Dad Quotes

When I was younger, my dad did want me to be perfect, so that's probably why that's installed in me to this day. I want to be perfect at whatever I do. I can't help it. It's just installed in me.

My dad means a lot to me. He's the one who put a football in my hands.

My dad has never once told me after a fight that I did well.

My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover.

My favorite football memory isn't beating Florida or winning the bowl game ... My favorite memories are of playing football with my brothers and my dad in the front yard when I was younger.

My mom and my dad never pushed me into performing. They never prohibited me from trying anything, or being anything. They never restricted me in any way. For which I'll be forever grateful.

My name is Alexei Yuri Gagarin Siege of Stalingrad Glorious Five Year Plan Sputnik Tractor Moscow Dynamo Back Four Balowski. Me Dad was a bit of a Communist, know what I mean?

Now I'm his dad, I live for [my son]. I have a responsibility. It's a big responsibility.

To her, the name of father was another name for love.

You need your mom and dad to protect you. It means they love you so much. It was awesome she was backing me up and defending me.

Did you work for the money to buy those earrings? Or did your Daddy buy those for you?

Father's Day makes me wish I could talk to my Dad just one more time, instead of all the time.

Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.

Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.

Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later.

My mom and dad gave me everything they could have given me.

My dad told us up front, 'Guys, if you want to play sports, go ahead, but it's your decision.

In reality, if he had lived, I would have had a dad. And that would have been an incredible experience.

My dad told me when I went into high school, 'It's not what you do when you walk in the door that matters. It's what you do when you walk out.' That's when you've made a lasting impression.

I didn't want to have braces when I was a kid and I'm pretty sure my dad didn't want to pay for them.

Fortunately, as it pertains to guns, my dad and uncle introduced me to guns the way it needs to be done: smart, slow and safe.

Becoming a dad was the proudest moment of my life. Playing football does not even compare.

When I was a kid, I thought my dad was a little bit harsh with me at times. Sometimes I needed an arm around me instead of my dad telling me what I did wrong, but it obviously worked.

My mom and dad, you're my heart, thank you for keeping me going all these years and never letting me give up.

My dad grew up basically in a hut in Taiwan without enough food to eat. And within one generation his son in America gets to do a comedy show about whatever he wants.

I came in the Dawson's Creek era; it was all about tiny guys who looked like teenagers, and I haven't looked like a teenager ever. So I was, like, auditioning to be their dads. At 25.

Sometimes I didn't want to skate. My dad would push me so hard to get better.

I'm a good blend of both my mom and dad.

Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right.

Dad’s especially need to remember that what they say to their daughters is written in Sharpie. It can’t be erased.

The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get.

I was 13 - 14 when I first tasted stardom. In the summer holidays, my dad made me act in these films that went on to become superhits. I became a child star.

When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires.

I don't know what I'd have become if I hadn't been a footballer; I wrote down 'dustbin man' on a careers questionnaire at school till my dad made me change it to 'joiner'.

A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.

My dad was Jewish. My mom is not. So I was not raised anything.

Kids did really well in their A levels, how do we respond? 'A Levels are getting easier, in my day you had to do fifty questions in a minute, if you got one wrong, they killed your dad!

It was a conversation that I didn't want to have with my parents to say mom and dad I missed my flight.

He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.

The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.

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.

I'm a good dad; I spend a lot of time with my kids.

Being a father is the most important role I will ever play and if I don't do this well, no other thing I do really matters.

My father was a lesson. He had his own bakery, and it was closed one day a week, but he would go anyway. He did it because he really loved his bakery. It wasn't a job.

I learned that from my dad: you put your heart into something, you have to protect it, what you're making.

I love my dad and we have a very good relationship now.

A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.

What are the origins of dressage? Did just, one day, some young horse say to his dad, 'Dad, I don't want to charge into battle...I just wanna dance'?

I spent a lot of time on farms when I was young. My uncle and my dad owned a big farm.

My dad was a golden gloves boxer in the Marine Corps, then a deputy sheriff. My mom worked as an office assistant.