Your Dad Quotes - Page 5

• Did you work for the money to buy those earrings? Or did your Daddy buy those for you?

  Molly Ringwald

  Money, Daddy, Earrings

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• The script changed so much over seven months and just had loads and loads of re-writes. I tried to tailor things to what I was interested in, like the relationship with the dad changed quite a lot because I thought one of the things when you're a young guy one of your biggest fears is this irrational fear of walking in your dad's footsteps and living the same life as him. I thought, even if your dad's a good guy, you just want to assert your independence on everything and it causes these irrational sort of rages.

  Robert Pattinson

  Dad, Writing, Seven Months

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• When I was a kid, I said to my father one afternoon, 'Daddy, will you take me to the zoo?' He answered, 'If the zoo wants you, let them come and get you.

  Jerry Lewis

  Fathers Day, Zoos, Dad

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• The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get.

  Timothy J. Russert

  Family, Fathers Day, Dad

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• When he hit it, I knew that it was my ball. But I had to catch it and it seemed like the hardest catch of my life. I said to myself, 'Two hands, just like your dad taught you.'

  Darin Erstad

  Baseball, Dad, Hands

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• Oh, I forgot to tell you," Cookie said. "Amber wants your dad to get a teriyaki machine so she can sing for all the lonely barflies." "I'm a good singer, mom." Only a twelve-year-old could make the word mom sound blasphemous. I leaned into Cookie, "Does she know its not called--?" "No," she whispered. "Are you gonna tell her?" "No. It's much funnier this way.

  Darynda Jones

  Mom, Lonely, Dad

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• After a long time, I cleared my throat. “So anyway, when we get to Nevada...I think we should rethink your dad’s rule.” Alex glanced down at me and smiled – the first real smile I’d seen on his face in a long time. “You know what? It’s already been rethought and completely ditched,” he said. And he wrapped his arms around me and we stood looking up at the mountains, with the rising rays of the sun lighting them from the east.

  L.A. Weatherly

  Dad, Real, Thinking

  L.A. Weatherly (2011). “Angel Fire: The Angel Trilogy”, p.345, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• Sorry to hear about your Dad." He shrugged. "He was seventy, and we always told him fast food would kill him." "Heart attack?" "He was hit by a Pizza Express truck.

  J.A. Konrath

  Sorry, Dad, Heart

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• That wasn't your mom in you—that was your dad.

  Ally Carter

  Mom, Dad, Your Mom

  Ally Carter (2007). “I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You”, Hyperion

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• So, your dad's hot." "Thanks. He was that way when I met him, so I can't really take credit.

  Ally Carter

  Dad, Hot, Credit

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• You be as angry as you need to be,” she said. “Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Not your grandma, not your dad, no one. And if you need to break things, then by God, you break them good and hard.

  Patrick Ness

  Dad, Grandma, Needs

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• You didn't see him watching you dance with your dad. His eyes got all shiny. I thought he was going to cry. And on the way up here, in the elevator, he tried to play it off, but I could totally tell he was nervous.

  Sylvia Day

  Dad, Eye, Play

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• But Hale didn't follow. For a second he just stood and stared out over his empire. It was like he was lost in a dream when he said, "So, your dad broke into the patent office." "Yep," Kat told him. "How many goats am I going to owe him for that?" "More than you've got, big guy. Way more than you've got.

  Ally Carter

  Dream, Dad, Office

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• Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.

  Lydia M. Child

  Family, Fathers Day, Children

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• Your dad would stake me out to freeze if I let you fall and hurt yourself." He offered me his arm, which I latched onto gratefully. "He wouldn't stake you out," I panted as we forced our way through the hard top layer of snow that was almost thigh deep. "He'd just shoot you." "Well that's a comfort.

  P. C. Cast

  Hurt, Dad, Fall

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• Nice is good, but it's not enough. I want you back for real. I want to talk to you at lunch, instead of staring at you while you eat. I want to see the smile on your face and know I put it there. I want to hear your dad's voice get all low and pissed off, like it only does when I've stayed over too late.

  Rachel Vincent

  Dad, Real, Nice

  Rachel Vincent (2012). “Soul Screamers Volume Two: My Soul to Keep\My Soul to Steal\Reaper”, p.505, Harlequin

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• When I was in nursery school, the teachers asked me, y'know, 'What does your dad do for a living?' So I said 'He helps women get pregnant!' They called my mom and they were like, 'What exactly does your husband do?'

  Natalie Portman

  Mom, Teacher, Husband

  "The Late Show with David Letterman", www.oocities.org. November 24, 1994.

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• Your dad didn't die, so I won't be able to explain it to you.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Dad, Able, Dies

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Dad, Father, Firsts

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• When you're growing up, your dad is your superhero. Once you've let yourself fall that in love with someone, once you put him on such a high pedestal and he lets you down, you never want to experience that pain again.

  Jay-Z

  Growing Up, Pain, Dad

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. October 2009.

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• You get to a certain age and you can't judge yourself on your dad or your parents.

  Ellie Goulding

  Dad, Judging, Parent

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

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• I can be a rock star with a television show and still have a self-esteem problem. So it's nice to have your dad go, 'Hey Melissa, I'm proud of you - you're doing good.'

  Melissa Etheridge

  Stars, Dad, Self Esteem

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• One of the scary things is that, when you're a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no fear. When you're an adult, you realize your father had fear, and that you have it, too.

  David Duchovny

  Dad, Father, Kids

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• I got to grow up in a situation where drugs were demonic. To watch your dad go through heroin withdrawal is something that would keep you from doing any of that yourself.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Growing Up, Dad, Drug

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

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• One of the things I am very aware of not having in my life is the love of my father. ...but I know now that it is hard to make up that loss in the life of a daughter.
  It's your dad who tells you that you are beautiful.
  Its your dad who picks you up over his head and carries you on his shoulders.
  It's your did who will fight the monsters under your bed.
  It's your dad who tells you that you are worth a lot, so don't settle for the first guy who tells you you're pretty.

  Sheila Walsh

  Beautiful, Daughter, Dad

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