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Dad Quotes

My dad died, I think, at 87. So I’ll be lucky if I make 87. But in a lot of cases, the younger people live longer than their parents. And they know more. My dad used to tell me he ate the hog from his rooter to his tooter. So do I when I’m not trying to lose weight.

– B. B. King

My dad, he believed in me. My first year was hard for me. I came to the States with myself, and no one came with me.

– Asdrubal Cabrera

Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.

– Bono

I was called a ‘CD’ by a suicidal teenager, who is alive today because I became her ‘Chosen Dad,’ who loved her. We all have the potential to re-parent ourselves and others.

– Bernie Siegel

By the time I was seven, I did a sonnet at Shakespeare’s Globe theatre for Shakespeare’s birthday because my dad had been at the first season of the Globe and was friends with the artistic director. Somehow, that lead to me doing a sonnet!

– Alfred Enoch

What shaped me the most would probably be when my dad passed away. For the rest of my life, I’ll kind of feel like he’s gonna come home.

– Bindi Irwin

I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking of Dad and wishing that he could have seen what I saw. He would have loved it.

– Bear Grylls

My dad liked to boil a squirrel head and suck the brains out the nose. Smaller than a chicken, bigger than a rat.

– Beth Ditto

Tom Hanks is fantastic – he is one of my dad’s good friends, and he’s very warm and funny.

– Bryce Dallas Howard

My dad is from India, my mom is from Russia. Fortunately, we moved a lot. I went to a lot of different schools and completely different cultures, so that’s my background.

– Annet Mahendru

My dad and I used to do movie marathons when I was a kid at the Chinese Theatre, and I just remember thinking, ‘One day I want to have a movie here’ And then later on, when ‘Save The Last Dance’ premiered there, that was definitely a full circle moment.

– Bianca Lawson

I know when I was little, having my Thai mom, even I was weird about fish sauce and fish heads and clams. I kind of sided with my dad because he was a big American guy. So, we were very meat and potatoes, but I really wish I had grown up appreciating my mom’s taste a bit more.

– Chrissy Teigen

My dad is too cute. Every morning, he sends me one motivational quote. I have a folder full of all his quotes.

– Alia Bhatt

I get on fine with my mum and dad, but if they want to see the grandchildren, they come to me.

– Aaron Johnson

My story starts with my dad, a black boy born to a single mother in a small town in North Carolina. It starts with my parents meeting in Washington, D.C., in the ’60s, at a time of incredible activism.

– Cory Booker

As I grow older, I have a growing curiosity about my other half. My dad did a wonderful job raising me, and I wouldn’t change it for the world, but at the same time there is a growing curiosity about my other half.

– Apolo Ohno

I saw my parents come over. They were immigrants, they had no money. My dad wore the same pair of shoes, I had some ugly clothes growing up, and I never had any privileges. In some ways, I think the person that I am now, I think it’s good that I had that kind of tough upbringing.

– Amy Chua

My dad taught me that language was a powerful tool.

– Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

Marvin Gaye is an inspiration to me. He was one of the first Motown musicians that my mom and dad introduced me to, and I always thought it would be a good idea if I was ever an artist, and now I am, to make a record called ‘Marvin Gaye.’

– Charlie Puth

My dad was my Little League coach and my Cub Master.

– Billy Baldwin

I did a term at Cambridge University studying medicine, so I could potentially have followed in Mum and Dad’s footsteps and become a doctor.

– Alistair Brownlee

My dad and my mom were big Nat King Cole fans, so they had everything he did.

– Aaron Neville

People have told me, ‘My dad passed on, but I have great memories of watching your shows with him.’ It doesn’t get any better than that.

– Bob Newhart

I took a lot of long summer road trips with my dad, and the mix of music we listened to on the road skipped around from classical to Western to new age to hyper-cinematic.

– Alex Ebert

If my Dad doesn’t like you, you will know. My Mom is just too innocent to ever lie. She doesn’t even cuss.

– Channing Tatum

I came from a working-class family. My dad was in a union. I never forgot what it was like to be a private.

– Chris Gibson

There is not a racist bone in my dad’s body. He doesn’t even laugh at distasteful jokes.

– Alan Wilson

My dad is the most humble man on the planet.

– Bryce Dallas Howard

On the rare occasions when my family talked about business, the subject was Kansas City’s Boss Pendergast and his potential for muscling my dad’s small gravel-and-sand operation.

– Carol Loomis

I like all the angels around because they protect me and my daughter. I mean, her Dad’s an angel.

– Courtney Love

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