Dad Quotes

My dad was a cotton buyer and cotton buyers always considered themselves superior to the rest of the world.

Pitching is pitching. I've been doing this since I was eight-years-old, playing in my backyard with my dad. The things that work in Double-A will also work in the majors.

My mom says that my dad coerced me into choosing the cello. He says that's not entirely true. I don't remember; I was three.

My dad's so likeable, you wouldn't feel in competition with him. If any boyfriends have ever felt that, they're long gone.

My dad was depressed a lot of the time, and there were a lot of things in his life that he never resolved.

From when I was born, my dad would dance with me in his arms, and I would watch my siblings dancing around in the living room. I just grew up with that. That was just my life.

I take the kids skiing every year, and my husband doesn't always go. The way I grew up, that's very normal. My mom would take us skiing, but my dad hates cold weather.

Hopefully, most days, you're like, "This is sweet. I wake up and do the things that I do and I'm usually smiling." That's how my dad is with his job.

I thank my dad for my mental longevity and for the fact we played against better competition.

I don't think I've had a holiday in my entire life that wasn't about my dad's work.

My parents are not theatrical people, but my dad took me to the theater.

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

I was addicted to the original 'Star Trek' when I was growing up, because of my dad. We grew up in St. Helens, Oregon and we weren't allowed to watch a lot of TV.

I grew up watching science fiction with my dad. It was kind of our little secret. It was our bonding time as father and daughter.

My roots are Scottish. My dad's parents are from Scotland, and my mum's dad is Scots.

My first car was a Chevy Cavalier. My dad somehow convinced me that it was a hot sports car because it was red.

My mom wasn't, like, she was reading all these historical romance novels the majority of the time. She read a feminist book and then my dad would sit down and explain it to her like she was an idiot.

My mom and I had secret from my dad that we didn't think we were stupid, that we didn't think we needed feminism to be explained to us.

From 1965 to 1967, my dad, Jack Gilligan, served in Congress and helped pass landmark laws like the Voting Rights Act.

It's nice when your dad can be your friend.

I was born in Scotland and have lived there all my life. I speak conversational Cantonese with my dad when I'm at home, and very basic Mandarin.

My dad was a soul fan and a singer himself, and he loved vocal harmony, stuff like the Beach Boys and Motown like the Four Tops, which was a big influence on me.

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

My mom is a singer and my Dad introduced me to bands such as Zeppelin and the Stones so music has always played a huge part in my life.

I envy my dad and his faith. I envy all people who have someone to beseech, who know where they're going, who sleep under the fluffy white comforter of belief.

My dad is such a good man, hard-working.

My dad was a doctor and surgeon. He was the fifth generation of his family to become a doctor.

My dad's mission for me has always been to be a man they would write about, somebody that can be respected in the world.

My career was about to change radically, in turning 50 I had hit the age where my Dad made a big career and his life started to unravel.

My dad was an architect, and he wasn't a rich guy, but in our little world in Philadelphia he was famous. He loved to see his picture in the paper. I wanted to be more famous than him.

That's the way it is with firstborns. Mom and Dad may think they're in charge, but the firstborn knows better, and so does the youngest sibling.

My dad was a musician, and that was his first love, and I think probably, to be really honest, it was my first love as well.

My dad had even hired an accompanist to play for me on a piano. But he had never pushed me to music because I don't think he wanted me to be hurt as much as he was if it didn't work.

I never really saw my dad as entertained as when he was just completely blown away by somebody on the television screen or at the movies. I think that's the real reason that I went into acting.

I'm a country girl. I like country music. I'm not going to lie. I'm from the South, and I grew up on it. My dad was a country singer-songwriter, so it's in my blood and I love it.

I would love to play Marlene Dietrich in a movie. My dad's from Germany and so I feel like that would be a really interesting person to play.

A lot of times, it gets weird when some guy is playing your dad. It feels weird to you. It feels like they're forcing sentiment. It's disgusting.

The moment my doctor told me, I went silent. My mum and dad were with me, then we all went to pieces. I was saying, No, I've got my flight to Sydney in two hours. I'm getting on a plane.

My family has always called me 'Lay Lay,' and my dad used to always call me 'Dynamite Termite' because I was really short and small and I hated to be still. I would never stop.

I think that every therapist that I know, including my dad and my sister, have their own issues. But that empathy is what makes them good at their job.

It sounds like a cliché, but mother is really one of my closest friends, and so's my dad. He and I weren't very close when I was younger, but now we're best friends.

My Dad always told me ‘Flowers mean I’m sorry, chocolates mean I love you.’

I just love to sing, so like my dad's advice when I was younger - anytime you get a chance to sing, just go out there and do it! I truly just love the actual singing.

Mom and Dad were great, but being asked where I was going every time I left the house - or where I'd been every time I returned - got old quickly.

I'll say my dad couldn't act to save his life and nor can my uncle and they'll say I'm the worst actor in the world.

You could probably go three or four months without the word 'God' coming from my dad's mouth; Mum would pray for a parking space.

I got caught kissing my dad's ex-girlfriend - at his wedding!

Listen, everything I did in my childhood was competitive. Everything we did my dad made it into a game to win. We used to drive my mum nuts.

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.

My dad felt pretty strongly that I know about the basic workings of a plane and so he taught me how to read and set the instruments, as well as the basics of taking off and landing.