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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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- Nov 07, 2020
I came from a working-class family. My dad was in a union. I never forgot what it was like to be a private.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't recommend this, but my dad - to help us get through the winter, he bought a kerosene heater, and he had it in the kitchen so that the furnace wouldn't have to kick off.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad is huge on music, so he always made tapes from his friends. That's how I got into music.
- Protection
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad works in child protection and he's spent many, many years in that line of work.
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad founded the 'Rancho Santa Fe Times' and won a lot of journalism awards.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom and dad got divorced, so it was one of those things where Sundays I'd go to Dad's apartment, and this was, say, 1970-whatever, and it had a pool table on the top floor in a very traditional kind of divorced-dad apartment building.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad used to play every other weekend with me when I was young. I started getting better, but he could always beat me. Then one day, he realized the jig was up. And he stopped playing me just before I could beat him.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got my first instrument at Christmas when I was three or four. My dad and mom got me a mandolin. It was the only instrument that fit me because I was so small. I went straight from that into drums when I was six and then started playing guitar when I was seven or eight.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad had this old truck that he used to take on back roads and showed me how to drive when I was nine or ten.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would say growing up in Nashville has been a huge influence in my music. Growing up with my dad being a 2-time Grammy-winner, BMI songwriter of the year for five consecutive years in a row, and having the legacy he has is definitely a huge influence, too.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always wanted to be like my dad.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom is Episcopalian; my dad is ancestrally Jewish but personally atheist. After their divorce, however, my dad married a Jewish spiritual director, and I became fascinated by the traditions she brought into our lives.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If it wasn't for my dad, I would never have known about pentathlon, because it's not popular at all in Australia.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ever since I knew Dad did pentathlon, I wanted to do it as well. I have seen all his old photos, and he still has his Olympic riding jacket, and that makes this even more special.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know everyone thinks Dad is a little bit crazy with his training, because we train a lot harder and do more kilometres and stuff than most pentathletes. Training is full-on. It's seven or eight hours a day.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad has definitely sacrificed a lot for me, and I don't know if I could do it if I was in his shoes. Leaving your life behind and chasing this dream because your kid is passionate about this sport.
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- Nov 07, 2020