Daddy Quotes - Page 6

• My daddy. He's so funny! My whole family jokes around a lot.

  Coco Jones

  Whole Family, Whole, Jokes

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• My mother, Southern to the bone, once told me, “All Southern literature can be summed up in these words: ‘On the night the hogs ate Willie, Mama died when she heard what Daddy did to Sister.’” She raised me up to be a Southern writer, but it wasn’t easy.

  Pat Conroy

  Mother, Night, Southern

  Pat Conroy (2016). “A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life”, p.144, Nan A. Talese

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• No, everybody's gotta learn, nobody's born knowin'. That Walter's as smart as he can be, he just gets held back sometimes because he has to stay out and help his daddy. Nothin's wrong with him. Naw, Jem, I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.

  Harper Lee

  Smart, Thinking, Helping

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• It was a good hald minute before I looked over at Todd. his eyes were slightly foggy, like he was waking up- reluctantly- from a lascivious dream. "I didn't know they still made them like that," he said.... "Cool, tough, retro-manly. The kind who only cries if someone just ran over their dog. The big chested guy we can indulge our pathetic Daddy complexes with.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Dream, Dog, Eye

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• You can be a mama's boy, be a daddy's boy, but you can't be both. So you cling to the one you think you might lose.

  Mitch Albom

  Boys, Thinking, Might

  Mitch Albom (2009). “For One More Day”, p.26, Hachette UK

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• I'm alive inside. A bird is my heart. Mama and Daddy is not win. I'm winning. I'm drinking hot chocolate in the Village wif girls--all kind who love me. How that is so I don't know. How Mama and Daddy kknow me sixteen years and hate me, how a stranger meet me and love me. Must be what they already had in they pocket.

  Sapphire

  Love, Girl, Hate

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• One day I was speeding along at the typewriter, and my daughter - who was a child at the time - asked me, "Daddy, why are you writing so fast?" And I replied, "Because I want to see how the story turns out!

  Louis L'Amour

  Daughter, Children, Writing

  Louis L'Amour (2017). “Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures: Volume 1: Unfinished Manuscripts, Mysterious Stories, and Lost Notes from One of the World's Most Popular Novelists”, p.25, Bantam

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• Why?' is always the most difficult question to answer. You know where you are when someone asks you 'What's the time?' or 'When was the battle of 1066?' or 'How do these seatbelts work that go tight when you slam the brakes on, Daddy?' The answers are easy and are, respectively, 'Seven-thirty in the evening,' 'Ten-fifteen in the morning,' and 'Don't ask stupid questions.

  Douglas Adams

  Morning, Stupid, Difficult Questions

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• My daddy tried to get me up to speak for the 17 years that I worked behind the scenes, but I never had the desire. Naturally, I was nervous and kind of shy. I just didn't want to do it.

  Joel Osteen

  Years, Desire, Shy

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• I will be putting out a fragrance - I'm following in the great steps of Puff Daddy.

  Bryan Ferry

  Puff, Steps, Fragrance

  "Bryan Ferry Talks New Solo Album, Roxy Music". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. October 12, 2010.

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• I've been away from my two daughters at a very important time in their life.'I have missed most of Girl Scout cookie season.Last night Zahra, my youngest called me up and said :"Daddy how come we never sell the most cookies? How come Mrs. Dunn wins every year?"'

  Chris Rock

  Girl, Daughter, Winning

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• I really have to wonder who or what made Daddy become this way. Babies aren't born cruel or filled with sick desire. Evil is not intrinsic. It's fashioned.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Baby, Evil, Sick

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• Louis-Cesare’s anger suddenly filled the small room like water, and in a heartbeat his eyes went from silver tinged to as solid as two antique coins. I sat frozen, awash in a sea of power. I was beginning to understand why Mircea had wanted him along, only Daddy had failed to mention anything about the hair-trigger temper. I guess he assumed the red hair would clue me in.

  Karen Chance

  Eye, Hair, Sea

  Karen Chance (2008). “Midnight's Daughter”, p.151, Penguin

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• Meltdown when we get home. Mom keeps chocolate for meltdowns. Daddy always has them when Uncle Jonas visits." -David Lyons from Tanner's Scheme-

  Lora Leigh

  Mom, Uncles, Home

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• You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it's others has to know why it is, and this boy is one of the latters. He's going to be into everything!

  Flannery O'Connor

  Boys, Asking, Said

  Flannery O'Connor (2016). “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, p.14, Faber & Faber

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• She's no lady. Her songs are all unbelievably unhappy or lewd. It's called Blues. She sings about sore feet, sexual relations, baked goods, killing your lover, being broke, men called Daddy, women who dress like men, working, praying for rain. Jail and trains. Whiskey and morphine. She tells stories between verses and everyone in the place shouts out how true it all is.

  Ann-Marie MacDonald

  Song, Rain, Men

  Ann-Marie Macdonald (2010). “Fall on Your Knees”, p.474, Vintage Canada

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• Where there must be a choice, a girl will choose Daddy. Even if you are Mommy, you concede that this must be so: you remember when you were a girl, too.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Girl, Choices, Remember

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• I take my role as an ambassador for the sport, and as a role model for boys, girls, mommies, daddies - whoever it is - very, very seriously. I know the impact my role models have had in my life, and I'm in a really beautiful position to be able to be that for others.

  Kerri Walsh

  Beautiful, Girl, Sports

  "37-year-old Olympian explains how she stays so dominant at an age when most athletes retire". Interview with Emmett Knowlton, www.businessinsider.com. March 1, 2016.

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• I got a little criticism for working with Puff [Daddy] and I got some criticism for doing the special but you have to weigh the good with the bad. I got more of a good response than bad when I did those two things.

  Mic Geronimo

  Two, Special, Criticism

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• I'll tell you what, I love my daddy. And he's so special. He's meant so much to me, so it's not a thorn in my side to be known as Billy Graham's daughter. It's a privilege.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Daughter, Special, Sides

  "Taking The Reins Of Billy Graham's Legacy". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. October 10, 2011.

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• There used to be a huge hole in my life that I wrote many albums about. I didn't realise it was a wife-and-daughter-shaped hole. They've plugged that gap. Everything I do, I do for them now. When daddy goes to work, it's daddy going to work, not Rob going to work. I feel like there's a purpose to everything.

  Robbie Williams

  Daughter, Wife, Albums

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• It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except the American Negro. He lays down and says, 'Beat me, daddy.'

  Malcolm X

  Intelligent, Doe, Down And

  Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary”, Pathfinder Pr

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• The night I announced I was getting married, Daddy paced for hours on the porch.

  Loretta Lynn

  Night, Married, Hours

  Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, Vintage

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• I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But you have to make sure that your children will know that daddy makes mistakes.

  R. Kelly

  Children, Mistake, Responsibility

  "Man in the mirror". Interview with Paul Flynn, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2004.

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• Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.'

  Quincy Jones

  Tasks, Done, Wells

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