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Dad Quotes

My dad was a geologist and my mum was a nurse who directed amateur theatrics.

– Matthew Goode

Out of all my friends, I believe I’m the only kid whose dad made us work to cut rebars; we laid bricks in construction sites and did other real work every summer for minimum wage. Our dad said that it’s important in the future that when we tell people to dig a hole, that you personally know how long it will take to dig that hole.

– Eric Trump

My eldest son, Jack, grew up with me as a ‘part-time’ dad.

– Mike McGavick

I lost my parents very early in my life. My mom died three weeks after I graduated from high school, and my dad died two years after I got married.

– Mary Badham

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. But, you know, my parents tried to do the right thing. As crazy as everything was, and as much fighting and everything, there was always a feeling of support from them.

– Crystal Bowersox

I grew up with stories of people who start their own businesses and do really well. So I thought, ‘OK, that’s what you do.’ I can thank my dad for that.

– Nick Woodman

The people on my mum’s side of the family are atheist intellectuals who are ueber-proper. My dad’s side of the family are missionaries who are more comfortable sitting around in sweatpants than they are in a five-star restaurant. But those two influences converged in my life.

– Evangeline Lilly

My father taught me how to substitute realities.

– Mira Sorvino

I was talking on the phone in my trailer, and I looked in the mirror and I saw the badge clipped to my belt, a gun with a holster, and the suit and the tie with the jacket off, and it was just deja vu. I remember that image so clearly from growing up. My dad would come home for lunch, take off his jacket, have the gun and the badge.

– Michael Trucco

I lost my dad way too early and it was agonisingly awful. I missed him so much and I hated knowing that I could never again pick up the phone to tell him about my day.

– Monica Seles

My mum is West African, from Senegal; my dad is from Grenada. There was a huge controversy about them getting together.

– Estelle

Both of my parents were super music lovers when I was growing up – they had a massive record and tape collection. I think my dad even had a couple of laser discs, but that was a short-lived thing.

– Madi Diaz

I had my heart set on becoming an English teacher, but stumbled into acting after meeting a theatrical agent in my dad’s restaurant in San Diego.

– Charisma Carpenter

All three of my parents – I also had a stepmother – were teachers, and my dad taught high school, and as he always reminded me when I was going to spend some money on something, ‘Your mother and I, in the Depression, had to decide whether to spend a dime on a loaf of bread or if we could go to a movie with it.’

– Dick Cavett

Tiffany is very proud to have the last name and she’s proud of her dad.

– Marla Maples

Dad, I’m in some trouble. There’s been an accident and you’re going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.

– Edward Kennedy

I had never said, ‘dad, I love you.’

– Michael Reagan

I take my kids to school… I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.

– Carlos Ponce

My family always helped me. I had people around me who always pushed me to be the best: my dad, my mum. My dad used to play and coach as well. But I wasn’t born with shiny things.

– Paul Pogba

Because of my father, we are that Shining City on a Hill.

– Michael Reagan

Sitting around our kitchen table from a very early age on, we talked politics, and we talked policy. Never once can I ever remember my dad saying, ‘Go away, this is an adult conversation.’

– Cheri Bustos

When you break it all down, my punk rock is my dad’s blues. It’s music from the underground, and it’s real, and it’s written for the downtrodden in uncertain times.

– Frank Iero

My dad always played sports. He played football. I always wanted to play football because my dad played football, but my mom never wanted me to play football because she said she couldn’t take me getting hit.

– DeMar DeRozan

I would ask my dad what he did, and he’d say, ‘I listen to people’s problems.’ In some way what he did for a living is in my genes.

– Marcia Cross

It’s a great thing because I’ve said to my lad, ‘What do you want to do today – football, shopping, playing a game?’ and he says, ‘I want to bake with you, Dad.’ And he loves it, baking with me.

– Paul Hollywood

Mental illness can happen to anybody. You can be a dustman, a politician, a Tesco worker… anyone. It could be your dad, your brother or your aunt.

– Frank Bruno

My mum’s a bouncy, energetic, driven, crazy woman, and my dad’s very relaxed, doesn’t say much. I have the best of both worlds in my personality.

– Ella Eyre

One of the things my dad always said is that it’s O.K. to do one for you and one for them. He taught me a lot of things, but that’s certainly one of the many that I took to heart.

– Duncan Jones

When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less of a literary rivalry with him as I’ve gone on. I certainly don’t feel I need his approval, although maybe that’s because I’m confident that I’ve got it.

– Paul Theroux

I’ve always liked telling stories. That probably came from my dad, who definitely had the gift of gab and who wove a kind of personal folklore about his youth – stories full of adventure and ghosts and wild antics.

– Cullen Bunn

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