Lydia Polgreen Quotes About Parents

Quotes about: Parents

• I think I'm this sort of perpetual outsider, I grew up most of my life in countries that were neither where I was born nor where either of my parents were from. I was part of a weird religion that nobody had heard of.

  Lydia Polgreen

  Country, Thinking, Parent

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

• I was educated in a deeply kind of un-politically-correct way. I went to St. John's College which is this kind of Great Books school which is equally popular with hardcore conservatives who want their kids to read the Great White Men canon and sort of free-thinking liberals like my parents.

  Lydia Polgreen

  Book, School, Kids

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

• My parents were adherents of the Baha'i faith, which is sort of, I can't think of the best way to describe it, but it sort of has the same relationship to Islam that Christianity has to Judaism, and it's a kind of a universalist creed and missionaries aren't paid. You're essentially expected to go out and find a job and do your own thing, and in your spare time spread the faith, and so that was the driving force of us going overseas.

  Lydia Polgreen

  Thinking, Parent, Islam

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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