My Dad Quotes - Page 19

• My heroes always are mostly my parents - my father especially, and my mom, who's passed on already. My dad is a very strong man, and by him being educated, and a principal and school superintendent over 37 years, he plays such a big role in my life.

  Dikembe Mutombo

  Mom, Strong, Dad

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• My dad was a really good surfer, and by the time I was 10, he was dragging me out on some good days at Bells. I'd reckon they were solid, 6-foot days, and he'd tell me to wait on the shoulder. I'd see him coming through the barrel, and he'd just scream at me to go. I'd drop in, and he'd give me a hoot from behind - I've always loved it.

  Xavier Rudd

  Dad, Good Day, Feet

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• My dad went to USC and it always had been very important to me and my family.

  Miranda Cosgrove

  Dad, Important, Usc

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

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• When I was a teenager, my dad watched my films and told me I could go to art college and study animation. He made me see that I could do this for a living.

  Nick Park

  Art, Dad, Teenager

  "Portrait of the artist: Nick Park, film-maker". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2009.

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• My dad wears girls' clothes - it's so funny. Sometimes I see him and I'm like, 'Nice shirt!,' because it's from my closet.

  Liv Tyler

  Girl, Dad, Nice

  "Liv Tyler Confirms Our Suspicions: Her Dad Steals Her Clothes" by Annie Ferrer, www.vulture.com. April 28, 2011.

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• My mother taught me what it is to have a sense of humour; my dad, who was a headmaster, everything you need to know about hard work. My dad is the most decent man you could come across.

  James Nesbitt

  Mother, Dad, Hard Work

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My dad was my hero, my best friend.

  Dhani Harrison

  Dad, Hero, My Best Friend

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• Like most kids, my dad played. He would drag us out to the course and make us shag balls for him and caddy and all that kind of stuff.

  Tom Lehman

  Dad, Kids, Balls

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• When I was coming home from school as a youngster, and I saw my dad's car in the driveway, I would go to a friend's house. I connected my dad being there with fear.

  Joe Torre

  Dad, School, Home

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• My dad, Frank Addison Albini, was a terrific shot with a rifle and had generally excellent hunting skills. While my dad loved hunting and fishing, he didnt romanticize them. He was filling the freezer, not intellectualizing some caveman impulse or proving his worth as a real man.

  Steve Albini

  Dad, Real, Men

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• My dad taught me to be a leader or a follower, and he said follower ain't fun. So I want to be the leader of Bubba Watson.

  Bubba Watson

  Fun, Dad, Leader

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• My dad played for a coal-mining team in eastern Ohio; he was a very good pitcher. If he hadn't hurt his arm, he probably would have got a shot somewhere. He hurt his arm one spring, didn't warm up good enough, couldn't throw a fastball anymore. Another coal miner taught him how to throw the knuckleball.

  Phil Niekro

  Hurt, Dad, Team

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• Being a child that grew up with a single mom back in the 70s, Fathers Day to me was always a very uncomfortable time. At school, we would make Fathers Day cards for our dads, and I usually mailed one to my dad, and he hardly ever responded.

  Art Alexakis

  Mom, Fathers Day, Dad

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• When I was young, I was very shy and quiet, because we moved all the time. My dad was in the Navy, so we moved every two years.

  Kimberly Willis Holt

  Dad, Years, Two

  "A chat with Kimberly Willis Holt". Interview with Chat Moderator, www.cnn.com. January 1, 2000.

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• My dad never decided what he wanted to do; at times he fought in the army, was a teacher, a boxer, a light engineer, and a then a publican. My mum was a traditional housewife and mother. They showed my brother and I unconditional love.

  Anthony Browne

  Mother, Teacher, Brother

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• For me, my dad is the best hero in the universe.

  Yoseob

  Dad, Hero, Universe

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• I've always taken my love of children from my father. He was a children magnet. Suddenly, having my first child hit home what my dad went through.

  Robert Carlyle

  Children, Dad, Father

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

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• You see, everything I know, I learned from my dad. He learned it all from his, and his dad just happened to be wrong about everything

  Dan Bern

  Dad, Happened, Knows

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• My dad gave me a haircut... and it wasn't a very good one. When I went out of the house, my friends got on my case and said it looked like someone put a chili bowl over my head and cut around it.

  Chili Davis

  Dad, Cutting, House

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• My dad encouraged anything I wanted to do, especially music. Actually he drove me around to places where I could play.

  Jason Aldean

  Dad, Play, Wanted

  "A-T web exclusive interview with Jason Aldean". A-T Interview, www.audio-technica.com.

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• I think spending a lot of time with my mom, who's a talker and a storyteller, and my dad, who has kind of a soft-spoken, understated sense of humor, I think that's how I became what I am, which is sort of an understated storyteller.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Mom, Dad, Thinking

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• My dad's dying wish was to have his family around him. I can't help thinking he would have been better off with more oxygen.

  Jimmy Carr

  Funny, Dad, Humor

  Jimmy Carr, Lucy Greeves (2006). “Only Joking: What's So Funny About Making People Laugh?”, p.191, Penguin

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• My mum told me the best time to ask my dad for anything was during sex. Not the best advice I'd ever been given. I burst in through the bedroom door saying "Can I have a new bike?". He was very upset. His secretary was surprisingly nice about it. I got the bike.

  Jimmy Carr

  Funny, Sex, Dad

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• When I was a kid my dad would say, "Emo, do you believe in the Lord?" I'd say, "Yes!" He'd say, "Then stand up and shout Hallelujah!" So I would ... and I'd fall out of the roller coaster.

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Emo, Dad

  "The best God joke ever - and it's mine!". www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2005.

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• My dad is one of the funniest people I know. He's the sort of man who can make you laugh just by reading out of a telephone directory... He's a spastic.

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Dad, Reading

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