Famous Quotes
- At one point my dad called me and said, 'You have always been a great salesman. I think it's time you come home and sell swimming pools.'
- Courteney Cox on Dad
- At times I've got a really big ego. But I'll tell you the best thing about me. I'm some guy's dad I'm some little gal's dad. When I die, if they say I was Annie's husband and Zachary John and Anna Kate's father, boy, that's enough for me to be remembered by. That's more than enough.
- John Denver on Dad
- Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of.
- Amy Heckerling on Dad
- Barack Obama knows that to create an economy built to last, we need to focus on middle-class families. Families who stay up on Sunday nights pacing the floor, like my dad did, while their children, tucked in bed, dream big dreams. Families who aren't sure what Monday morning will bring, but who believe our nation's best days are still ahead.
- Charles Schumer on Dad
- Baseball is the president tossing out the first ball of the season. And a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm.
- Ernie Harwell on Dad
- Because I was starting out in my 20's. I wanted to do it on my own. I didn't want to use my dad or have people say I was using him.
- Rosanne Cash on Dad
- Because of my father, we are that Shining City on a Hill.
- Michael Reagan on Dad
- Becoming a dad means you have to be a role model for your son and be someone he can look up to.
- Wayne Rooney on Dad
- Becoming a dad was the proudest moment of my life. Playing football does not even compare.
- Wayne Rooney on Dad
- Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.
- Gary Numan on Dad
- Before, I guess, mum and dad were everything, but now, in my case, I had two new girls and all of a sudden they're completely dependent on you and there's a third generation. It's a funny shift all of a sudden. You have the babies, you have yourself and then you have your parents.
- Roger Federer on Dad
- Being a father to my family and a husband is to me much more important than what I did in the business.
- Tom Bosley on Dad
- Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.
- William Hurt on Dad
- Being an only child, I didn't have any other family but my mom and dad really, since the rest of my family lived quite far away from London.
- Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and I had a library card when we could pass off something as a signature, and all of us would come with an armful of books.
- Geraldine Brooks on Dad
- But although Australia was also involved in the Vietnam conflict, I can remember my dad telling us that if we were in Australia, we wouldn't be drafted until we were 20.
- Mel Gibson on Dad
- But Dad and I are the only father-and-daughter acts who have both had No. 1 songs in England.
- Lily Allen on Dad
- But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father.
- Herbie Hancock on Dad
- But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.
- Fiona Apple on Dad
- But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997.
- Richard Marx on Dad
- But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.
- Sidney Poitier on Dad
- But my father was also the one who told me I needed to clean up my mouth or I'd never find a man. What's very important to him is manners. Show up on time. Always send thank-you letters. He is one of the more thoughtful humans I've ever met. He's a great man and a very good dad.
- Zosia Mamet on Dad
- But the love of adventure was in father's blood.
- Buffalo Bill on Dad
- But there's no substitute for a full-time dad. Dads who are fully engaged with their kids overwhelmingly tend to produce children who believe in themselves and live full lives.
- Tony Dungy on Dad
- But while mum and dad were incredibly caring, it was also a very chaotic household where everyone fought about everything. So I know what it's like to internalize all that chaos.
- Dave Eggers on Dad
- 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.
- Norman Lear on Dad
- Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.
- Come Christmas Eve, we usually go to my mom and dad's. Everybody brings one gift and then we play that game when we all steal it from each other. Some are really cool, others are useful and some are a bit out there.
- Comedy was why I got into acting the first place. Peter Sellers was a huge influence on my wanting to act. I grew up with him and found him hysterical. The Pink Panther films were an inspiration, from my earliest childhood days, when I was watching them with my brother and my dad.
- Sally Hawkins on Dad
- Dad almost died of a heart attack in the middle of making Apocalypse Now, the biggest movie of his life. It doesn't make you want to jump into that business.
- Charlie Sheen on Dad
- Dad and mom would have preferred that I be a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, or a great humanitarian.
- Levon Helm on Dad
- Dad is my best mate and I can tell Mum absolutely anything. I really appreciate Mum and Dad. Why are we so close? Young parents, I think. The rock business keeps their minds young.
- Dad kept us out of school, but school comes and goes. Family is forever.
- Charlie Sheen on Dad
- Dad made it to Gold Shield Detective, so he always busted Robin, my oldest brother, and me. Always got caught, whatever we were doing.
- Kevin Eubanks on Dad
- Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.
- Dad really had little to do with the songs, except to perform them.
- Nancy Sinatra on Dad
- Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out.
- Randy Harrison on Dad
- Dad sometimes patted me on the knee and called me his Little Schmuck.
- Michael Reagan on Dad
- Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn't teach me everything he knows.
- Dad taught us about morals, values and goals. Having a tight-knit family was important to him.
- Junior Seau on Dad
- Dad was a bus driver, and when he finished work he would repair cars.
- Bruno Tonioli on Dad
- Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical Society education committee, where he sat on the committee with Linus Pauling, who had authored a very phenomenally important textbook of chemistry.
- Peter Agre on Dad
- Dad was a very gentle, sweet man.
- Tony Scott on Dad
- Dad was just an emotional wreck. He was drinking a lot of the time, he was smoking a lot of pot. And because he takes certain medications, the drinking was making him... you know, he wasn't even present, really.
- Jack Osbourne on Dad
- Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted.
- Michael Reagan on Dad
- Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick.
- Wally Schirra on Dad
- Dad worked his entire career as an aviation technician. Mom was a legal secretary who became a teacher. We lived a simple American life.
- Brian Sandoval on Dad
- Dad worked in a warehouse when I was little and I didn't see him for three years as he was doing all the overtime God gave him to buy me new ballet shoes, or a new tutu.
- Jennifer Ellison on Dad
- Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.
- Edward Kennedy on Dad
- Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten.
- Conrad Hall on Dad
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