Dad Quotes

My dad's not a big talker.

My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.

I didn't have any role models really. My best friend was a dog. My mum and dad saved a dog from the gutter and that dog was my brother before Jesse was born. Sami was his name and he was my role model.

My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.

I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed.

My Mom and Dad did it pretty good, so I know it can work. The foremost thing I would say about working with Robin and Sean is that they were devoted to this project and devoted to their characters. You can't ask for any more from talented actors like that.

My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.

You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even looking forward.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.

I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.

Dad was a very gentle, sweet man.

My dad, he's the rocker.

Growing up, I didn't give my grandfather's photography a second thought. I wasn't involved in his work, except that I helped my dad print his negatives.

I always told my dad I'd play professional football.

My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend.

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that's not so bad; but New York City?

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.

My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything.

What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!

We had to give each other permission to be different as parents. That's why there's a mom and a dad with two different approaches, because you do need both.

I didn't know my dad for a long time. My dad was on drugs and my dad was at the VA Hospital, my dad was off in his own world selling drugs or using them or there would be crack heads in the house or whatever it would be.

Even if I tried to be my dad, it would be a mediocre, slightly embarrassing version.

My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.

Somewhere in my wildest childhood I must have done something right. Being able to make a boyhood dream come true is one thing, but to have a kid come along and thrill his dad like Brett Hull has thrilled me over his career is too much for one guy to handle.

One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.

I was born and brought up in Liverpool with my clever little sister Jemma, who is 14 and wants to be a vet. My mum Jane is an administrator and my dad Peter is a taxi driver.

Growing up, I had a front row seat to seeing two people work really hard. My dad scrubbed toilets at a private Catholic school for a while, and that was to help me get through school.

We all started snowboarding in the beginning as a family just to be closer together, go on trips. It was our soccer, but instead of Dad yelling at me from the sideline he is there riding with me and hitting the jumps even before I am hitting them.