Daddy Quotes
Yep, my daddy was an undependable drunk. But he'd never missed any of my organized games, concerts, plays, or picnics. He may not have loved me perfectly, but he loved me as well as he could. (189)
I learned how music works dealing with Jermaine Dupri, and I learned how image works dealing with Puff Daddy.
Most parents have college funds and things. I don't. I call myself the "hood daddy." I got their money in cash, stashed up. I don't have plans for my kids. I just want them to be happy.
When Amos Moses was a boy his daddy would use him for alligator bait, tie a rope around his neck and throw him in the swamp.
Hard as I try, daddy-o, I really do not like concert singers. They are always singing in some foreign language.
One night a father overheard his son pray: Dear God, make me the kind of man my Daddy is. Later that night, the father prayed, Dear God, make me the kind of man my son wants me to be.
Mama's in the factory, she ain't got no shoes. Daddy's in the alley, he's looking for food.
The other day, when my 4-year-old saw a flowering tree and said, "Daddy, it's raining petals," that was poetry that just melted my heart into a mushy, yummy Fudgsicle.
I was about six years old, still Daddy's little girl, even though Daddy couldn't care less about me. How could I expect any man every would?
Any mother with half a skull knows that when Daddy's little boy becomes Mommy's little boy, the kid is so wet he's treading water.
Dear Daddy-Long-Legs, You never answered my question and it was very important. ARE YOU BALD?
It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except the American Negro. He lays down and says, 'Beat me, daddy.'
Once you become the mommy or daddy in your child's world, it is the only world in which you exist, no matter how much you fancy there is a separate world of your own.
My family is really, really Southern - I had two uncle Bubbas, and grandparents that we called Big Mama and Big Daddy.
My daddy was determined to make me a dentist and a baseball player. And I loved my daddy but I wasted four years of college trying to do what he wanted me to do, and not what I felt I wanted to do.
Most nights, someone ends up in our bed. The kids do knock before entering. We've at least got that part down because mommy and daddy need some space.
Wow, so much of the way I've transacted my life... so much of the results that I'm happy about are because of what Daddy did.
At any rate, Daddy usually comes to my defence. Without him I wouldn't be able to stick out here.
T-Bone Burnett once said that much of rock music is simply someone going wahhh daddy.
Running to Mommy and Daddy on the campus grievance committee is unworthy of strong women.
Daddy, when he drank, just became sweeter. There wasn't a mean thought in his body. I've always said he was like a drunk Jimmy Stewart.
And make sure you tell daddy That I'm still his little girl Yeah I still feel like I'm where I'm supposed to be But don't forget to remember me
My daddy used to maintain, if you have to use ten-dollar words, what you're trying to say isn't worth a dime.
Daddy,' my mother asked, 'aren’t we going to run out of gas?' No there’s plenty of god-damned gas.' Where are we going?' I’m going to get some god-damed oranges!
Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have my 3-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else.
In my case, a papadaddy is a father. My paternal grandfather was called Papa by my father who was called Daddy by me.
There's a commercial break coming and I'm very excited about it and you know why? Because that's what keeps daddy in suits.
He said you sparkle like a newborn galaxy and have more attitude than a rich kid with his daddy's Porsche.
I'm proud of most of the stuff I've put out and I hope my kids will look at it long after I'm gone and go, "hey, Daddy was cool once!"
So many of my relatives didn't get a chance to go to school, and my own Daddy couldn't read or write.