My Dad Quotes - Page 4

• One of the things my dad kept instilling in me was the joy of the game. He made it fun for me. A lot of the time I see kids that don't enjoy being out there and that's a shame; you're supposed to enjoy the game.

  Tiger Woods

  Fun, Dad, Kids

  "Talk Asia" with Lorraine Hahn, cnn.com. December 23, 2001.

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• That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all.

  August Strindberg

  Funny, Boyfriend, Fathers Day

  August Strindberg (2014). “The Son of a Servant”, p.18, The Floating Press

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• I tell ya, I was an ugly kid. I was so ugly that my dad kept the kid's picture that came with the wallet he bought.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Dad, Kids, Ugly

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• My dad always had this little sign on his desk: 'The bigger your head is, the easier your shoes are to fill'. He really drilled that in.

  Phil Jackson

  Basketball, Motivation, Dad

  "Phil Jackson: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. May 8, 2011.

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• I don't want my dad to say, 'My daughter is an actress on a TV show.' I want him to say, 'My daughter cares about people.' I would love to know that I'm a role model in Hollywood.

  AnnaLynne McCord

  Daughter, Mother, Dad

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Since I was born I remember my dad and my mom always embracing diversity and differences among people and that being the core of America and happiness and all those different things. And that goes along with equality and you should treat everybody equal and be fair and not judge people and dislike people because they are different, and embrace and enjoy people because of the differences they have.

  Connor Barwin

  Mom, Dad, Gay

  "Houston Texan Connor Barwin on marriage equality, his gay brother and NFL culture". Interview with Jim Buzinski, www.outsports.com. June 11, 2012.

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• Viola blows out a thoughtful air. "My dad used to say, 'There's only forward, Vi, only outward and up.'" "There's only forward," I repeat. "Outward and up," she says.

  Patrick Ness

  Dad, Blow, Thoughtful

  Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)

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• He slid his hand onto Riley's bare abdomen. "I got to thinkin' that a few years down the line, when yer older, what if that was our baby and I could feel it right here under my hand. Feel the life we'd created." Riley's eyes moistened. "Girl or boy?" "Doesn't matter. If it's a girl, we can name her after my gran. Her name was Emily Rose." "Hmm...I like that. Maybe the boy could be Paul Arthur, like my dad." "Yeah, that works. But that's all the way down the line, isn't it?" It might never come to pass.

  Jana Oliver

  Girl, Baby, Dad

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• After all, this is a guy that tried to kill my dad at one time.

  George W. Bush

  Time, Dad, Guy

  Remarks by the President at John Cornyn for Senate Reception, The Hyatt Regency, Houston, Texas, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. September 26, 2002.

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• ...Something about, 'I love my dad, I love my dad, makes me feel better when I'm sad ... I love you to the moon and back.

  Peter Facinelli

  Dad, Love You, Feel Better

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• Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him into that predicament. But a child does owe his father a debt, if Dad, having gotten him into this peck of trouble, takes off his coat and buckles down to the job of showing his son how best to crash through it.

  Clarence Budington Kelland

  Fathers Day, Gratitude, Jobs

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• There's a lot of research behind the scenes that you don't get to see, but I have an instinct that my dad nurtured from when I was born. I was very lucky then.

  Steve Irwin

  Dad, Intuition, Lucky

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• On one level, going bust didn't bother me. It was the 80s, and there wasn't the stigma about bankruptcy that you might think. My mates weren't bothered. My dad was in business.. he knew that it happened, too. He loaned me the money to bail me out, and I got a loan from the bank to pay him back.

  Simon Cowell

  Friendship, Dad, Business

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• My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter's life, and she deserved two parents, which is part of the rationale behind us staying married for 30 years.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Daughter, Mother, Dad

  "Samuel L. Jackson: What I've Learned" by John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. December 15, 2010.

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• You know that family is going to be there for you no matter what. My dad gave me a freakin' kidney! But it's also the families that you create outside of your family. And you really find out what kind of people you're friends with.

  Sarah Hyland

  Giving Up, Dad, Don't Give Up

  Buography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I’m not complaining about Romance Being Dead - I’ve just described a happy marriage as based on talking about plants and a canceled Ray Romano show and drinking milkshakes: not exactly rose petals and gazing into each other’s eyes at the top of the Empire State Building or whatever. I’m pretty sure my parents have gazed into each other’s eyes maybe once, and that was so my mom could put eyedrops in my dad’s eyes.

  Mindy Kaling

  Mom, Dad, Drinking

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.186, Crown/Archetype

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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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• 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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• 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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• Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad.

  Anne Geddes

  Relationship, Dad, Father

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• My dad, as you probably know, was the governor of Michigan and was the head of a car company. But he was born in Mexico... and had he been born of, uh, Mexican parents, I'd have a better shot at winning this. But he was unfortunately born to Americans living in Mexico. He lived there for a number of years. I mean, I say that jokingly, but it would be helpful to be Latino.

  Mitt Romney

  Dad, Stupid, Mean

  "Romney better off as a Latino?" by Ruben Navarrette, www.cnn.com. September 19, 2012.

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• I think that my strong determination for justice comes from the very strong, dynamic personality of my father ... I have rarely ever met a person more fearless and courageous than my father ... The thing that I admire most about my dad is his genuine Christian character. He is a man of real integrity, deeply committed to moral and ethical principles. He is conscientious in all of his undertakings ... If I had a problem I could always call Daddy.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Fathers Day, Strong

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• My dad, like any coach, has always stressed the fundamentals. He taught me responsibility, accountability, and the importance of hard work.

  Steve Young

  Fathers Day, Dad, Responsibility

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• When I was a kid, I said to my father one afternoon, 'Daddy, will you take me to the zoo?' He answered, 'If the zoo wants you, let them come and get you.

  Jerry Lewis

  Fathers Day, Zoos, Dad

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• My dad used to say 'Always fight fire with fire,' which is probably why he got thrown out of the the fire brigade.

  Harry Hill

  Fathers Day, Dad, Fighting

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