Dad Quotes - Page 22

• My parents are very hard working people who did everything they could for their children. I have two brothers and they worked dog hard to give us an education and provide us with the most comfortable life possible. My dad provided for his family daily. So, yes, that is definitely in my DNA.

  David Oyelowo

  Dog, Brother, Children

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• I know who my dad is, I've met him a few times, but I don't even call him dad. I know it sounds horrible, but I don't even see him as part of my family, to be honest. If you want the truth, it doesn't bother me because I don't know any different. I just know that me and my mum, that was my family.

  Sally Pearson

  Want, Sound, Different

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My dad was a great dad.

  Bijou Phillips

  Great Dad, My Dad

  "Teenage flicks" by William Shaw, www.theguardian.com. March 2, 2002.

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• From my first dunk at 14 years old to my second NCAA Championship at the University of Tennessee, my intense training with my dad was always to credit.

  Candace Parker

  Years, Intense Training, Ncaa

  "Thanks, Dad, for Believing in Me Before I Did" by Candace Parker, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2011.

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• My grandmother was an actress too. In the thirties and forties she was under contract with Universal Studios. Crazy credits, lots of them. My dad was also under contract with Universal Studios. And my first film was shot on the same stage they both worked on at Universal.

  Chris Pine

  Crazy, Grandmother, Credit

  "Pine Was Destined To Act" by wenn.com, November 12, 2010.

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• When I was a kid growing up, my dad being a football coach, he asked the same question of all the assistants that he ever hired: 'Is your goal to be a head football coach?

  Chuck Pagano

  Football, Growing Up, Kids

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• My father was an exceptionally strong influence on me.

  John Malkovich

  Strong, Father, Influence

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• I spend time with my family. I have got two daughters who are too young to know their Dad's a footballer. They just want to play with their Dad. I like to play golf, too, but apart from that, that's me, I'm afraid.

  Alan Shearer

  Daughter, Golf, Play

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• The only important thing I have to say is that my father never fought against his country.

  Zinedine Zidane

  Fathers Day, Country, Twilight

  "ZZ top" by Andrew Hussey, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2004.

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• I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set.

  John Malkovich

  Boyfriend, Father, Standards

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• My father loved people, children and pets.

  Tony Visconti

  Children, Father, People

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• My father taught me how to substitute realities.

  Mira Sorvino

  Father, Reality, Tears

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• My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.

  Victor Borge

  Mother, Father, Tears

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• My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'

  Daisy Donovan

  Boyfriend, Father, Thinking

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• When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.

  Robert Bly

  Boyfriend, Children, Father

  Robert Bly (2015). “Iron John: A Book about Men”, p.59, Da Capo Press

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• For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you don't want to stand out. You don't want to have a famous father let alone get a job because of your famous father, you know? But I'm a product of nepotism. That's how I got my foot in the door, through my dad.

  Jeff Bridges

  Jobs, Growing Up, Father

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• My life isn't that dramatic. My dad really loves me, he just can't talk on the phone. He's too crippled and shy, and that's almost harder. He's there and he loves me, and I try and try and try, it's just impossible to have a relationship.

  Joey Lauren Adams

  Father, Phones, Trying

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

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• When I was younger it was, you know, my dad dressed up in drag on 'Bosom Buddies.' And that was what I was having to deal with at the time. And then around the time that I was into college was when he became statue-worthy I guess you could say.

  Colin Hanks

  Father, College, Drag

  "Actor Colin Hanks Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. November 4, 2011.

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• My dad has always been extremely supportive in every decision I've made and much more interested in me picking what I wanted to do.

  Colin Hanks

  Father, Decision, Supportive

  "Colin Hanks, Tom Hanks Team Up On-Screen". The PARADE Magazine Interview, parade.com. March 20, 2009.

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• I've wanted to be a drummer since I was about five years old. I used to play on a bath salt container with wires on the bottom, and on a round coffee tin with a loose wire fixed to it to give a snare drum effect. Plus there were always my Mum's pots and pans. When I was ten, my Mum bought me a snare drum. My Dad bought me my first full drum kit when I was 15. It was almost prehistoric. Most of it was rust.

  John Bonham

  Coffee, Years, Play

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• My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life.

  Elvis Stojko

  Mom, Dancer, Singers

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• As parents, we should remember that our lives may be the book from the family library which the children most treasure. Are our examples worthy of emulation? Do we live in such a way that a son or a daughter may say, ‘I want to follow my dad,’ or ‘I want to be like my mother’? Unlike the book on the library shelf, the covers of which shield its contents, our lives cannot be closed. Parents, we truly are an open book in the library of learning of our homes.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Daughter, Mother, Children

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• Some of my best memories are sitting on my dad's lap, cheering on Olga and Nadia, Carl Lewis and others for their brilliance and perfection.

  Michelle Obama

  Cheer, Memories, Perfection

  "Michelle Obama steals the show in Copenhagen" by Ed Henry, www.cnn.com. October 2, 2009.

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• My dad has no control over who works with me. Me, me and me alone has to take responsibility for anything.

  Shane MacGowan

  Responsibility, Take Me, Me Alone

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• I don't like walking around with people thinking I'm doing uncool s--, because there's nothing I'm doing that's uncool. It's all innovative. You just might not understand it yet. But it's cool. Family is super cool. Going home to one girl every night is super cool. Just going home and getting on the floor and playing with your child is super cool. Not wearing a red leather jacket, and just looking like a dad and s--, is like super cool. Having someone that I can call Mom again. That s-- is super cool.

  Kanye West

  Girl, Mom, Children

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