Dad Quotes - Page 8

• Our dad was a great guy and we will never forget him.

  Lara St. John

  Guy, Never Forget, Forget Him

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• Politicians... talk in generalities and lies, and I think they've caused all our grief. They're so awful, they're really funny. I hate thinking this because my dad loved politics.

  Paul Lynde

  Lying, Hate, Grief

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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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• 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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• One of the things I am very aware of not having in my life is the love of my father. ...but I know now that it is hard to make up that loss in the life of a daughter.
  It's your dad who tells you that you are beautiful.
  Its your dad who picks you up over his head and carries you on his shoulders.
  It's your did who will fight the monsters under your bed.
  It's your dad who tells you that you are worth a lot, so don't settle for the first guy who tells you you're pretty.

  Sheila Walsh

  Beautiful, Daughter, Father

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• My mum is Croatian, and obviously she's female and she's very emotional, very hot-blooded, very touchy-feely, whereas I think my dad's quite British.

  Tamara Ecclestone

  Emotional, Thinking, Hot

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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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• My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him.

  Amy Sedaris

  Boyfriend, Father, Good Relationship

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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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• 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 dad was good with actions.

  William Shatner

  Father, Action, My Dad

  "William Shatner Interview S#*! MY DAD SAYS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 19, 2010.

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• I realized I could run after finding out that my dad used to run and it gave me the morale that if he did it then maybe I could also run.

  David Rudisha

  Running, Father, Used

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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 knew that I needed to do something that I desperately loved. There was a period where I did question if it was acting because I knew that I would be making things hard on myself. I knew that there was going to be a little bit of a hullabaloo because of my dad being who he is and all that.

  Colin Hanks

  Father, Acting, Would Be

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

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• I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.

  O. J. Simpson

  Mother, Significant, My Dad

  "O.J. Simpson: 10 years later". "Dateline" with Katie Couric, www.nbcnews.com. June 18, 2004.

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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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• 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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• My dad came over to the house... went into his pocket and pulled out a handful of money, and began to pass it out to the children... This was the same man who, when I was his child, I would ask him for 50 cents, this man would tell me his life's story.

  Bill Cosby

  Children, Men, House

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• The real slums are another matter. The bad parts of Tondo are as bad as any place I've seen, ancient, filthy houses swarmed with the poor and stinking of sewage and trash. But there are worse parts - squatter areas where people live under cardboard, in shipping crates, behind tacked-up newspapers. Dad would march you straight to the basement with a hairbrush in his hand if he caught you keeping your hamster cage like this.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Real, Hands, People

  P. J. O'Rourke (2016). “Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of . . .”, p.62, Pan Macmillan

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• Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church.

  Lynn Johnston

  Inspiring, Mom, Stay Strong

  Interview with Tom Heintjes, cartoonician.com. 1994.

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• My dad was a labourer and my mum had exactly the same job as Noel Gallagher's mum - she was a dinner lady at our local school. Everyone comes over from Ireland and they get the same jobs.

  Danny Boyle

  Jobs, School, Noel

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