- Guilty
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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
- Disapproval
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my mother had... to put up with the disapproval of my father's relations.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ever since I can remember feeling love for my parents, I've been frightened of losing them.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember my mom being very scared the first few auditions. My parents are very supportive, but they're also very realistic, which is great.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't grow up, really, in the film business, even though my parents are both artists. I grew up in New York City. They would never put me into acting. I just kind of wanted it, and I told them that.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started taking acting classes when I was 14. That's when I knew I wanted to try it professionally. Before that, I watched movies, always, but I didn't think it was a real job. I watched Turner Classic Movies with my parents. I've always loved the old classics.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you have your own kid, it suddenly makes you more aware of how your parents treated you and educated you. Your relationships with your partner, your uncles, your mother all change; you're more conscious of where you came from, of where your roots are. I find that very interesting.
- First Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
This might be the first generation where kids are dying at a younger age than their parents and it's related primarily to the obesity problem.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
My children did not go through a stage of being rude to their parents. I'm sorry if that sounds incredible.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because we believe ourselves to be better parents than our parents, we expect to produce better children than they produced.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were practicing Jews. My mother grew up in an orthodox synagogue, and after my grandfather died, she went to a conservative synagogue and a little later ended up in a reform synagogue. My father was in reform synagogues from the beginning.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you ask me, 'Are you for or against gay parents?' for example, having kids - it's hard for me to say, 'Yes.'
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know gay parents, and I support them and their families. They are good parents and loving families.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always felt misunderstood. Growing up, it's been my word against the teachers' or my parents' word, and nobody would ever listen to me.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020