My Dad Used To Say Quotes

#1. My dad used to say, 'Just be yourself and you'll be fine,' but it's really, really true.

Bellamy Young

#2. The religion I have is music. Even the times I have headaches, when I'm singing, I can't feel them. My dad used to say that, too, especially near the end of his life. He would be in pain - a lot of pain - and he said the only time when he didn't feel pain was when he performed and sang.

Rosanne Cash

#3. My dad used to say 'Always fight fire with fire,' which is probably why he got thrown out of the the fire brigade.

Harry Hill

#4. My mom shot and killed her last husband. Yeah, my dad used to say Hey, dodged that bullet. Ha ha.

Christopher Titus

#5. It might be tough, but my dad used to say, tough times don't last - tough people do.

James Robertson

#6. My dad used to say that life's a journey, but somebody screwed up and lost the map.

Rachel Caine

#7. I tell the truth, and it has gotten me into a lot of trouble. My dad used to say to me, 'If you tell the truth all day long, you will end up in jail.'

Elaine Stritch

#8. When I was little, my dad used to say, "Son, guilt doesn't make a very fluffy pillow.

Jeff Strand

#9. My dad used to say, 'Just because you dress up in a coat and tie, it doesn't influence your intelligence.'

Tiger Woods

#10. My dad used to say that living with regrets was like driving a car that only moved in reverse.

Jodi Picoult

#11. My dad used to say, 'You have to become part of the machine to beat the machine,' and there's some validity in it. But honestly, even when I'm inside the machine, you still see me. I stick out a little bit.

Michael Shannon

#12. My dad used to say the evil we enact on each other is worse than anything spirits and demons can do to us.

Kami Garcia

#13. My dad used to say the definition of stupidity was doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Or maybe that was the definition of crazy.

David Estes

#14. Well, I guess we're off, like a herd of mad turtles as my dad used to say.

Margaret Weis

#15. Turner didn't have to put up with this. He had enough trouble with George's sarcasm. He held his hand. "Keys please."
Her face fell. "Sorry. I sometimes speak without thinking. Well, not sometimes. Often. Never an unspoken thought, my dad used to say. And my mum. And my employers.

Barbara Elsborg

#16. My dad used to say that when I was born I looked so totally familiar

Gayle Forman

#17. My dad used to say to me, 'You look more like me than I do.'

Dhani Harrison

#18. My dad used to say makeup was a shallow girl's sport, but it's not. It's armor.

Courtney Summers

#19. Viola blows out a thoughtful air. "My dad used to say, 'There's only forward, Vi, only outward and up.'"
"There's only forward," I repeat.
"Outward and up," she says.

Patrick Ness

#20. My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.

Phil McGraw

#21. My dad and I used to watch 'Ninja Warrior' all the time back when it was in Japan. I would always say, 'I could do that,' kind of joking, but obviously kind of serious.

Kacy Catanzaro

#22. When I was a kid I didn't feel like I fit in because - this is really silly and I probably shouldn't say it, but, I didn't think anything was funny. So I used to go home and literally cry to my mom and my step-dad at the time and I didn't think anything was funny. I couldn't laugh.

Courteney Cox

#23. My dad always used to say that with everything in life, there's a game-changing moment. The one moment everything else hinges upon, but you hardly ever know it at the time.

Jenny Han

#24. My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'

Harmon Killebrew

#25. My father used to say to me, "It doesn't matter what the profession is, but if they're the best in their field, it will always be fascinating to watch." And I said, "Really, dad? Even like someone who makes pencils?" "Even someone who makes pencils, it will be fascinating to watch."

Nicolas Cage

#26. All I could think of was the phrase my dad's father used to say to him when I was a kid, "Don't let your alligator mouth overload your hummingbird ass," and I think I'd done just that.

Brynn Myers

#27. 'This is America,' my father used to say to me, 'and in this country, a smart young fellow like you can grow up and do just about anything.' My dad, no doubt, was thinking doctor, lawyer, teacher, scientist or businessman. I was thinking second baseman, New York Yankees.

Joe Lieberman

#28. My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.'

Pete Seeger

#29. I'll give my dad credit; he never claimed it was to build character or teach me the value of hard work. "Snowblowers are expensive," he used to say. "You're free.

Andy Weir

#30. By the age of 18, I was very fat. My dad would say there's a Spall fat gene. But I was fat because I ate loads. I used to go and buy six or seven chocolate bars and eat my way through them.

Rafe Spall

#31. I never got along with my dad. Kids used to come up to me and say, "My dad can beat up your dad." I'd say Yeah? When?

Bill Hicks

#32. My Dad always used to say, " The first hundred years are the hardest ! After that it's a piece of cake !

Harold Lee

#33. I used to play until 4 o'clock in the morning.My dad would go nuts - he'd scream and say the cops are gonna come and break our instruments.

Kamasi Washington

#34. I do have a huge fascination for science, and I love to hear what my dad has to say. He used to take me into minor surgeries when I was a kid and let me watch, so I definitely have a passion for it, but it's not as big a passion as I have for acting and creating characters.

Daniela Ruah