Daddy Quotes - Page 3

• Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.'

  Quincy Jones

  Tasks, Done, Wells

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• I wouldn't say I'm a mummy's girl, but I have grown to have a tremendous appreciation of her as a woman. I was very much a daddy's girl.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Girl, Appreciation, Mummy

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• America used to live by the motto "Father Knows Best." Now we're lucky if "Father Knows He Has Children." We've become a nation of sperm donors and baby daddies.

  Stephen Colbert

  Baby, Children, Father

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• That's what Glocks are. High-precision killing machines that scream "Daddy Issues.

  Richard Kadrey

  Issues, Machines, Scream

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• What did I do to make Mommy leave?” “You didn’t do anything. This isn’t your fault.” “Then why?” she’d wailed. “I don’t know,” her daddy had said, and he looked so sad. “It isn’t fair!” “No, it isn’t, baby. Not by a mile. The world’s only as fair as you can make it. Takes a lot of fight. A lot of fight. But if you stay in here, in your own little cave, that’s one less fighter on the side of fair.

  Libba Bray

  Baby, Fighting, Caves

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• Good morning, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? Listen closely: You'll hear their feet Beating out and beating out a - You think It's a happy beat? Listen to it closely: Ain't you heard something underneath like a - What did I say? Sure, I'm happy! Take it away! Dream Boogie Hey, pop! Re-bop! Mop! Y-e-a-h!

  Langston Hughes

  Dream, Morning, Thinking

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1951-1967”, p.27, University of Missouri Press

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• The Shades never recorded anything, Little Daddy and the Bachelors recorded a couple of records, ya.

  Tommy Chong

  Couple, Records, Littles

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• Daddy, What's the horizontal tango?

  Simone Elkeles

  Tango, Horizontal

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• Do you even really know how vampires are made?' 'Well, when a mommy vampire and a daddy vampire love each other very much.

  Cassandra Clare

  Vampire, Facts Of Life, Made

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1392, Simon and Schuster

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• I'll tell you what, I love my daddy. And he's so special. He's meant so much to me, so it's not a thorn in my side to be known as Billy Graham's daughter. It's a privilege.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Daughter, Special, Sides

  "Taking The Reins Of Billy Graham's Legacy". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. October 10, 2011.

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• There used to be a huge hole in my life that I wrote many albums about. I didn't realise it was a wife-and-daughter-shaped hole. They've plugged that gap. Everything I do, I do for them now. When daddy goes to work, it's daddy going to work, not Rob going to work. I feel like there's a purpose to everything.

  Robbie Williams

  Daughter, Wife, Albums

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• My parents divorced, and I didn't have much of a daddy growing up.

  Pink

  Growing Up, Parent, Divorced

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• My kids are just waiting for me at home. I'm their father. They're wondering, 'When's Daddy coming home?'

  Brad Pitt

  Father, Home, Kids

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• I remember when I was like 19 years old and I started a desk calendar company to pay for my first short film, just so I could say one day that my daddy didn't pay for my first short film. And I really established myself in the film festival world.

  Jason Reitman

  Years, One Day, Calendars

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• The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

  Joel Osteen

  Father

  "Joel Osteen: The Power of Positivity". Interview with Lisa Ryan, www.cbn.com.

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• Daddy looked at her hard, and right before my eyes, he changed. I watched him inflate again, shake off his own emotions and puff himself up for her. Become her man. Her rock. I smiled. I loved him so much. He'd dragged mom kicking and screaming from grief once before and I knew I could rest easy that he would never let grief steal her from him again. No matter what happened to me.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Mom, Grief, Eye

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.826, Dell

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• Cole made a hissing sound. "Are you inside yet? God bless America and all her sons. What is taking you so long?" The front door was locked. "Here, talk to Grace" "Mommy isn't going to give a different answer than Daddy," Cole said, but I handed her the phone anyway.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Son, Phones, Doors

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.833, Scholastic Inc.

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• Daddy is trying really fugging hard to think of a not-terrifying reason why you'd wake Daddy up in the middle of the night to ask that fugging question. But no. No. Daddy does not have a match or a lighter.

  John Green

  Night, Thinking, Trying

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.102, Penguin

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• Well, Daddy, I used to believe that artists went crazy in the process of creating the beautiful works of art that kept society sane. Nowadays, though, artists make intentionally ugly art that’s only supposed to reflect society rather than inspire it. So I guess we’re all loony together now, loony rats in the shithouse of commercialism.

  Tom Robbins

  Beautiful, Art, Crazy

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.298, Bantam

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• And almost instantly, Daddy made everything seem just fine. Even when it wasn't.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Made, Fine, Seems

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Identical”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

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• I let myself feel good and sorry for myself, but only for a second. Daddy always said that the most useless of all human emotions was self-pity.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Sorry, Self, Feel Good

  Gabrielle Zevin (2011). “All These Things I've Done”, p.172, Macmillan

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• Tragedy is when someone ends up dead. Everything else is just a bump in the road. For the record, that was something Daddy used to say.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Tragedy, Bumps, Records

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• It's a weakness to apologize before hearing what the other person's grievances are. You don't want to end up creating new grievances where there were none to begin with. Another Daddy-ism, if you hadn't already guessed.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Creating, Weakness, Isms

  Gabrielle Zevin (2011). “All These Things I've Done”, p.284, Macmillan

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• I told her about the man, not my daddy, she said, He was only making you into a real girl. I didn’t understand. But I made myself believe her. I was a real girl now. But what was I before?

  Ellen Hopkins

  Girl, Real, Believe

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• Sorry to bother you,” Bella said over the wailing. “But she wants her daddy.

  J.R. Ward

  Sorry, Zsadist, Want

  J.R. Ward (2008). “Father Mine: Zsadist and Bella's Story: A Black Dagger Brotherhood Novella”, p.93, Penguin

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