- Culture
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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
- Dinner
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with.
- Question
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.
- Better Off
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.
- Imperfections
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- Nov 07, 2020
As children, we develop some scorn for our parents and their imperfections.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm the youngest of four, and they were all very into sports. I was the first one to express an interest in the arts. I took piano lessons and singing lessons, acting lessons. So it was all new to them, but my parents were great.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were brought up in families which believed theatre people weren't to be trusted. But they were nice people.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy. They never, never, never knew.
- Carpentry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born May 31, 1911, in Paris. My parents owned a small cheese shop, and my maternal grandfather was a carpentry worker. I thus came from what is commonly known as the working class.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents knew there was no point in pushing the football thing. I hated the boots.
- Owe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course I owe so much of my success to my parents.
- Remember
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do remember seeing Audio Adrenaline and The Newsboys, basically Christian rock, because that was what I was allowed to see by my parents.
- Get A Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was writing full time after quitting a job as a high school English teacher, and I hadn't been able to sell anything, and my bank account was down to zero, and all of my friends were like 'What are you doing in the basement, when are you going to get a real job?', and my parents thought I'd completely lost it.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not posh, not in the slightest. My parents spent some money on my education, but I wasn't born to the purple.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020