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Dad Quotes

Dad truly believed that Christians should be involved in the political process and should make their voices heard.

– Jerry Falwell, Jr.

I loved going to the Chiang Kai Shek Memorial in Taipei to watch all the old Chinese people doing tai chi and practicing kung fu. The monument was made of white marble, and it was beautiful. Sometimes my dad and I would practice with them.

– Jimmy Chin

My favorite thing about ‘Saturday Night’s Main Event,’ it was that one time where I could stay up late with my dad and four brothers, and we would all beat the tar out of each other while the show was on, and it was all okay because my dad was a wrestling fan.

– John Cena

Going to the theater is such a joyous experience. My dad would take my sister and me to plays when we were very young, like six or seven years old.

– Julia Roberts

My family wasn’t particularly political. Mom and Dad voted, but that was the extent of their involvement. In fact, I ended up going to U.C. Davis because, to them, Berkeley was too radical.

– Jackie Speier

The surprising thing about fatherhood was finding my inner mush. Now I want to share it with the world.

– Christopher Meloni

My dad was not someone who you would strike with a billy club and he wouldn’t strike back. It just wasn’t in him.

– Condoleezza Rice

Look, I am in the establishment because my dad, the greatest man alive was president of the United States and my brother, who I adore as well as fantastic brother was president. Fine, I’ll take it. I guess I’m part of the establishment Barbara Bush is my mom. I’ll take that, too.

– Jeb Bush

My dad read history, about a book a day, but only after he retired as a successful bank and insurance man.

– Barry Hannah

I grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and my parents are really right wingers. My dad watches, like, five or six hours of ‘Fox News’ every day and stuff like that.

– Jeffrey R. Immelt

I never had a speech from my father ‘this is what you must do or shouldn’t do’ but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn’t perfect.

– Adam Sandler

You can say that Mitt Romney started with nothing! He didn’t get an inheritance from his dad.

– Brian Kilmeade

I recall my dad saying about me once that the only time he’d ever heard me say ‘never’ was when I was asked if I’d had enough.

– Bob Diamond

I was born Gaynor Hopkins, one of seven children. My mum, Elsie, and dad, Glyndwr, always said they had seven children, although my sister Paulene was stillborn.

– Bonnie Tyler

On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven’t arrived yet and bring me back to reality.

– Candace Parker

My dad was a huge big band and jazz fan, and we both sort of enjoyed be-bop, but man, it required so much skill to play it. And then there was cool jazz, the era that Miles, Coltrane, and Ornette ushered in, and that found a home in me. It turns out that that music was just really where I breathed.

– J. D. Souther

I pressed my father’s hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.

– Chief Joseph

My dad and mom divorced when I was around ten, and I didn’t live with him after that, though he was close by and we saw each other weekly. I wasn’t really aware that he was a writer; I didn’t start reading his writing until I was about fifteen. It occurred to me then that my dad was kind of special; he’s still one of my favorite writers.

– Andre Dubus III

My dad was an English professor.

– Blake Lively

My mother wanted to name me Jackie or Jacqueline but she got to name my sister and my brother, so my dad and my brother insisted on naming me. And they were big fans of ‘The Little Mermaid.’

– Ariel Winter

My dad was a terrible businessman.

– Al Franken

My dad was in a Beatles cover band. My mom wore Candies and belly buttons. The people in our family were very glamorous. They wore pearls like Jackie O.

– Azita Ghanizada

My dad used to say, ‘Just be yourself and you’ll be fine,’ but it’s really, really true.

– Bellamy Young

My engineer dad is where my technical acumen comes from. I remember him taking me to the factories to see how what works. Often he used to open up his motorbike to fix things and I saw how the wheels worked. His car used to be open for dissection very regularly. All this taught me and inspired me to look beyond what I could see on the skin.

– Bibhu Mohapatra

Mom was so funny and loving to us kids. She was our first audience. When my dad died, I was suddenly alone in the house with her because my two older brothers were away at college. I was the man of the house, and she was the grieving woman.

– Billy Crystal

I was trying to make art that my son could look on in the future and would realize I was thinking about him very much during these times… that he can look and see my dad’s thinking about me, but to also embed in these things something that is bigger than all of us.

– Jeff Koons

My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won’t wait-you can kick their ass right now.

– Cameron Diaz

I miss my Dad. My Dad loved cheesy monster movies, so we’d have Godzilla movie marathons. Those are some of my favorite memories, laughing at how the monster outfits were so bad, like black garbage bags for heads.

– Ahmet Zappa

Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time – very inspiring and dramatic.

– Bat for Lashes

I definitely had a weird thing of being attracted to older men. Never my family friends, never my dad’s friends.

– Alia Shawkat

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