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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was little, my parents took me to the San Diego Zoo. I was about 5 years old, and I got a tour of the zoo that hardly anybody else has ever had.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone gets surprised because neither one of my parents play golf. Like I said in my speech, my aunt and uncle really love golf, and we visited them, and she gave me two clubs. Like people think when they don't know who my dad is, they think he's my coach.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like a girl that takes pride in her appearance - looks are important to me, but it's also important she gets on with my friends and family. If my parents don't like a girl, then she's instantly a no-go.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that sometimes kids use the show as a jumping off point for talking about things with their parents.
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one I knew in Sydney was thinking about how they might come to America and become a movie star. That would be considered delusions of grandeur. My parents were supportive, though. They just told me to keep at it as long as I was having fun.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over 90 percent of parents in Puerto Rico want their children to be totally fluent in English.
- Congress
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a senior Democratic Member of Congress whose parents were born in Puerto Rico and for whom Puerto Rico self-determination has been - and remains - a central issue of my congressional career.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents always traveled a lot with their job, so it became embedded in my nature quite early on that I would crave that constant change and traveling.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
All of our family holidays were always work trips for my parents, so my sister and I would sit somewhere or find a kids' club while my parents would be interviewing people.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I talked my parents into sending me to Roedean at 16. I had this idea that if I could get into Cambridge, then I could join Footlights. My problem was that I went to a comprehensive in Brighton. I thought I'd have to start from a good school, and the best I could think of was Roedean.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents have seen me flirt with girls in front of them, so they're kind of used to it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My problem with my parents growing up was not that I was afraid to cry in front of them - they always wanted me to cry because they wanted me to be okay, but it felt kind of icky and gross to cry in front of my parents. So my problem was the polar opposite - I didn't want to cry in front of them because I didn't want to give them the satisfaction.
- Parenting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Golden Rule of Parenting is; do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!
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- Nov 07, 2020