Top 54 Things My Dad Said Quotes

#1. Come on, Park," his dad said sharply, "get dressed and put your makeup on." Like

Rainbow Rowell

Things My Dad Said Quotes #23
#2. The problem with most people," Dad said once, not necessarily implying that I counted as most people, but not discounting the possibility either, "is that they want to be alive for as long as possible without having any idea whatsoever how to live.

Alexandra Fuller

Things My Dad Said Quotes #2058
#3. Las' time I saw you, you was only a baby," said the giant. "Yeh look a lot like yer dad, but yeh've got yer mum's eyes.

J.K. Rowling

Things My Dad Said Quotes #22048
#4. Linc?"
"Yeah."
"About the other thing my dad said to you," I cringed.
"What else is he supposed to think?" he asked, a smile in his tone. "You're over here all the time. If not training, we're hanging out. I'm surprised he hasn't warned me off sooner. It's good to see he's paying attention.

Jessica Shirvington

Things My Dad Said Quotes #44889
#5. That made Dad pretty mad, so he said
"NO SON OF MINE IS A QUITTER!"
Which isn't really true at all. I'm a HUGE quitter, and so is Rodrick. And I think Manny is on his third of fourth preschool by now.

Jeff Kinney

Things My Dad Said Quotes #45213
#6. Watching TV Mum said, 'Do you miss your dad?' and I said, 'Who?

Louise Rennison

Things My Dad Said Quotes #46846
#7. Jared glanced at Dad, then back at Kami, and said, "I'll call you later."

You have never called me once in the entirety of your life, said Kami. I'll talk to you in a few minutes.

Sarah Rees Brennan

Things My Dad Said Quotes #47324
#8. My dad supports me. He said, "I wished when I was at your age I started doing rock and roll music. Then I wouldn't have to be a fashion designer." And I just laugh and keep it moving and appreciate his support.

Richard Hilfiger

Things My Dad Said Quotes #64736
#9. I'm not so sure," Dad said. "Every damn thing in the universe can be broken down into smaller things, even atom, even protons, so theoretically speaking, I guess you had a winning case. A collection of things should be considered one thing. Unfortunately, theory don't always carry the day.

Jeannette Walls

Things My Dad Said Quotes #66466
#10. Teddy had taken his shirt off and had streaked himself with mud. Dad said he looked like one of the boys from Lord of the Flies.

Gayle Forman

Things My Dad Said Quotes #73044
#11. The group was not afraid of being radical either; they could see the good Roosevelt was doing, despite what Mother and Dad said; they were not taken in by party labels and thought the Democrats should be given a chance to show what they had up their sleeve.

Mary McCarthy

Things My Dad Said Quotes #73392
#12. Cause The one thing that I learned from dad besides the cheap stuff fucks you up as much as the stuff on the top shelf does is it doesn't matter what you say or think, or wish you said but didn't say- just what you do.

Mike Kinsella

Things My Dad Said Quotes #75319
#13. Teddy said it was a hat, So I put it on. Now dad is saying, where the heck's the toilet plunger gone?

Shel Silverstein

Things My Dad Said Quotes #79770
#14. He's not my dad," Kaira said. "Just because he married my - As soon as I turn eighteen I'm firing his ass! Then I'll call you.

Louis Sachar

Things My Dad Said Quotes #79880
#15. My dad always, he helped me by not helping me. He always said, being a producer, it was all about conviction.

Thomas Langmann

Things My Dad Said Quotes #87103
#16. I wanted to be a mechanic. When I was 14 I wanted to quit school and go work on my car. But my dad said Son, you shouldn't do that. You should stay in school until your education is finished, and when you're done, don't make your hobby your job.

Eric Bana

Things My Dad Said Quotes #92644
#17. My dad said to always do what I loved and not worry about the money or anything, because if I do what I love, then the money will come.

Ansel Elgort

Things My Dad Said Quotes #96698
#18. You'd give up drinking to go see your dad?"
"Well, not permanently," he said. "That'd be ridiculous. But maybe I could switch to something slightly cheaper for a while. Like ... slushes. Do you know how much I love those? Cherry, especially.

