Daddy Quotes

• Whitney proved to be a competent manufacturer, but wasn't an original inventor to any important degree. Thomas Blanchard was a true genius: his stock making machine was the daddy of all the industrial profiling machinery, like the 1870s universal milling machine, that was the especial American contribution to machining technology. By that time, the British conceded that machinery innovation had shifted to America.

  

  Charles R. Morris
  • Important
  • Technology
  • Innovation

• Most children's first words are 'Mama' or 'Daddy.' Mine were, 'Do I have to use my own money?'

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Children
  • Daddy

• Yep, my daddy was an undependable drunk. But he'd never missed any of my organized games, concerts, plays, or picnics. He may not have loved me perfectly, but he loved me as well as he could.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Games
  • Drunk
  • Concerts

• My Daddy liked physical fitness and wanted me to be a prizefighter.

  

  Judy Johnson
  • Wanted
  • Prize
  • Daddy

• With the first money I ever made I bought my Mommy and Daddy a car, and helped them fix their house up.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • House
  • Car
  • Daddy

• I just always knew I was going to be a star. I was always going to be rich so I could buy things for Mommy and Daddy, so that I could buy them a big house and we could have things.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • House
  • Rich
  • Daddy

• In 1957, when I was in second grade, black children integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. We watched it on TV. All of us watched it. I don't mean Mama and Daddy and Rocky. I mean all the colored people in America watched it, together, with one set of eyes.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • People
  • Children
  • School

• So many of my relatives didn't get a chance to go to school, and my own Daddy couldn't read or write.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Writing
  • School
  • Daddy

• You want baby daddy to be one step ahead of you. Which they can't be, so it's a weird thing to ask for. But I have.

  

  Mila Kunis
  • Baby
  • Daddy
  • Step ahead

• Even now, if I am thinking about spending a lot of money on clothing or furniture, I think 'I can't spend so much money on one thing; my poor old Daddy could have raised his family five years on that!'

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Thinking
  • Poor
  • Daddy

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