Dad Quotes - Page 14

• All the records I've put out have had either artwork that I did while I was young or something that my Dad painted.

  Gotye

  Records, Artwork, Young

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• My real name is Mica, spelled with a C. My dad is called Michael. He wanted me to be called Michael but my mother said over her dead body. She wasn't into the whole junior thing.

  Mika

  Mother, Real, Names

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• I grew up in a big Irish, Catholic family. My dad was a pretty rough guy. So one of my brothers left home when he was 15 and found his way to the gym. It gave me the opportunity to go and spend some time with him and work out in the gym.

  Gerry Cooney

  Brother, Home, Opportunity

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If a cow walked into this room, I'd probably walk out. I could milk it, but my dad never forced me to do a lot of chores like that, mostly because he loved doing it himself.

  Stuart Appleby

  Cows, Rooms, Milk

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A Dad gives hope
  When life is low
  A Dad's a place
  Where you can go
  A Dad is honest
  A Dad is true
  A Dad is precious
  My DAD is You
  Happy Birthday to YOU
  Happy Birthday to YOU
  Happy Birthday , Happy Birthday
  Happy Birthday to YOU

  John Walter Bratton

  Giving, Honest, Life Is

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• Dad was just an emotional wreck. He was drinking a lot of the time, he was smoking a lot of pot. And because he takes certain medications, the drinking was making him... you know, he wasn't even present, really.

  Jack Osbourne

  Drinking, Emotional, Smoking

  "Jack Talks About His Addiction and Recovery". MTV.com, February 2003.

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• Ledisi means to come here, to bring forth. It’s a Nigerian word and it’s from the Yorubu culture, I believe, and my parents named me, my dad and my mom, and really my dad, and I had no choice in that. That’s my real name and that’s what it means.

  Ledisi

  Mom, Real, Believe

  Jazz Monthly Interview, www.jazzmonthly.com.

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• I was thinking (when he hit his 500th home run) about my mother and dad, about all the people in the Chicago Cubs organization that helped me and about the wonderful Chicago fans who have come out all these years to cheer me on. They've been a great inspiration to me.

  Ernie Banks

  Running, Baseball, Mother

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• He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.

  Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn

  Brother, Uncles, Boys

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• Mom was the one who taught me unconditional love. With Dad, I'd always felt there was something to live up to - expectations. But in the last year, we had a wonderful relationship.

  Greg Louganis

  Mom, Unconditional Love, Years

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• I got to grow up in a situation where drugs were demonic. To watch your dad go through heroin withdrawal is something that would keep you from doing any of that yourself.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Growing Up, Drug, Watches

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Why are people so fascinated by how to eat Valomilks?’ She said, ‘Well, Dad, they’re round and they’re messy. But that’s what makes them fun. Once we get older we’re not supposed to be messy anymore. But for one moment when you’re eating a Valomilk, it’s okay to be messy again.

  Steve Almond

  Fun, People, Moments

  Steve Almond (2004). “Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America”, p.190, Algonquin Books

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• And what is a stage dad, or a stage mom? It's someone who's protective. That's all.

  Nigel Lythgoe

  Mom, Stage, Protective

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• I know I'm never going to be as successful as my dad, but I get bored doing nothing. I couldn't go from vacation to vacation and have no motivation.

  Tamara Ecclestone

  Motivation, Successful, Vacation

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• Dad somewhat enjoyed being called gay. He said it made women want to prove the assertion wrong.

  Jennifer Grant

  Gay, Want, Made

  Jennifer Grant (2011). “Good Stuff: A Reminiscence of My Father, Cary Grant”, p.87, Knopf

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• When it comes to Father's Day, I will remember my dad for both being there to nurture me and also for the times he gave me on my own to cultivate my own interests and to nurture my own spirit.

  Jennifer Grant

  Father, Spirit, Remember

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My dad was a tyrant. He used to physically beat the crap out of us.

  Dennis Wilson

  Tyrants, Used, Beats

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• It's all any reasonable child can expect if the dad is present at the conception.

  Joe Orton

  Children, Reasonable, Conception

  'Entertaining Mr Sloane' (1964) act 3

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• Because I was starting out in my 20's. I wanted to do it on my own. I didn't want to use my dad or have people say I was using him.

  Rosanne Cash

  People, Use, Want

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• I know that Dad was an idol to millions who grew up loving his music and his ideals. But to me he wasn't a musician or a peace icon, he was the father I loved and who let me down in so many ways. After the age of five, when my parents separated, I saw him only a handful of times, and when I did he was often remote and intimidating. I grew up longing for more contact with him but felt rejected and unimportant in his life.
  ... ... While Dad was fast becoming one of the wealthiest men in his field, Mum and I had very little and she was going out to work to support us.

  Julian Lennon

  Father, Men, Becoming One

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• My dads music was a great inspiration to me.

  Julian Lennon

  Inspiration, My Dad

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• I think my dad is this great, wonderful... man with a lot of integrity, who is fighting for things he believes in and is serious in what he wants to see happen and serious in helping people.

  Vanessa Kerry

  Integrity, Believe, Fighting

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• I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey

  Parker Stevenson

  Children, Memories, Water

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• Some people think the NDP may want to get rid of the monarchy but I can assure you that that's absolutely not the case. My Dad was a big time monarchist and so am I.

  Jack Layton

  Thinking, People, Loyal

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• Dads, is it too bold to hope that our children might have some small portion of the feeling for us that the Divine Son felt for His Father?

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Hope, Children, Father

  "The Hands of the Fathers". www.lds.org. April 1999.

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