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Dad Quotes

It all started in Michigan. My dad got a job in Michigan, so we all moved up there from St. Louis. I kind of hung out in the summer and had nothing to do, so I sort of got into acting. And then I was going to Grand Blanc High, doing the acting thing and hoping it would pan out.

– Evan Peters

My parents were divorced when I was three, and both my father and mother moved back into the homes of their parents. I spent the school year with my mother, and the summers with my dad.

– Patricia Polacco

Before we took down the tree each year, Dad would always say a prayer that we would be together the next Christmas. I cling to that prayer, which serves as a reminder that it’s important to be grateful in the present for the people you love because, well, you never know.

– Catherine Hicks

My dad was fine about me doing modelling at 16 because I always said school was important to me. I always chose my jobs carefully so I wouldn’t have to take too much time off. It got harder toward the end with my A-levels; there were sleepless nights, and I was doing my homework on the plane coming home, but I pulled through.

– Georgia May Jagger

I was born in West Plains, and we lived here till I was one. Then my dad needed to get a job, so we moved to the St. Louis area. I lived in St. Charles, on the Missouri River, till I was 15.

– Daniel Woodrell

My dad probably gave me the best advice growing up. I think it’s really just keeping your cool in situations and learning to balance everything.

– Cassie Steele

‘Keep your head down at school.’ Those are sage words from my dad. They kept me in check for years.

– Dhani Harrison

I am quite strict as a dad but I don’t want to be censorious.

– Nick Clegg

I don’t really plan to be a pop star; I just want to be able to make music without the whole My Dad thing hanging over me, which everyone in my position goes through.

– Dhani Harrison

I had what you could call a chaotic childhood. My parents divorced when I was 2; I went back and forth between my mom’s and dad’s houses for years.

– Crystal Bowersox

My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate, depressing, sad places run by the mob. The only gay people he’d met when I came out to him were corpses.

– Dan Savage

I’m very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn’t think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that’s happening to me. I’m rather surprised at who I am, because I’m actually like my dad!

– David Bowie

I’m turning into a stricter dad.

– David Duchovny

Growing up with my dad, whenever I wanted to try something, he would let me try it but he wouldn’t let me give up on it. If soccer was too tough and I said, ‘I’m going to quit,’ he’d be like, ‘No, you’re going to try everything and keep going at it.’

– Carlos Pena, Jr.

You get to a certain age and you can’t judge yourself on your dad or your parents.

– Ellie Goulding

I did rebel. I was the rebel in my family, because my dad wanted me to go and just travel with him.

– Dhani Harrison

Yeah, my dad was in the foreign service. We lived in India, Indonesia and Africa, and we traveled a lot from those places. I was 10 when we moved back, and I felt like the odd guy out. It wasn’t until later that I appreciated it. But coming back I didn’t know any TV shows or music, which was even worse.

– Dylan Walsh

My dad went to jail for a long time. We lost everything, and the situation never resolved itself. My parents had this sort of passionate, disastrous desire for each other – not ideal to grow up in.

– Natalia Kills

The kids think we’re wacky. Mum and Dad are in showbiz – they don’t know any other way. They’ve grown up travelling all over the world and are getting a worldly education. My son is 12 and he can speak eloquently on religions and cultures.

– Deborra-Lee Furness

If you’re a girl, you’re always Daddy’s little girl. You’re vulnerable, no matter how worldly or sophisticated or strong you’d become along the way. My dad Lionel let me know how proud he was, even as he kept me from being too big for my britches.

– Donna Brazile

My dad went to USC and it always had been very important to me and my family.

– Miranda Cosgrove

I like to believe that I’ve got a lot of guardian warriors sittin’ on my shoulder including my dad.

– Patrick Swayze

As a kid growing up, I wanted the Allen Iverson shoes that came out, the Questions. My dad got them for me, so I was excited about that.

– Nate Robinson

Philippians 4:13 has never rung so true… You were an unparalleled Giant in all sense of the word, Dad. So keep doin’ you up there, because no one does it better, and no one ever will.

– Cassidy Gifford

I’m not an American, but I have this weird connection to America in different ways through my dad living here for five years, my godfather being an American who I’m very close to.

– Damian Lewis

One day, I went to buy something for my dad at the shops, and I heard a song by Nat King Cole called ‘Stardust Melody.’ It was like I went into a trance or something. I forgot all about my dad sending me to the shop. When I got home, I explained to him what happened. I thought I was going to get a whipping, but he understood.

– Desmond Dekker

‘I Know You Care’ is about my dad. And I haven’t seen him for a long, long time. And my parents divorced when I was really young. And I guess I just wanted a – it was my way of saying that I wasn’t bitter or angry anymore. I was just sad and just felt like something was missing.

– Ellie Goulding

My dad died when I was 23. His death was sudden and shocking – the result of a car crash – and I never got to say goodbye.

– Dani Shapiro

Every time I’d sing or play piano when I was a child, my dad would yell up from the basement, ‘That’s B-flat!’

– Ethan Canin

My dad was very much a John Wayne kind of guy, but he was also a great guy, great sense of humor, a real dedicated dad. I don’t think he ever missed a hockey game I was in.

– Denis Leary

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