- 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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- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of the happiest times I ever saw my dad was times when I was with him in the casinos, and he had a good night.
- Lucky
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was lucky to have a great dad.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was a Navy munitions officer, and by the end of his career, he was a specialist in nuclear weapons.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child, I lived in Germany at the Ramstein air force base, where my dad sang at a nightclub in Kaiserslautern. My parents couldn't afford a babysitter, so when I was, like, ten or 11, I would go with them to the bar until two in the morning.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
James Brown was the Monday-to-Friday guy. He was the hardest man in show business. He was like your dad and your uncle: He showed up, and he hit hard.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard to live up to The Beatles. When Wings toured, they got slated. Even Dad found it hard living up to The Beatles. I started out playing under an alias because I wanted to start quietly.
- Crime
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- Nov 07, 2020
As much as I transferred my mother to Elizabeth Shore of The Black Dahlia, as much as her dad mutated into an obsession with crime in general, well, I have thought about other things throughout the years.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Me and my mum didn't see eye-to-eye for a lot of years, and I've never really felt connected with my dad, because he wasn't there.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, my education about Test cricket came from dad's video of the 1981 Ashes series - and Ian Botham's incredible match at Headingley.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad's a hero in a lot of ways. He was a 1960s and 1970s hippie and a member of the protest crowd.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If people want to talk about Bob Dylan, I can talk about that. But my dad belongs to me and four other people exclusively. I'm very protective of that. And telling people whether he was affectionate is telling people a lot. It has so little to do with me. I come up against a wall.
- Head
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got to watch my heroes meet him and saw how they reacted, whether it was Joe Strummer or Tom Waits. It was peculiar. I'm so stoked to meet Tom Waits, and he's so nervous to meet my dad. It's a head spin.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
To us, there was Bob Dylan, and there was dad. As for what he meant to other people, that was never glorified in our house. There were no accolades there, no gold records.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad is a huge folk music fan, so growing up, there were always records playing in my house. Carole King, James Taylor, Simon and Garfunkel, the Beatles - I grew up with this music, and I was aware of how special this music was to a lot of people.
- Evening
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- Nov 07, 2020