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Dad Quotes

The way my family always did Christmas was on Christmas Eve, it wasn’t really centered around a dinner on Christmas Eve. It was more about keeping the kids calm. Sometime after dark is when we were going to open all the presents underneath the tree from Mom, Dad and the kids and everything – just the family presents was every Christmas Eve.

– Blake Shelton

When I was really little, I was on a Pop Warner squad. I did it for a year. My dad was a Pop Warner football coach. I did it because my best friend was also on this cheer squad, and of course I looked up to my sister who was a cheerleader, so I wanted to cheer.

– Ashley Tisdale

My dad was an editor and a writer, and that’s actually what I aspired to be.

– Anne M. Mulcahy

My dad has given me the best gift anyone has ever given me. He gave me wings to fly.

– Adria Arjona

If you had told me at 45 years old that I would have to go on tour to get rest, I would’ve said, ‘That’s not how it works.’ But nothing can be more gratifying. I’m a very hands-on dad.

– Chris Robinson

One day my dad would say, ‘OK, if you want to play tennis I can help you out.’ And that’s how it started. And I had a goal. I wanted to beat my mom first. And my parents and my brother. And that was the ultimate goal.

– Caroline Wozniacki

I can’t help but recall my dad and mom. Depression era kids, 8th and 9th grade educations, clawed and scratched to make a living as dairy farmers their whole life. At least two drought cycles nearly took it all away. They just worked harder, longer… and they made it.

– Bob Beauprez

My mother’s incredibly giving, almost too giving at times. And, my dad is a real logical person. He’s got logic for every situation. They’ve been married for 24 years, so there was that stability, also. I really learned to think on my own at a very young age.

– Brian Austin Green

My dad was great. He was very droll, very dry.

– Albert Finney

My dad, in particular, was adamant that I should finish my education. He encouraged me to go to Oxford, for instance, and I rather doubt I’d have gone if he hadn’t. I would have gone straight back to L.A. and tried to start my career.

– Alice Eve

My dad was into the 1950s doo-wop era. If you look at those groups, or at James Brown, Jackie Wilson and the Temptations in the 1960s, you’ll see you had to be sharp onstage.

– Bruno Mars

Somewhere in my wildest childhood I must have done something right. Being able to make a boyhood dream come true is one thing, but to have a kid come along and thrill his dad like Brett Hull has thrilled me over his career is too much for one guy to handle.

– Bobby Hull

My dad was such a bigot. He was a horrible, self-centred person. He was really racist and he’d talk about the Jews and blacks and Catholics even.

– Cindy Sherman

I lost my brother in a car wreck when I was 14 years old. When I decided I wanted to be a country singer, my dad always told me, ‘Son, you should write a song about your brother.’

– Blake Shelton

Right about when I turned 13, I realized that women could be jockeys, from my travels to the racetrack with my dad.

– Chantal Sutherland

My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I’ve always been comforted by the power of prayer.

– Anna Lee

Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn’t teach me everything he knows.

– Al Unser

Preacher’s kids usually go one way or the other – way wild, or they follow in their dad’s footsteps.

– Benjamin Watson

My mother, grandmother and older sister all cooked, so it was hard to get into the kitchen. So I have no talent for cooking. I was always out in the garage with my dad. I have a tool belt. I’m a repair chick.

– Cheryl Ladd

Dad sometimes sends me texts saying, ‘Just heard you on the radio, thumbs up’, or whatever. So that’s pretty cute.

– Courtney Barnett

I was inspired by my dad; he played trumpet in high school.

– Bria Skonberg

I stayed in Baghdad every summer until I was 14. My dad’s sister is still there, but many of my relatives have managed to get out. People forget that there are still people there who are not radicalized in any particular direction, trying to live normal lives in a very difficult situation.

– Andy Serkis

My dad was a city councilman and a county commissioner, so I grew up involved and engaged in the political process.

– Bill Huizenga

My dad has always been my coach. And I’ve spent so much time with him. So he’s one of my best friends. And I can talk to him about everything.

– Caroline Wozniacki

What people don’t understand is that my dad isn’t up on the contemporary music scene. He’s been a legend for decades and he doesn’t know what’s going on right now, and he doesn’t need to.

– Alexa Ray Joel

You know, my mother’s beautiful, my dad was a really handsome man, and there was a lot of talk about looks when I was growing up.

– Courteney Cox

I have always been a bit of an introvert. In fact, my dad used to force me to meet people so that my interpersonal skills improve. As an individual, I was happiest when left alone.

– Ashwin Sanghi

I know that my dad not being in my life made a huge impact on me.

– Christina Milian

My dad gave me a haircut… and it wasn’t a very good one. When I went out of the house, my friends got on my case and said it looked like someone put a chili bowl over my head and cut around it.

– Chili Davis

I’d always loved movies. I watch them all the time; my dad is a huge movie buff.

– Austin Butler

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