Dad Quotes - Page 7

• When I was younger it was, you know, my dad dressed up in drag on 'Bosom Buddies.' And that was what I was having to deal with at the time. And then around the time that I was into college was when he became statue-worthy I guess you could say.

  Colin Hanks

  Father, College, Drag

  "Actor Colin Hanks Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. November 4, 2011.

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• My dad has always been extremely supportive in every decision I've made and much more interested in me picking what I wanted to do.

  Colin Hanks

  Father, Decision, Supportive

  "Colin Hanks, Tom Hanks Team Up On-Screen". The PARADE Magazine Interview, parade.com. March 20, 2009.

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• I knew that I needed to do something that I desperately loved. There was a period where I did question if it was acting because I knew that I would be making things hard on myself. I knew that there was going to be a little bit of a hullabaloo because of my dad being who he is and all that.

  Colin Hanks

  Father, Acting, Would Be

  "Colin Hanks, Tom Hanks Team Up On-Screen". The PARADE Magazine Interview, parade.com. March 20, 2009.

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• Keep in my mind my dad didn't become a huge, huge mega actor until I was halfway through high school - so right around the time he's going through his big renaissance is right when I'm starting to do my high school revolting.

  Colin Hanks

  Father, School, Mind

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

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• "I was just like a pathological liar when I was a kid. I think I just wanted to one-up somebody. Somebody would be like, 'Oh, God, my legs hurt.' I'd be like, 'Your legs hurt? I'm getting mine amputated next week.' And that's actually how my mother found out. She came to school and somebody was like, 'God, that's such a shame about Jennifer's legs.' She made me purge. I had to spill out all of my lies. I was like, 'I said that Dad drove a barge, and we were millionaires, and you were pregnant, I had to get my legs amputated, and I spayed cats and dogs on the weekends.' Now I can't lie.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Life, Mother, Dog

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• I don't know much about only children. I was the middle one of three, and if ever I was alone with mum and dad, it was a rare moment.

  Elizabeth Hurley

  Children, Only Child, Three

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

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• I've wanted to be a drummer since I was about five years old. I used to play on a bath salt container with wires on the bottom, and on a round coffee tin with a loose wire fixed to it to give a snare drum effect. Plus there were always my Mum's pots and pans. When I was ten, my Mum bought me a snare drum. My Dad bought me my first full drum kit when I was 15. It was almost prehistoric. Most of it was rust.

  John Bonham

  Coffee, Years, Play

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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, Believe, Tennis

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• I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.

  O. J. Simpson

  Mother, Significant, My Dad

  "O.J. Simpson: 10 years later". "Dateline" with Katie Couric, www.nbcnews.com. June 18, 2004.

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• My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life.

  Elvis Stojko

  Mom, Dancer, Singers

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• As parents, we should remember that our lives may be the book from the family library which the children most treasure. Are our examples worthy of emulation? Do we live in such a way that a son or a daughter may say, ‘I want to follow my dad,’ or ‘I want to be like my mother’? Unlike the book on the library shelf, the covers of which shield its contents, our lives cannot be closed. Parents, we truly are an open book in the library of learning of our homes.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Daughter, Mother, Children

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• It is good to be Compared with the best player [Pele]. But my dad told me about Garrincha's style as he moved forward, went up, attacked and dribbled. Garrincha's style is more similar to Neymar's.

  Neymar

  Player, Style, Moved

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• My dad was a big believer in treating people well, oftentimes even when he himself wasn't well.

  Neil Cavuto

  People, Literature, Bigs

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• Some of my best memories are sitting on my dad's lap, cheering on Olga and Nadia, Carl Lewis and others for their brilliance and perfection.

  Michelle Obama

  Cheer, Memories, Perfection

  "Michelle Obama steals the show in Copenhagen" by Ed Henry, www.cnn.com. October 2, 2009.

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• My dad has no control over who works with me. Me, me and me alone has to take responsibility for anything.

  Shane MacGowan

  Responsibility, Take Me, Me Alone

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• I don't like walking around with people thinking I'm doing uncool s--, because there's nothing I'm doing that's uncool. It's all innovative. You just might not understand it yet. But it's cool. Family is super cool. Going home to one girl every night is super cool. Just going home and getting on the floor and playing with your child is super cool. Not wearing a red leather jacket, and just looking like a dad and s--, is like super cool. Having someone that I can call Mom again. That s-- is super cool.

  Kanye West

  Girl, Mom, Children

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• My dad came over to the house... went into his pocket and pulled out a handful of money, and began to pass it out to the children... This was the same man who, when I was his child, I would ask him for 50 cents, this man would tell me his life's story.

  Bill Cosby

  Children, Men, House

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• Nobody ever says, 'Hey daddy, thanks for knockin' out this rent.' 'Hey daddy, I sure love this hot water.' 'Hey daddy, it's easy to read with all this light.' Nobody give a fk about dads!

  Chris Rock

  Light, Sure Love, Giving

  "The Big City; Do Daddies Get as Good As They Give?" by John Tierney, www.nytimes.com. August 5, 1999.

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• The real slums are another matter. The bad parts of Tondo are as bad as any place I've seen, ancient, filthy houses swarmed with the poor and stinking of sewage and trash. But there are worse parts - squatter areas where people live under cardboard, in shipping crates, behind tacked-up newspapers. Dad would march you straight to the basement with a hairbrush in his hand if he caught you keeping your hamster cage like this.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Real, Hands, People

  P. J. O'Rourke (2016). “Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of . . .”, p.62, Pan Macmillan

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• Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.

  Edward Kennedy

  Pregnancy, History, Rumor

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church.

  Lynn Johnston

  Inspiring, Mom, Stay Strong

  Interview with Tom Heintjes, cartoonician.com. 1994.

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• My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Inspiring, Mom, Parenting

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• It was definitely a part of our life. I mean, my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietnam at the same time, so it wasn't just my dad's story, it was my mom's story too. And we definitely grew up listening to the stories.

  Vanessa Kerry

  Mom, Brother, War

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• The way I deal with arthritis is to keep moving. As long as I can play hard tennis, as long as I can ski or ride a horse - all kinds of things can come your way. As long as you can, do it. People who retire die. My dad retired and died shortly after. Just keep moving.

  Robert Redford

  Horse, Moving, Play Hard

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• My dad was a labourer and my mum had exactly the same job as Noel Gallagher's mum - she was a dinner lady at our local school. Everyone comes over from Ireland and they get the same jobs.

  Danny Boyle

  Jobs, School, Noel

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