Quotes About Dad

#1. I didn't grow up with my dad so I don't know much at all about my heritage.

Keiynan Lonsdale

#2. My - I grew up in - I grew up in public housing. My dad, for most of my life, worked for the post office, which was a terrific job to get because you couldn't lose your job.

Lloyd Blankfein

#3. I [dad] spent hours on the phone. Do you know with whom?'
'One of those psychic hotlines?' Dad gritted his teeth. 'If only ...

Rachel Hawkins

#4. I want any excuse to come home. My dad is not a spring chicken any more. If anyone says, 'Go buy a postage stamp in London,' I'll go and do it.

Emily Mortimer

#5. I think my dad has helped me tremendously.

Rand Paul

#6. SO THIS IS HOW NOAH FELT. You wake up one morning and God has forgiven you and you walk around squinting all day because you've forgotten how sunlight feels warm and rough against your skin like a kiss on the cheek from your dad, and the whole world is brighter and cleaner than ever before,

John Green

#7. My mum is from Ghana, and she used to play highlife music in the house, and my dad used to listen to music.

Fleur East

#8. I've been really lucky as an inventor. I'm the happiest guy you're ever going to meet. And my dad died before he realized anybody in the family would maybe, hopefully, make something out of themselves.

Woody Norris

#9. On the rare occasions when my family talked about business, the subject was Kansas City's Boss Pendergast and his potential for muscling my dad's small gravel-and-sand operation.

Carol Loomis

#10. I'm gonna be the best dad that ever lived. I'll have a ranch with a race car track and a golf course.

Jeremy London

#11. He wished he was with his mom in her library, where everything was safe and numbered and organized by the Dewey decimal system. Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for, like the meaning of your dream, or your dad.

Brian Selznick

#12. I grew up with my parents in the kitchen discussing the audition my dad had that day or moaning about something or other in the industry, so it was unglamourised and normalised for me from a very young age.

Bel Powley

#13. Sometimes being a dad is like watching a ping-pong match.

Steve Schirripa

#14. Since I didn't have a spork handy, I leaned over the sink and scooped up a palmful of cold water and pressed it against my face. There had to be a better option than a violent sporking. There had to be a way to get rid of my dad.

Devon Monk

#15. My dad thought I'd end up in the poorhouse or in doughnut shops with a bag full of reviews.

Henry Czerny

#16. I didn't start sweating until I had children. That was one of the first things I realized when my daughter Violet was born - I started getting wicked BO. You know there's a difference between basketball BO and stress BO? This was definitely stress BO. Like, new dad BO.

Dave Grohl

#17. My dad was a huge big band and jazz fan, and we both sort of enjoyed be-bop, but man, it required so much skill to play it. And then there was cool jazz, the era that Miles, Coltrane, and Ornette ushered in, and that found a home in me. It turns out that that music was just really where I breathed.

J. D. Souther

#18. My dad and all my family were into baseball. His brothers, my mom's brothers, my mom's father. Baseball was just always a part of our family.

Mark Teixeira

#19. My dad is a singer. He used to sing in nightclubs, or pizza joints.

Amy Adams

#20. I think he gets a lot of respect just because he's my dad, too. Even if he hadn't had any experience. But I think he comes with a lot of experience and all of that as well, so I think people enjoyed working with him and had fun and also respected him, which was nice.

Emily Deschanel

#21. I'm Mexican-American. My dad was actually born in Mexico. He was raised up there, and he came back and forth to America pretty much his whole teenage years. My mom is from Sacramento, California, and she's a blonde-haired, blue-eyed girl. She's a whitey.

Ryan Guzman

#22. What kind of husband would I be if I bet against my own marriage?'
I smiled. 'The stupid kind. Didn't you listen to your dad when he told you not to bet against me?

Jamie McGuire

#23. I blame my dad for my sweet tooth. His motto was 'Life is short; eat dessert first.' How can I argue with that?

Wendy Mass

#24. 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

#25. Dad. I love that you aren't afraid to carry around romance novels with almost-naked men on the cover and hand them out as "tips" to waitresses, hairdressers, and anyone else you come across. Thanks for being one of my biggest fans.

