Famous Quotes
- Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers.
- Herbert Kaufman on Dad
- Right now, it hasn't affected my music other than the fact that I don't have time to write any of it. That's no different from when I first started and I lived at home. I would play the guitar in the afternoon and then my mom or my dad would come home and I'd have to quit.
- Paul Westerberg on Dad
- Since I was a boy, from this house, I was out rescuing crocodiles and snakes. My mum and dad were very passionate about that and, I was lucky enough to go along.
- Steve Irwin on Dad
- So I go to my first book signing, and these two girls came up and gave me a piece of paper: '10 reasons you should date our dad. He climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. He's a lawyer.' He didn't know what was going on. He didn't even know me. They called him, and he came down and asked me out that day. Now I'm dating their dad!
- So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer guy.
- Billy Sherwood on Dad
- So much of my aesthetic was formed by my dad.
- Ron Perlman on Dad
- So my dad raised me, and he's a huge football fan.
- Lisa Guerrero on Dad
- So my father was a person who never lied to me. If I had a question, he answered it. I knew a lot of things at a young age because I was intrigued.
- Nick Cannon on Dad
- Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
- Jack Bruce on Dad
- Somewhere in my wildest childhood I must have done something right. Being able to make a boyhood dream come true is one thing, but to have a kid come along and thrill his dad like Brett Hull has thrilled me over his career is too much for one guy to handle.
- Bobby Hull on Dad
- Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
- Aldous Huxley on Dad
- Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them.
- John Boehner on Dad
- That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all.
- August Strindberg on Dad
- That is where the irony of the film comes off, in terms of the language it employs - where he tries desperately to be a 'TV Dad,' to give advice and it's so pat it becomes ridiculous.
- Atom Egoyan on Dad
- That's a tough question I've been acting since I was 10. My dad was an entrepreneur, so I guess something along those lines. I wouldn't want a 9-5 job.
- Will Estes on Dad
- That's what my Dad always told me, on the ballot, they should always have a third choice, like none of the above, then if enough people picked that, they'd have to get new candidates.
- The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
- Haley Joel Osment on Dad
- The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't spend anything unless you have to.'
- Dinah Shore on Dad
- The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it's just the thing that every man wants - to have a son and heir.
- George Best on Dad
- The best thing I ever learned from my dad was he knew he wasn't the best of singers, but he always knew he was a great entertainer, and I always thought that was a good concept to bring along, that ultimately acting is an entertainment art and you have to be aware of the fact that you want people to be excited to be watching you.
- Dean Norris on Dad
- The child is father of the man.
- William Wordsworth on Dad
- The founder of the Mona Foundation actually knew my dad for years, and the more I learned about it, the more I realized I really found the perfect charity. It sponsors schools and educational initiatives all over the planet.
- Rainn Wilson on Dad
- The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
- Bertrand Russell on Dad
- The golden child may be the oldest one, unless it's the youngest. It may be the toughest one, unless it's the most sensitive. It's not even necessary that Mom and Dad have the same favorite - and typically they don't.
- Jeffrey Kluger on Dad
- The last thing I want my child to see is Dad running around in the middle of the pack. That would really upset me. And that would upset him. I would be embarrassed to take him to school with kids saying, 'Hey, how'd your dad do this weekend?' 'Well, he finished fifth or sixth'.
- Dan Wheldon on Dad
- The moment my doctor told me, I went silent. My mum and dad were with me, then we all went to pieces. I was saying, No, I've got my flight to Sydney in two hours. I'm getting on a plane.
- Kylie Minogue on Dad
- The most challenging part of being a dad is self-restraint. So often your instinct is to teach and tell. I am constantly reminding myself to listen to them.
- Michael Chiklis on Dad
- The most important influence in my childhood was my father.
- DeForest Kelley on Dad
- The music I want to hear in my head sounds somewhere between Jimi Hendrix and Massive Attack. It's not really like my dad, but there will always be similarities because we have the same vocal cords, and I learnt the guitar the way he taught me.
- Dhani Harrison on Dad
- The one thing that kept our family together was the music. The only thing that our family would share emotionally was to have our dad cry over something the kids did with music.
- Dennis Wilson on Dad
- The only day I remember of my parents' marriage was the day my dad walked out. As I stood there at five years old, with my older sister and younger brother, I knew that he was gone.
- Ellie Goulding on Dad
- The only ones I trust really are my Mum and Dad and those who are closest to me.
- Katie Price on Dad
- The only other time I can recall my dad getting upset at me was when I missed a hockey practice. My parents were away, so my buddy and I decided to skip it. I never told my dad about it, but he found out from the coach.
- The only time I ever look good dancing is if I'm next to my dad at a wedding.
- Cat Deeley on Dad
- The only time I think about life beyond F1 is when I contemplate becoming a dad. But there's no way that's going to happen while I'm still racing. To be successful in F1 you need to be very selfish in lots of ways and you're away from home for long periods. That's not the kind of father I want to be.
- Jenson Button on Dad
- The people on my mum's side of the family are atheist intellectuals who are ueber-proper. My dad's side of the family are missionaries who are more comfortable sitting around in sweatpants than they are in a five-star restaurant. But those two influences converged in my life.
- Evangeline Lilly on Dad
- The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
- Bertrand Russell on Dad
- The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don't know if I'll ever be as good a dad as my dad.
- Adam Sandler on Dad
- The Rat Pack was the piece that really kicked me out of that little funk that I was in and then Ted called me up and asked me if I wanted to be the dad in Blow.
- Ray Liotta on Dad
- The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing.
- Vince Gill on Dad
- The satisfaction you get when you finally beat your dad is amazing, that rush of adrenaline.
- Lee Westwood on Dad
- The surprising thing about fatherhood was finding my inner mush. Now I want to share it with the world.
- Christopher Meloni on Dad
- The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
- E. B. White on Dad
- The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book.
- Dimebag Darrell on Dad
- 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.
- Norah Jones on Dad
- There is nothing that would upset me more than my dad being bribed by the press. It's like, 'Just let them run it, then. Don't you give them ammunition.'
- There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
- Gertrude Stein on Dad
- There was a bit of a comparison that Bret was making between Vince McMahon and my dad. He looked up to Vince as a dad and stuff, and it was a shame to see the whole thing end the way it did.
- There was nothing more important I could do than be supportive as a dad.
- Arne Duncan on Dad
- There's a lot of research behind the scenes that you don't get to see, but I have an instinct that my dad nurtured from when I was born. I was very lucky then.
- Steve Irwin on Dad
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