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Dad Quotes

My parents were big music fans, and my dad plays music, so I grew up with Madonna, Frank Zappa, the Beatles, Alice In Chains… it was all over the place. I had a Third Eye Blind record, but I also had Korn, Courtney Love, and Shania Twain.

– Madi Diaz

I’m probably a little more like my dad. But because of my mom, I never saw being a woman as being an impediment to being able to do something. She had her Ph.D. before I was born.

– Mary Cheney

I would love to be a dad. For the longest time, I’ve wanted kids, but you have to have the right setup, right?

– Maksim Chmerkovskiy

When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We’d play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He’d read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.

– Danica McKellar

The music I want to hear in my head sounds somewhere between Jimi Hendrix and Massive Attack. It’s not really like my dad, but there will always be similarities because we have the same vocal cords, and I learnt the guitar the way he taught me.

– Dhani Harrison

If you met my dad, I think a lot of things would be put to rest. Because my pops is a pretty silly guy. But, Coldcut, they’re based in the U.K. I’m a big fan of jazz music, so American music has had a big influence on what I listen to.

– Eric San

My dad was a holistic doctor, so putting good things into my body has always been something I’ve strived for.

– Callie Hernandez

The local dudes who knew that my dad owned a studio would say, ‘Ahh, dude is spoiled,’ and this and that. But we didn’t abuse it at all. I’d always ask if we could use the studio first, and if our dad didn’t want us there he would tell us, and that was that. But I definitely tried to get down there as often as I could.

– Dimebag Darrell

Well, I am a lot like my dad, and the character of Ted is based on my dad.

– Max Cannon

My dad was an immigrant kid and a Democrat and a Jew, and we didn’t know any Republicans in our group. So I grew up Democratic. My dad was a labor lawyer – a very hardworking guy, a one-horse labor lawyer – and then I went to hippie college and lived in the bubble.

– David Mamet

My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, ‘So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?’

– Fleur East

I don’t have a creepy uncle, but I certainly have many, many uncles. My mom has twelve brothers and sisters, and my dad has two sisters and three brothers. Their maturity level is still hovering around fifteen when they all get together, but they’re not necessarily creepy.

– Martha MacIsaac

My dad worked on ambulances for a while; my mother had a lot of different jobs with the city.

– Desiigner

My dad was a singer in a band and neither of my parents went to college, and I ended up getting into Harvard and was the first person in my family that went to college and it happened to be Harvard.

– Dean Norris

My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small – panto being a sort of English phenomenon. There’s traditionally a part of the show where they’ll invite kids up on the stage to interact with the show. I was too young to remember this, but my dad says that I was running up onstage before they even asked us.

– Dan Stevens

As a kid, I would look at my dad and ask him why he was wearing jeans with his tux. Today I love to do it. It’s just fun to be a little more unique.

– David Lauren

This is going to sound horrible, but I don’t even know how much I make in a year. It must be, you know, a couple of million dollars, a few million. I know it’s more money than my dad, a jail guard, made in his lifetime; more money than I’ll ever need.

– Penn Jillette

My dad was a labourer and my mum had exactly the same job as Noel Gallagher’s mum – she was a dinner lady at our local school. Everyone comes over from Ireland and they get the same jobs.

– Danny Boyle

I have one brother, John, an airline pilot, who is seven years younger. He’s adopted, though we’re still blood related – he’s my cousin. My parents couldn’t have any more children after me, so when Dad’s brother died, they adopted John, then just a baby.

– Gary Numan

I love just lying on the floor at home watching games with my dad. No pressures, just being me.

– David Keith

I used to have a silk dressing gown an uncle bought in Japan and when I came downstairs in it, my dad used to call me Davinia. There was never embarrassment about that kind of thing. My sister used to dress me up a lot. She thought I was a little doll.

– David Walliams

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

– Enid Bagnold

My dad was pretty strict. We didn’t even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 years old. I didn’t even see his stand-up, really, until I started doing stand-up, and that was when I was 22. So he’s pretty strict. We had curfews until I was 17… he didn’t play around.

– Damon Wayans, Jr.

I suppose not everyone has a dad who wrote a book saying he didn’t believe in the Parliamentary road to socialism.

– Ed Miliband

My dad’s got a brilliant eye for scripts ‘cos he’s a literary agent. He and my agent read a load of scripts and filter them.

– Daniel Radcliffe

My dad was one of four children. His three siblings were female, and he loved and protected them.

– Dan Hill

Some article called me the most feared man in Silicon Valley. Good Lord! Why? My teenage boys got a kick out of it: ‘Dad, how could this be true? You’re not even the most feared person in this house.’

– Nathan Myhrvold

My dad and my brother have Google alerts out on me.

– Cassidy Freeman

My dad was my hero when I was a young boy. And then it’s a toss-up between Han Solo, the New Zealand All Blacks Rugby team, and Marlon Brando.

– Martin Henderson

Go on daddy-daughter dates and father-and-sons’ outings with your children. As a family, go on campouts and picnics, to ball games and recitals, to school programs, and so forth. Having Dad there makes all the difference.

– Ezra Taft Benson

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