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Source: Dad, Do You Love Mom?

“I think I definitely want to blame my parents on this one. One of the things about having a minister for a father, you do tend to develop an irreverent streak. Kinda goes with the territory. And Dad was as bad as I am, really . .”

Thinking Want Father Parent Dad Blame Ministers Territory Streaks Irreverent

Author:Matt Ruff

“My dad's not here, but he's watching in heaven.”

Heaven Dad My Dad

Author:Bubba Watson

“Computers tend to separate us from each other - Mum's on the laptop, Dad's on the iPad, teenagers are on Facebook, toddlers are on the DS, and so on.”

Dad Computer Teenager Mum Laptops Ipads Toddler

Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“My mom fed us a million balls. Dad took us to tournaments. Couldn't have done it without them. We had a happy tennis family.”

Done Millions Mom Dad Balls My Mom Tennis Feds Tournaments

Author:Mike Bryan

“My dad worked for Del Monte and then for Monsanto as one of the chief scientists on the Calgene Flavr Savr Tomato. But it was a huge disaster because the tomato didn't taste good. And then my dad started his own genetics company and I began doing that with him. He and I ran a genetics company for 10 years. And so I sold seeds to Florida.”

Years Company Huge Dad Taste Scientist My Dad Seeds Disaster Chiefs Ran Florida Genetics Tomatoes Monsanto

Author:Sanjay Rawal

“The Flavr Savr wasn't about taste at all; that was just the name. It was about the shape and the shipability of it. My dad's company was all about flavor. His tomatoes are some of the best selling at Trader Joe's and Whole Foods.”

Whole Names Company Dad Taste Shapes My Dad Selling Flavor Tomatoes Traders Whole Foods

Author:Sanjay Rawal

“My dad was a breeder. Most of his work happened in little test plots and didn't require much labor. He tried growing them for a while, and realized that farming is hard. It's just brutally hard. We didn't have the interest or fortitude to farm.”

Littles Hard Interest Growing Happened Dad Labor Tests My Dad Plot Farms Farming Fortitude Breeders

Author:Sanjay Rawal

“My dad loved Scotland, so we would pile into his caravan and head for the Highlands, to Fort William and Loch Ness. It was such an adventure - my siblings and I were allowed to roam and explore the local beaches. We loved the freedom of those trips.”

Adventure Dad My Dad Locals Beach Scotland Sibling Forts My Siblings Caravans

Author:Rick Astley

“Dad was also a deeply, unabashedly religious man... , But he never made the fatal mistake of so many politicians - wearing his faith on his sleeve to gain political advantage.”

Men Made Political Religious Mistake Dad Politician Gains Advantage Sleeves Fatal Mistakes

Author:Ron Reagan

“He's been dead for so many years, but I'm still trying to impress him. That's what gave me my drive. 'Look at me, Dad, I've succeeded.'”

Trying Years Looks Stills Dad Impress Look At Me

Author:Elton John

“I got a drum set at the age of four. I wasn't playing that well, just kind of banging around. I just wanted to play drums and my dad got me a set. I played for several years, but I wasn't meant to be a drummer, I guess. I can play drums on my own things - obviously on some of my own records I play drums. But I didn't start playing guitar until I was 11.”

Years Wells Kind I Can Play Age Wanted My Own Records Four Dad Guitar My Dad Meant To Be Drummer Banging Playing Guitar

Author:Shuggie Otis

“I was never pushed into the business. I wanted to play the guitar. When my dad found out I could play pretty good he took me into the studio one day. I did my first session for his label. We did quite a few sessions up there.”

Firsts Play Wanted Found Dad One Day Guitar My Dad Studios Labels Session

Author:Shuggie Otis

“I've been hooked on films ever since I can remember renting VHS tapes. But who got me hooked? I think life did. There wasn't a person or a mentor that got me hooked. I think it was the films themselves that influenced me. A specific memory that comes to mind is watching 'Goodfellas' when I was 12 and thought Robert De Niro looked so cool sitting at the bar smoking a cigarette and contemplating his next "move". I actually would copy his faces gestures and try and get into his mind frame. I would borrow mad dad's clothes and pretend I was a Mobster. So I guess I have to thank Robert DeNiro.”

“I hope I pass on my dad's good humor, work ethic and lack of self-seriousness. Our house was always a fun place where you'd get knocked around quickly if you took yourself too seriously.”

Ifs Self House Fun Dad Ethics My Dad Work Ethic Seriousness Good Humor

Author:Willie Geist

“I grew up as an only child. I think it might just be that my dad really didn't care that I was a girl. "You're gonna do certain things 'cause I want you to, and that's the way it is."”

