Dad Quotes

You learn as much from failure as from success, Dad always says. Though no one admires you for it.

From someone whose dad buys him a spade for Christmas, I thought you'd be grateful!

I occasionally borrow pot from my kids. They do a little weed occasionally. 'Here, Dad' — or more likely, 'Dad, have you got any?'

Dad bought me a toy drum one Christmas and I eventually destroyed it. I wanted a real drum and he bought me a snare drum. Dad continued to buy me one drum after the other.

Dad!" he shouted, loud enough to make my ears ring. "Dad! You need to get down here!" (Derek) Chloe held open the door and whispered to me, "I could say he's not always like this, but I'd be lying.

So he enjoys a girl who stands up to him," Dad said once we all calmed down. "I like him more already.

I wanted to be a teacher. My dad was a teacher.

I am my father's son. My sticking to my guns and doing it my way, and standing firm - that's definitely from him. And the music side, I was so lucky to have a dad that was as cool as he was.

My kids haven't watched one episode of 'Growing Pains'. I'll tell you why. When our kids were little, we never wanted Mommy or Daddy to be the celebrity mom or dad to our kids.

I've always wanted to be a dad.

Peter Boyle on Everybody Loves Raymond is more of an insane Dad.

Every year, dads will dress up as Santa and try to surprise their kids by coming down the chimney, and every year, a dad gets stuck and dies.

I'm the dad, the cleanup guy. I deal with the bigger messes. But I also provide more adventures and excitement. It works out.

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.

My mom and dad would take me all over. One night we'd be at the Apollo watching James Brown, and then I'd be at the Joffrey Ballet. It was that kind of scene.

I was single for most of my life. The best thing that happened to me is my wife. I've got four kids. All of them go to Harvard. Much better than their dad. They're really bright kids.

Kids seem to get me when I play colleges - they like it because I go after them. They'll come up after and say I am like their dads, only funny.

First you find out what you have, Dad would say. Then you figure out how to make it work for what you need, 'cause you don't get what you want. You get just what you have and no more.

But Dad and I are the only father-and-daughter acts who have both had No. 1 songs in England.

Probably the only thing my mom and dad agreed on was the vital importance of guilt.

Dad," I said hesitantly, "I wish you could be there for me even when I'm doing the wrong thing. I wish you could love me even when I'm screwing up.

...Then I got divorced and everything changed, and I became a father in a whole new way and found a whole new set of difficulties.

Fathers teach their best lessons to their children by the way they handle life when confronted with adversities.

Working moms, and increasingly working dads, don't want a government handout, but they do need a hand up.

Mum once told Dad that vices are only vices when looked at through the frame of society.

I would love to be a dad. For the longest time, Ive wanted kids, but you have to have the right setup, right?

Having a dad in the service was helpful. I was forever meeting new kids, going to new schools, moving to new neighborhoods. I was encouraged when I attended the American School in Germany.

My parents were workers. My mom, especially in my high school years, was a stock clerk at Kmart... My dad was a bartender that worked banquets.

I would be ready to become a dad if I was with the right person. I'd like a boy, though. Because they're in charge.

The first time you hear the word "Daddy," I don't care who you are, your heart just melts.

Always live your life with your biography in mind," Dad was fond of saying. "Naturally, it won't be published unless you have a Magnificent Reason, but at the very least you will be living grandly.

Dad's Theory of Arrogance--that everyone always assumes they're the Principal Character of Desire and/or Loathing in everybody else's Broadway Play.

One of the things that made Star Wars work was the kids didn't know who their dad was.

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.

My parents divorced when I was young but I was brought up in two really loving households. I didn't have a contentious relationship with my mom or dad.

I'd love to be a dad. I hope I'd be great at it. That's every man's fear, yet his most important job.

I like a decent funeral, and God knows in my family we've seen enough of them. Looking through family photographs now is like watching an episode of 'Dad's Army.

It's nice when they notice the deep voice from across the house, and they know it's papa. They know it's Dad.

I recognise Santangelo's dad, who saves police brutality for when he gets to his son.

No, no, no, no,no,' he gasped. 'You can't bring up your mum and dad while your hand is down there, Finke

Who I am is a dad and a family guy. When I look in the mirror and talk to myself, that's what I want to reflect.

I thought I could never be the actor Dad was, so I avoided it for a while.

I will put my heart and soul into making sure that the care your son or daughter or mum or dad receives is the same I would want for my own family.

I'm a dad, I'm a husband, I'm an activist, I'm a writer and I'm just a student of the world.

I had never said, 'dad, I love you'.

I think he would have been proud and smiling... when we laid him to rest because his family was together. I think that was a great gift to be able to give Dad at the end.

As far as Rap goes Tupac was my favorite, I used to sing some of his songs in my set before I ever met his dad.

We're our kids' first and best role models. So the first question is, what are you as a mom or a dad doing every day, or every week, to start getting into the good habits?

And as Dad said to me, 'You can't always stop people from being mean. But you can stop them from making you mean.

Dad loved movies and I grew up with British comedy. My ultimate favourite is Peter Sellers.