- 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
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents are super excited that they've produced an Olympian. I don't think they ever would have imagined this would happen in a million years, so I hope I represent not only Team U.S.A., but the Japanese-American culture and my family as well.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
People often think of America as a classless society, but, of course, that isn't true. Within immigrant communities, there's an enormous distinction of class, depending on who your parents are, and that kind of thing comes out really quick in things like marriage and interpersonal relationships.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, I remember my parents feeling a little wary of 'The Simpsons.' This was the late eighties, and there was a wave of articles about TV shows that were bad for America. Then we all started watching it and loved it.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Both my parents are chefs... I grew up in a restaurant and was always surrounded by cooks. I love food.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I grew up in Pittsburgh in my parents' restaurant, I was almost like a country bumpkin.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in a small town. My parents, my father was a teacher. My mother was a housewife.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I received a lot of complaints from parents who wrote and told me that their kids wouldn't go to sleep until our show was over. So I went on the air and told all the children watching to 'listen to their Uncle Miltie and go to bed right after the show.'
- Learned
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned from both my parents that you had to be clever.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember what it was like when my parents couldn't help me with my homework because they couldn't speak the language, or being a translator for my parents. I did that a lot.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
In August of 1989, we arrived in Los Angeles where we had family. With their help, along with that of Jewish resettlement organizations like HIAS, my parents were set up with jobs.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will never forget seeing my parents coming home from the strawberry fields, looking through their bags to see if they had any leftover Doritos bags he'd buy.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents are psychologists. My father is a specialist with schizophrenia and my mother works with mostly children.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents still treat Christmas like I'm thirteen years old.
- New York
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were entrepreneurs. They ran a small ad agency in upstate New York.
- Flowers
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- Nov 07, 2020