Dad Quotes

When my dad divorced my mom it was kind of like him leaving me also.

My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to somebody else.

When I look at her, it's like when I was in seventh grade and fell in love for the first time, where it's debilitating. That's available 24/7 if I want, which is amazing.

Dad, as a good American, believed his newspapers.

A salamander can grow a new tail in three weeks. My dad can score new tail in three minutes.

Fathers, be good to your daughters. You are the god and the weight of her world.

The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.

See, I've always seen Jacques Cousteau as a hero, mate. He's a legend - like my dad, just a legend. And so what he did for conservation in the '60s through the '70s was just phenomenal.

But there's no substitute for a full-time dad. Dads who are fully engaged with their kids overwhelmingly tend to produce children who believe in themselves and live full lives.

Mum and dad were very much friends, and up to life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up, they just taught me to be me.

I found out that I'm a pretty bad father. I make a lot of mistakes and I don't know what I'm doing. But my kids love me. Go figure.

My dad is a doctor, a professor of psychiatry, and my mum is a psychotherapist.

I have great genes. Thank you to my mom and dad for that one.

Whenever one of my children says, 'Goodnight, Daddy,' I always think to myself, 'You don't mean that.

Dad - a son's first hero, a daughter's first love.

I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey

I asked my dad what afflicted meant and he said 'Sickness son, and things that don't fit.'

I'll never forget the moment I became a dad. It's hard to describe-that level of responsibility, the desire to give such joy, the clarity: Nothing is more important than this.

I think I was around 15 when my Dad was 40 and thought, "Man he's old. There's no way I'll be skating at that age."

One thing my and mother and dad shared completely was their approach to money - they just didn't spend it.

Me and my dad used to play tag, he'd drive!

My dad never pushed me but the big thing is that he helped me by going out in the backyard and playing with me.

My dad wears girls' clothes - it's so funny. Sometimes I see him and I'm like, 'Nice shirt!,' because it's from my closet.

My dad loved to laugh. He was very funny and very silly.

My mom is my heart. But my [step]dad was my role model, the hardest working man I ever knew.

Is there a God? If not, what are all these churches for? And who is Jesus' dad?

Just so you know I never had a dad either, but that's another story for another time.

I was the first person in my family born in the United States. My mom is from Croatia, and my dad is from Iran. They met at music school in Belgium. I grew up as a pianist.

My brother's a grip. My mom's a scriptwriter. My dad's a director. So it's like, at heart, I'm a below-the-line girl.

Being a father is certainly a task. But the best one that I could ever ask for. Being home, being with the family, that's what it's about...

Most young people haven't used their storytelling skills since they were 8 or 9 or 10 and wanted to persuade Mom and Dad to take them to the ball game.

I always wished my dad was there to intimidate my boyfriends or something. It's supposed to be your dad giving your guys friends the stink-eye for sneaking beer through your house, not your mom.

I always wanted what Mom and Dad had.

My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.

My dad graduated seminary there, and so did (sounds like) Mark Kimball's grandfather. They sang in a quartet together, my dad and Mark Kimball's grandfather.

Mom and Dad say I should make my life an example of the principles I believe in... But every time I do, they tell me to stop it.

There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.

On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.

My dad has never actually grounded me. He always tells my mom to do it. He tells her, "Miley was so bad today, you need to ground her.

My dad worked - f - k if I know - seven jobs? He painted a house. He would deliver toilets. He drove a cab, delivered pizzas. Whatever he could do, he did.

My dad gave me my first bike at 16. I soon fell off and was in a wheelchair for weeks. I haven't fallen since.

I vote for whoever will annoy my dad.

To you your father should be as a god; One that composed your beauties, yea, and one To whom you are but as a form in wax, By him imprinted, and within his power To leave the figure or disfigure it.

I don't have children that I've lost in a bitter custody dispute. But I see an enormous wound in kids due to a lack of their dads.

My dad's dying wish was to have his family around him. I can't help thinking he would have been better off with more oxygen.

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.

My dad is a minister, and my mum is a worker with the less fortunate and the disabled. They're Nigerian natives. Their first language is Yoruba, and their second language is English.

I hope it really comes off. It would make my dad really proud." (about the song for the coming 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens, Greece)

My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesnt work hard enough.

Dear Basketball, From the moment I started rolling my dad's tube socks and shooting imaginary game-winning shots ... I fell in love with you.