Famous Quotes
- David and Dad didn't get along too well growing up. I mean we all got along, but it was harder on David, because David wasn't going to be the son that Dad wanted. But now they're like best friends.
- Amy Sedaris on Dad
- Do you know that other than my father, I've never had a man take care of me?
- Dionne Warwick on Dad
- Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.
- Tiger Woods on Dad
- Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day.
- During the Depression, my dad made radios to sell to make extra money. Nobody had any money to buy the radios, so he would trade them for dogs. He built kennels in the backyard, and he cared for the dogs.
- Betty White on Dad
- Employee fathers need to step up to the plate and put their family needs on the table.
- James Levine on Dad
- Even if I tried to be my dad, it would be a mediocre, slightly embarrassing version.
- Jason Ritter on Dad
- 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.
- John Leguizamo on Dad
- Every family is different. I am mom and I am dad and I'm going to do my best. You should be proud, walk through life saying I have the coolest family. I am part of a modern family.
- Ricky Martin on Dad
- Every kid needs to say, 'I want what my mom and dad have.'
- Josh McDowell on Dad
- Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.
- John Ciardi on Dad
- Everybody always wants to rebel against their parents' music, but nobody listened to music louder than my dad.
- Dan Auerbach on Dad
- Everyone gets surprised because neither one of my parents play golf. Like I said in my speech, my aunt and uncle really love golf, and we visited them, and she gave me two clubs. Like people think when they don't know who my dad is, they think he's my coach.
- Father or stepfather - those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything.
- Oliver Hudson on Dad
- Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.
- Prince Charles on Dad
- Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
- Margaret Mead on Dad
- Fathers in today's modern families can be so many things.
- Oliver Hudson on Dad
- Feels good to try, but playing a father, I'm getting a little older. I see now that I'm taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.
- Adam Sandler on Dad
- For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you don't want to stand out. You don't want to have a famous father let alone get a job because of your famous father, you know? But I'm a product of nepotism. That's how I got my foot in the door, through my dad.
- Jeff Bridges on Dad
- For my birthday this year, my girlfriends - who knew I'd just inherited my dad's turntable - gave me a carton of albums like 'Blue Kentucky Girl,' by Emmylou Harris, and 'Off the Wall,' by Michael Jackson. It's all stuff we grew up with. I mean, you can't have a music collection without Prince's 'Purple Rain' - it just can't be done!
- Connie Britton on Dad
- Fortunately, as it pertains to guns, my dad and uncle introduced me to guns the way it needs to be done: smart, slow and safe.
- Ted Nugent on Dad
- From 1965 to 1967, my dad, Jack Gilligan, served in Congress and helped pass landmark laws like the Voting Rights Act.
- Kathleen Sebelius on Dad
- From about eight years old I was always making things on the sewing machine. Friends would see me making dresses and costumes, and I'd use difficult fabrics such as Lycra and elastic. But you know, my dad was creative and my brother is inventive too.
- Melissa George on Dad
- From my dad I learned to be good to people, to always be honest and straightforward. I learned hard work and perseverance.
- Luke Bryan on Dad
- From my first dunk at 14 years old to my second NCAA Championship at the University of Tennessee, my intense training with my dad was always to credit.
- Candace Parker on Dad
- From time to time, I'll look back through the personal journals I've scribbled in throughout my life, the keepers of my raw thoughts and emotions. The words poured forth after my dad died, when I went through a divorce, and after I was diagnosed with breast cancer. There are so many what-ifs scribbled on those pages.
- Going through the grief period of my dad and losing him - that was the worst thing because you know when you get that call. When you are seven, eight years old, you have that almost vision in your mind of what that's going to be like and what your going to feel like and it doesn't prepare you.
- Richie Sambora on Dad
- Going to the theater is such a joyous experience. My dad would take my sister and me to plays when we were very young, like six or seven years old.
- Julia Roberts on Dad
- Great dad. Yeah, he would ask me for money on birthdays and, you know, inappropriate times. And I just wrote him off like, 'You're not a father.' I just learned you cannot emotionally invest in people who are not attainable.
- Drew Barrymore on Dad
- Growing up, I didn't give my grandfather's photography a second thought. I wasn't involved in his work, except that I helped my dad print his negatives.
- Kim Weston on Dad
- Growing up, I had a front row seat to seeing two people work really hard. My dad scrubbed toilets at a private Catholic school for a while, and that was to help me get through school.
- Growing up, I saw my dad do charity work for children with health issues. That had a profound effect on me.
- David Boreanaz on Dad
- Growing up, my father was a financial analyst for an oil company. He was just a regular dad. And when I would say, 'Hey, come see my play,' he'd say, 'Sure.' He'd see one, 'Oh, good play' - you know, very typical dad reaction.
- Eric McCormack on Dad
- He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.
- Barbara Castle on 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.
- Ben E. King on Dad
- Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
- Dick Clark on Dad
- I absolutely love working with my dad because there is such an ease about it, and I also love his company.
- Samuel West on Dad
- I actually study boxing - my dad was a Golden Gloves champion so I learned how to fight at a very young age. Growing up in Brooklyn you always had to watch your back, so I pretty much learned to protect myself.
- Lana Parrilla on Dad
- I also turn down what's probably a good amount of coinage to be made out of playing dads, an incredible number of obnoxious dad.
- Bill Pullman on Dad
- I always had a standard of, back when I was doing the country music I always told people I would never record a song that I wouldn't sit down and sing in front of my mom and dad.
- Ricky Skaggs on Dad
- I always told my dad I'd play professional football.
- Anthony Doerr on Dad
- I always wanted to be a father. I have a beautiful relationship with my dad and beautiful memories. I always knew I was going to have a family.
- Ricky Martin on Dad
- I always wanted to be a stay-at-home dad making art, making movies.
- Robert Rodriguez on Dad
- I always wanted what Mom and Dad had.
- Kim Kardashian on Dad
- I am an obsessive garage cleaner - my wife and the neighbors make fun of me. I remember that my father was the same way, and now when I'm out there unearthing things in the garage, I realize I am becoming my dad!
- Chris O'Donnell on Dad
- I am blessed to have Mom and Dad.
- Kevin Eubanks on Dad
- I am lucky to have had an attentive, curious and loving dad and heart-smart, down-to-earth, gifted mother. They changed the outlooks of their own lives and have never forgotten the people and organizations that helped them dream bigger than their circumstances should have allowed.
- Jennifer Garner on Dad
- 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.
- Hedy Lamarr on Dad
- I am quite strict as a dad but I don't want to be censorious.
- Nick Clegg on Dad
- I am the granddaughter of a Welsh coal miner who was determined that his kids get out of the mines. My dad got his first job when he was six years old, in a little village in Wales called Nantyffyllon, cleaning bottles at the Colliers Arms.
- Ann Romney on Dad
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