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Dad Quotes

I’m not going anywhere. My dad lived to be 102. And we’ve got Super Bowls to win.

– Bob McNair

My dad was a sports writer when I was younger and then he became just a general columnist. But I grew up with him literally getting into brawls with football coaches.

– Amy Klobuchar

My dad was a professional track racer. It’s in my genes, and my first memories as a baby were in a velodrome.

– Bradley Wiggins

My dad played a character on the radio called ‘Parkyakarkus.’ A Greek-dialect comedian. He did Friars’ roasts and wrote material and made people laugh that way. But he wrote his own shows with other writers.

– Albert Brooks

I shaved my head when I was 14 – is that bad? I asked my dad’s permission first. He said, ‘You’re gonna look like a boy.’ And I said, ‘OK’… then I did it anyway. All through high school, I had a shaved head and I’d dye it crazy colors – it was fun.

– Brea Grant

My dad would always tell me, ‘When you meet a man, look him in his eye and shake his hand,’ and that’s just something I’ve been doing for a long time.

– Adrian Peterson

My parents weren’t married. It wasn’t like my dad up and left. I maintained a steady relationship with my grandparents. My dad’s mother is my nana, and I’m closer to her than almost anybody in this world.

– Alicia Keys

I’ve seen fathers criticizing their sons the moment a game’s over. Not my dad. It doesn’t matter if I threw an interception or a Hail Mary, he always says, ‘Good job, son, I’m proud of you.’ Then he shakes my hand and gives me a hug. Every time.

– Ben Roethlisberger

I’ve seen 48 Stanley Cups in my life. I was about six or seven when I started going to games with my dad.

– Al Jourgensen

For years, my dad’s friend Joe was just my dad’s friend. And it was only when I was 12 or 13 I learned that he was the lead singer of a band called The Clash.

– Alfie Allen

My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.

– Benedict Cumberbatch

When I was younger, I liked money – the feel of it. I would sit with my dad and count his coins and be like, ‘Yeah.’ I’d saved £700 by the age of 10. I thought: ‘What the hell am I hoarding this for?’ So I bought a drum kit.

– Cara Delevingne

My dad’s cool. He is socially liberal.

– Casey Wilson

Adrian Leon LeBlanc, my dad and my namesake, his keen joy in observing people and the world is the reason I became a journalist.

– Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

My father… had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.

– Chief Joseph

My dad loved to ‘arrange things’ to take us kids to that scared the crap out of us on Halloween. He’d take us to the old ‘Hermit’s House’ at the edge of town. He’d park the car 100 yards down the street and say, ‘Go back there and get something off the front porch!’

– Bill Moseley

My dad is from Queens. I remember visiting as a kid. My grandparents grew up here. All the actors I respected were coming out of here. All the hip-hop I was listening to – Beastie Boys, A Tribe Called Quest, Biggie, Wu Tang – was coming out of New York. I’m just into it.

– Bryan Greenberg

I’m so excited to be carrying on in Dad’s footsteps and making sure that everything he worked so hard for continues for the generations to come.

– Bindi Irwin

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.

– Brenda Song

I spent loads of time in Scotland as a kid. My dad would take us back up to Aberdeen loads, and I have very fond memories of getting chips from his favourite chippy and heading down to the beach to eat Baskin Robbins ice cream.

– Andrew Buchan

My grandfather was a lawyer, my dad was a lawyer, my mum was a lawyer, I got an uncle who’s a lawyer, I got cousins that are lawyers.

– Benicio Del Toro

I remember watching ‘EastEnders’ as a kid with my mum, and even my dad would be gripped by the odd episode. So to think I would be part of the show was a strange feeling at first.

– Ben Hardy

The big things that I’ve learnt from my dad is that you can just say what you want to say.

– Bindi Irwin

When my dad passed, there’s a lot of sadness right below the surface, and I think there will be until the day I die. So, writing sad songs helps it. And when I sing them, it’s pure therapy for me.

– Ashley Monroe

Both my mom and my dad have always included me in intelligent conversations about people, about characters, about how people work. My dad and my mom still read all scripts that I find interesting. I send them an e-mail, and I’m like, ‘Okay, I have my eye on this,’ or whatever.

– Alicia Vikander

My dad cut my hair once – I wanted a bob and he gave me a bowl cut. That was a tough few years.

– Alexa Chung

The first real concert, other than going with my dad to see Three Dog Night, was Smashing Pumpkins and Garbage. I was fourteen or fifteen. I liked Shirley Manson because she reminded me of Annie Lennox. They both have these deep, sexy, powerful alto voices.

– Amy Lee

I want to carry on in my dad’s footsteps and make sure his message lives on forever. I feel like that’s why I’ve been put on this planet – to get my message across.

– Bindi Irwin

I guess if you are making more money than your mom and dad, you can set your own boundaries.

– Alexa Vega

I told my parents I wanted to be an actress years before I wrapped my head around what my dad did for a living. It’s not easy to explain the job of the television journalist, especially when a lot of my friends’ dads had jobs that were a lot easier to explain, like a lawyer, a banker or a doctor.

– Allison Williams

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