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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
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get on all right with my parents. But I don't see them very much. They split up when I was eight. I stayed with my mum, but I felt it was a bit soft with her. I could do whatever I liked, and I wasn't getting nowhere, so I went to stay with my dad.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was growing up in the '70s and '80s, by the time you were 16, you were kind of expected to be an adult. By the time we were 16 and able to drive, certainly by 17 or 18 and into college, you just had very little interaction with your parents.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Social Security, for example - I'm 43. I've paid into the system. You know what? That money has been stolen from me. I know that my parents who are on Social Security - they've got to continue to receive it. They're dependent on it. It is their primary source of income.
- Parent
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- Nov 07, 2020
Talking with other parents really gave me some lessons that I try to hold on to now, as a parent of two boys.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was really lucky about two things about my life as a kid: I had awesome parents, and I had awesome peers.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best holiday I ever had was the first one I went on without my parents, when I was 17.
- Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no way you should try to send somebody back who came here as a child with their parents and who's grown up here in the United States. They're Americans.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's interesting, as I said on the last tour in America, the audience actually came out, they had to have been the kind of fans who listened to my music via their parents, you know what I mean?
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think anybody over 30 plays parents because it happens in your thirties and so that's kind of a natural progression. But I'm definitely drawn to it. It's probably the most intense, passionate thing that happens to you as you get older.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came from a very normal, un-Hollywood background. My parents provided me with every sort of normal upbringing that they could.
- Demanded
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I went to my local grammar school, Lurgan College, girls were not encouraged to study science. My parents hit the roof and, along with other parents, demanded a curriculum change.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were language teachers. They talked about teaching all the time and all their friends were teachers. It was considered a pre-ordained thing that I would go into teaching.
- Say
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was young, and I wouldn't eat, my parents would say, 'Eat, or else you're going to become a little Biafran.'
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Washington, D.C., where my father was working for the Federal Trade Commission, and my mom was editor for the National Council of Catholic Women, but my parents were simply awaiting my birth before moving back to their roots in Rhode Island to raise their family.
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- Nov 07, 2020