- Many forms, sizes and colors, I think there are heroes in sports, in life... It would be cliche to say my dad, my granddad. I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes.
- George Eads on Dad
- Me and my dad are friends. We're cool. I'll never be disappointed again, because I don't expect anything anymore from him. I just let him exist, and that's how we get along.
- Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position.
- Bill Gates on Dad
- Mental illness can happen to anybody. You can be a dustman, a politician, a Tesco worker... anyone. It could be your dad, your brother or your aunt.
- Frank Bruno on Dad
- Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose.
- Mitt Romney on Dad
- Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church.
- Lynn Johnston on Dad
- Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn't just a new livelihood. It was a new life.
- Mom was the one who taught me unconditional love. With Dad, I'd always felt there was something to live up to - expectations. But in the last year, we had a wonderful relationship.
- Greg Louganis on Dad
- Money stress is what used to remind me of my Dad most.
- More and more couples are having this negotiation or discussion, but I'm still amazed at the number who aren't and where the cultural norm sort of kicks in and they just assume that mom's got to be the one who stays home, not dad.
- James Levine on Dad
- Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad.
- Maurice Sendak on Dad
- Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad. Kids lead a very private life. And I was a typical child, I think. I was a liar.
- Maurice Sendak on Dad
- Most young people haven't used their storytelling skills since they were 8 or 9 or 10 and wanted to persuade Mom and Dad to take them to the ball game.
- Peter Guber on Dad
- Mum and dad thought I was going to say I was pregnant. I said oh no, no, I've just been nominated for a Golden Globe. They were like, oh that's lovely, love.
- Melissa George on Dad
- Music was always the distraction, so it was the obvious choice to pursue. My dad always said to find a job I love to do, that way it wouldn't feel like a job. So I did that.
- Jason Mraz on Dad
- My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is very important to me. I think anything that contradicts it is probably not true.
- John Astin on Dad
- My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.
- John F. Kennedy on Dad
- My dad always said he couldn't remember a time when I did not want to act.
- Gwyneth Paltrow on Dad
- My dad always said I was hard-headed, that it would take something like that to wake me up spiritually, and I guess it did. My heart had gotten so beat up that I didn't have anything left to give.
- Scott Stapp on Dad
- My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.'
- My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'
- Daisy Donovan on Dad
- My dad always taught me to never be satisfied, to want more and know that what is done is done.
- Thierry Henry on Dad
- My dad always tell me to make decisions from love and not from fear.
- Rashida Jones on Dad
- My dad always told me that anyone's voice is just another instrument added to the music.
- My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to somebody else.
- My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now.
- Cameron Diaz on Dad
- My dad and grandpa were in the army and as a country singer you're constantly playing at military bases all across the country and meeting soldiers and their families and hearing their stories.
- Dierks Bentley on Dad
- My dad and I played music. He teaches me a song or two every time I'm home.
- Levon Helm on Dad
- My dad and mom believed that you do what you have to do in private and don't make a big deal out of it. Just try to help people as much as you can.
- Harry Connick, Jr. on Dad
- My dad and mom divorced when I was around ten, and I didn't live with him after that, though he was close by and we saw each other weekly. I wasn't really aware that he was a writer I didn't start reading his writing until I was about fifteen. It occurred to me then that my dad was kind of special he's still one of my favorite writers.
- Andre Dubus III on Dad
- My dad and my uncles owned a bar outside of Cincinnati. I worked there growing up, mopping floors, waiting tables.
- John Boehner on Dad
- My dad became a soap opera actor, and I was an extra in a skating rink scene on the soap. I didn't audition. It was nepotism all the way.
- Jennifer Aniston on Dad
- My dad believes in God, I think. I'm not sure if my mom does. I don't.
- Daniel Radcliffe on Dad
- My dad bought me a guitar and people would ask me to play.
- Rod Stewart on Dad
- My dad calls me 'Mac' a lot, from 'Mike Tyson's Punch Out' - Little Mac is the main character. I was obsessed. I can still beat Mike Tyson on 'Punch Out.'
- Mayer Hawthorne on Dad
- My dad came from Cuba when he was a teenager not speaking English. And I grew up here speaking Spanglish. That's the world in which I grew up, and that's a world in which a lot of second generation immigrants find themselves.
- My dad came out of the Roosevelt era and the Depression. One person and one party made a difference in his life. That's what everybody forgot when they called my father and other people political bosses.
- Richard M. Daley on Dad
- My dad didn't drive - the only dad I knew who didn't.
- Julie Burchill on Dad
- My dad didn't want me to play guitar. He played piano, so I chose that. And I ended up loving it.
- Gavin DeGraw on Dad
- My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover.
- Tom Glazer on Dad
- My dad died of a stroke.
- William Shatner on Dad
- My dad died when I was three so my mom had to raise four kids on her own, and I think there's a part of me that pulls upon having watched my mom do that our whole lives. She had to make it work.
- Leslie Bibb on Dad
- My dad doesn't get any of my jokes. He laughs at them, but he doesn't understand them. He's just laughing because people around him are laughing.
- Zach Galifianakis on Dad
- My dad doesn't like religion much, but I grew up very close to the Baptist tradition. God isn't this distant thing. God is right here with you all the time. He's your buddy, and you can talk about everything.
- Lucy Alibar on Dad
- My dad dragged me to a Bruce Springsteen concert as a kid. It was my first concert, but I fell asleep in the middle. My second concert was Weezer on the 'Pinkerton' tour, and 'Pinkerton' is the reason why I'm doing this.
- Nate Ruess on Dad
- My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.
- Sara Blakely on Dad
- My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.
- Sam Brownback on Dad
- My dad gave me my first bike at 16. I soon fell off and was in a wheelchair for weeks. I haven't fallen since.
- Hugh Laurie on Dad
- My dad got me a huge board when I was little. He loves to surf. He suited me up and sent me out on this huge wave. I went under, and when I came out and the board hit me in the face. So I said, I never wanted to do this again. I stayed away until I was 13.
- Shaun White on Dad
- My dad grew up in a working-class Jewish neighbourhood, and I got a scholarship from my dad's union to go to college. I went there to get an education, not as an extension of privilege.
- Ezra Koenig on Dad
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