Famous Quotes
- 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 on Dad
- My dad said: 'It looks like you'll be world No.1 in a few hours and I wanted to be the first to say congratulations.'
- Lee Westwood on Dad
- My dad saw my husband's boss at a conference, and he said to stop paying my husband until we produce children.
- Jenna Bush on Dad
- My dad says he likes to bask in my glow.
- Robert Pattinson on Dad
- My dad says I could sing before I could talk, if that's possible. I was always humming and things like that.
- Miley Cyrus on Dad
- My dad served in the Air Force as ground crew for several years, and doesn't really talk about it. I know that it's there. I think my main thing about direct or indirect experiences as near to home as it were is the idea of self-sacrifice really.
- Jeremy Northam on Dad
- My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration.
- John L. Phillips on Dad
- My dad sold encyclopedias and my mom worked in a factory office.
- Mike Myers on Dad
- My dad spent his whole life getting into fights for telling what he believed to be the truth. Basically it comes from my dad-and he's screaming right-wing, so there you are.
- Thom Yorke on Dad
- My dad still calls me and makes sure I'm taking my vitamins.
- Melanie Fiona on Dad
- My dad takes care of me as a manager and as a dad. That's his job, you know, to take care of me. He has my best interests at heart.
- Jessica Simpson on Dad
- My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people's sacred status, regardless of the pest.
- Steve Irwin on Dad
- My dad taught me to be a leader or a follower, and he said follower ain't fun. So I want to be the leader of Bubba Watson.
- Bubba Watson on Dad
- My dad taught me to play bass. He's a bass player he still plays in a band in Michigan to this day. He taught me to play bass when I was about 6. I used to just go to band practice with him, and whoever didn't show up for rehearsal that day, I would take their spot.
- Mayer Hawthorne on Dad
- My dad taught me true words you have to use in every relationship. Yes, baby.
- Star Jones on Dad
- My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small - panto being a sort of English phenomenon. There's traditionally a part of the show where they'll invite kids up on the stage to interact with the show. I was too young to remember this, but my dad says that I was running up onstage before they even asked us.
- Dan Stevens on Dad
- My dad thinks Obama is a socialist and all these extreme views.
- Jonathan Krohn on Dad
- My dad told me that no one could ever make it as a writer, that my chances were equivalent to winning the lottery - which was good for me, because I like to have something to prove.
- Poppy Z. Brite on Dad
- My dad told us up front, 'Guys, if you want to play sports, go ahead, but it's your decision.'
- Peyton Manning on Dad
- My dad took me to all the best rock and punk shows when I was growing up and music has always been a part of my life. So I'm very interested in the music scene and I suppose that's why I've ended up going out with musicians. Dave Pirner is still one of my best friends.
- Winona Ryder on Dad
- My dad took me to my first movie.
- Steven Spielberg on Dad
- My dad used to draw these great cartoon figures. His dream was being a cartoonist, but he never achieved it, and it kind of broke my heart. I think part of my interest in art had to do with his yearning for something he could never have.
- Kathryn Bigelow on Dad
- My dad used to flush my mother's head down the toilet. I was so screwed up.
- Jessica Hahn on Dad
- My dad used to love Steely Dan, the Stones, Jethro Tull and all that. There was always Steely Dan going in my dad's car, but I remember The Royal Scam in particular because it has 'Kid Charlemagne' on it.
- St. Vincent on Dad
- My dad used to say to me, 'You look more like me than I do.'
- Dhani Harrison on Dad
- My dad used to say, 'Just because you dress up in a coat and tie, it doesn't influence your intelligence.'
- Tiger Woods on Dad
- My dad used to say, 'You have to become part of the machine to beat the machine,' and there's some validity in it. But honestly, even when I'm inside the machine, you still see me. I stick out a little bit.
- Michael Shannon on Dad
- My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.
- Phil McGraw on Dad
- My Dad used to tell us: 'En este pais, ustedes van a poder lograr todas las cosas que nosotros no pudimos' 'In this country, you will be able to accomplish all the things we never could.'
- Marco Rubio on Dad
- My dad wanted me to play when I was a kid, so I learned to play the guitar. I pursued a career in music because I love it so much and I enjoy what it does to those who hear it.
- Randy Travis on Dad
- My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.
- Rainn Wilson on Dad
- My dad was a baggage handler at Heathrow and careful with money. He worked hard and had three jobs when I was young. I wish I'd inherited his care for money. Sadly, I've grown up to be rather scatty when it comes to finances.
- Gary Numan on Dad
- My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They were never rich. And yet they were successful. Because just a few decades removed from hopelessness, they made possible for us all the things that had been impossible for them.
- Marco Rubio on Dad
- My dad was a big believer in treating people well, oftentimes even when he himself wasn't well.
- Neil Cavuto on Dad
- My dad was a carpenter and I would work with him during the summer and umpire on the nights I wasn't playing.
- My dad was a Communist Party member who fought for his country.
- My dad was a diplomat and after living in America, where I was born, he was posted to Cairo.
- Arabella Weir on Dad
- My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable.
- Ian McShane on Dad
- My dad was a golden gloves boxer in the Marine Corps, then a deputy sheriff. My mom worked as an office assistant.
- Susana Martinez on Dad
- My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
- Hale Irwin on Dad
- My dad was a ham, too. He could sell those women anything. Of all his sons, I was the only one he could trust to sell as well as he could. I was proud of that.
- Paul Lynde on Dad
- My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate, depressing, sad places run by the mob. The only gay people he'd met when I came out to him were corpses.
- Dan Savage on Dad
- My dad was a huge country music fan, but he also had a band and he sang. So he'd listen to a lot of music and the songs that he'd learn for the band were more from the male artists. So my earliest country memories were Waylon Jennings, Conway Twitty, George Jones, Johnny Paycheck even.
- Martina McBride on Dad
- My dad was a labourer and my mum had exactly the same job as Noel Gallagher's mum - she was a dinner lady at our local school. Everyone comes over from Ireland and they get the same jobs.
- Danny Boyle on Dad
- My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He's a tough, tough guy. When I was 15 we had a fight, and I didn't speak to him for 10 years.
- Larry Elder on Dad
- My dad was a master butcher and I trained to be a butcher when I left school. I didn't enjoy it at the time but I love cooking now, so perhaps I would have been a chef.
- Brendan Coyle on Dad
- My dad was a Methodist minister.
- George McGovern on Dad
- My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn't especially religious.
- Tony Blair on Dad
- My dad was a mime and then he had his company and created plays for children and was very successful with it.
- Marion Cotillard on Dad
- My dad was a musician and I traveled around with him, so it was something that I knew.
- Taryn Manning on Dad
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