My Dad Quotes (page 9)

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• dad
• people
• guitar

My dad bought me a guitar and people would ask me to play. Rod Stewart

• dad
• thinking
• technology

My dad was an inventor, and I think I've always had a rosy view of technology, or at least its potential. Scott McCloud

• engineering
• mindfulness
• mind

My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being more impressive than artistic pursuits, which I saw a as kind of frivolous. Scott McCloud

• kindness
• dad
• political

My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous. Paul McCartney

• real
• evening
• people

My dad's more three-dimensional than Opie Taylor or Richie Cunningham. He even has a temper! He's a real person. But some people are disappointed by that. Bryce Dallas Howard

• some good
• friend
• dad

My dad raised me with some good advice: 'Always tell the truth. Always shoot from the hip. You might not have many friends, but you'll never have enemies, because people will always know where you're coming from.' Pink

• education
• reading
• success

My dad had an eighth grade education, and everything that he did in his life was just stuff that he went out and did - figured out what he needed to know and read. Very successful, a union contractor. Mitch Pileggi

• old
• helpful
• dad

My dad said, 'The thing that I was told that was really helpful was that I mustn't be afraid of the things I was afraid of when I was five years old'. The shock of his childhood had put him in this defensive crouch against the world, and he needed to know that he had a nice wife and kids and it wasn't the same any more. Tom Hooper

• dad
• talker
• bigs

My dad's not a big talker. Zara Phillips

• dad
• pretty
• sometimes

My dad can be pretty critical sometimes. Zara Phillips

• inspirational
• inspired
• war

My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration. John L. Phillips

• influence
• intelligent
• saying

My dad used to say, 'Just because you dress up in a coat and tie, it doesn't influence your intelligence.' Tiger Woods

• dad
• saying
• thing

My dad says I could sing before I could talk, if that's possible. I was always humming and things like that. Miley Cyrus

• restaurant
• church
• giving

My dad would give me $10, which is a lot of money when you're 9, to sing at church, on tables at restaurants, at family functions, just about anywhere. Katy Perry

• english
• dad
• world

My dad came from Cuba when he was a teenager not speaking English. And I grew up here speaking Spanglish. That's the world in which I grew up, and that's a world in which a lot of second generation immigrants find themselves. Ted Cruz