Dad Quotes - Page 19

• Both Mum and Dad were converts to Catholicism, and normally if you convert to Catholicism you have thought about it more than someone who just grew up with it, taking it for granted.

  Tony Abbott

  Granted, Grew Up, Mum

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

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• I really enjoy being a dad, and maybe I took it too seriously, but I love being around my kids.

  Dana Carvey

  Kids, Love Is, Enjoy

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• Indians mock their corrupt politicians relentlessly, but they regard their honest politicians with silent suspicion. The first thing they do when they hear of a supposedly 'clean' politician is to grin. It is a cliche that honest politicians in India tend to have dishonest sons, who collect money from people seeking an audience with Dad.

  Aravind Adiga

  Son, People, India

  "Indians' worst fear: the honest politician". www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2008.

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• My dad is good at sticking with stuff and he has a strong work ethic, which is imbued in me. Growing up, he would constantly ask what I was doing and was I achieving anything.

  Pete Cashmore

  Strong, Growing Up, Work Ethic

  "Pete Cashmore Started A Blog Because It Was Something He Could Do From Bed" by Teri Evans, www.businessinsider.com. December 11, 2011.

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• My dad is the reason I actually started watching wrestling. My dad was never big into sports; we were all big into sports as kids, and he'd go to our Little League games or whatever and not really know what was going on, because he didn't know about sports, but he knew about wrestling.

  John Cena

  Sports, Wrestling, Kids

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I say this as a young dad seeing children going into primary school: I don't think we should underestimate the formative effect on a child of those first years in primary school.

  Nick Clegg

  Children, School, Thinking

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• I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education.

  Peter Criss

  People, Brooklyn, Four

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• When my dad died a lot of songs came, and they're still coming.

  Rosanne Cash

  Song, Stills, Died

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• Writing songs out of my faith was a real natural progression. I grew up singing in my dad's choir and singing with my family. Christian music became the music that I identified myself with and was a way that I expressed my faith. Even at a public school I would take my Christian music in and play it for my friends.

  Steven Curtis Chapman

  Christian, Song, Real

  "Steven Curtis Chapman: Reckless Faith". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.

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• On stage, I'm me. I'm a husband, I'm a dad, I'm a guy, I'm a mess - but I am a cohesive thing that you recognize as one human entity saying these things that he generally believes.

  Rob Delaney

  Husband, Believe, Guy

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• My dad has had a rare form of leukemia since I was in about 7th grade.

  Tom DeLonge

  Leukemia, Form, Grades

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• I always told my dad I'd play professional football.

  Anthony Doerr

  Football, Play, My Dad

  "Off the Page: Anthony Doerr". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. October 14, 2004.

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• There was nothing more important I could do than be supportive as a dad.

  Arne Duncan

  Supportive, Important

  "My Most Important Job" by Sec. Arne Duncan, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2012.

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• When my dad needed a shirt ironed, he would yell downstairs to my mother, who would drop everything and iron his shirt.

  Hope Davis

  Mother, Iron, Shirts

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

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• I've always wanted to be a dad. I just can't wait to have a little rug rat running around. I used to want five or six kids, but maybe I've become too self-absorbed over the years. I think two would be perfect.

  Josh Duhamel

  Running, Kids, Thinking

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• I get around OK with a toolbox. As a kid, I picked up skills following my dad through the oil fields of Oklahoma and West Texas. My wife Janine is hard to impress, but she does think it's cool when I fix things around the house.

  Ronnie Dunn

  Kids, Thinking, Oklahoma

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• My dad said if you become a tennis professional just make sure you get into the top hundred, because you have to make a little bit of money. You make a living so you can pay your coaching and, you know, your travels.

  Roger Federer

  Tennis, Coaching, Littles

  Interview with Anjali Rao, www.cnn.com. December 6, 2007.

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• I'm probably going to get in trouble for this but 'American Dad' is one of my favourite shows. It gets very dark in places but the jokes are there.

  Donald Glover

  Dark, Trouble, Favourite

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• I am lucky to have had an attentive, curious and loving dad and heart-smart, down to earth, gifted mother. They changed the outlooks of their own lives and have never forgotten the people and organizations that helped them dream bigger than their circumstances should have allowed.

  Jennifer Garner

  Mother, Dream, Smart

  "What Makes a Good Man? A Conversation With Mark Shriver". Interview with Mark K. Shriver, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2012.

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• My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.

  Jennifer Garner

  Mom, Oklahoma, Dust

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• But Dad and I are the only father-and-daughter acts who have both had No. 1 songs in England.

  Lily Allen

  Daughter, Song, Father

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

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• My dad was a journalist. He was in Rwanda right after the genocide. In Berlin when the wall came down. He was always disappearing and coming back with amazing stories. So telling stories for a living made sense to me.

  Patrick J. Adams

  Wall, Berlin, Telling Stories

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

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• I grew up in Queensland, and my dad was a tradesman and my mum an insurance agent, both self-employed.

  Grant Bowler

  Self, Agents, Grew Up

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My dad took me to John Kennedy's inauguration when I was 8. We come every time, Republican and Democrat, because of this great country.

  John Barrasso

  Country, Republican, John Kennedy

  "Interviews with Senator John Barrasso & David Plouffe". "State of the Union" with Candy Crowley, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 20, 2013.

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• My dad was so much fun growing up.

  Abby Elliott

  Growing Up, Fun, Growing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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