My Dad Quotes - Page 3

• My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.

  Sara Blakely

  Birthday, Dad, Growing Up

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• My dad was this sort of avant-garde guy who did all kinds of weird things. He was a true original and anybody who met him never forgot him.

  Paul Thomas Anderson

  Dad, Guy, Avant Garde

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• My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration.

  John L. Phillips

  Dad, War, Inspiration

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• My dad was the biggest influence on my life because he was never boring.

  Christian Bale

  Dad, Influence, Boring

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• My dad is my biggest source of inspiration. He's a lawyer, and when he'd get home, we always sat down and listened to music.

  Dan Reynolds

  Dad, Inspiration, Home

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• My dads music was a great inspiration to me.

  Julian Lennon

  Dad, Inspiration

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• You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even looking forward.

  Andre Agassi

  Sports, Dad, Believe

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• I am an obsessive garage cleaner - my wife and the neighbors make fun of me. I remember that my father was the same way, and now when I'm out there unearthing things in the garage, I realize I am becoming my dad!

  Chris O'Donnell

  Fun, Dad, Father

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• Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film.

  Mel Torme

  Movie, Uncles, Dad

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• My role model is my dad.

  Sean William Scott

  Dad, Role Models, Roles

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• When I was a kid, I thought my dad was a little bit harsh with me at times. Sometimes I needed an arm around me instead of my dad telling me what I did wrong, but it obviously worked.

  David Beckham

  Inspirational, Dad, Kids

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• I miss my dad every day, but I know he would be proud to see me continuing to swim and going for another shot at the Olympics.

  Eric Shanteau

  Dad, Missing, Swim

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• My dad just imprinted in my mind from a very young age that you always do what you say you're gonna do when you say you're gonna do it.

  Bob Corker

  Dad, Mind, Age

  "What I've Learned: Senator Bob Corker (R, Tenn.)" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 18, 2010.

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• I like to believe that I've got a lot of guardian warriors sittin' on my shoulder including my dad.

  Patrick Swayze

  Dad, Believe, Warrior

  "‘The View’ pays tribute to Patrick Swayze", www.today.com. September 15, 2009.

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• My dad never pushed me but the big thing is that he helped me by going out in the backyard and playing with me.

  Bart Starr

  Dad, Nfl, Backyards

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• I owe a lot to my dad, just for having provided the wrestling business for us to get into.

  Owen Hart

  Dad, Wrestling, Stewardship

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• My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.

  Tony Visconti

  Friends, Dad, Quick Wit

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• My dad's a scratch golfer and I've got the knack of seeing something and then replicating it. I saw my dad swing a club and I worked out how to do the same thing. My backswing and follow-through have been basically the same since I was two.

  Rory McIlroy

  Dad, Swings, Two

  "McIlroy a Master in the making when he thinks outside The Box". Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. April 6, 2009.

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• Memorial Day, the reason for it, fewer and fewer people know. It's just the first real weekend of summer, three-day weekend and so forth, barbecues, what have you. That's why I think education is important. I'm really glad my dad drilled into me these things that he had lived through and it helped me relate to him better and understand the things he thought were important and why he was raising me the way he was.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Summer, Memorial Day, Dad

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• Blaire, This was my grandmother’s. My father’s mother. She came to visit me before she passed away. I have fond memories of her visits and when she passed on she left this ring to me. In her will I was told to give it to the woman who completes me. She said it was given to her by my grandfather who passed away when my dad was just a baby but that she’d never loved another the way she’d loved him. He was her heart. You are mine. This is your something old. I love you, Rush

  Abbi Glines

  Mother, Baby, Dad

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• There are three stages of man: he believes in Santa Claus; he does not believe in Santa Claus; he is Santa Claus.

  Bob Phillips

  Funny, Christmas, Dad

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• I used to carry my dad's empty guitar case around the neighborhood because I wanted people to think I played the guitar. I would put flintstones vitamins in it in case I got tired, so I could pop some and keep walking.

  Kristen Wiig

  Dad, Women, Tired

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• But I killed a man just like my mother did. David says it’s okay because I didn’t mean to, and because he was about to kill that little kid. But I’m pretty sure my mom didn’t mean to kill my dad, either, so what difference does that make, meaning or not meaning to do something? Accident or on purpose, the result is the same, and that’s one fewer life than there should be in the world.

  Veronica Roth

  Mom, Mother, Dad

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• I told him what my dad had said. That got him laughing and as we pulled into the school parking lot, even the sight of Rafe waiting for me only made him roll his eyes. We got out. I glanced at Daniel. He sighed. "Go on." "You sound like you're giving a five-year-old permission to play with an unsuitable friend." "If the shoe fits..." I flipped him off. "Watch it or I won't marry you," he said. "Truck of no truck." I laughed and jogged over to Rafe. "Did he just say...?" Rafe began.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Dad, School, Eye

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• When I was going through the stuff with my dad and thinking about terms like restraining order and domestic violence, I was really just searching for a way to define what I was going through. I didn't really understand what it meant to disown a parent or not want to have a parent in your life. Even the word parent was confusing to me because my father came into my life so late in my teen years.

  Chelsea Martin

  Dad, Father, Thinking

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