My Dad Quotes - Page 3

• My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.

  Sara Blakely

  Birthday, Dad, Growing Up

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• Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film.

  Mel Torme

  Movie, Uncles, Dad

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• My dad never pushed me but the big thing is that he helped me by going out in the backyard and playing with me.

  Bart Starr

  Dad, Nfl, Backyards

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• My dad just imprinted in my mind from a very young age that you always do what you say you're gonna do when you say you're gonna do it.

  Bob Corker

  Dad, Mind, Age

  "What I've Learned: Senator Bob Corker (R, Tenn.)" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 18, 2010.

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• I miss my dad every day, but I know he would be proud to see me continuing to swim and going for another shot at the Olympics.

  Eric Shanteau

  Dad, Missing, Swim

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• My dads music was a great inspiration to me.

  Julian Lennon

  Dad, Inspiration

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• When I was a kid, I thought my dad was a little bit harsh with me at times. Sometimes I needed an arm around me instead of my dad telling me what I did wrong, but it obviously worked.

  David Beckham

  Inspirational, Dad, Kids

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• My dad was a ham, too. He could sell those women anything. Of all his sons, I was the only one he could trust to sell as well as he could. I was proud of that.

  Paul Lynde

  Dad, Son, Ham

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• Memorial Day, the reason for it, fewer and fewer people know. It's just the first real weekend of summer, three-day weekend and so forth, barbecues, what have you. That's why I think education is important. I'm really glad my dad drilled into me these things that he had lived through and it helped me relate to him better and understand the things he thought were important and why he was raising me the way he was.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Summer, Memorial Day, Dad

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• My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration.

  John L. Phillips

  Dad, War, Inspiration

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• I owe a lot to my dad, just for having provided the wrestling business for us to get into.

  Owen Hart

  Dad, Wrestling, Stewardship

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• I like to believe that I've got a lot of guardian warriors sittin' on my shoulder including my dad.

  Patrick Swayze

  Dad, Believe, Warrior

  "‘The View’ pays tribute to Patrick Swayze", www.today.com. September 15, 2009.

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• My dad was the biggest influence on my life because he was never boring.

  Christian Bale

  Dad, Influence, Boring

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• My dad says he likes to bask in my glow.

  Robert Pattinson

  Dad, Likes

  "Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart's Wild Ride" by Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. November 4, 2009.

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• My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.

  Tony Visconti

  Friends, Dad, Quick Wit

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• My dad was this sort of avant-garde guy who did all kinds of weird things. He was a true original and anybody who met him never forgot him.

  Paul Thomas Anderson

  Dad, Guy, Avant Garde

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• My dad is my biggest source of inspiration. He's a lawyer, and when he'd get home, we always sat down and listened to music.

  Dan Reynolds

  Dad, Inspiration, Home

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• My dad's a scratch golfer and I've got the knack of seeing something and then replicating it. I saw my dad swing a club and I worked out how to do the same thing. My backswing and follow-through have been basically the same since I was two.

  Rory McIlroy

  Dad, Swings, Two

  "McIlroy a Master in the making when he thinks outside The Box". Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. April 6, 2009.

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• My role model is my dad.

  Sean William Scott

  Dad, Role Models, Roles

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• I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

  Umberto Eco

  Fathers Day, Dad, Believe

  Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.

  Lydia M. Child

  Family, Fathers Day, Children

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• Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life. ~Tom Wolfe

  Tom Wolfe

  Dad, Children, Father

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• I think you’re possessed.” “Old news.” “Huh. Anyone I know?” “My dad. It’s a family issue I’m working on.

  Devon Monk

  Dad, Thinking, Issues

  Devon Monk (2010). “Magic at the Gate: An Allie Beckstrom Novel”, p.204, Penguin

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• He rolled his eyes. "First, my Dad's Korean and my mom was Swedish. Second, I totally suck at math. I don't like cuckoo clocks or skiing or fancy chocolate either." I sputtered a laugh. "I think that's Swiss.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Mom, Dad, Eye

  Kelley Armstrong (2008). “The Summoning: Number 1 in series”, p.196, Hachette UK

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• Like so many before them, they didn't care that my dad was only the messenger. They still wanted to shoot him.

  Sarah Dessen

  Dad, Care, Messengers

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.36, Penguin

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