- 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
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a family of eight on public assistance, my parents were separated. My mother struggled, my father struggled.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
We made satires of everything - news broadcasts and TV shows that we watched. When I look at them now, they are totally amateurish, but I find it quite remarkable that we were so skeptical of the world! My parents watched them and thought they were funny; they really encouraged us.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I talk about beepers going off in the middle of a concert and people being late and not apologizing, and people not RSVP-ing, and adult children going back to live with their parents, which we didn't have in the '60s and '70s.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, I knew you were supposed to have a profession - and something better than being a shopkeeper, which is what my parents were.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't have time to be anybody's muse; I was too busy rebelling against my parents and learning to be an artist.
- Luck
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- Nov 07, 2020
If my parents were to hear that their son won an Academy Award, they'd roll over in their graves. I was the luckiest person, but that luck came through the grace of Muhammad Ali.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents, and especially my mother, encouraged by the director of the local school which I was attending, wanted in spite of everything to send me to a National School of Arts and Crafts so that I could later become an engineer.
- Degrading
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My foster parents were very religious. They told me that they had not decided to take me in, rather that it was God that had decided it for them.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
To Western parents that want to adopt a child, I would say to people that money is not everything, wealth does not matter.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I talk to my kids about my mother's energy and how she would have loved them. I talk about how kind and polite my father was. So that they have some kind of remembrance that even though my parents died from their addictions and so that they know they were genuine in how they were.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get so annoyed at people not looking after their parents. The deal is when we are growing up they look after us and as they grow older we look after them. That's the deal.
- Brother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up believing in meritocracy and the American dream. My parents came here from India. They had no connections. My brother and I went to public schools, and both of us succeeded.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020