- Dreams
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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
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents made me believe I could do anything I wanted to do. They were really into empowering me.
- Difference
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- Nov 07, 2020
In terms of my belief that one individual can make a difference - that belief comes from my parents.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I once prayed when struggling financially and worried how I was going to be able to assist my parents in their latter years living thousands of miles away, to help me win the lottery or something. And I did win the lottery, just in a different and better way.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we are kids, we imagine that to define ourselves or to find ourselves means charting your own individuality, making your own destiny, and actually running away from your parents and your home and what you grew up with. Of course, as the years go on, we come to find that we become our parents.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents eventually moved back to Brazil, so since then, it has been me and my wife, although they are always involved.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
And, I think, as a kid, I had a strong motivation to do something of my life. And, I think that's the strongest motivation I really got. And, that came obviously from my parents and my grandparents.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were intelligent and encouraging, but at the same time, they were displeased at me becoming a wandering troubadour and wire walker.
- Creativity
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I think tailors the creativity of most people are the rules that we learn from the age we are very small - in school, our parents.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think my parents were immigrants, you know, so I guess I would be first generation. Growing up in California.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Parents learn the uses of power and its limits. They can insist on certain outward behavior but cannot change inner attitudes. They can require obedience but not goodness - and certainly not love.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a member of Corstorphine Library in Edinburgh, and every Friday night, my parents took me there to borrow books. I also used to spend nearly all my pocket money on books.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents had never been to Germany. But I knew what I didn't want to write about, and I didn't want to write about Edinburgh. A lot of writers find Edinburgh fascinating, but I never did. As a matter of fact, I couldn't wait to get away from it.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020