- Parents
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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
- Collection
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- Nov 07, 2020
My worldview comes from a collection of the books I have read, the people I have met, and my conversations with my dad.
- Nov 07, 2020
You can say that Mitt Romney started with nothing! He didn't get an inheritance from his dad.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
My early memories are full of football talk around the house, of Dad standing on the terraces at Ayresome Park, of the occasional precious new pair of boots.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me specifically, it was important to graduate. In my family, I was one of the first graduates. My mom did not have a college degree. My dad did not have a college degree.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad's an artist, and my grandfather paints - he's not a painter; my grandfather's a butcher - but he does a lot of crafts, stained glass, painting, that stuff. There is art in our family, and I was an art major in college along with being a theater major.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
We lost my dad in 2009 to leukemia. He taught me everything I know, and I love him very much.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Superstar' Billy Graham was someone that my dad taught from A to Z, from tying up to submission wrestling. Billy was more of a showman than a wrestler. My dad used to love tying Billy in knots, and Iron Sheik would be watching.
- Pro
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never trained in pro wrestling with The Sheik, but I did amateur wrestling with pro wrestlers in my dad's basement.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad loves to cook. I'm half Thai, and growing up, that's all we ate in my house. My dad was very big on the idea that dinnertime and cooking time was also family time.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you get pure joy out of 'being' rather than 'doing' or 'seeing', that's when you realize how big and unexplainable some things are and being a dad is one of those very few things.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was a musician, it was just what he did, like another guy's dad drives a meat truck. Our house was normal. We weren't taken with the fact our dad was a musician.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
All I care about are my children and that they are brought up properly and that they don't try to play their dad and mom against each other because they know we don't get along.
- Brother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was a produce man. He worked in grocery stores for 35 years. My mom just babysat kids and raised us. I have four sisters and one brother. I'm the baby.
- Dreamer
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad is a big dreamer, so I got that from him. Golf was my main thing when I was a teenager, and that's what I wanted to do.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020