- Democracy
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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
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm doing naughty things, I'm drinking too much, I'm going to clubs. It really didn't matter to me, other than the fact that some parents wouldn't let their kids hang out with me.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lived wherever my parents felt like making music, which had its ups and downs - I've had to move schools, but I've also seen a lot of amazing places and been on tour with my parents.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I took after my parents. Using music as one of my main ways of expression just felt natural.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more kids that we can meet or kids that are terminally ill, we try to do it because it's really important, and you can see the hope in their eyes and in their families and their parents.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was lucky because I had parents who have enabled me to do whatever I was passionate about and never held my siblings and me back from anything. But I think a lot of people don't have that experience.
- Path
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- Nov 07, 2020
Parents are supposed to instill a sense of right and wrong in their children and then keep up the due diligence necessary to make sure they don't veer off that path.
- Feelings
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't claim to know everything about parenting, but I do know parents do their children a disservice by constantly sugarcoating their shortcomings to protect their feelings.
- Better Off
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- Nov 07, 2020
Children are wonderful, but they are not the center of the universe. The sooner their parents make them understand that, the better off we all will be.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents are avid consumers of art, collectors of African American paintings, and have always gone to the theater. My mother has always been an activist, too. As long as I can remember, we were marching in lines.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Imagine living in a state where businesses can legally refuse to serve people based on their sexual orientation. Where parents can force their children to undergo conversion therapy to 'cure' them of their 'homosexual tendencies.'
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are all somebody's children, and when we're in pain, we regress, instinctively looking to our parents to make everything better.
- Four
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- Nov 07, 2020