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Dad Quotes

I’ve traveled all over. I’ve been to all 50 states. With my dad in the Navy, I lived in the Philippines from nine to 12, and I had dog, monkey, lizard, everything. Then I was in Hawaii, and I’m spear-fishing, catching octopus with my hands.

– Graham Elliot

For my last meal, I’d want an Irish breakfast with soda bread and one of my dad’s omelettes with three or four eggs.

– Erin O’Connor

My dad told us up front, ‘Guys, if you want to play sports, go ahead, but it’s your decision.’

– Peyton Manning

I’ve never tried to find my real parents. I’m very grateful to my mum and dad for adopting me – they’re completely incredible people. It was my dad who encouraged me to question everything, to forge my own path, to think, to read. I always felt it was my right to question everything.

– Dan Stevens

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

– Friedrich Nietzsche

There’s not a single day when I walk the streets of New York City when someone doesn’t come up to me to say: ‘Please, please, ask your dad to run for president.’ We really need a businessman as leader of our country, not a politician.

– Eric Trump

My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with – bad management, bad capitalism, robber barons – when I applied this to my own life, I saw that we are all on both sides of the coin.

– David Mamet

Growing up, my parents did everything they knew how to do to support me. My dad was always kinda my roadie; he drove me from gig to gig. But I got my own gigs. I was this 12-year-old kid, shuffling business cards, calling people, telling them I wanted to play.

– Crystal Bowersox

My dad was in the military, yeah. He was in the Air Force, and he was a doctor, so he would go places for six months here, and two years there. And I was home-schooled because I played the violin, and I did a lot of competitions.

– Felicia Day

Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It’s a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically.

– Geoffrey Rush

My dad has this beautiful spirit of being able to create no matter where he is. He’s always been so selfless with our family. It’s hard to put words to it. He’s an incredible man.

– Matt Lauria

My dad loved to laugh. He was very funny and very silly.

– Mike Myers

Ultimately, my connection to my Indian-ness comes back to my mom and dad. They would all tell me and my siblings stories about their life in India, so it was very close to my two brothers and my sister and I.

– Nikki Haley

My Dad was from Liverpool, and he picked it up in the army. He’d often come out with this stuff.

– Mike Myers

Me being a black girl in London, whose mom is first-generation African and whose dad is West Indian, gives me a different view. I’m coming at soul from my own place.

– Estelle

I wasn’t a bad kid. My dad left when I was young, so I didn’t have much discipline, not that I’m making excuses. I was always out and about and had a good time as a kid, so I’ve done alright.

– Danny Dyer

My dad was a longshoreman in the Port of Miami. Tough job. I worked down there in the summer once. One day. Never again. My dad was a no-nonsense guy. As a kid, I hated his rules, but as a man, I understand what he was teaching. He taught me you have to work hard for everything you get.

– Nick Ferguson

Ever since I knew Dad did pentathlon, I wanted to do it as well. I have seen all his old photos, and he still has his Olympic riding jacket, and that makes this even more special.

– Chloe Esposito

My mom and my dad are ebullient people, and I think I carry that with me.

– Michael Stuhlbarg

My kids don’t slow down, but they like to hang just with us, with mum and dad. They play with us and we play, too.

– Deborra-Lee Furness

I got to work with Cillian Murphy and my dad, Jim Broadbent and Jodie Whittaker on ‘Perrier’s Bounty.’ It was a small part, but it was really special.

– Domhnall Gleeson

When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don’t take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, ‘No one can outwork you.’

– Pat Summitt

When my parents were dating, they were very poor, so my dad couldn’t take my mom out. They would go to the grocery store and pick out funny looking vegetables. When I grew up, we’d still go and find the ones with personality.

– Parker Posey

Most young people haven’t used their storytelling skills since they were 8 or 9 or 10 and wanted to persuade Mom and Dad to take them to the ball game.

– Peter Guber

When I used to do musical theatre, my dad refused to come backstage. He never wanted to see the props up close or the sets up close. He didn’t want to see the magic.

– Nia Vardalos

I’m just constantly trying to be a good dad.

– David Charvet

My dad’s a very shrewd, clever guy.

– C. Thomas Howell

My dad’s a sound designer, and he used to take me to work with him.

– Emilia Clarke

I’m a very promiscuous reader. My dad’s a big science fiction fan, so I’d read ‘Dune,’ and ‘Watership Down’ and ‘The Lord Of The Rings.’

– Margo Lanagan

Every Friday, my dad would rent three videos. Me and my brother would ask for something with guns or fighting, but my dad would say, ‘Come on, think about it.’ He’d choose more involving films like ‘Pulp Fiction,’ and at the end of the night, we’d agree that they were great.

– Christian Cooke

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