Dad Quotes

I was born and raised in the high desert of Nevada in a tiny town called Searchlight. My dad was a hard rock miner. My mom took in wash. I grew up around people of strong values - even if they rarely talked about them.

My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'

I was lucky enough myself to have been in Dad's Army for an episode.

If my Dad doesn't like you, you will know. My Mom is just too innocent to ever lie. She doesn't even cuss.

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

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?

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 dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate, depressing, sad places run by the mob. The only gay people he'd met when I came out to him were corpses.

They have had such a crazy life living with me as their dad. Not crazy but different from their friends.

My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being more impressive than artistic pursuits, which I saw a as kind of frivolous.

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

My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's actually what I aspired to be.

It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from "Dear Abby" instead of going to Mom and Dad.

Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.

As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.

I used to have a silk dressing gown an uncle bought in Japan and when I came downstairs in it, my dad used to call me Davinia. There was never embarrassment about that kind of thing. My sister used to dress me up a lot. She thought I was a little doll.

My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves.

There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.

I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong.

I am quite strict as a dad but I don't want to be censorious.

My dad is a pilot so I think I was born with the travel bug.

I grew up in Greenwich Village. Dad was friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

You know, when my dad was a racing fan in Australia he would follow Jack Brabham and sometimes only hear if he won two days after a race - when the result finally appeared in his newspaper. These days I can tweet something and it's all over the world in seconds.

I shouldn't have got married. My dad told me. I was 35 and I got married. He said, 'You're too young to be married'. 'What? I'm 35'. Said, 'You're far too young. You haven't lived yet'. He was right, bless him, thanks, Dad.

My dad didn't want me to play guitar. He played piano, so I chose that. And I ended up loving it.

I couldn't walk down any street in Britain without being laughed at. It was a nightmare. My children were devastated because their dad was a figure of ridicule.

My father was the guy on the block who said hi to everyone.

Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming.

For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you don't want to stand out. You don't want to have a famous father let alone get a job because of your famous father, you know? But I'm a product of nepotism. That's how I got my foot in the door, through my dad.

I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.