- Nov 07, 2020
Dad Quotes
The small stuff you inherit.
These dad quotes lean into small, specific memories — watching Monty Python over dinner, catching yourself sounding just like him mid-sentence, or joking that most of your audience is really just your father. For humor along the same lines, see our Jokes page.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Grief
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a dynamic of grief within any family, and I found, after we lost Steve, his dad just began distancing himself. And I think it's a coping mechanism. I found it very confusing.
- Both Worlds
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had the best of both worlds when I was a kid. I'd spend a quiet week with my mum, then I'd go to my dad's property in the Adelaide Hills, where there were all these kids and animals running around.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
We grew up in a very demanding environment. Dad expects us to prove ourselves... so my siblings and I worked hard to reach what we have today, and I guess we have to continue working hard to maintain it.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!
- Legends
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of my family follow Liverpool, including my dad Tero and my uncle. In Finland I would say Liverpool is the biggest team, it started in the 1980s with the games on the TV. And then obviously they have had two Finland legends in Jari Litmanen and Sami Hyypia.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad came from Cuba when he was a teenager not speaking English. And I grew up here speaking Spanglish. That's the world in which I grew up, and that's a world in which a lot of second generation immigrants find themselves.
- Having
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- Nov 07, 2020
I watched 'Rugrats' and 'Spongebob' because my dad liked 'Spongebob' too, so I loved having that on.
- Mom And Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom and dad are New Yorkers who left the tenement streets of the Bronx and came to Los Angeles when 'West Side Story' was real. They have the scars to prove it.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom's a translator, my dad's a woodworker; that's the world I grew up in, that's the world I'm most comfortable in. The whole idea of Hollywood or any of that other stuff that unfortunately goes along with film, that wasn't part of my upbringing, thankfully.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family always spent the warm months bottling fruit for storage, which Dad said we'd need in the Days of Abomination.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was in the Army, so what was happening internationally and nationally was always important to my family.
- Often
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.
- Emotional
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- Nov 07, 2020