- Children
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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
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
Studies show that children of divorced parents can have outcomes as positive as those coming from intact homes, provided the father remains financially supportive and active in his children's lives.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child, I craved sophistication and culture. My parents didn't know what to make of me.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a Southerner. We dream of having the family and the kids, and the parents want grandkids, that's all they care about, give me some grandbabies.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents always wanted me to learn about my culture and tried to make me eat Vietnamese food.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to a lot of theatre. My parents were very involved with the performing arts. I went to nightclub shows when I was a little girl. We went to Florida and we would go to the Cocoanut Grove down there. We'd go see Lena Horne, Jimmy Durante, Sophie Tucker and Judy Garland.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hold that the beginning of modern Irish drama was in the winter of 1898, at a school feast at Coole, when Douglas Hyde and Miss Norma Borthwick acted in Irish in a Punch and Judy show; and the delighted children went back to tell their parents what grand curses 'An Craoibhin' had put on the baby and the policeman.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were funny. My brothers were funny. We just laughed and had a good time. Growing up, it breeds that. It breeds your funny. It breeds your creativity.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back in the day, we ate fresh; our parents cooked. Now, we're starting to think things are fresh because they're in a can, they're in a box, or they're frozen. That's not fresh. It's difficult to get real fresh.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lived for two years in an abandoned gas station with no running water and no electricity after my parents got divorced and my stepdad couldn't get a job. So I think a lot about families like mine who were middle class and struggled. So that experience really drives my philosophy.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having parents who were hard working, blue collar, and staunchly independent, neither political party's positioning really impressed me.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
All anti-abortion protesters should be presented, on the spot, with an application to sign up as foster parents. They should also be given the names of children in their area in need of adoptive parents. And if they won't sign or volunteer, they should shut up.
- Nov 07, 2020
You know, in Russia we say there are three things you can't choose: your parents, your gender and your president.
- Nov 07, 2020
I kept on telling my parents school wasn't for me. And they were like, 'No you need to go university.'
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020