Top 100 Quotes About A Dad
#1. I'm a dad and that's pretty important.
Todd Akin
#2. I love playing a dad. It's hard to find family dramas that are genuinely funny.
Peter Gallagher
#3. It's just really making sure I am doing the best job I can do as a dad. I do think that is my No. 1 job.
Tony Dungy
#4. Finally coming to terms with Fathers Day. I blow as a Dad. I get it. No, I'm not an evil, abusive Father, it's just that while all my intentions and thoughts have been out of love for my kids, my actions and behaviour never measured up.
Geoffrey Hill
#5. I grew up in such a macho family. I had a former Green Beret for a dad, a mom who's really rough-and-tumble, and three very macho brothers.
Hilarie Burton
#6. A kid is something precious, and you want to protect it and keep it fun. I'm not a dad, but I've seen people and how they behave with their kids.
Jason Statham
#7. You know not having my real dad around and having a step dad made me want to be a great dad. So now I have been one for 9 years. And now 3 daughters. So, that is what I am - a dad, first and foremost, before anything else. It's just something that comes natural now.
Tim McGraw
#8. It's like a relay race of being ignored. It is really challenging, but whenever I get asked that stuff, I feel really self-conscious about it. I feel really lucky because we have a lot of help. When I first began to be a dad with Gwen [Stefani], I was amazed at what she went through.
Gavin Rossdale
#9. There was a Dad-shaped emptiness in all of our lives, and I didn't think any of us knew how to fill it yet.
Devon Monk
#10. Do you need anything?" she asks. A mom A dad. Someone. Anyone. Can you arrange for that? "Nah, I'm good.
Daisy Whitney
#11. Once upon a time, I was a little girl with a mom and a dad and a sister, and the only monsters in the world were imaginary.
Then I became one of the monsters.
Kiersten White
#12. Sometimes being a dad is like watching a ping-pong match.
Steve Schirripa
#13. I was lucky enough to watch my son hit a grand slam at sports camp, and that was great. Yes, I may miss some things, but honestly, I think I get to see more than a dad who works a daily 9 to 5.
CC Sabathia
#14. I've told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn't kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.
Angelina Jolie
#15. I wasn't against becoming a dad: I'd had a good childhood, as childhoods go, and as role models, my imperfect parents were as good as or better than most.
Michael Redhill
#16. When a dad admits he is wrong or asks for help, he allows the child to see him- or herself as adequate even when she or he is also wrong. It encourages children to make suggestions and, therefore, to discover their creativity because they have a chance of making a contribution.
Warren Farrell
#17. A dad ... he teaches responsibility and accountability, but a mom ... ah, a mom teaches her child to dream, to reach for the stars and to believe in fairy tales.
Kristin Hannah
#18. I go off and make movies; I come home, and I'm a dad and I hang with my girls.
Clive Owen
#19. I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.
David Mitchell
#20. I think once I fail enough as a dad, I'll be looking for help wherever I can get it. I just need enough time to screw things up and then I'll start looking to TV dads for advice.
Ty Burrell
#21. Being a dad is not summed up by requiring compliance or obedience; it is, at its most basic level, pointing your children to the God who has made it all OK and saves lost sinners on account of Christ.
Scott Keith
#23. The amazing thing about being a dad is to be able to look at your child and realize that the universe is so much bigger than you.
Macklemore
#25. I'm a dad and a husband, and so the things that I love to do are all geared around my family.
Pablo Schreiber
#26. Life is different than it was in the Nineties. I'm a dad, and there are other things I have to get done in an afternoon than just being an artist.
Chris Robinson
#27. Being a dad, I certainly know what it feels like to give lots of love and understanding, and I also know what it feels like to be antagonized or to have my buttons pushed, at midnight when one of my kids just will not go to sleep. You've gotta just let them be what they are, ultimately.
Jason Lee
#28. My friends say, 'Man you're going to have kids sleeping on pillowcases with your face on it! You're going to be on toothbrushes and magnets and stuff.' I guess now that I'm a dad, I'm thrilled about that.
Hugh Jackman
#29. I probably have an earlier curfew than anyone. My mom wants to keep me really safe and my dad's not overly protective, but he's a dad no matter what.
Miley Cyrus
#30. I love being a dad, and I'm good at it. Kids teach you about life, like how not to focus on yourself so much.
Dennis Quaid
#31. I enjoy the school run and being a dad. Boxing will always be with me. I like that.
Sugar Ray Leonard
#32. I'm a father of four so whenever I'm not working my kids have their different sports, or plays, or school performances, so I don't do a whole lot of other stuff besides being a dad.
Christopher Judge
#33. If I were a dad, I'd have my kids watch 'I Love Lucy' and 'The Honeymooners.'
Horatio Sanz
#34. Twitter allowed me to talk about parenting in short snippets and find out what I really wanted to say about it, which is that I'm a dad who had no idea what he's doing.
