Dad Quotes

As a dad, it's kind of exciting to see that your son follows what you believe in so strongly.

Every dad who loves his daughter is not going to want her to go with the penniless slacker loser poet bum, when she could go out with someone who's successful.

I was lucky enough myself to have been in Dad's Army for an episode.

My dad, we'll be talking about goals for the next year. He's like, 'I think you can be here,' and I look at him like he's cross-eyed, like, 'Are you serious? That's so far out of my reach.' Well, then I always end up achieving it.

My dad keeps referring to me playing the piano when he's trying to teach me something in archery.

I remember running up to my dad and saying, 'I want to be an actor when I grow up!' And him saying, 'Yeah, well we'll talk about it.'

I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records.

But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met.

I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up.

My dad is a really honest, hardworking, straight guy.

I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much.

My mother, grandmother and older sister all cooked, so it was hard to get into the kitchen. So I have no talent for cooking. I was always out in the garage with my dad. I have a tool belt. I'm a repair chick.

I don't know, I just want to be happy. I could be in a hole somewhere. Or I could completely lose it and be some hippy living in the woods with my dad.

My dad is a motorcycle guy, not some Hollywood dude.

Writing this book was very therapeutic because it helped me face my relationship with my dad.

He was a manager, one of the singers, I guess talent coordinator for the local talent in Harlem. His name was Lover Patterson. He was living right across the street from where my dad had his restaurant. I guess he saw a lot of kids come in, a lot of my buddies.

I know my dad is a big Internet freak, and he's been known to be a Wikileaker.

As a father now, I wouldn't do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn't do the things he did out of selfishness or malice.

Whenever I fail as a father or husband... a toy and a diamond always works.

I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.

My dad worked several jobs to pay for my expense in skating.

The most important influence in my childhood was my father.

My dad was an engineer, and he became the CEO of Chevron. His was an engineer's mind-set: Everything's kind of a problem; how do you approach the problem?

As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.

My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.

My dad taught me true words you have to use in every relationship. Yes, baby.

There are absolutely no problems between me, my dad and my sister. Obviously I grew up with just my mum, but my relationship with my dad is just fine.

My dad liked how January went with Jones. My sisters' names are Jina and Jacey Jones.

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

My dad had been shortstop when he was in college, and you know, when you're a kid, you want to be just like your dad.