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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 dad grew up as a computer programmer, so he always had random computer software, and I started opening up editing software at age 12 and figuring out how to build websites.
- Nov 07, 2020
Every time I'd sing or play piano when I was a child, my dad would yell up from the basement, 'That's B-flat!'
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad once showed me 'The Guns of Navarone' when I was a kid. I haven't rewatched it since, but it gave me such a warm feeling.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mum is West African, from Senegal; my dad is from Grenada. There was a huge controversy about them getting together.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad and uncles listened to a lot of rap. My dad is a big fan of LL Cool J. Driving in the car with him, we'd listen to Jay-Z and Nas. My sister listened to a lot of No Limit, so I listened to Master P. and Cash Money - Lil Wayne and Juvenile. They had jewelry and nice cars. I was drawn to them.
- Brother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got family in the U.K. on my dad's side of the family. My grandfather's brother moved to the U.K. from Jamaica. It's a pretty big family I'll have there.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Baseball is the president tossing out the first ball of the season. And a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm.
- Rich
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- Nov 07, 2020
There were a lot of assumptions that we were raised a certain way. Our dad was always really clear with us that he is rich and we are not: 'If you want to be rich, you should go do what I did, which is work really hard.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad built his business by providing products he figured the customers would want.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad used to call me 'the human pretzel' because I was able to bend my body, and because my legs are very long.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I grew up, my dad always used to watch 'Star Trek' and any and every sci-fi show you could imagine. I used to watch it with him, and I loved it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad grew up in Pittsburgh in the '50s, and he used to sing Four Seasons songs on the stoop. He made me listen to Cousin Brucie - the guy who broke the Four Seasons on the radio. So I knew all of their songs, but I didn't know they were all by the same group.
- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was a cop.
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- Nov 07, 2020