Jim Gaffigan
#35. The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it's just the thing that every man wants - to have a son and heir.
George Best
#36. When you're shooting a film, you really don't get to be a dad, and you don't really get to be a husband. You don't really exist at all. But I do drag my family with me on location whenever I can.
Eric Bana
#37. Also for me it was different because I play a lot of villains and in this one I play a dad and I play a good guy, basically. He's the Secretary of the Treasury. I never had a job like that.
Christopher Walken
#38. Just so you know I never had a dad either, but that's another story for another time.
Edge
#39. My dad takes care of me as a manager and as a dad. That's his job, you know, to take care of me. He has my best interests at heart.
Jessica Simpson
#40. I want to be a dad, first and foremost. I want to be a good father. I've spent so much of my life on the move and travelling around the world that just to set up a home for my family and be a good dad is something that motivates me.
Ricky Ponting
#41. I would have had a dad. And that would have been an incredible experience.
Frances Bean Cobain
#42. I grew up with a dad who hated television, so we had to sneak television. It got ingrained in my head to never follow a show that religiously.
Robert Knepper
#43. Life's funny that way, kind of like a dad who thinks it's hilarious to tie his kid up in a dark closet and leave him there for the weekend. Yeah,
Patrick Thomas
#44. I would be ready to become a dad if I was with the right person. I'd like a boy, though. Because they're in charge.
Mario Balotelli
#45. You can't be two people in your brain, one rock dude and a dad - there's something in the middle of them, and that's really what you are and that's going to make you the best dad - not when you try to be one or the other.
Gerard Way
#46. I love being a dad, it keeps me fit and inspired and children are so funny. They always supply you with acting material!
Wesley Snipes
#47. As a dad, it's kind of exciting to see that your son follows what you believe in so strongly.
Connie Mack IV
#48. Being a dad and being in the Red Hot Chili Peppers and all the stuff I have to do ... The trumpet requires a lot of diligence, and I haven't had the time.
Flea
#49. A dad stands tallest when he kneels to pray with his children.
Rick Warren
#50. Becoming a dad was the proudest moment of my life. Playing football does not even compare.
Wayne Rooney
#51. Do you ever hear from your
dad?' I ask.
'Uh-uh. Mum said they had the biggest
fight before he left. She was sixteen and telling him about me and he left a dad shaped hole in the wall.
Cath Crowley
#52. When I dance, I look like I'm a dad at a prom. I never grasped my limbs. Ever since puberty I've just kind of felt like we don't understand each other.
Jennifer Lawrence
#53. Being a Dad is the greatest, except for assembling things.
Conan O'Brien
#54. You have to succeed as a young actor, then as a dad actor, those would be my 'Harvey Moon' years, then as an old actor.
Kenneth Cranham
#55. That anyone could father a child, but a real man chooses to be a dad.
J. Sterling
#56. I always thought that family was the most important thing in life, and no matter what I do, whether being a chef or an actor or a dancer, being a dad is what I do best.
David Burtka
#57. If a dad does his job, we don't need prisons, we don't need jails. That's what I saw growing up.
Mike Singletary
#58. I think being a dad is scary. I mean, I'm not that grown-up myself.
Howie Mandel
#59. When you're a dad, there's no one above you. If I don't do something that has to be done, who is going to do it?
Jonathan Safran Foer
#60. I probably would have gone the M.F.A. route except I was a dad at 19, and it made more sense to go to work for a newspaper and support a kid that way. But the funny thing is, that detour became the most important step in my developing as a novelist.
Jess Walter
#61. I would never complain about the position I'm in or the attention I get. At the end of the day, I'm very lucky to have what I have and do what I do, but I don't see myself as any different from anyone else who works hard and is a dad and a husband.
David Beckham
#62. I'm a husband and a dad. Two thirds of my day is spent being that character. It's a huge part of my identity and why I pursue things I do.
Ben Sollee
#63. I can understand not wanting to underuse Hawke, but after a while the narrative composition starts to look like a dad's testimony at a custody hearing.
Anonymous
#65. Yes, he just wanted her to want to be a mom, in the same way that he felt, with all of his blood, that he was a dad first, and everything else in the world an obscure, unfathomably distant second.
J. Ryan Stradal
#66. I think, if I had a dad, I would have went the normal college route. I'm so stoked my life panned out how it was.
Tyler, The Creator
#67. Oh, fatherhood has a very humanising effect on a bloke like me in the military. As a dad, you become absolutely aware of your own human frailty and a need to be nurturing and compassionate and fatherly
Peter Cosgrove
#68. We've come a long way from having one land line that was forbidden to be answered during dinner. We had no answering machine, just a dad who barked, 'Who calls during dinner? If it's important, they'll call back.' He was right.
