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Dad Quotes

Something I thought about all the time was the things that my dad didn’t do that this guy does in Noah’s movie. The fighting to get custody was moving to me. My dad didn’t do any of this. He didn’t put up a fight. We were living with my grandparents, and that sucked. I mean, they were nice.

– Adam Driver

While shooting Marriage Story.

My mom and dad met at Anaheim High School. After they got married, all they wanted to do was have four children, and they did.

– Gwen Stefani

My dad would tell me bedtime stories, and he used to always leave them open-ended and finish at a crucial point with the words, ‘dream on’. Then it was my responsibility to finish the story as I was drifting off to sleep. We would call them dreaming stories.

– Hannah Kent

My dad let me figure out what I wanted to do on my own.

– Georgia Jagger

I was always a kid trying to make a buck. I borrowed a dollar from my dad, went to the penny candy store, bought a dollar’s worth of candy, set up my booth, and sold candy for five cents apiece. Ate half my inventory, made $2.50, gave my dad back his dollar.

– Guy Fieri

Our songs touch people, and take them back to a time when there was no threat of terrorism, when you didn’t have to lock your doors and when Mom and Dad took care of everything.

– George Grove

Although I grew up in London, I spent summers in Missouri, where my dad lived. It’s quite a liberal town, Kansas City. You’d be surprised.

– Hayley Atwell

My friends say, ‘Man you’re going to have kids sleeping on pillowcases with your face on it! You’re going to be on toothbrushes and magnets and stuff.’ I guess now that I’m a dad, I’m thrilled about that.

– Hugh Jackman

My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years. And when he opened his campaign headquarters back in the early ’70s, when I was 5 years old, my mother wanted me to play the national anthem. And they got an upright piano on the back of a flatbed truck and I played it.

– Harry Connick, Jr.

I was a mixture of being incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old, but then I stopped growing. I lived with my mum and dad till I was 30.

– Helena Bonham Carter

My dad is afraid of my laugh.

– Halston Sage

I was born and raised in the high desert of Nevada in a tiny town called Searchlight. My dad was a hard rock miner. My mom took in wash. I grew up around people of strong values – even if they rarely talked about them.

– Harry Reid

My dad had a small suitcase stuffed with photos, mementoes from wherever he’d traveled as a Royal Navy gunner. Not that he gunned very much, as it turned out. I’d haul it out and go through it time and time again.

– Honeysuckle Weeks

Dad built houses and when they were sold, he moved on to a new town, so I know a lot about my native state.

– Gerald McRaney

My dad is a builder, and my mum’s a nurse. They’re just very normal people.

– Greg Rutherford

My dad’s Russian. My mother’s English. I would say my bottom half is Russian.

– Helen Mirren

All the records I’ve put out have had either artwork that I did while I was young or something that my Dad painted.

– Gotye

I was lucky, I had support from Mum and Dad – they said as long as you work hard, anything is possible. I never thought past those two things – that I liked living in imaginary worlds and that it is possible to do that for a living.

– Harry Treadaway

My dad’s not a very intimidating father figure.

– Georgia Jagger

When I was 13, I opened my own business called The Awesome Pretzel Company, and my dad helped me build a pretzel cart.

– Guy Fieri

I think a dad has to make his daughter feel that he’s genuinely interested in what she’s going through.

– Harry Connick, Jr.

My father, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem.

– Gwyneth Paltrow

Clive Dunn, as I understand it, retired to the south of Spain, where he worked extensively in watercolours. I don’t own any of Clive Dunn’s watercolours. I loved him in ‘Dad’s Army,’ loved him. But not enough to actually seek out his watercolour work.

– Hugh Laurie

I grew up in such a macho family. I had a former Green Beret for a dad, a mom who’s really rough-and-tumble, and three very macho brothers.

– Hilarie Burton

I think being a dad is scary. I mean, I’m not that grown-up myself.

– Howie Mandel

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

– Horace

My mom grew up in Kansas, my dad in Indiana. They had boring childhoods.

– Hunter Parrish

Well, my dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years.

– Harry Connick, Jr.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

– Harry S Truman

So I go to my first book signing, and these two girls came up and gave me a piece of paper: ’10 reasons you should date our dad. He climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. He’s a lawyer.’ He didn’t know what was going on. He didn’t even know me. They called him, and he came down and asked me out that day. Now I’m dating their dad!

– Hoda Kotb

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