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- 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.
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- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was little, I grew up in a place called Hertfordshire, which is just near London, but out in the country, and I visited Pakistan in the summers to go and see my family on my dad's side.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.
- Fake
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a momma's boy. I didn't get anything from Dad, except my body and baseball knowledge. The only time I spent with him was at the ballpark.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad read history, about a book a day, but only after he retired as a successful bank and insurance man.
- Brother
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- Nov 07, 2020
He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.
- Nov 07, 2020
My dad took us to a couple of karate classes when we were young but we didn't really get into it.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't travel with them, but they can't be missing in my home. There have to always be dominoes... I used to play with my family - dad, my grandpa, my uncles.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Steph's such a good dad for girls. He's super attentive, and he's, like, not too manly to get down on the floor and play with them and have a tea party.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only introduction to sports that I had before meeting my husband was Buffalo Bills football and Doug Flutely Flakes. My dad grew up in Buffalo and has been a Bills fan all his life.
- Pretty
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom is Jamaican and Chinese, and my dad is Polish and African-American, so I had a pretty diverse culinary background to work with.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020