn't homeschooled, I'd be the lamest kid ever - I wouldn't have been able to speak English, for a start.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I say 'homeschooled,' I was homeschooled for, like, two years, and then we just stopped. It was me and my parents, and they'd give me homework and stuff like that, but then one day, they just stopped.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Parents are the most likely to be victims of the violence of their mentally ill children.
- Medicine
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- Nov 07, 2020
Both my parents are doctors, so from the time I was a child, I wanted to do medicine.
- Financial Assistance
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- Nov 07, 2020
It can be a huge help to parents considering the adoption of an older child, when college is just a few years away, to know that there are post-adoption resources and specific financial assistance opportunities available to them.
- Cute
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because I once became so distraught watching the film 'Watership Down,' my parents were happier to let me watch action adventures featuring humans and warriors rather than cute animals.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents are amazing, but when I was like, 'Well, I'm going to be an actress,' and they're all doctors, that wasn't the best and easiest thing to do. I'm sure that I probably went through a year period when I wasn't telling them exactly what I was doing. But that's going to evolve.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
I took piano lessons and I wanted to play drums when I was six. Luckily enough, my parents let me have a drum kit in my room - which is kind of crazy.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents broke many rules, so I guess thinking 'outside the box' has been slowly but surely developing in my family - one generation to the next.
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020