Quotes by category:Dad

I used to go to my kids' soccer games and I was the only parent who wasn't screaming, because I'd have to do a show that night. It was hard. Moms and dads get more emotional at those soccer and Little League games than at a professional game.

I had always sung in my dad's shop. I worked there after school, and I'd be singing along with the top-40 records of the day.

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I'm tired of eating your family's lousy, tasteless recipes," Dad said. "Tasteless recipes? My grandmother's rolling in her grave!" "It's from indigestion.

Neal Shusterman

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I delivered leaflets for my dad and was paid £5 per thousand, whi... by Neil Oliver

I delivered leaflets for my dad and was paid £5 per thousand, which was slave labour.

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Standing in front of a microphone where every word or every slip that you make, especially in these times, is with you forever - you want to say the right thing. I fell into having to extemporize, and it came okay because of tools I've learned. I said [to myself], "Remember [to mention] mom and dad."

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We really had baseball in the family. Even that little habit I've got of chewing tobacco on the ball field sort of comes from my dad.

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Imagine a life-form whose brainpower is to ours as ours is to a chimpanzee’s. To such a species, our highest mental achievements would be trivial. Their toddlers, instead of learning their ABCs on Sesame Street, would learn multivariable calculus on Boolean Boulevard. Our most complex theorems, our deepest philosophies, the cherished works of our most creative artists, would be projects their schoolkids bring home for Mom and Dad to display on the refrigerator door.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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My dad brought me Michael Jackson and Madonna and said, "This is... by Neon Hitch

My dad brought me Michael Jackson and Madonna and said, "This is ALL you need to know!"

It is good to be Compared with the best player [Pele]. But my dad told me about Garrincha's style as he moved forward, went up, attacked and dribbled. Garrincha's style is more similar to Neymar's.

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My dad passed away...and suddenly I found myself at the top of the tree and looking at the sky instead of at my mom and dad.

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.

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My son's dad is committed, and involved, and amazing. We're actually really good friends. But I think it's dangerous to speak negatively to the child about your ex or the absent parent, because, believe it or not, they learn very quickly who the other parent is. And it's important that they develop their own attitudes and opinions about that other parent based on their experiences, not based on what someone has said about them.

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I had a friend, who was abused by her dad. I made a vow to myself... by Niall Horan

I had a friend, who was abused by her dad. I made a vow to myself that I'd never hurt my daughter.

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I've got a really great family round me, two sisters and an older brother and my mum and dad. Everybody's equal.

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Dads are the appendix of humanity. They should just be taken out... by Nick Burd

Dads are the appendix of humanity. They should just be taken out before they start causing problems.

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I say this as a young dad seeing children going into primary school: I don't think we should underestimate the formative effect on a child of those first years in primary school.

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I am quite strict as a dad but I don't want to be censorious. by Nick Clegg

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

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So my father was a person who never lied to me. If I had a question, he answered it. I knew a lot of things at a young age because I was intrigued.

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My dad's side of the family had lots of artists and musicians. There's an emotional, quite sentimental quality to Slavic culture. It's very open, it loves art, it loves music, it loves literature. It's very warm, it's very up, it's very down. I would celebrate that.

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This is how it essentially is for Bunny Junior. He loves his dad. He thinks there is no dad better, cleverer, or more capable, and he stands there beside him with a sense of pride - he's my dad - and he also, of course, stands beside him because he has nowhere else to go.

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