“But then, he was my daddy. Maybe all girls think that way, I don't know, but for me, he was everything.”

“Stanley Green was known as the daddy of modern musical comedy music.”

“And I know that to every mummy and daddy, they are the apple of their eye, the perfect centre of their Universe.”

“And I've never gone out to dinner with my dad when he hasn't gotten into an in-depth conversation with the waitperson.”

“He suffered sexual abuse until he was 11, then when he was 13 he discovered the person he had called dad all his life was no blood relation.”

“I ran home and told dad and, as he was an air-raid warden, he knew what to do.”

“My dada said that my mom left us too for doing groceries, when we were in bed, but my mom denied that.”

“At Performa, Shana Lutker revisits a wild dada play that featured a nose and some lips.”

“My dada is old, so all he and his friends talk about is diseases.”

“In one of the exhibition's strongest galleries, we see the bottom half of a woman's form made out of concrete, and her holes — do they scream for daddio?”

“Chill, daddio, I told him, it's just sampling.”

“Get with it, daddio – don't you know the gooey stuff is where it's at?”

“Daddie understands, and he likes you just the way I DOI can see it in his eyes.”

“These girls' parents aren't exactly your average suburban mummies and daddies.”

“I could tell you a lot of stories about some of my pupil's mammies and daddies and what they got up to over the years, but I'm not going to.”

“It was a decidedly mixed crowd, with younger metal fans standing alongside grizzled concert veterans and mortgage-paying daddies.”

“The dads were out roving around town making sure no little child strayed too far in search of hidden eggs.”

“The program has the expectation that young dads will legitimize their children by acknowledging paternity.”

“State lawmakers are passing laws that level the playing field for divorcing dads.”