- 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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- Consummate
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandfather was the minister at the Lutheran church. My dad owned a car dealership in town. My mom was the consummate volunteer and cheerleader for me.
- Nov 07, 2020
After I won Miss America, I called my dad, who had four kids in college, to say he no longer had to pay for Stanford.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 17, my dad was teaching in the States. He hired an A-Team-style van, and we drove all over. My resounding memory of it was that we saw all these wonderful places but that my sister and I were being horrible, sulky teenagers.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Shropshire, but I was born in Wales. There was a hospital seven miles away, but my dad drove 45 miles over the Welsh border so I could play rugby for Wales. But as a skinny asthmatic, I was only ever good at swimming.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anything my dad says about what I say about him, I can remind him of ten examples where he publicly humiliated me. We're really close. The culture of mickey-taking is well established in my family.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad, who had spent his life as a lecturer, said, 'That's all very well, but you need to earn a living, so why don't you teach?' I did, and 13 years later, I woke up.
- Insurance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Queensland, and my dad was a tradesman and my mum an insurance agent, both self-employed.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've traveled all over. I've been to all 50 states. With my dad in the Navy, I lived in the Philippines from nine to 12, and I had dog, monkey, lizard, everything. Then I was in Hawaii, and I'm spear-fishing, catching octopus with my hands.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad turned me onto Led Zeppelin, the Stones, and the Who, but Madonna and pop music came from my mom.
- Nov 07, 2020
All the records I've put out have had either artwork that I did while I was young or something that my Dad painted.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020