- Me
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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
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a tender and complicated dance, watching our parents age. We become protective in ways we never were before, and we study them with a mix of sadness and curiosity: Is this what we will be like when we are their age? We tell ourselves to be patient - just answer the same question again as if it wasn't answered a moment ago.
- You
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to separate yourself from your parents. You do. In order to find yourself.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think it's an accident who our parents are; I believe we choose them. So maybe I chose my parents in order to effect change.
- Pet
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think you can totally be a totally normal kid from the suburbs of Chicago and go off and play shows. It's one of those things that when you go home, you're still the nerd you were when you left, and your parents still get to yell at you about cleaning up your room, and your girlfriend still drags you to the pet store.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was ten years old in 1969, and while we lived in Arizona that year, I spent most of the summer staying with family friends in Portland, Oregon while my parents visited Spain. It was an adventure all around.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I fell in love with acting, just going to a lot of plays. My parents went to a lot of plays, and I went to a lot of schools that would get plays for kids.
- Broken
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the 5 years, well over 60,000 American families have been broken apart by the absence of insurance because the only way for parents to get treatment for their children is to turn the custody of those children over to the State.
- Even Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a cake, I'll eat it slowly, and I save most of the money I have.
- Hill
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was born, my parents were huge into skiing. I grew up on Mont Blanc, skiing on that hill. I was really a ski baby. Loved it; I still love it.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Canada for a reason. It was because my parents wanted me to have the freedoms that this country offers.
- Training
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- Nov 07, 2020
In skating or any amateur sport, as athletes we share something in common: the cost of training is quite a burden on our parents or on the athletes themselves trying to find a way to pay for their costs.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents are very good parents and have already said that they will look after me until the end of my skating career.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll always represent Canada. I was born here, and my parents chose to immigrate here. There are so many things I don't see in other countries, I see here. I love having the Maple Leaf behind me.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Entrepreneur' is a long, fancy French word, but it didn't seem like something you aspire to. It seemed normal, because whatever your parents do seems normal.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were divorced when I was three, and both my father and mother moved back into the homes of their parents. I spent the school year with my mother, and the summers with my dad.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020