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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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- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom and dad met at UCLA when he as a captain in the Air Force and she was in her junior year.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dad was very adventurous. He'd go skin diving and come up with a shark under his arm. He was dashing and charismatic.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was a meat peddler who drove a refrigerated truck. He bought his meat in Sheboygan, Wis., and sold it to stores in the region. He was a terrific salesman. People loved and trusted him, and he never let anyone down.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
The confidence in my ability to be a performer, a steeliness about survival... I learnt all those things from my dad.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dad was a very gentle, sweet man.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biggest lesson I learned from my dad is to support children even if they're doing something that is unorthodox.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, man, my dad used to buy me the Ted Williams glove at Sears with the Ted Williams shoes with the eight stripes on 'em. I used to play Little League, and I was Ted Williams-ed out.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
But there's no substitute for a full-time dad. Dads who are fully engaged with their kids overwhelmingly tend to produce children who believe in themselves and live full lives.
- Prison
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever my dad wasn't working, he'd take me along to pass out biblical tracts on street corners or in visits to the local prison.
- British Museum
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- Nov 07, 2020
At school, we'd studied the Romans and the Saxons, and I was fascinated by it all. So I made my dad take me to the British Museum as often as possible.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020