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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.
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I didn't really get into golf until I was about 14. My mom and dad were taking lessons from a pro an hour and a half from our farm in Cohuna, Australia. When they got home, I'd ask my mom to explain everything they learned - drills and all.
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My dad's uncles were illegal bookmakers who were known in the area as Peaky Blinders, that's the stories I heard.
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I have lots of memories of staying at campsites in the West Country and France, of the Carpenters playing on the eight-track, and of my dad cursing under the broken-down VW camper van. I loved camping, but I wouldn't much fancy it now - I'm too old to rough it.
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Dad lived his life in a way that it was his character, not his circumstances, that dictated what his life looked like.
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I was always determined to make it as a footballer, but if things hadn't worked out, I'd have maybe followed my dad into the building industry.
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My dad's an old football player.
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My parents were reasoned and deep thinkers. My dad is an intellectual and a literary man.
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When I was fifteen years old, my dad won a video camera in a corporate golf tournament. I snatched it from his closet and began filming skateboard videos with my friends.
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I remember seeing Letterman do stand-up on 'The Tonight Show.' Or, it's probably more accurate to say, I remember hearing him do stand-up, because the Carson show existed mainly as sound leaking under my bedroom door at night. I'd hear Johnny telling jokes and my dad laughing at them.
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Sometimes being a dad is like watching a ping-pong match.
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The way it worked was my mom came from a musical family, and my dad didn't - he was a pathologist.
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I'm very proud of my dad.
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