Susan Stoker

#26. My brother and I grew up in a musical family. We have an older sister who sings and plays the piano. Our dad is a musician. Music was always a part of our lives.

Laura Allen

#27. Dad told me to stop running in circles, I couldn't, so he nailed down my other foot!

Rodney Dangerfield

#28. If it's an abomination, Dad, you're just doing it wrong. Bear down hard, then release. It'll fit better.

Tiffany Reisz

#29. You need your mom and dad to protect you. It means they love you so much.

Gabby Douglas

#30. Send lawyers, guns, and money. Dad, get me out of this.

Warren Zevon

#31. Thank you, Dad. Thank you for pissing me off so much that it made me strong and beautiful.

Kate Meader

#32. Well, honey, once you've been head-over-heels in love with somebody, you don't go back to being 'friends'. It doesn't work that way. - Megan's Dad

Lauren Baker

#33. I call my dad 'Admiral Ass Hat,' he doesn't really think it's funny.

Jay Crownover

#34. I used to help my dad with a stall selling eggs when I was about 12. People were so hard up they would ask for one egg. But mostly no one came by at all. It was very demoralising.

Lynne Truss

#35. Every year since I was very small, my family - Mum, Dad, sister Charlie-Ann and brother Stephen - and I have been holidaying in Carvoeiro in the Algarve, so that has very fond memories for me.

Pixie Lott

#36. My dad gave me a present once,' Nico said. 'It was a zombie.'
Reyna stared at him. 'What?'
'His name is Jules-Albert. He's French.'
'A ... French zombie?

Rick Riordan

#37. When I turned 16, my dad made me sign a contract - he made us sign contracts for everything - that if I hit my car, I would be responsible for paying for it. I was in bumper-to-bumper traffic, and I tapped someone. It was so not a big deal, but I had to pay for it.

Kim Kardashian

#38. 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

#39. My dad died from pancreatic cancer at 54 ... I'm making sure I'm eating my vegetables and staying away from the red meat.

Chumlee

#40. I don't say anything. I know the power of silence. I remember my dad saying nothing and I remember his silences more vividly than I remember the things he said.

Caroline Kepnes

#41. Blay's head whipped around to his mate. "Really? You asked my dad?" Qhuinn nodded, then started to smile like a mother fucker. "It's my one and only shot. So I wanted to follow protocol.

J.R. Ward

#42. One reason I didn't hold any grudges or harsh feelings toward Dad must have been that my mother seldom blamed him - at least not to us or in our hearing. I can hardly think of a time when she spoke against him.

Ben Carson

#43. My earliest acting memory is making up a play for my mom and dad called The Lonesome Baby. I have no idea what The Lonesome Baby was about. I just remember the title. But I'm sure it was an epic.

Jane Horrocks

#44. My dad is from Nottingham - although I've only been there twice in my life, with one being when my friend was at university there. I've always found it a friendly place and has a good night life.

Jess Glynne

#45. The founder of the Mona Foundation actually knew my dad for years, and the more I learned about it, the more I realized I really found the perfect charity. It sponsors schools and educational initiatives all over the planet.

Rainn Wilson

#46. When I was a teenager, my dad used to put a lot of pressure on me to be successful, and I'd really beat myself up about things like losing martial arts competitions.

Dolph Lundgren

#47. I'm always striving to be a better man to God, a better husband, a better Dad so it's just work, but I'm committed to it.

Andre Ward

#48. If you're better than Easton, then by way of experience, your dad has to be spectacular.

Erin Watt

#49. No matter how long or how difficult, we will undo whatever that Moroi boy has done to you."
I managed a wavering smile, tasting blood in my mouth. "You sure about that, Dad? Because he's done everything to me.

Richelle Mead

#50. Struggled to save a few dollars. The other created investments. One dad taught

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#51. I lost my dad. He lost his tomorrows and I lost all the tomorrows with him. You could say that now, I appreciate them when they come. Now, I want to make them the best they can possibly be.

