I Never Knew My Dad Quotes

#1. Is Joe your father, Zach?'
I don't know where the question came from, but it was out, and I couldn't take it back even if I'd wanted to.
'No.' Zach shook his head. 'I never knew my dad. I don't know anything about him.

Ally Carter

#2. My dad was a terrible father. Dreadful. But he had a very difficult childhood. He was fostered - he never knew who his father was. So he had a very different attitude to family and kids. I don't have any issues. I'm not suffering some secret angst.

Mark Billingham

#3. Some comedians you work with, they only turn on when the camera turn on, and they're like sad-faced clowns when the camera's off. And then, they come alive when the camera come on. And you be like, "Oh, damn. You're not a depressed ball of depression, but you are actually funny."

Ice Cube

#4. High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future; self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself.

James Wolcott

#5. For there were times I caught them staring at me curiously. I never told them about my past or shared personal information. They knew nothing of Savannah or my dad or my friendship with Tony. Those memories were mine and mine alone, for I'd learned that some things are best kept secret. In

Nicholas Sparks

#6. I knew that (job) had to be a humbling role for my dad, but he never allowed it to become humiliating work.

Jeremy Camp

#7. I've never been one to throw clubs, break clubs, or use bad language on the golf course. I've played with golfers who've done that, and I really hate to see it. If I did something like that, my dad would come get the putter and hit me upside the head with it. I knew better.

Lucas Black

#8. I never fit in. Everyone knew my dad was Indian. I was half-Indian.

Joy Harjo

#9. If you think something is wrong, speak up. You are not alone. It is not your fault. Help is out there.

Jennifer Niven

#10. Dad taught me everything I know, but he would never tell me anything he knew.

Al Unser Jr.

#11. My step-dad's rendition of events was uncontested even by me and therefore, it became our truth. Truth I'd never be able to prove or change; truth that protected him from suspicion and penalty. Truth that I now knew was a lie.

J.M. Northup

#12. My father, I never knew, except for this one time when he threw a ball and told me to go fetch it.
"Dad," I said. "Am I a dog?"
"Lydia," he said. "I apologize.

Jaclyn Moriarty

#13. My dad is the reason I actually started watching wrestling. My dad was never big into sports; we were all big into sports as kids, and he'd go to our Little League games or whatever and not really know what was going on, because he didn't know about sports, but he knew about wrestling.

John Cena

#14. My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.

Eminem

#15. But as attractive as a tropical island alone with Eve might be, Beckett knew he could never go. He couldn't be that far from his brothers. What if one of them needed him? What if Eve's dad needed her? Family was family.

Debra Anastasia

#16. But saying stuff, even if it's good, isn't enough. Dad never did anything, he just talked about it. Even I knew you needed plans.

Glenda Millard

#17. As a vibrant force in civil society, women continue to press for their rights, equal participation in decision-making, and the upholding of the principles of the revolution by the highest levels of leadership in Egypt.

Michelle Bachelet

#18. 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

#19. You have to test your hypothesis against other theories. Certainty in the face of complex situations is very dangerous.

Richard Holbrooke

#20. I come from an artistic family. My dad's an actor, my mother's an actress, my sister's an actress. So I kind of grew up in that kind of environment. Oddly enough, I never really knew about my parents' work. I've seen small clips of it, but we never actually spoke about the business.

Portia Doubleday

#21. I knew that my dad was a good man, a kind man, and though he'd led a wounded life, he'd done the best he could in raising me. Never once had he raised his hand in anger,

Nicholas Sparks

#22. Your hypocrisy insults my intelligence.

Toba Beta

#23. I have my own people that make my clothes because it's hard for me to find stuff that fits.

Calvin Johnson

#24. I wil not calm down. My baby girl is moving halfway across the country."
"She's been moved away before," Dad pointed out.
"Yeah, but that was with Billy. We all knew he wouldn't work out. We're talking about Hank here. Look at him," she pointed to Hank.
"She's never coming home. Never.

Kristen Ashley

#25. I never really saw my dad around when the Iron Maiden and the AC/DC were playing. But he knew what I was doing. I was just absorbing music. So he just kind of left me to my own devices.

Dhani Harrison

#26. I didn't think it was going to be this fun. But everything just gets heightened when you have a baby. The volume gets turned up on life. I never knew I could be this happy, and that's the truth.

Jimmy Fallon

#27. I grew up in a broken home. My dad was out of the home when I was five years old. I never knew him very well.

Thomas Kinkade

#28. The full Moon's light poured into the room like a stroke from a wide paintbrush...

Peter Hammarberg

#29. When Eddie Gray plays on snow, he doesn't leave any footprints.

Don Revie

#30. With the sensation that he was passing through the Looking-Glass, Max stared at his father as if he had never seen him before - simultaneously impressed and unnerved at the thought that, after all these years, he still knew so little about him.

Sol Luckman