Dad Quotes

My dad owned a tiny little shop and we never had any family holidays or anything like that, so I was sent to boarding school as a means of control more than anything I think.

My dad spent his whole life getting into fights for telling what he believed to be the truth. Basically it comes from my dad-and he's screaming right-wing, so there you are.

My dad always, he helped me by not helping me. He always said, being a producer, it was all about conviction.

My dad once told me: no matter what anyone says or writes, really, none of those people have to hit your four- foot putt.You have to go do it yourself.

My dad was a big believer of having a golf club that fit me. Always have a golf club that fits you, so you don't have to make any swing compensations for that particular golf club.

My dad's death reminds me of earthquakes - things that shake your foundation.

A car crossed two lanes of traffic, flipped, and landed on my dad's car. I don't blame cars. My dad loved cars. I don't have many memories of my dad. The love of cars is all I have of him, really.

When you get older your dad becomes this other man rather than a scary man, and you have a friendship.

My dad was a Communist Party member who fought for his country.

I don't want to achieve less than my mum and dad.

My dad has had a rare form of leukemia since I was in about 7th grade. But they've come up with some amazing drugs since then and he's doing really well today.

I was raised in farm and ranch communities, and my dad wanted me to be a cowboy like him, but I saw how he struggled in life and wanted more than that.

Like most kids, my dad played. He would drag us out to the course and make us shag balls for him and caddy and all that kind of stuff.

My dad's half-Lebanese, my mom is full Lebanese. I'm three-quarters Lebanese. Irish-Lebanese.

My family was very supportive of whatever I wanted because my grandfather was an opera singer. My dad's dad. So my dad has an appreciation for the arts, and he let me choose my own path.

I have found having my dad as my North Star has worked well for me.

My dad was a businessman, and he would say, 'Work for free at the best company. Don't get paid a lot of money to work with the worst people.' And that's exactly how I see my career.

I bought a house for my mom, I bought a house for my dad, I bought a house for my sister.

My dad was just a big Joseph Campbell nut.

My dad is a successful television producer, director and writer and my mom's a director and writer.

I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.

My dad is a big extrovert - he's a doctor - but he always loved [William] Shakespeare and he took us to tons of theater.

I remember watching the Olympics at home as a kid. It was one my Dad's dreams to win an Olympic medal.

My fashion icons are my dad, Pharrell, and Johnny Depp.

My dad was a big card player.

My dad raced motocross back in the day, and I've always enjoyed watching it. That sport intrigues me.

My dad talked a good game. [I'm as a] child got only the World Series on the radio.

My dad was a janitor for U.S. Radium Corporation, and he stayed there for 37 years. So he didn't read.

But as a kid, I loved 'Monty Python.' My Dad was a devout watcher. We used to watch it when we ate dinner!

I first wanted to be a comedian when I was six or seven and my dad showed me Laurel and Hardy's "Perfect Day" on tv.

My dad was an agent for Met Life. In the '50s, I remember the mortality rate was something like - you had - 58 was the average age. Then it was moved up to 62, and then 65, 68.

My dad was a surgeon, my mom a nurse, and they were always out working. I had five sisters and a brother. They didn't care what I got up to.

My dad was a preacher. My relationship, for example, with my father -- very difficult, and very painful, and it took me 50 years to wipe the face of my father off the face of God.

I hope I pass on my dad's good humor, work ethic and lack of self-seriousness. Our house was always a fun place where you'd get knocked around quickly if you took yourself too seriously.

My dad was always fascinated and amused by Trump, so I learned to be fascinated and amused by Trump.

What's great is my parents aren't stuck in the '60s. My dad is so into the culture of today.

When I was just getting started making my own music, my dad said, "You should think about art, but also anti-art and non-art."

My dad doesn't get any of my jokes. He laughs at them, but he doesn't understand them. He's just laughing because people around him are laughing.

My dad died when I was a kid, so I think it became a place for me to go where my mom knew that I was safe and taken care of and looked after.

My aesthetic is probably closer to a 15-year-old's than my dad's, but I get his conviction.

We tell ourselves that God is dead, when what we mean is that God is Dad, and we wish him dead.

Back to school, to prove to Dad that I'm not a fool.

Ay Dad, brush my hair one time. Hey pops! Come brush my hair.

I went from living in my dad's basement to moving to New York. So I never had that middle ground of easing into adulthood.

Dear Dad, When you sent me to school that morning, I thought you loved me. But now I see you for what you are. You called me a monster and a freak. But you’re the one that raised me.

I read Dad's books like I did before, now things are crystal clear. Lock the door in the bathroom, now I just can't get caught in here.

I loved Dad more for treating the biological reality as trivial, irrelevant. He loved me no less than his other three children.

I don't think a man who is fifteen years younger than me should tell me he is proud of me unless he is my sober coach or my time-travel dad.

I think naturally my orientation is from my father.

I'm just a pretty regular dad.