Cecelia Ahern

#52. My dad told me that God allows people to make their own choices and doesn't override their free will. That is why bad things happen. People don't do the things they should.

J.W. Lord

#53. My parents' marriage was already shaky when I came along. They split up when I was five, and I didn't see Dad all that often after that - four or five times a year.

Robert Webb

#54. When I was younger, I had a perm, and it was really big. My mom was a hairdresser, so even my dad had a perm! I looked like a poodle, but it was cool at the time.

Heidi Klum

#55. Why is Mommy crying?" the young boy asks his dad, all sugared up and bewildered with concern. "Because you're an asshole," barks back the father with exasperated logic.

John Waters

#56. My dad would go to work every day and write in a room full of funny people. He enjoyed it. I know great writers who find the process agonising but to me, writing has always been sheer joy.

Joss Whedon

#57. I wanted to be a police officer for a long time so I could be just like my dad!

Doreen Cronin

#58. 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

#59. I had a basketball net that my dad had put up outside. I went out there and dribbled all day long. I wanted to play basketball. Then I'd go baseball, and then I'd go to football. I remember playing football in a plowed field. I grew up going from one thing to the next wanting to play something.

Joe Gibbs

#60. You can't come wandering around in at all hours of the night looking like you've been-"

"Raped?" "Not to worry, Estertown's been safe for three years now, Dad.

Laura Wiess

#61. I don't think my dad really knew what to do with me, as a daughter. He treated me like a boy; my brother and I were treated the same. He didn't do kid stuff. There were no kid's menus; you weren't allowed to order off the kid's menu at dinner - we had to try something from the adult menu.

Emma Watson

#62. Tim Tebow's Dad turned a screw-up into a testimony when a fire to burn weeds in a field got out of control. With his family still smelling like smoke from containing the fire, he conducted a lesson from verses where James compares danger of speech to an out-of-control spark.

Tim Tebow

#63. Even with my daughter now, I kind of know how my dad feels.

Jeff Hardy

#64. I was born in New Jersey but grew up mostly in Florida. My dad died when I was 8.

John Joseph Adams

#65. I stayed in Baghdad every summer until I was 14. My dad's sister is still there, but many of my relatives have managed to get out. People forget that there are still people there who are not radicalized in any particular direction, trying to live normal lives in a very difficult situation.

Andy Serkis

#66. In junior high in Germany I fought kids all the time. I had such a bad temper, I almost got thrown out of school. A few lickings from my dad got me out of that scene. He wore me out with a paddle.

Shaquille O'Neal

#67. My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.'

Rachel Platten

#68. My mom played every sport possible. My dad is 'extremely' competitive. You can't even play Ping-Pong with him.

Kate Upton

#69. Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, I'd like to study piano.

Jackson Browne

#70. We live in a society that puts a high premium on success and I learned, mainly through my dad, that salvation would come through success, and I carried that into my adult life and it's a total lie.

Steve Almond

#71. Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.

Gabby Douglas

#72. Before there is a business, a successful entrepreneur is designing this type of business in his or her mind's eye. According to my rich dad, this is the job of a true entrepreneur.

Robert Kiyosaki

#73. My mother is very emotional as well, but my dad is more of the guts of the family. He was the main preacher, so he kind of had this little Pentecostal flair, but they are born-again.

Katy Perry

#74. My dad was a rebel. A half-destroyed history book hidden in his room, friends at his funeral I knew nothing about . . . a daughter named America. If I'd paid attention at all, I would have seen it years ago.

Kiera Cass

#75. My father was a singer. So it just kind of happened that one Sunday while my dad was singing, I just walked out and stood next to him, and I started singing the song that he was leading, and I sang it in perfect pitch.

Marvin Sapp

#76. Also, it was a bit hopeless," he said. "A bit defeatist."
"If by defeatist you mean honest, then I agree."
"I don't think defeatism is honest, " Dad answered. "I refuse to accept that.

John Green

#77. My dad sent me a text saying, 'You know who you should play? Columbo. That's your Academy Award.'

