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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
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was a professional track racer. It's in my genes, and my first memories as a baby were in a velodrome.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything I achieve affects my family as well, and suddenly, my kids' dad became the most famous man in the country for a couple of weeks.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sioux was always a horse culture, especially the Lakota Sioux. My mom is from Pine Ridge Indian Reservation; my dad is from a Sioux Indian reservation. Both tribes are Lakota.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad works for Merrill Lynch so I'm in good hands there.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Middletown, Connecticut, while my dad was getting his Ph.D. in ethnomusicology and anthropology at Wesleyan University.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad worked for Nestle for 26 years and ended up being the mayor of our hometown. One of the lessons I learned from him was to never mistake kindness for weakness.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a teenager, my dad taught me about the idea of unintended consequences, and I've had the experience, and how to deal with it, pounded into my soul over the years.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was little, we lived on 8 acres and my mom had a horse. But when I was 7, my mom kicked my dad out, and then in order to feed us five kids, she got critters cheap or for free and raised them for food. We milked a cow, raised chickens, pigs and beef cattle. We heated our one-story house with wood and stayed cold all winter.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born Gaynor Hopkins, one of seven children. My mum, Elsie, and dad, Glyndwr, always said they had seven children, although my sister Paulene was stillborn.
- Gym
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom was a professional fitness competitor, so I go into the gym with her. I train with my dad and mother. It's embarrassing, because she's really strong.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My goal is for Gunnar to outlive me. That's the way it should be. My dream is for him to be a dad himself one day, so he can find out all the anxiety that kids bring to their dads.
- Possible
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad saw it as a goal before I did, when I was 12 years old. I didn't think competing in Olympics was possible until I was 16.
- High School And College
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad is quite possibly the biggest Giants fan in the world. I believe he wore a Phil Simms jersey to my high school and college graduations.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020