- Me
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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Head
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ten years ago, I went to visit my dad in Australia. I walked to the edge of a cliff and looked over and tripped. I righted myself but my head was over the edge. No one saw it.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always wanted to act and I grew up a little on film sets when my dad was working as an actor.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
None of my sisters are in the movies, nor are my nieces going to be. That's how Dutt 'sahab,' my dad, brought up the girls in the family, and I am just carrying his thought forward.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
During your life, you always have different players that you like. When I was a child, because my dad liked the 'Dream Team', I liked Michael Laudrup.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the 'Mad Men' era, the archetypal dad came home; put down his briefcase; received pipe, Manhattan, roast beef, potatoes, key-lime pie; and was - apparently - content.
- Company
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- Nov 07, 2020
I absolutely love working with my dad because there is such an ease about it, and I also love his company.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad died of a massive heart attack when he was 59, as he didn't look after himself.
- Doors
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm definitely a Tory. My dad was a Conservative councillor, and I spent years as a child knocking on doors with him. I'm a Tory because I'm passionate about business and enterprise. But I am also a compassionate Conservative. There should always be a net through which no one should fall.
- Dinner Parties
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mum and dad used to make me stand up at dinner parties and sing to their friends.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad is a sculptor and a painter, and mum runs an art gallery, which sells beautiful jewelry and ceramics and paintings - local and international.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom is from Ghana, and my dad is from Detroit, so I would go back and forth to Africa a lot.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm really the only artist in my family. I have one cousin who is a painter. I think I developed all of that from television and books - from being, essentially, an only child. I'm my mom's only child and my dad's fourth child, but separated by 14 years.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mam and dad were blasting Steely Dan when I was born; the music hasn't stopped since then.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020