Thinking Way Want Children Might Care Certain Girl Causes Grew Dad Grew Up My Dad I Want You Only Child

Author:Mitchell Baker

“My mom and my dad taught me the greatest gifts we have are our family, our health and the right to clean water and good land.”

Water Land Taught Mom Dad Clean My Dad My Mom Our Family Greatest Gifts Clean Water

Author:Erin Brockovich

“Growing up working with my dad, I really had no interest in doing the actual work, so I was always like drawing on the wood, doing stuff like that. It just has a real hands-on approach.”

Real Hands Stuff Interest Growing Up Growing Dad Approach My Dad Woods Drawing

Author:Eddie Martinez

“My dad taught me at a very young age that I should work harder than everyone else: Be the first one in and the last one out.”

Should Firsts Age Lasts Young Taught Hard Work Dad Harder My Dad Young Age Work Harder

Author:Mandana Dayani

“I've always been aggressive and an underdog, and my dad was worried that I would always be that: constantly seeking inspiration from negativity.”

Inspiration Dad My Dad Seeking Worried Aggressive Negativity Underdog

Author:Doseone

“My dad got me a chemistry book one Christmas and I burnt the garden shed down. I remember there was the most beautiful smell forever after in the remains.”

Book Beautiful Remember Forever Dad Garden Remains My Dad Smell Chemistry Shed Ever After

Author:Beth Orton

“Dad's tiny - his passport picture is a full-length shot. He looks like he just hopped off a key ring. Mum is a different matter, she's a bit of a handful to say the least. I love her more than anyone on this Earth. But she's a monster.”

Looks Different Matter Earth Bits Keys Dad Shots Tiny Monsters Rings Length Mum Handful Passports

Author:Ricky Hatton

“My brother and I were born in an Irish county called Tipperary. We were both very math- and science-inclined in high school. My dad trained as an electrical engineer, and my mom is in microbiology.”

School Born Brother Mom Dad High School My Dad My Mom Math My Brother Engineers County Electrical Math And Science Microbiology

Author:John Collison

“I was lucky to have a great dad.”

Dad Lucky Great Dad

Author:James McNerney

“Three of Donald Trump's kids have come forward to defend him, and called him 'an incredible dad and role model.' Donald was so moved that he wrote one of them back into his will. 'I'm not gonna tell you which one . . . it's Donald Jr.'”

Kids Three Roles Trump Dad Models Moved Incredibles Role Models

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“I had old bunk beds that my dad got from Seabrook Farms. They were first used by German prisoners during World War II, who were sent to work the farms during the war. The metal beds with their thin mattresses could easily be used as a jungle gym and I loved them.”

World Firsts War Used Dad Bed My Dad War Of The Worlds Gym Prisoner Farms World War Ii Metals World War I Jungle Mattresses Bunk Bunk Beds

Author:David Mixner

“My mother played the piano and my father the violin, I can remember my dad teaching me how to waltz; I had my feet on his, my mother playing the piano, and my husband will tell you the lessons weren't very successful.”

I Can Remember Mother Father Successful Feet Teaching Dad Lessons Husband My Dad Piano My Husband Violin Waltz

Author:Quentin Bryce

“My dad is really just lazy. He has nothing, I feel, to offer this world.”

World Feels This World Dad Offers My Dad Lazy

Author:Sasha Grey

“My dad was a bass player in a Latino band when I was growing up. So we always had musical instruments in our basement.”

Growing Up Growing Player Dad Band Instruments Musical My Dad Bass Latino Basements Musical Instruments Bass Players

Author:Lindi Ortega

“My dads great. Hes an amazing artist. A sculptor. Hes wonderful and supportive. I love going to museums with him - we talk about... everything.”

Artist Wonderful Dad My Dad Museums Supportive Sculptors

Author:Grace Gummer

“I came up poor. My mother only had a fourth-grade education. My dad didn't have any education at all. But they were very structured. They worked hard. You know, they didn't complain. They didn't murmur. And they believe in the Christ.”

Knows Believe Hard Mother Christ Poor Dad My Dad Complaining Grades Fourth Fourth Grade

Author:Evander Holyfield

“I grew up playing games, and I remember Christmas 1981 when my dad got us an Intellivision, and we all sat around and played 'Astrosmash' for hours on end. It was a big part of my youth.”

Ends Bigs Remember Games Hours Youth Grew Dad Grew Up My Dad Sat Playing Games

Author:Roger Craig Smith

“I believe strongly that a group's potential is eventually limited by the strength of its leadership. I'm an outsider, but it still looks to me like the leadership in the Java w orld is Fouled Up Beyond ALL Recognition. Java ISVs don't know whether to listen to Mom or Dad. Everybody knows IBM should just buy Sun and clean up the mess. When are they going to do it?”

Knows Should Believe Looks Stills I Believe Sun Groups Mom Dad Clean Recognition Mess Outsiders Ibm Java

Author:Eric Sink

“For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.”

