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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
- Because
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was younger, I grew up a Packers fan because my dad played for the Packers. As I got older, I've fallen away from it.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to succeed as a young actor, then as a dad actor, those would be my 'Harvey Moon' years, then as an old actor.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was abusive. And so he would say, 'You're my favorite.' Being a favorite of an abusive parent is not really a good thing, necessarily.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was a doctor and surgeon. He was the fifth generation of his family to become a doctor.
- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
In baseball, there's certain things you can call someone: a fossil, graybeard, grandpa, dad, pops. But I got a chance to say it and mean it.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my dad came here, he came on a scholarship in the late '60s, and he went to Mississippi State. My dad is not a large man. So there's a little Taiwanese guy walking around Mississippi in, like, 1966, and I cannot imagine what that must have been like.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a San Francisco firefighter. He also was an amateur artist. Art ran deep on his side of the family, which originated in Spain. He painted our portraits. My mom, Jacqueline, was Scots-Irish. They met in 1947 when dad played for the Houston Buffalos, a minor league baseball team affiliated with the St. Louis Cardinals.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dad bought me a toy drum one Christmas, and I eventually destroyed it. I wanted a real drum and he bought me a snare drum. Dad continued to buy me one drum after the other.
- Lawyer
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- Nov 07, 2020
My background is not typical of a lawyer or a DPP. My dad was a toolmaker before he retired, so he worked in a factory all his life.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My pops passed when I was little. I didn't have a dad around to tell me certain things. I didn't have my biological mother.
- Grandfather
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- Nov 07, 2020