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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was brought up by parents who embraced the 1960s and taught me that being faithful isn't the be-all and end-all.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got my interest in Lotte Lenya and the Brecht-Weill canon from my parents. And I love classical music - I got that from my parents. I love Cole Porter - that I got from my dad.
- Left
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a member of the African diaspora: my parents left the Caribbean and came to London for a better life.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents had a normal life in Russia and they could have easily kept living a normal life, working and raising a child in Russia.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I heard endless conversations between my parents when I was going to sleep about how we would survive, how we would continue. All of them were about trying to make me better.
- Humble
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents came from very humble families. My grandfather had a construction business coming from farmland, and my grandmother could never read or write. We were very spoiled. We had a nice house - and then, all of a sudden, we had nothing.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents, they were both Socialists; they were young - 30, 31. They were both successful career people. They had been teachers, and my dad spoke English.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Parents are your teachers until a certain point, and if they don't give you love, you'll go somewhere else to find it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a wild orchid of comedy, so I can only do well under specific conditions... There are people who I think can do any room, and do stadiums and thousand-seat theaters, and then there are people like me who just perform for my parents.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our next-door neighbour taught physics at Hampton University. Our church abounded with mathematicians. Supersonics experts held leadership positions in my mother's sorority, and electrical engineers sat on the board of my parents' college alumni associations.
- Nov 07, 2020