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My Parents Quotes by Jhumpa Lahiri
- I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different.
- I don't know why, but the older I get the more interested I get in my parents' marriage. And it's interesting to be married yourself,…
- It didn't matter that I wore clothes from Sears; I was still different. I looked different. My name was different. I wanted to pull away…
- My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had a life in…
- I've inherited a sense of that loss from my parents because it was so palpable all the time while I was growing up, the sense…
- This story is based on a gentleman who indeed did... used to come to my parents' house in 1971 from Bangladesh. He was at the…
More My Parents Quotes
- My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist,… — Chinua Achebe
- My parents were divorced when I was a young teenager, and I was raised by a single mother after that. So, I… — Michele Bachmann
- When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to… — Erykah Badu
- I'm not trying to win an award for being the best vegetarian, just want to be healthy. Take a salt bath. Do… — Erykah Badu
- My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to… — Brigitte Bardot
- You can't live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn't do for you. You're dealt… — Drew Barrymore
- We lived, until I was 12 or so, in communal apartment with five different families and the same kitchen, in two little… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- I love cooking. It's one of my favorite things to do. To share my parents' recipes that I grew up with is… — Lance Bass
- My parents have been there for me, ever since I was about 7. — David Beckham
- My parents separated when I was four. It wasn't the smoothest of divorces, but then as my mother always says, you can't… — Sophie Ellis Bextor
- My parents didn't hide reality. I watched cartoons and the news with equal fascination. — Jello Biafra
- Because I saw my parents relaxing in armchairs and reading and liking it, I thought it was a peaceful grown-up thing to… — Maeve Binchy