Mark Ruffalo

#78. My family never went skiing. My dad was afraid of heights and my mom felt that a vacation was only a vacation if it involved reading at least two books on the beach.

Lisa Greenwald

#79. From Chapter 1:
"You're not a local." I paused, unsure. "Or are you?"
"Sort of. Randall Van Dotson is my dad. I'm Rennie."
After tossing her head that coy, sweet way girls do, she gave me a candid appraisal.

Ed Lynskey

#80. We're going on a bit too fast. You and I, Sam, are still stuck in the worst places of the story, and it is all too likely that some will say at this point: Shut the book now, dad; we don't want to read any more.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#81. My grandfather was a lawyer, my dad was a lawyer, my mum was a lawyer, I got an uncle who's a lawyer, I got cousins that are lawyers.

Benicio Del Toro

#82. You don't choose a life, dad. You live one.

Emilio Estevez

#83. My dad is one of the funniest people I know. He's the sort of man who can make you laugh just by reading out of a telephone directory ... He's a spastic.

Frankie Boyle

#84. 'I Know You Care' is about my dad. And I haven't seen him for a long, long time. And my parents divorced when I was really young. And I guess I just wanted a - it was my way of saying that I wasn't bitter or angry anymore. I was just sad and just felt like something was missing.

Ellie Goulding

#85. My dad's a journalist, and he travelled a lot when I was young. There is no way my mother could have done that.

Raquel Cassidy

#86. I think I'm a good dad. It's hard. Ultimately, it's our kids that have the final word. So we'll have to ask them.

Rivers Cuomo

#87. I'm real good with math, with numbers, like my dad was. I'm pretty much dialed in.

Hulk Hogan

#88. I knew I wanted to be an actress, but I hadn't ever really told anyone. I'd always got quite good grades, so people assumed I would go and do a 'normal' job. My dad took me to my first audition for drama school and picked me up without anyone knowing, really.

Kimberley Nixon

#89. There is something magical about the world at night. Sitting at the dining room table, sipping a glass of iced tea, I can totally understand why Dad gets up so early. Minutes seem to last longer when the rest of the world is asleep.

A.S. King

#90. Hey, Dad, check this out!" Ike stared at the boy. He clearly wanted to be down there watching his kid possibly crack his skull open, rather than recording a song about how frightened he was that his kids might crack their skulls open.

Steve Almond

#91. I had the opportunity to go to law school, and my dad, who was an accountant, couldn't believe I wanted to walk away from that and start cooking.

Curtis Stone

#92. I had always loved music. I grew up listening to classic country, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard. My dad loved Vern Gosdin and Keith Whitley. So I kept going to class and started getting totally into playing guitar and teaching myself these songs.

Jake Owen

#93. Then Mum died. And Dad grew even quieter. As if she took away with her the few words he'd possessed.

Fredrik Backman

#94. My mom came from such humble beginnings and especially my dad as well. He didn't go to university.

Petra Stunt

#95. Dad at breakfast today being very quiet. I notice he is clean shaven. I said to him, 'Vati, what has happened to the little beaver that used to live on the end of your chin?

Louise Rennison

#96. Her mouth drops open in disbelief. Your dad tried to blackmail the mob? Has he never seen The Godfather?

M. Leighton

#97. These people we call Mom and Dad, they bring us into the world and then they don't follow through with what we need, or provide any answers at all really
it's a fend-for-yourself free-for-all in the end, and I'm just not cut out for that sort of living.

Matthew Quick

#98. My mom grew up in Kansas, my dad in Indiana. They had boring childhoods.

Hunter Parrish

#99. My dad's one of my biggest heroes. I also think Paul Newman's an inspiration. I know a lot of people say that, but I love that he's a great role model and a humanitarian. I admire people who don't necessarily want to change the world, but try to make it a better environment.

Alex Pettyfer

#100. I don't care if your dad is the Sultan of Brunei. You happened to be born into a privileged family. What you do with that truth is completely up to you. I'm here because I want to be with you. But if I didn't, all the money in the world wouldn't have changed my feelings for you.

Nicholas Sparks