Regina Brett
#69. I was a really involved dad - not because I'm such a wonderful person. I like being a dad.
Michael Keaton
#71. I'm a dad now, so now I just don't care what I look like. Once you've created life, you just don't care what anyone thinks.
Tim Schafer
#72. Becoming a dad means you have to be a role model for your son and be someone he can look up to.
Wayne Rooney
#73. Being a dad is my most important job because it not only affects my children, but their children and many generations to come.
Mark Dominik
#74. thought the hard part about being a dad was going to be the arguments - like her bringing some knuckle-dragging mouth breather home and expecting me not to slice off his smooth criminals and plant them in the yard. But
J.R. Ward
#75. I'm a dad, and I no longer see a way for my kids to even inherit the money that I'm making, let alone go out there, have an idea, and create it in their own lifetime.
Glenn Beck
#76. Nick!' I flinch. 'What?' Jo widens her eyes at Mom. 'Forget it, Jo,' Mom says. 'He's not ready.'
'Yes, I am,' I tell her. 'I know I don't have a dad. Kenny DiPoto doesn't have a dad either because his dad got knifed in jail.'
'Geezus,' Jo breathes. 'What kind of neighbourhood is this?
Julie Anne Peters
#77. I suddenly wondered - can you still be Daddy's little girl if you don't have a dad anymore?
J. Sterling
#78. I am quite strict as a dad but I don't want to be censorious.
Nick Clegg
#79. I loved having a dad who was smarter than the New York Times, and I loved how my cheek could feel the hairs on his chest through his T-shirt, and how he always smelled like shaving, even at the end of the day. Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn't have to invent a thing.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#80. I think a dad has to make his daughter feel that he's genuinely interested in what she's going through.
Harry Connick Jr.
#81. I always tell people that my primary job is being a dad and husband. Music is just what pays the bills.
Aaron Watson
#82. I've been a dad since I was nineteen, so I think a lot about fatherhood and the power of that sacrifice in your life.
Jess Walter
#83. I was just a kid and I didn't have a dad. That's hard, because when you're a kid, you blame yourself for everything. And I blamed myself for him not being around, for my parents not being together.
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
#84. I suppose not everyone has a dad who wrote a book saying he didn't believe in the Parliamentary road to socialism.
Ed Miliband
#85. That really is the best part of being a dad. You remember what's important in life.
Russell Simmons
#86. Look, I've got incredible pride for my family. I've absolutely fallen into that cliche of a dad who could just happily talk about my daughter endlessly.
Christian Bale
#87. At the end of the day, you realize that this is important stuff, but it isn't as important as how my kids feel about me. That's how I'm going to measure my success - not how I did as counsel to the president or as attorney general. How did I do as a dad?
Alberto Gonzales
#88. Be a dad. Don't be "Mom's Assistant" ... Be a man ... Fathers have skills that they never use at home. You run a landscaping business and you can't dress and feed a four-year-old? Take it on. Spend time with your kids ... It won't take away your manhood, it will give it to you.
Louis C.K.
#89. I walked out of his room sure I'd said the right thing maybe not as a father but as a Dad. I'd said the right thing, for once in my life.
Steven Herrick
#90. For every guy who loves being a dad, there's another who realizes too late that he's created something his wife loves more than him.
Mark R. Brand
#91. What Dougie had actually said was You shouldn't get too up your own arse about being a dad. You get a wee man or a wee lassie to play with for a bit and the next thing you know there's this superfluous person knocking about who doesn't seem to know much about you, but it's all your fault.
James Meek
#92. A Dad gives hope
When life is low
A Dad's a place
Where you can go
A Dad is honest
A Dad is true
A Dad is precious
My DAD is You
Happy Birthday to YOU
Happy Birthday to YOU
Happy Birthday , Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday to YOU
John Walter Bratton
#93. I've always wanted to be a dad. I just can't wait to have a little rug rat running around. I used to want five or six kids, but maybe I've become too self-absorbed over the years. I think two would be perfect.
Josh Duhamel
#95. My goal is for Gunnar to outlive me. That's the way it should be. My dream is for him to be a dad himself one day, so he can find out all the anxiety that kids bring to their dads.
Boomer Esiason
#96. I wonder if we have a lot of sons running around saying, "I want a Dad." But you won't abide in anyone.
Judah Smith
#97. Nowadays, telling your wife "I have to work" gets you a disappointed sigh. This is the worst period in history to be a dad. It used to be that if you worked and provided that was enough.
Adam Carolla
#99. I thought she'd never had a good Dad and I've never even had a Dad but I thought ... if you had a Dad and you got sick, the best place to be was pressed close to your Dad and he'd make you feel better.
Kristen Ashley
#100. It's not like most guys are going to pass muster with the Terrible Trio anyway. They're a hundred times worse than a dad with a shotgun.
Jay Crownover
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