Dad Quotes - Page 29

• 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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• The military infrastructure grew me. My faith in God is important, my belief in my country is important, my relationship to my family is important, the things that Mom and Dad tell you growing up are important.

  Tommy Franks

  Mom, Country, Growing Up

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• My mother's incredibly giving, almost too giving at times. And, my dad is a real logical person. He's got logic for every situation. They've been married for 24 years, so there was that stability, also. I really learned to think on my own at a very young age.

  Brian Austin Green

  Mother, Real, Thinking

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• I grew up in a household that was a labor household. My dad was a Teamster and a milk truck driver. My mother was a secretary. Neither of them got through high school. But they worked hard and they gave me very, very important opportunities to go to school, get a good education.

  Dick Gephardt

  Mother, School, Opportunity

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• Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical Society education committee, where he sat on the committee with Linus Pauling, who had authored a very phenomenally important textbook of chemistry.

  Peter Agre

  College, Oxford, Important

  "Nobel Laureate Peter Agre: From Aquaporins to Lutefisk". Interview with Steve Mirsky, www.scientificamerican.com. July 20, 2011.

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• When I was younger, there was a sort of stigma attached to my stamina. My dad took me swimming one day and I just was no good at it, so my dad said, 'Your stamina's bad.

  Charlie Bewley

  Swimming, One Day, Said

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• My dad and grandpa were in the army and as a country singer you're constantly playing at military bases all across the country and meeting soldiers and their families and hearing their stories.

  Dierks Bentley

  Country, Military, Army

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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 mom and my dad were married 56 years, and the fact that I reconciled with my dad I think made their marriage a little bit better as well.

  Larry Elder

  Mom, Thinking, Years

  "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. November 26, 2012.

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• If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be angry at the white man, to be angry at America, it's my dad, but he did not feel that way at all.

  Larry Elder

  Men, White, America

  "Radio talk show host Larry Elder". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 26, 2012.

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• My mom came from such humble beginnings and especially my dad as well. He didn't go to university.

  Petra Stunt

  Mom, Humble, Wells

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• I read Dad's books like I did before, now things are crystal clear. Lock the door in the bathroom, now I just can't get caught in here.

  Alice Cooper

  Book, Doors, Locks

  Song: Muscle Of Love, Album: Muscle of Love, 1973

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• Can't wait to date a supermodel, can't wait to sue my Dad. Can't wait to wreck a Ferrari, on the way to rehab.

  Brad Paisley

  Art, Media, Waiting

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• What I'd really like, Dad, is to borrow the car keys.

  Harry Chapin

  Family, Keys, Car

  Song: Cat's in the Cradle, 1974

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• As a father, I do everything my dad didn't do. My son Beau's birth changed my life.

  David Cassidy

  Father, Son, Birth

  "David Cassidy: My family values". Interview with Juliet Rix, www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2012.

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• I think I'd be a really good dad. So perhaps I'm doing society a disservice by not having as many kids as possible.

  David Cross

  Kids, Thinking, Disservice

  Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. September 02, 2009.

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• As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.

  David Crystal

  Kings, Years, Lear

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• The most challenging part of being a dad is self-restraint. So often your instinct is to teach and tell. I am constantly reminding myself to listen to them.

  Michael Chiklis

  Self, Challenges, Instinct

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

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• When you get pure joy out of 'being' rather than 'doing' or 'seeing,' that's when you realize how big and unexplainable some things are and being a dad is one of those very few things.

  Brendan Fehr

  Joy, Realizing, Bigs

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• Well my dad was a pretty good player at one stage and my two older brothers played golf as well. So there were always golf clubs flying around the house.

  Retief Goosen

  Brother, Golf, Player

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• I had my footballing heroes such as Bryan Robson and Diego Maradona but my dad was a rugby league star, and he was my real hero. But the relationship with my mum was rocky and we saw things that would affect any youngster.

  Ryan Giggs

  Stars, Real, Hero

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• I have great faith that Heaven's there and I'll see my brothers and my mom and dad when I get there.

  Ernie Harwell

  Mom, Brother, Heaven

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• My dad's a very shrewd, clever guy.

  C. Thomas Howell

  Clever, Guy, My Dad

  "C. Thomas Howell on The Outsiders, blackface, and how Marlboros got him cast in E.T". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. February 13, 2013.

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• My dad's more three-dimensional than Opie Taylor or Richie Cunningham. He even has a temper! He's a real person. But some people are disappointed by that.

  Bryce Dallas Howard

  Real, People, Three

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

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• My dad works in child protection and he's spent many, many years in that line of work.

  Chris Hemsworth

  Children, Years, Lines

  "Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston and Anthony Hopkins Interview THOR". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 3, 2011.

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