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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
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad introduced me to baseball. Then one of my friends asked if I could play on a team; my dad said I could, and I just fell in love with the game.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
- Credit
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was one who - he was nonpartisan, first of all. He learned to work with whatever administration was in office.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad is kind of a rascal, like in a Dickensian sense. He just goes from career to career.
- Nov 07, 2020
Preacher's kids usually go one way or the other - way wild, or they follow in their dad's footsteps.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
My aunt Maxie had a plastic guitar in her closet, and I started playing that, going nuts on it. I went to stay with my dad, and he saw how much I was into it, and I put my first guitar on layaway. It was a Kay Starter Series guitar and Gorilla amplifier.
- Lawyers
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandfather was a lawyer, my dad was a lawyer, my mum was a lawyer, I got an uncle who's a lawyer, I got cousins that are lawyers.
- Front Page
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a Nebraska kid in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Nebraska football was a quasi-religion, so I ran out to get The Omaha World-Herald every morning, salivating for the sports page. My dad, however, required that I read one front page story and one editorial before I was allowed to turn to the sports.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I enjoyed my time at L.S.U. I wouldn't change it for anything. My dad went to college - my sisters, brothers - so I felt like I just had to, and I enjoyed it.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a big guy, but I play with a guard mentality. I got that from my dad, and it's always stayed with me.
- Good Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was with my grandmother, while one of my brothers lived with my dad, and one lived with my mom. It wasn't a great situation. Acting was the one good thing I was involved in.
- Grandfather
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prostate cancer has taken a lot from me. First it took my grandfather and then my dad.
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- Nov 07, 2020