- Legacy
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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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I said that my parents had come from India. They thought America was a place where people were treated equally, and their kids would have an amazing life.
- Fraught
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always in trouble from an early age. I had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. Doing plays at school was a joyous release.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kids can't build a marble statue at home. But I've had parents tell me that, after an exhibit, their kids immediately dug out their Lego kits and disappeared for three days.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a first-generation American of Chinese decent. My parents were both born and raised in China and moved to the U.S. in their 20s.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents always enforce the idea of never giving up upon all of my siblings and me, and I think that's something that will stick with me my whole life.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents always wanted the very best for me and pushed me further and further, so that stuck with me.
- Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're in a world, and your parents are one way, and you're told, 'This is how the whole world is, and this is how you're supposed to be,' and you're terribly unhappy in that world, it's a very scary thing.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents had to go to Ohio to get married in 1965 because it was still illegal in Mississippi. My white father and black mother.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was born here in Gulfport in 1966, my parents' interracial marriage was still illegal, and it was very hard to drive around town with my parents, to be out in public with my parents.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even my parents are so cute, and they deal with every movie of mine excellently. They check with me ever so casually by asking 'Now how much of nudity are we going to see in this one?'
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family moved to Israel when I was eight until I was 10, and then we came back, and my parents split up. I was suddenly in a single-parent home and on scholarship. Fifth grade was such a hard year for me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always gravitated toward levity and my parents; I'm sure they have a VHS tape of me when I'm making jokes and trying to make faces when the family was taking a picture.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020