Richelle Mead

Things My Dad Said Quotes #97858
#19. Dad decided not to vote for Donner after all. He didn't vote for anyone. He said politicians turned his stomach.

Octavia Butler

Things My Dad Said Quotes #101158
#20. I'll tell you what my mother always said. 'When it comes to marriage, if both don't win, nobody wins.' The longer I lived with your dad, the more I saw the truth in that. In the end, nobody won." "Well,

Terrie Todd

Things My Dad Said Quotes #103526
#21. I'm fine," [her dad] said gently. "Back on the horse, Cath.'
'What's the horse?' she sighed, watching him pull on a South High hoodie. 'Jogging? Working too much?'
'Living,' he said, a little too loud. 'Life's the horse.

Rainbow Rowell

Things My Dad Said Quotes #109045
#22. In 1996, I was the head coach at Brigham Young University. And I got a call from my dad, and he said my brother had been murdered by du Pont. And it just infuriated me to just no end. And I think I destroyed everything in my office.

Mark Schultz

Things My Dad Said Quotes #115927
#23. Dad has brought me a cup of tea in bed this morning! I said, 'Vati, why are you waking me up in the middle of the night? Are you on fire?

Louise Rennison

Things My Dad Said Quotes #116766
#24. Thanks, Dad," she whispered in his ear. Then recovering her composure, she knelt before him and said, "I give thanks, my Father. May your decision be proved right and true.

Stuart Hill

Things My Dad Said Quotes #135269
#25. Dad!' I'd complain when I lost track of what he was saying. 'Speak English.'

'Megyn, I will not lower my vocabulary to meet yours,' he said. 'You must raise yours to meet mine.

Megyn Kelly

Things My Dad Said Quotes #140932
#26. A little while after we'd moved into the depot, we heard Mom and Dad talking about buying us kids real beds, and we said they shouldn't do it. We liked our boxes. They made going to bed seem like an adventure.
pg. 52

Jeannette Walls

Things My Dad Said Quotes #141083
#27. His kisses were so mind-numbing that when Blake said, "Car door," it took Livia a few seconds to remember she spoke English.
"Dad. Oh. My dad's home.

Debra Anastasia

Things My Dad Said Quotes #142804
#28. We'll make it a blowout like in the olden days."
"When dinosaurs roamed the earth?" Teddy asked.
"Exactly," Dad said. "When dinosaurs roamed the earth and your mom and I were young.

Gayle Forman

Things My Dad Said Quotes #143364
#29. I think I need to get home and talk to my dad. He'll be worried if he doesn't see us. Would you like to meet him?"
"I'd be honored," Blake said with a nod.

Debra Anastasia

Things My Dad Said Quotes #145916
#30. My dad hasn't said much about his college days. Oh, a few times, he might start telling stories. And I've seen some highlight film of him from college. I remember thinking he looked really small. Which is funny, because growing up, I thought he was a pretty big guy.

Andrew Luck

Things My Dad Said Quotes #146300
#31. My sister and I said, Dad, are you doing to do anything about that? And he mentioned treatments other people sent him that he'd been working on. So we thought it would be kind of cool to give these guys a real script.

Rae Dawn Chong

Things My Dad Said Quotes #150429
#32. You be as angry as you need to be," she said. "Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Not your grandma, not your dad, no one. And if you need to break things, then by God, you break them good and hard.

Patrick Ness

Things My Dad Said Quotes #171844
#33. Engvall: Yesterday, my son was out in the yard playing with his friend, and he hit his friend. I walked up to him, and I said, "Hey ... " (pantomimes hitting his son) "We don't hit". He looked at me like, "Here's your sign, Dad".

Bill Engvall

Things My Dad Said Quotes #172999
#34. I know, but if I feel this bad for Gramps, how am I going to feel when it's Dad?" Tyler told me.
"You'll feel even worse, of course, but you'll carry on, because happiness has a way of creeping in again. It really does," I said.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Things My Dad Said Quotes #178057
#35. His dad said if you did something wrong to someone in public, you ought to admit it in public, too.

