Daddy Quotes - Page 4

• It was a bitter moment for us. We weren't two mature parents. We were just two kids playing grown-up. We still needed Mommy and Daddy's permission, blessings, and money to survive.

  Erma Bombeck

  Kids, Blessing, Two

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• Why?' is always the most difficult question to answer. You know where you are when someone asks you 'What's the time?' or 'When was the battle of 1066?' or 'How do these seatbelts work that go tight when you slam the brakes on, Daddy?' The answers are easy and are, respectively, 'Seven-thirty in the evening,' 'Ten-fifteen in the morning,' and 'Don't ask stupid questions.

  Douglas Adams

  Morning, Stupid, Difficult Questions

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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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• 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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• It's always the mother's fault, ain't it?" she said softly, collecting her coat. "That boy turn out bad cause his mama a drunk, or she a junkie. She let him run wild, she don't teach him right from wrong. She never home when he back from school. Nobody ever say his daddy a drunk, or his daddy not home after school. And nobody ever say they some kids just damned mean.

  Lionel Shriver

  Mother, Running, Home

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• Daddy, What's the horizontal tango?

  Simone Elkeles

  Tango, Horizontal

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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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• Where there must be a choice, a girl will choose Daddy. Even if you are Mommy, you concede that this must be so: you remember when you were a girl, too.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Girl, Choices, Remember

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• She's no lady. Her songs are all unbelievably unhappy or lewd. It's called Blues. She sings about sore feet, sexual relations, baked goods, killing your lover, being broke, men called Daddy, women who dress like men, working, praying for rain. Jail and trains. Whiskey and morphine. She tells stories between verses and everyone in the place shouts out how true it all is.

  Ann-Marie MacDonald

  Song, Rain, Men

  Ann-Marie Macdonald (2010). “Fall on Your Knees”, p.474, Vintage Canada

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• You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it's others has to know why it is, and this boy is one of the latters. He's going to be into everything!

  Flannery O'Connor

  Boys, Asking, Said

  Flannery O'Connor (2016). “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, p.14, Faber & Faber

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• Meltdown when we get home. Mom keeps chocolate for meltdowns. Daddy always has them when Uncle Jonas visits." -David Lyons from Tanner's Scheme-

  Lora Leigh

  Mom, Uncles, Home

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• Louis-Cesare’s anger suddenly filled the small room like water, and in a heartbeat his eyes went from silver tinged to as solid as two antique coins. I sat frozen, awash in a sea of power. I was beginning to understand why Mircea had wanted him along, only Daddy had failed to mention anything about the hair-trigger temper. I guess he assumed the red hair would clue me in.

  Karen Chance

  Eye, Hair, Sea

  Karen Chance (2008). “Midnight's Daughter”, p.151, Penguin

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• I really have to wonder who or what made Daddy become this way. Babies aren't born cruel or filled with sick desire. Evil is not intrinsic. It's fashioned.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Baby, Evil, Sick

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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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• Daddy always said the only thing worth begging for was your life, but maybe he was wrong. Maybe sometimes your love is a little bit worth begging for, too.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Love Is, Littles, Sometimes

  Gabrielle Zevin (2012). “All These Things I've Done”, p.198, Pan Macmillan

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• You are demonstrating to men that they can come back and get their kids. All of those fatherless sons and daddy-less daughters and the men who didn't know how to go back, you are demonstrating to the world that they can.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Daughter, Kids, Son

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• Wives of ballplayers, when they teach their children their prayers, should instruct them to say: God bless mommy, God bless daddy, and God bless Babe Ruth! He's upped daddy's paycheck by 15 to 40 percent!

  Waite Hoyt

  Baseball, Prayer, Children

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• Mess with my weed again and I’ll be informing Daddy that there was an early casualty on the mission.” I saw him wince at my designation for Mircea and grinned.

  Karen Chance

  Weed, Saws, Casualties

  Karen Chance (2008). “Midnight's Daughter”, p.55, Penguin

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• Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage in their development.

  David Gottesman

  Daughter, Fathers Day, Mother

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• Bidding the wizard farewell, he turned to his daughter, who held up her finger and said, “Daddy, look — one of the gnomes actually bit me!” “How wonderful! Gnome saliva is enormously beneficial!” said Mr. Lovegood, seizing Luna’s outstretched finger and examining the bleeding puncture marks. “Luna, my love, if you should feel any burgeoning talent today — perhaps an unexpected urge to sing opera or to declaim in Mermish — do not repress it! You may have been gifted by the Gernumblies!” Ron, passing them in the opposite direction, let out a loud snort.

  J. K. Rowling

  Daughter, Farewell, Opposites

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• My father can not finish a sentence. When we were kids he would go, 'Girls the most important thing in life to remember is...' 'Daddy, what is it?' 'What's what, honey?' 'The most important thing in life to remember.' 'Oh, what's that?'

  Caroline Rhea

  Girl, Fathers Day, Kids

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