Dad Quotes - Page 14

• I'm into being a dad, that's where my focus is most of the time. I'm an actor that's my job, but it's not my life. I have a lot of other interests too.

  Paul Walker

  Jobs, Focus, Actors

  FaceBook post by Paul Walker from Mar 02, 2012

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• No, like I said, my dad was never really part of the tennis. His involvement around what I did with the tennis and with my mom and my grandparents was really not a part of my life.

  Jimmy Connors

  Mom, Grandparent, Tennis

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• It was okay for Wayne Gretzky's dad, for instance, to give him a hockey stick, or Joe Montana's dad to give him a football, or Larry Bird's dad to give him a basketball, but it wasn't okay for Gloria Connors to give her son a tennis racquet.

  Jimmy Connors

  Basketball, Football, Son

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. July 9, 2013.

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• As a kid in Fayetteville, N.C., I played golf all day, every day, a lot of it by myself. I spent hundreds of hours around the greens at Cape Fear Valley, the course my dad owned, hitting every shot I could think of - the one-hop-and-release, the chip that lands dead, the explosion from a bad lie.

  Ray Floyd

  Lying, Kids, Golf

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• I used to help my dad with a stall selling eggs when I was about 12. People were so hard up they would ask for one egg. But mostly no one came by at all. It was very demoralising.

  Lynne Truss

  Eggs, People, Helping

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2010.

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• But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met.

  Norman Lear

  Kids, Race, White

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 27, 2005.

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• My mother and dad played the fiddle and the guitar.

  Gordie Howe

  Mother, Guitar, Fiddle

  Interview with Arash Markazi, www.si.com. May 15, 2009.

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• When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less of a literary rivalry with him as I've gone on. I certainly don't feel I need his approval, although maybe that's because I'm confident that I've got it.

  Paul Theroux

  Writing, Needs, Gone

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• The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects. However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.

  Alan Bennett

  Journey, Weather, Alcohol

  Alan Bennett (2009). “A A Life Like Other People's”, p.80, Faber & Faber

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• You always hear people saying, 'I hope I'm not turning into my dad', but I'd be honoured if I became half as decent a bloke as he is.

  Johnny Vegas

  People, Half, Blokes

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• Dad had a music store, and he'd often bring home comedy albums that I would listen to. I started listening to Bob Newhart and Bill Cosby, and developing taste. They really influenced my style of comedy.

  Billy Crystal

  Home, Style, Listening

  "Billy Crystal: My family values" by Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2013.

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• You see, Dad, Professor McLuhan says that the environment that man creates becomes his medium for defining his role in it. The invention of type created linear, or sequential thought, separating thought from action. Now, with TV and folk singing, thought and action are closer and social involvement is greater. We again live in a village. Get it?

  Marshall McLuhan

  Men, Media, Singing

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

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• My dad used to flush my mother's head down the toilet. I was so screwed up.

  Jessica Hahn

  Mother, Toilets, Used

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• My grandfather was a lawyer, my dad was a lawyer, my mum was a lawyer, I got an uncle who's a lawyer, I got cousins that are lawyers.

  Benicio Del Toro

  Cousin, Uncles, Grandfather

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• My dad was one of the reasons I got into rock and roll, because I was learning the ropes of his business, which was selling powertools, and I was looking for a way out from under his heel. I was like, 'Where's the fun? Where's the glamour?

  Billy Idol

  Fun, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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

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• My role model is my dad.

  Sean William Scott

  Role Models, Roles, My Dad

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• When I was a boy, I used to pull a big cross saw with my dad. He'd use his right hand, so I'd have to use my left.

  Joe Frazier

  Boys, Hands, Use

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

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• My dad would always say, 'What can you do to make the world a better place?' Well, I can make people laugh.

  Jon Lovitz

  People, Laughing, World

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• My mom's been married three times; my dad has been married a lot. I didn't really see my dad that much.

  Skeet Ulrich

  Mom, Three, Married

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• I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we'd play together.

  Vince Gill

  Song, Play, House

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• In my case, I was born to parents who were very young, and I don't think they were entirely ready to have a child. My dad was going to college and working two or three jobs at the same time, and my mum was working and going to school.

  Gillian Anderson

  Jobs, Children, School

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• I was a momma's boy. I didn't get anything from Dad, except my body and baseball knowledge. The only time I spent with him was at the ballpark.

  Barry Bonds

  Baseball, Boys, Body

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

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• I didn't always want to be a dad.

  Liam Gallagher

  Want

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• My dad took me to my first movie.

  Steven Spielberg

  Movie, Actors, Firsts

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

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• My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.

  Hale Irwin

  Mom, Athlete, Athletic

  "Hale Irwin honored with Nicholson Award, talks golf and football". Interview, www.denverpost.com. May 8, 2012.

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