Father Son Dad Fathers Day Happy First Fathers Day Funny Happy Fathers Day

Author:Homer

“I guess I knew my dad was into photography, so a part of me was interested in picking it up to understand him a little better.”

Littles Dad Photography My Dad

Author:Gia Coppola

“I hate short hair on men - the 'real' man is something I don't know. My dad was always playing with hairbands, making rings, while the women were wearing jeans, white T-shirts and Converse. That was the uniform at home.”

Knows Men Real Home Hate White Hair Dad I Hate My Dad Rings Shirts Uniforms Jeans T Shirt Real Men Converses Short Hair

Author:Lou Doillon

“I think the best advice I ever got about acting was from my dad, which was, 'If they don't buy the fish on the first toss, throw it back in the wagon and go to the second house.' Which is like an old Jewish fishmongers' story about how you become a successful fish monger.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Stories House Acting Successful Advice Dad My Dad Fishes Toss Best Advice Wagons

Author:Lin Shaye

“After about midday my dad sent cars from his private collection for us. We were told to get in. We had almost lost contact with my father and brothers because things had got out of hand. I saw with my own eyes the [Iraqi] army withdrawing and the terrified faces of the Iraqi soldiers who, unfortunately, were running away and looking around them. Missiles were falling on my left and my right - they were not more than fifty or one hundred metres away. We moved in small cars. I had a gun between my feet just in case.”

“I loved rock and roll when that came in, Bill Haley, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, all those great records. So I begged my mom and dad for a guitar, which eventually they did get me for Christmas, but it went out of tune very quickly, and it hurt my fingers.”

Littles Hurt Records Rocks Mom Dad Bills Fingers Guitar My Mom Fats Tunes It Hurts Rock And Roll Buddy Mom And Dad Hollies Haley Fats Domino

Author:Ian McLagan

“My dad was a cross-country truck driver.”

Country Dad Crosses My Dad Drivers Truck Truck Driver

Author:John Searles

“I actually wanted to be a police officer like my dad for the longest time, up until my sophomore year in high school when I started doing plays. I did plays when I was little, but in high school, I started getting into acting.”

Years Littles Play Wanted School Acting Dad High School Police My Dad Officers Police Officer Sophomore Sophomore Year

Author:Chad Lindberg

“I have three older brothers, and we all have different combinations of parents. My father was the best man at my mom's first wedding! And my brother's mother - my dad's first wife - is the sister to my mom's first husband's second wife. So my brothers are both stepcousins and stepbrothers. It's very '70s rock.”

Men Firsts Different Mother Three Father Parent Wife Rocks Brother Mom Dad Husband My Dad My Mom Combination My Brother Older Brother

Author:Inara George

“My dad is a loving person. He would never disown me. At some point we will be together again. I love my father, and he loves me.”

Persons Together Father Dad My Dad Together Again Loving Person

Author:Mosab Hassan Yousef

“One thing my and mother and dad shared completely was their approach to money - they just didn't spend it.”

Mother One Thing Dad Approach

Book:Sam Walton: Made In America

Source: Sam Walton: Made In America

“My daughter, dad where do homeless people come from? My answer, everywhere.”

People Answers Dad Daughter My Daughter Homeless Homeless People

Author:Ray Price

“My dad once told me that the secret to a happy life was never to start something with a girl unless you were willing to follow wherever it led. It's the best piece of advice he has ever given me, and probably the reason I was born.”

Reason Girl Given Born Secret Pieces Advice Willing Dad My Dad Happy Life

Book:Rivers of London

Source: Rivers of London

“It was palpable, all that wanting: Mother wanting something more, Dad wanting something more, everyone wanting something more. This wasn't going to do for us fifties girls; we were going to have to change the equation even if it meant . . . abstaining from motherhood, because clearly that was where Mother got caught.”

Ifs Mother Girl Dad Caught Motherhood Equations Abstaining

Author:Anne Taylor Fleming

“A boy is a magical creature you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart. You can get him out of your study, but you can't get him out of your mind. Might as well give up he is your captor, your jailer, your boss and your master a freckled-faced, pint-sized, cat-chasing bundle of noise. But when you come home at night with only the shattered pieces of your hopes and dreams, he can mend them like new with two magic words Hi, Dad!”

“My father wasn't a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher - one of those Victorians, hard as iron - but my dad was tough enough.”

Men Hard Enough Character Father Dad Tough My Dad Iron

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“My dad grew up basically in a hut in Taiwan without enough food to eat. And within one generation his son in America gets to do a comedy show about whatever he wants.”

Want Enough Shows America Comedy Generations Son Grew Dad Grew Up My Dad Huts Taiwan Comedy Shows

Author:Aziz Ansari

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