- Life
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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
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents always kept us in the house. We weren't allowed to spend the night at other people's houses. We were sheltered kids.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a world-class scientist and my mother was a prolific painter. I could see that my parents had completely different ways of knowing and understanding the world, and relating to it. My father approached things through scientific inquiry and exploration, while my mother experienced things through her emotions and senses.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
We didn't have a TV because we didn't have a whole lot of money. My parents would have their friends over - their friends who thought, 'How can you live without a TV?'
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
Both my parents worked. So it wasn't like the previous generation where we learned how to cook and bake from our mothers and grandmothers.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness, then he who is perfect goodness in sending abroad mortal contagions doth assuredly direct their use.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Parents should monitor their behavior, know who their friends are, and keep track of what they do.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Research shows that parents are the single biggest influence on children - if you are worried about your teen and drugs, talk to them.
- Ethics
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad, he would go through these periods of self-doubt. We'd do something that was controversial or that wasn't welcomed by everybody, and he'd go, 'Well, Shirley, our parents cursed us with ethics, and we passed it on to our children.'
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a growing acceptance and interest in publicly funded school choice as a catalyst for education reform in general and a way to empower parents to be education reformers.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up wanting to be a musician, but my parents were sure I would starve to death. So, they put me in physics and chemistry. That eventually blew up, and I got into radio.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't crush the kids. But I do want them to know that they have to earn what they get. I'm not like Jimmy Piersall's dad or anything. I mean, I tell them I'm happy if they just do the best they can. My parents were that way with me.
- Nov 07, 2020