- Chemistry
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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
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I heard the Pogues, I connected with the songs immediately, but it was also the first time I didn't reject out of hand the kind of music that my parents had always tried to push on to us when we were growing up.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first day I'm back from a tour, I have dinner with my parents. I sleep in my old bed. It's amazing.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my experience, there are plenty of bad middle-class parents: those who put their own lives and careers before those of their children and make precious little time available for their offspring, preferring instead to hire in childcare and shower them with the latest and most expensive gadgets.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our ages ranged from 22, down to 18, and we had a 6 month contract to go to Bogata, Columbia. And of course, it was during the depression, we were still with our parents, and things were still pretty tough on them back in the United States.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Around 10, I got chubby. I knew I'd crossed a line when the only pants that fit were from the 'Junior Plenty' line at JC Penny. My parents had split up, my mom was going through a dark time, and my brother and I were getting bullied in our new neighborhood. Life was big and unsafe.
- Giving
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here's a trick to giving the birds-and-bees talk: You gotta do it in a car, so they can't escape. That's what all my girlfriends' parents did.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before I was a mom I used to think that parents who worried about their kids watching MTV were just clueless. Now that I'm a mom, I see what the fuss was all about!
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a very curious person because of my parents. They encouraged me to be as curious about as many things as I wanted.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the case of 'The Book Thief,' my research was hearing the stories of my parents when I was a child. But I started changing the stories when I began moulding the book.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
I haven't inherited the earth from my parents, I am borrowing it from my children.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Parents with meager means have the same aspirations for their children as other parents. Children from poor families have the same needs as other children.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were always involved in community theatre, and I'd do the tech work and play the child.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have had to tell my son, my parents, my friends that I used steroids. It's been very hard. It's been very difficult.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the federal level, we must help, not hinder, local school boards, parents, teachers and administrators as they make decisions about educating our children.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020