My Dad Quotes - Page 15

• I had the best of both worlds when I was a kid. I'd spend a quiet week with my mum, then I'd go to my dad's property in the Adelaide Hills, where there were all these kids and animals running around.

  Teresa Palmer

  Running, Dad, Kids

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• My dad is such a good man, hard-working.

  Kelly Reilly

  Dad, Hard Work, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com.

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• Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.

  Lydia M. Child

  Family, Fathers Day, Children

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• My dad believes in God, I think. I'm not sure if my mom does. I don't.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Mom, Dad, Believe

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• I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him and many of these scholars who visited and came around the dining table, the lunch table, and attended many lectures with my dad. And so I learned the apprentice way.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Dad, Father, Lunch

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• I was definitely incredibly close to my dad, in a way that was all-encompassing. I am close to my mum, too, but there were areas that she and I did not share. So his loss to me was huge, personally and professionally. He believed in me, not just as a father, but as a director, and that always meant a lot.

  Natasha Richardson

  Dad, Father, Loss

  "My family and other actors". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2003.

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• You know, I'm just - I'm really happy for my dad.

  Nicole Richie

  Dad, Really Happy, Knows

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• I'm an artist, and I go in the studio and make my music. And then I'll give it to my dad and he does what he does. And he does, you know, the press, and figuring out shows and whatnot. When it comes to my artistic freedom, he doesn't, like, step on my toes or anything.

  Ashlee Simpson

  Dad, Artist, Giving

  "Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. October 22, 2005.

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• My dad is a really honest, hardworking, straight guy.

  Joe Lando

  Dad, Guy, Honest

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• Going through the grief period of my dad and losing him - that was the worst thing because you know when you get that call. When you are seven, eight years old, you have that almost vision in your mind of what that's going to be like and what your going to feel like and it doesn't prepare you.

  Richie Sambora

  Dad, Grief, Eight

  "Richie Sambora gets through his tough times". Access Hollywood, www.today.com. February 15, 2008.

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• My Dad hated his job. He sold overcoats, but he wanted to make movies. He had a failed career working with the Ritz Brothers - they were like the Marx Brothers, only a tier below. I always had a picture in my mind of him in a straw hat.

  Steve Sabol

  Brother, Jobs, Dad

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

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• Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life. ~Tom Wolfe

  Tom Wolfe

  Dad, Children, Father

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• My dad told me when I went into high school, 'It's not what you do when you walk in the door that matters. It's what you do when you walk out.' That's when you've made a lasting impression.

  Jim Thome

  Dad, School, Doors

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

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• My dad is kind of a rascal, like in a Dickensian sense. He just goes from career to career.

  Benjamin Walker

  Dad, Careers, Kind

  "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof's Benjamin Walker on Dancing Ballet and His Repo-Man Days". Interview with Jada Yuan, www.vulture.com. January 21, 2013.

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• My dad has always been my coach. And I've spent so much time with him. So he's one of my best friends. And I can talk to him about everything.

  Caroline Wozniacki

  Dad, My Best Friend, Coaches

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

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• My mum's parents were from Ireland, my dad's mum was American-Irish.

  Dominic West

  Dad, Parent, Mum

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Yeah, my dad was in the foreign service. We lived in India, Indonesia and Africa, and we traveled a lot from those places. I was 10 when we moved back, and I felt like the odd guy out. It wasn't until later that I appreciated it. But coming back I didn't know any TV shows or music, which was even worse.

  Dylan Walsh

  Dad, Tv Shows, Guy

  "Dylan Walsh Talks ‘Unforgettable’ Role, Working With Poppy Montgomery" by Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 07, 2012.

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• When I was a teenager, my dad used to call me 'Hollywood' because I wore sunglasses all the time, even at night. Cue song.

  Michael Weatherly

  Song, Dad, Teenager

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• My parents, last time we went to Ikea, got into a huge fight, almost got divorced. My dad accidentally put his fist through the wood. I don't know what it was made of. Just going there it's like a maze. My mom makes me go. I get lost. It's very stressful.

  Jedediah Bila

  Mom, Dad, Fighting

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Another thing I liked about my Dad at church: he did his sleeping at home. He never used the church as an adult nursery.

  Vance Havner

  Fathers Day, Dad, Home

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• Growing up, I had a front row seat to seeing two people work really hard. My dad scrubbed toilets at a private Catholic school for a while and that was to help me get through school.

  Mia Love

  Growing Up, Dad, School

  "In Utah, GOP House Candidate Out To Make History". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. May 3, 2012.

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• Before I was going to be an actress, I was going to be a veterinarian! I thought I was one as a child. I was the kid who was like, 'Daddy! I want a kitty! It needs a mommy!' And my dad was such a sucker. Every time I would beg, with tears flying down my face, about how this animal needs love, needs a home. He would cave.

  AnnaLynne McCord

  Dad, Children, Kids

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

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• Also, to be honest, my dad wanted me to be an athlete. And I think all sons want to prove something to their dad. So now, aged 35, I want to see what I can achieve physically.

  Joe Manganiello

  Dad, Athlete, Son

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• I think you’re possessed.” “Old news.” “Huh. Anyone I know?” “My dad. It’s a family issue I’m working on.

  Devon Monk

  Dad, Thinking, Issues

  Devon Monk (2010). “Magic at the Gate: An Allie Beckstrom Novel”, p.204, Penguin

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• He rolled his eyes. "First, my Dad's Korean and my mom was Swedish. Second, I totally suck at math. I don't like cuckoo clocks or skiing or fancy chocolate either." I sputtered a laugh. "I think that's Swiss.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Mom, Dad, Eye

  Kelley Armstrong (2008). “The Summoning: Number 1 in series”, p.196, Hachette UK

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