#parent

My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

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I distanced myself, relatively, from my parents for a year or so in my late twenties. It was necessary for me to feel my autonomy. Other than that brief gap, we have always been a very close family. ↗

— Jennifer Ehle

#autonomy #been #brief #close #family

My mother, who was professional schoolteacher, was particularly concerned about our formal education and even went so far as to start a private school together with some other parents so that our intellectual needs would be met. ↗

— Robert B. Laughlin

#concerned #education #even #far #formal

My parents are pretty good about keeping me humble. They brought me up good. ↗

— Taylor Lautner

#brought #good #humble #keeping #me

The story about me, apocryphal or not, is that I could sing before I spoke. My parents went into bedroom one day and there I was standing in the crib singing God Bless America. ↗

— Linda Lavin

#america #bedroom #before #bless #could

I mean, the idea of losing a parent is really inconceivable. I think there's just an undertone of dread about the subject, so people don't talk about it and don't prepare for it. ↗

— Laura Linney

#dread #i #i think #idea #inconceivable

My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father. ↗

— Laura Linney

#father #i #parents #spend #weekends

The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#parents #problem #put #their #up

In third grade, I was taking tap-dance lessons, and about six weeks before the recital I wanted to quit. My mom said, 'No, you're going to stay with it.' Well, I did it, and I was bad, too! But my parents never let their kids walk away from something because it was too hard. ↗

— Rebecca Lobo

#away #bad #because #before #did

My dad, of course, like a lot of Asian parents, wanted me to be an engineer or doctor and never could understand why I would want to be a lawyer. And then, when I first said I wanted to run for office, he thought that was absolutely insane. ↗

— Gary Locke

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