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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
My kids don't slow down, but they like to hang just with us, with mum and dad. They play with us and we play, too.
- Rock
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the One-Hit Wonder Wall. I'm still very troubled by the fact that I'm in the hall and my dad isn't.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My nickname is Deb for people who really know me. But the only real nickname I've ever had was, my dad used to call me 'Ace.'
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was a singer in a band and neither of my parents went to college, and I ended up getting into Harvard and was the first person in my family that went to college and it happened to be Harvard.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad's era believed that there was something noble in being a good guy - the kind of guy that lived straight and narrow, told the truth, and stood up for what he believed was right.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the first concert I attended was Coldplay with my dad when I was around eight years old.
- I Was Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born to a Nigerian dad and a Kenyan mom, and coming to the States was really academic.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always said I was good football player, I'm fine as an actor, but I'm a great dad.
- Debussy
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my dad went to college to get his master's from Loyola, he was playing Debussy and Chopin and Beethoven. But he played all that New Orleans stuff, too. I would go with my dad to gigs, pick up the piano and the speakers, and I would be like his roadie.
- Dress
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to have a silk dressing gown an uncle bought in Japan and when I came downstairs in it, my dad used to call me Davinia. There was never embarrassment about that kind of thing. My sister used to dress me up a lot. She thought I was a little doll.
- Days
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dad worked in the same shop, behind the same counter, five or six days a week, for 38 years, and hated it.
- I Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love being a dad.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
The vampires of '30 Days of Night' never really came into discussions early on. They did later when we were trying to figure out the pathology of the 'Twilight' vampires. '30 Days' is a completely different film. If you are a kid, please ask mum and dad before you watch that one!
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
I realised I could run after finding out that my dad used to run and it gave me the morale that if he did it then maybe I could also run.
- Foolhardy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, my dad used to take me out to the race track, and so many formative experiences have to do with associations like that.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020