Suzanne Collins

Things My Dad Said Quotes #178221
#36. No, like I said, my dad was never really part of the tennis. His involvement around what I did with the tennis and with my mom and my grandparents was really not a part of my life.

Jimmy Connors

Things My Dad Said Quotes #179645
#37. My dad said I did the right thing. I hope I did, but it's hard to tell sometimes.

Stephen Chbosky

Things My Dad Said Quotes #188814
#38. My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'

Daisy Donovan

Things My Dad Said Quotes #191926
#39. Kiss, kiss!" she said, and gave dad a big kiss on the lips.

Kate Houser

Things My Dad Said Quotes #201506
#40. Dad-a-jum, dad-a-jiggers, goddam lobsters bit off your fingers, King said, and actually laughed.

Stephen King

Things My Dad Said Quotes #202213
#41. Suddenly, she burst out, "I want to punch her evil, lying face."
Liam caught a flash of hot gold as Dad looked at them, narrow-eyed, in the rearview mirror. Dad said, completely seriously, "I can make that happen.

Thea Harrison

Things My Dad Said Quotes #208399
#42. I don't feel any ethical dilemma when I write. In my memoir, I was able to write with candor about the two most difficult people in the world to write with candor about - mom and dad. Everything else is downhill from there.

Said Sayrafiezadeh

Things My Dad Said Quotes #212946
#43. It feels like people talk a lot, in their relationships and in therapy. But my family wasn't like that. My dad wasn't and I wasn't. Things were said, but via the language of action.

Leigh Newman

Things My Dad Said Quotes #338228
#44. I would think you'd have better things to do right now than look up the marital status of my ex-boyfriends on the Internet," Mom had said to him, scathingly.
"I like to keep track of their mating habits," Dad had smirked.

Meg Cabot

Things My Dad Said Quotes #370644
#45. Well, that's growing up, isn't it?" my dad said. "You don't always have to know. And things aren't always fair. You just have to keep moving forward. A step in one direction.

Robin Benway

Things My Dad Said Quotes #371206
#46. I asked my dad what people would remember sooner, the things I said or the things I did. His response was: Forgive me, but what people?

Stacey T. Hunt

Things My Dad Said Quotes #453581
#47. I don't know if there is a gene for comedy, but my dad was a very funny man. He just didn't know it. He was a naturally funny character, and when my brother and I would laugh at things he said and did, he would say, 'What do you think is so funny?'

James Belushi

Things My Dad Said Quotes #733340
#48. My dad lived by example. I lived by watching him. I watched all the great things he did and said. I try to walk that talk for my children.

Laila Ali

Things My Dad Said Quotes #956516
#49. My youngest son's pre-school class was recently asked what their dads do for work. The responses were things like, my dad sells money, and my dad figures stuff out. My son said, 'I've never seen my dad do work.' It's true. Skateboarding doesn't seem like real work, but I'm proud of what I do.

Tony Hawk

Things My Dad Said Quotes #1173421
#50. I asked my dad what afflicted meant and he said 'Sickness son, and things that don't fit.

Frank McCourt

Things My Dad Said Quotes #1183966
#51. My dad told me something long before I was in politics, and when your dad gives you advice every single day, eventually one or two of the things stick in your mind. And he said, don't believe what people say, believe what they do.

Mick Mulvaney

Things My Dad Said Quotes #1412167
#52. My dad had always said to not trust something unless it's taken a tumble in the dirt. He'd meant it for people, and for things. Shiny and new didn't exist for humankind any more.

Katherine McIntyre

Things My Dad Said Quotes #1691774
#53. 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

Things My Dad Said Quotes #1805814
#54. He said he thought it happened fast, both for my dad and Ben and for the drunk driver who hit them, but for the rest of the questions he said, We just don't know.
We just don't know.
Some things are gone for good. You can't get them back. You can't know what happened. Ever.

Ally Condie

Things My Dad Said Quotes #1856403

Famous Authors

Popular Topics

Scroll to Top