- 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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- Dog
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been a sucker for a dog called an Alaskan Malamute. It's like a little husky... my dad had one when he was younger.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a boy, I used to pull a big cross saw with my dad. He'd use his right hand, so I'd have to use my left.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.'
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was growing up, my dad was away a lot. He did a lot of work in crisis zones, places like Uganda or Rwanda.
- Bows
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- Nov 07, 2020
When your dad comes back from a faraway land with bows and arrows and spears wrapped up in a carpet... that's cool.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
As observatory architect, my dad was partly concerned with the maintenance of them all. I used to go with him on site visits quite often, from age 7 or 8. I have memories of crawling through the rafters of the old building, trying to find where the leak in the roof was.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dad was a great advocate for social justice and a very quiet advocate of the essential Labor values.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly.
- Gone
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent the summers packing toothpaste at a factory, working where my dad worked, and everyone else had gone on a gap year!
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people ask why I don't talk about my dad, and I want to, I just don't have that many stories. When he moved out, he moved to a different state, so it was just my mom and I.
- Fish
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was the guy who wanted to teach a man to fish. He was very, very curious, right up until the day he died. He was insatiable for information. He was the pursuit of awesome.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was okay for Wayne Gretzky's dad, for instance, to give him a hockey stick, or Joe Montana's dad to give him a football, or Larry Bird's dad to give him a basketball, but it wasn't okay for Gloria Connors to give her son a tennis racquet.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
My earliest sporting memory is probably going judo when I was about 6 or 7 years old. My dad and my brother did it for a couple of years when I was young, in Nigeria.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020