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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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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 13, I told my dad I wanted to move to Florida to attend the IMG Academy. I wanted to be a golfer, and that's hard to do in New England where I could only practice half the year.
- Nov 07, 2020
I understood rage from my dad, who was an exquisite blend of rage and generosity of spirit.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom is a very warm, typical sort of Jewish-mother type. And my dad has a somewhat, um, different personality.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a dad I'm emotionally dedicated but I'm not 'figuring out their life plans'. But of course as I'm telling them about the rights of wrongs I'm thinking back to what I was like at their age.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember my first memory is sitting in my dad's chair in a small office and I used to imagine that I was picking up the phone and issuing commands. And I was only seven.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I fell in love with stories watching a British television puppet show called 'Thunderbirds' when it first came out on TV, about 1965, so I would have been 4 or 5 years old. I went out into the garden at my mom and dad's house, and I used to play with my little dinky toys, little cars and trucks and things.
- Interest
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I think is remarkable about my mum and dad is they had no interest in films, really. None.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dad loves my stuff. No matter how many times my voice cracks or I miss a tap, he doesn't care. He's like some businessman making it to his kid's recital.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was a very violent, frightening and dangerous guy. Next to him, I was this vague kind of kid who walked around, as I still do, gathering impressions.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The image we have of bin Laden in his final years in Abbottabad is of an aging man with a graying beard watching old footage of himself; just another suburban dad flipping though the channels with his remote.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical Society education committee, where he sat on the committee with Linus Pauling, who had authored a very phenomenally important textbook of chemistry.
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is going to sound horrible, but I don't even know how much I make in a year. It must be, you know, a couple of million dollars, a few million. I know it's more money than my dad, a jail guard, made in his lifetime; more money than I'll ever need.
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- Nov 07, 2020