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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

Mathematics
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Nov 07, 2020

My parents owned a pharmacy in Budapest, which gave us a comfortable living. As I was their only child, they wanted me to become a pharmacist. But my own preference would have been to study philosophy and mathematics.

Quotes by John Harsanyi

Love
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Nov 07, 2020

I love that phrase that parents say to their children when they cry: 'I'll give you something to cry about.'

Quotes by John Grant

Nov 07, 2020

If I didn't already sense that I was different, I certainly was reminded, whether by my parents or by the other school kids. Not just reminded. Told... I was made to believe it wasn't right. If I went a little bit too off - slap! It was Dad's upbringing and it was Victorian, and that's the way he was.

Quotes by John Galliano

Creation
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Nov 07, 2020

And there should not be a limit on the creation of new public schools. We ought to expand choices for parents.

Quotes by John Engler

Educating
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Nov 07, 2020

Since the conception of our country, America has held that parents, not schools, teachers, and certainly not courts, hold the primary responsibility of educating their children.

Quotes by John Doolittle

Nov 07, 2020

'The Voice Kids' was a tremendous success in Holland. There was a big emotional reaction from the parents of the children taking part.

Quotes by John de Mol, Jr.

Grow
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Nov 07, 2020

You're trying to grow up, and you don't want to be like your parents, and that gets mixed up with being Korean... They brought their values from Korea, and I accepted them because I didn't know anything more. But as I grow older, I feel more Korean every year; it's very strange.

Quotes by John Cho

Eating
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Nov 07, 2020

My parents allowed their two sons to be individuals. My family was a wild and wonderful place, with lots of friends and neighbors visiting and talking loud and eating loud and nobody telling the children to be quiet or putting them down.

Quotes by John Cassavetes

Nov 07, 2020

I saw my parents go through tough times between 1979 and 1983. They almost split up.

Quotes by John Carter Cash

Look
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Nov 07, 2020

My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead.

Quotes by John C. Hawkes

Nov 07, 2020

I was 14 in Barcelona, and when I initially went there, I didn't see my mum for six months and my dad for four months. Australia is far from Spain, but I don't remember how long or how short the days felt. I think what was most difficult for my parents was that if anything went wrong, they couldn't say, 'OK, we'll be there in a couple of hours.'

Quotes by Johanna Konta

Nov 07, 2020

I was training in Spain for 15 months, and while I was there, my parents didn't want to be halfway around the world away from their 14-year-old daughter. So they migrated to the U.K. because they had Hungarian passports, and that's in the E.U., so they could work there.

Quotes by Johanna Konta

Nov 07, 2020

I'm lucky. My parents are, like, super hippies. They were just happy I was going to school and I wasn't getting in trouble.

Quotes by Joey Chestnut

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

What made me want to play drums in the first place was Led Zeppelin and The Who. My parents had their records, and I grew up listening to them with the stereo cranked.

Quotes by Joey Jordison

Envision
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Nov 07, 2020

Too often, parents whose children express an interest in farming squelch it because they envision dirt, dust, poverty, and hermit living. But great stories come out of great farming.

Quotes by Joel Salatin

Nov 07, 2020

I was almost tragically shy, like, clinically. I should've been admitted somewhere. I think my parents knew, but maybe they didn't think much about it. It's hard walking the Earth shy. You miss out on a lot.

Quotes by Joelle Carter

Bumper
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Nov 07, 2020

My parents are apolitical - no bumper stickers, no yard signs. They don't talk about politics.

Quotes by Joel Burns

Nov 07, 2020

I went to high school in Texas for one year, my senior year. My parents wanted me to get out of Stockholm because I was running with the wrong crew. They wanted me to get back to my roots.

Quotes by Joel Kinnaman

Days
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Nov 07, 2020

Soon after I was born, my parents moved to the South Florida area, and I've lived here ever since (with a few years of living in both Portugal and Brazil in my younger days).

Quotes by Joe Tex

People
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Nov 07, 2020

Film has become a very passive experience, but with theatre, there is a contract made with the audience, where they participate. That's why my parents' puppet theatre was such a special place - people used their imaginations. It's a muscle that needs using.

Quotes by Joe Wright

Other lines describe parents who expected college regardless of an interest in acting, and a performer's surreal experience of returning to a childhood venue decades later with parents watching. Continue with Family or Children.

Parents Quotes

On parents, and the paths they set.

Other lines describe parents who expected college regardless of an interest in acting, and a performer's surreal experience of returning to a childhood venue decades later with parents watching. Continue with Family or Children.

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