Dad Quotes - Page 29

• I think I might get laid more...by my dad.

  Tom DeLonge

  Thinking, Might, Getting Laid

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• My dad has had a rare form of leukemia since I was in about 7th grade. But they've come up with some amazing drugs since then and he's doing really well today.

  Tom DeLonge

  Drug, Today, Leukemia

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• [T]ruly grand and powerful theories [...] do not and cannot rest upon single observations. Evolution is an inference from thousands of independent sources, the only conceptual structure that can make unified sense of all this disparate information. The failure of a particular claim usually records a local error, not the bankruptcy of a central theory. [...] If I mistakenly identify your father's brother as your own dad, you don't become genealogically rootless and created de novo. You still have a father; we just haven't located him properly.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Brother, Powerful, Father

  "Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms". Book by Stephen Jay Gould, "Mr. Sophia's Pony", p. 155, 1998.

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• It takes a heap o' children to make a home that's true,And home can be a palace grand, or just a plain, old shoe;But if it has a mother dear, and a good old dad or two,Why, that's the sort of good old home for good old me and you.

  Louis Untermeyer

  Mother, Children, Home

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• Scripture has always been a part of my life. My dad was a pastor. My mother was a speaker, writer, and teacher. I memorized Scripture from the time I was little.

  Gloria Gaither

  Mother, Teacher, Littles

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• After my last divorce, I said I was absolutely going to marry somebody in another field, an aid worker or something. Then I met Brad, everything I wasn't looking for, but the best man, the best father I could possibly wish for, you know? I don't see him as an actor. I see him very much as a dad, as somebody who loves travel and architecture more than being in movies.

  Angelina Jolie

  Father, Divorce, Men

  "A Woman in Full" by Rich Cohen, www.vanityfair.com. July 2008.

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• When I was three, my dad thought it would be hilarious to teach me swear words, then have me say them to his friends. They would laugh and laugh. I realize now the laugh was pure shock value, but it felt really good, and I've been chasing it ever since.

  Sarah Silverman

  Laughing, Would Be, Three

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• What's changed? I'm a dad. That's fundamental. Watching your kids grow, you go back a bit. You can watch a bug crawling around for minutes at a time--just sit and marvel at its complexity, the utter bugness of it. I've learned to do that again.

  Bob Weir

  Kids, Watches, Fundamentals

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• I must speak the truth, even at the risk of being ostracized by my fellow scribblers. In fact, anticipating their rage, I have already applied for a place in the Canada Council's witness-protection program. This because, much as it pains me to turn on my kind, I fear the time has come to admit that far too many celebrated writers were outrageous liars, philanderers, drunks, druggies, unsuitable babysitters, plagiarists, psychopaths, parasites, cowards, indifferent dads or moms and bad credit risks.

  Mordecai Richler

  Mom, Pain, Liars

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• When a dad admits he is wrong or asks for help, he allows the child to see him- or herself as adequate even when she or he is also wrong. It encourages children to make suggestions and, therefore, to discover their creativity because they have a chance of making a contribution.

  Warren Farrell

  Children, Creativity, Suggestions

  "Father and Child Reunion". Book by Warren Farrell, 2001.

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• Just as the Depression left a generation of dads feeling they never had enough money, so father deprivation is leaving a generation of sons and daughters with different psychic wounds.

  Warren Farrell

  Daughter, Father, Son

  "Father and Child Reunion". Book by Warren Farrell, 2001.

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• The deeper purpose of a more positive attitude toward men is a better life for the children who are parented by the men who are their dads and stepdads; less shame for our sons who will become men; and, for our daughters, a deeper understanding of men's desire to please that leaves them feeling their willingness to please is not unrequited but returned - allowing our daughters to feel less lonely and more loved. If we earn more and love less, we pay for a home in which we do not live.

  Warren Farrell

  Daughter, Lonely, Children

  "Why Men Earn More". Book by Warren Farrell, 2005.

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• In a sense, in the area of child care, children's relationships with parents' working has come full circle. We have gone from the mom-and-pop store (or mom-and-pop farm), with its integration of child care and work, to children-at-home and dad-at-work; to the mom-plus-daddy working at home, with its integration of childcare and work again. From mom-and-pop back to mom-and-pop.

  Warren Farrell

  Mom, Children, Home

  Warren Farrell (2005). “Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap--and what Women Can Do about it”, p.131, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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• Dads in the family are even more important than women in the workplace. The workplace benefits from women, but the family needs dads.

  Warren Farrell

  Important, Needs, Benefits

  "Father and Child Reunion". Book by Warren Farrell, 2001.

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• All societies that have survived based on their ability to prepare their sons to be disposable, in war and at work - and therefore as dads.

  Warren Farrell

  War, Son, Ability

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• Industrialization created the Father's Catch-22: a dad loving his children by being away from the love of his children.

  Warren Farrell

  Children, Father, Industrialization

  "Father and Child Reunion". Book by Warren Farrell, 2001.

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• Programs like WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) subsidize the exclusion of dads.

  Warren Farrell

  Children, Exclusion, Program

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• At this moment in history, millions of 'working dads' are desiring to do what they do not feel they have the right to do: be more devoted as a dad, less devoted as a worker. This feeling is far more ubiquitous among men executives than women executives in many areas of the world because, for instance, Asia-Pacific women executives today are more than six times as likely to not have children than men executives are. The Asia-Pacific executive man is about six times as likely to be a working dad as an executive woman is to be a working mom.

  Warren Farrell

  Mom, Children, Men

  Warren Farrell (2005). “Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap--and what Women Can Do about it”, p.113, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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• My dad's side of the family ... they're a real bizarre bunch, going back to the original colonies. That side's got a real tough strain of alcoholism. It goes back generations and generations, so that you can't remember when there was a sober grandfather.

  Sam Shepard

  Real, Grandfather, Generations

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• Dad decided not to vote for Donner after all. He didn't vote for anyone. He said politicians turned his stomach.

  Octavia Butler

  Vote, Politician, Said

  Octavia E. Butler (2017). “Earthseed: The Complete Series”, p.38, Open Road Media

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• And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon, Little boy blue and the man in the moon. "When you coming home, dad?" "I don't know when, But we'll get together then. You know we'll have a good time then.

  Harry Chapin

  Home, Cat, Boys

  Song: Cats In The Cradle

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• I remember my mother would get upset with me 'cause she said I walked like my dad. But I think it was more like, there's something about you that's not quite ladylike and femme. And then when I got older - once I came out, my mom and grandma were horrified and just kind of like, where did we go wrong?

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Mom, Mother, Grandma

  "Jacqueline Woodson On Growing Up, Coming Out And Saying Hi To Strangers". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 10, 2014.

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• My Dad was overweight and unhealthy, and he died young. I wasn't going to let that happen to me.

  Jack LaLanne

  Young, Overweight, Unhealthy

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• My dad always told me that perseverance furthers. He was right.

  Elaine Paige

  Perseverance, My Dad

  "Portrait of the Artist: Elaine Paige, Actor". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2007.

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• The hardest part about parenting is when I have to be The Dad--aka the Fun-Sucker--as opposed to being a friend.

  James Patterson

  Fun, Aka, Hardest

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