- Money
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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
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings, as my parents had not much faith in and were never so unfortunate as to unite themselves with any of the religious sects.
- Mad
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was on 'Mad TV,' I figured my parents were watching, and that was it. It wasn't 'Saturday Night Live,' so it didn't really have the same high profile.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents migrated to Phoenix, AZ, in the '80s, and I watched them work tirelessly to provide for me and my siblings as they encouraged us to pursue our dreams.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm lucky that my family is musical. Music was encouraged. So when I saw Carlos Santana play and decided to really pursue the electric guitar in earnest, it was OK. My parents knew I was going to go for it.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.
- Kitchen
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up being told by my parents each time they went off to war that they may explode, so I needed to know how things like the gadgets in the kitchen worked.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents have always been cool. They even became surrogates to friends of mine who didn't have such supportive parents.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was really blessed with parents who never said I couldn't do anything. And now I reflect as an adult on that, 'Wow, they never told me no!'
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
- Naive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.
- Foundation
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- Nov 07, 2020