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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
My mum is from Ghana, and she used to play highlife music in the house, and my dad used to listen to music.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
- Bug
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- Nov 07, 2020
I caught the acting bug from my dad.
- Baby
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad is a screenwriter, so he always used to watch movies for inspiration when I was a baby. I would watch movies with him, I guess, in the background.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad would play 'The Blue Album' a lot, the first Weezer album, and that influenced my alternative indie thing and that's kind of how I found tons and most of my favorite bands.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him and many of these scholars who visited and came around the dining table, the lunch table, and attended many lectures with my dad. And so I learned the apprentice way.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was in the military, yeah. He was in the Air Force, and he was a doctor, so he would go places for six months here, and two years there. And I was home-schooled because I played the violin, and I did a lot of competitions.
- NHS
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm from a salt-of-the-earth, working-class, northern background. My dad's a steelworker and a firefighter, and my mum is a secretary for the NHS.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I realized I was having trouble reading, I was too embarrassed to ask for help. Some teachers believed in me, but I just wasn't focused on school - I was into the music and trying to please my dad.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Somewhere my dad gave up. He was really so successful at his level that after a point he could not handle failure.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents separated when I was 2, and my dad always lived in Chicago and my mother in L.A. I'd go back and forth and sometimes spend the summer with my dad, but L.A. was home.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our dad hugged us and kissed us so much that some friends and relatives complained that he was going to turn us into sissies or homosexuals. But my dad didn't care. Let them raise their kids in a reserved and reticent way. He grew up in Israel, and his boys were going to be hugged and kissed by their father and know they were loved.
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- Nov 07, 2020