Daddy Quotes - Page 15

• And make sure you tell daddy That I'm still his little girl Yeah I still feel like I'm where I'm supposed to be But don't forget to remember me

  Carrie Underwood

  Girl, Littles, Remember

  Song: Don't Forget to Remember Me Inside Your Heaven, Album: Some Hearts

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• My daddy used to tell me not to chew on somethin that was eatin you.

  Cormac McCarthy

  All The Pretty Horses, Used

  "All the Pretty Horses: Book 1 of The Border Trilogy".

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• No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That's already been taken care of: A Man Who Destroys His Own Home Shall Inherit the Wind.

  Dick Gregory

  Taken, Home, Kids

  Dick Gregory, Robert Lipsyte (1990). “Nigger”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• Hickory dickory dock my daddy’s nuts from shell shock. Humpty dumpty thought he was wise till gas came along and burned out his eyes. A dillar a dollar a ten o clock scholar blow off his legs and then watch him holler. Rockaby baby in the tree top don’t stop a bomb or you’ll probably flop. Now I lay me down to sleep my bombproof cellars good and deep but if I’m killed before I wake remember god its for your sake amen.

  Dalton Trumbo

  Wise, Baby, Sleep

  Dalton Trumbo (2007). “Johnny Got His Gun”, p.189, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• I nursed a worthless, pint drinker for twelve years and when my lazy, life-sucking, daddy finally died, I swore to God with tears in my eyes I'd never marry one. And then I did.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Eye, Years, Nurse

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.222, Penguin

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• No, Kramisha, he's not black. He's a killer bird with evil for his Daddy.

  P. C. Cast

  Evil, Bird, Black

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2010). “Burned: A House of Night Novel”, p.169, Macmillan

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• Daddy always said you only explained things to the people that actually mattered.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  People, Said

  Gabrielle Zevin (2011). “All These Things I've Done”, p.115, Macmillan

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• Shane: "Score," he said, and raised the crowbar in triumph. "Who's your daddy?" - Black Dawn

  Rachel Caine

  Black, Dawn, Triumph

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• Better world. Better life for everybody, every worker. Poor kids oughta be able to go anyplace their brains will take them. Not where Daddy or Mommy's pocketbooks can send them. Everybody oughta have health care, everybody oughta have some retirement security, every American. Every one. Everybody oughta have a decent good job. That's what I believe in, and that's what I fight every day to try to achieve.

  Richard Trumka

  Retirement, Jobs, Believe

  "Richard Trumka, American". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. November 21, 2011.

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• My son had his eighth birthday recently and we had a chance to borrow the film and show it to all of his friends that was at his birthday party and they loved it. I was a little nervous. I said they might not even like it, and say his daddy's movie is wack, but they loved it.

  Blair Underwood

  Birthday, Party, Son

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• Fathering is the most masculine thing a man can do.

  Frank Pittman

  Father, Men, Masculine

  "Fathers and Sons" by Frank Pittman, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 1993.

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• I was like any other inner-city kid with a chip on his shoulder because his daddy and his mommy wasn't together.

  Tracy Morgan

  Kids, Cities, Together

  "Tracy Morgan On Being 'The New Black'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 22, 2009.

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• Daddy, look — one of the gnomes actually bit me!

  J. K. Rowling

  Looks, Saliva, Gnome

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• Mommy is one of the chosen people … and daddy believes that Jesus is magic!

  Sarah Silverman

  Jesus, Believe, People

  "Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic". Documentary, Comedy, Music, 2005.

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• If you're still doing what mommy and daddy said for you to do (go to school, get a job, and save money), you're losing.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Jobs, School

  Twitter post from Aug 13, 2013

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• After Momma gave birth to twelve of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.

  Dolly Parton

  Kids, Twelve, Pedestal

  Twitter post from Aug 24, 2011

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• My life is nothing like the Daddy Day Care life. Me around the house is nothing like the Daddy Day Care dad.

  Eddie Murphy

  Dad, Day Care, House

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• You guys looking for my dad? People are always, like, looking for him, and he's never around. Daddy is so not here. And I mean that literally and spiritually.

  Eoin Colfer

  Dad, Mean, People

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• Daddy will explain. Come, he is blowing up monsters.

  Rick Riordan

  Monsters, Blowing Up

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• Grover wore his fake feet and his pants to pass as human. He wore a green rasta-style cap, because when it rained his curly hair flattened and you could just see the tips of his horns. His bright orange backpack was full of scrap metal and apples to snack on. In his pocket was a set of reed pipes his daddy goat had carved for him, even though he only knew two songs: Mozart's Piano Concerto no. 12 and Hilary Duff's "So Yesterday," both of which sounded pretty bad on reed pipes.

  Rick Riordan

  Song, Orange, Curly Hair

  Rick Riordan (2006). “The lightning thief”

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• Go on daddy-daughter dates and father-and-sons' outings with your children. As a family, go on campouts and picnics, to ball games and recitals, to school programs, and so forth. Having Dad there makes all the difference.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Daughter, Dad, Children

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• In the early years, I found a voice that was my voice and also partly my father's voice. But isn't that what you always do? Why do kids at 5 years old go into the closet and put their daddy's shoes on? Hey, my kids do it.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Father, Kids, Years

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• Everything I've done in my career is a result of growing up in rural Oklahoma, because if I hadn't had the training from Mama and Daddy to work hard, to do what I'm told, to take directions, to mind and to do a good job at anything I set out to do, then I wouldn't be where I am today.

  Reba McEntire

  Jobs, Growing Up, Hard Work

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• When me and my brother would go to see our daddy playing, there'd be 30 people in the audience. I was only 14 or 15, but I realised something was wrong.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Brother, People, Audience

  "A life in music: Wynton Marsalis". Interview with Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2009.

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• My earliest memories are the best. I always try to remember the good times when Daddy was alive.

  Jayne Mansfield

  Memories, Trying, Alive

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