Dad Quotes

My dad has always been extremely supportive in every decision I've made and much more interested in me picking what I wanted to do.

My life isn't that dramatic. My dad really loves me, he just can't talk on the phone. He's too crippled and shy, and that's almost harder. He's there and he loves me, and I try and try and try, it's just impossible to have a relationship.

My dad died of a stroke.

I come from an ordinary family - my dad is a carpenter, a roof-maker - and we've always loved racing together.

I didn't want to have braces when I was a kid and I'm pretty sure my dad didn't want to pay for them.

Fathers in today's modern families can be so many things.

I love just lying on the floor at home watching games with my dad. No pressures, just being me.

I have four shelves covered with journals that I've written. Dad and I are writing songs together. I've probably written 100 songs.

It would be nice if I did have a good relationship with my family, and yes, part of me longs to have a mum and dad who love and accept me for who I am. But if they never do, it's OK.

I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.

My dad and my uncles used to always be in the studio at my house.

I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.

My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, but his greatest love was large animals.

I wanted my dad to be proud of me, and I fell into acting because there wasn't anything else I could do, and in it I found a discipline that I wanted to keep coming back to, that I love and I learn about every day.

My dad told me when I went into high school, 'It's not what you do when you walk in the door that matters. It's what you do when you walk out.' That's when you've made a lasting impression.

One afternoon when I was 9, my dad told me I'd be skipping school the next day. Then we drove 12 hours from Melbourne to Sydney for the Centenary Test, a once-in-a-lifetime commemorative cricket match. It was great fun - especially for a kid who was a massive sports fan.

Listen, everything I did in my childhood was competitive. Everything we did my dad made it into a game to win. We used to drive my mum nuts.

I suppose not everyone has a dad who wrote a book saying he didn't believe in the Parliamentary road to socialism.

You know, my dad served in the President's Cabinet after his time as a governor. He told me he enjoyed being governor a lot more. Now, I understand why. If I do my job well, I can make a difference in people's lives and I can help our children realize their dreams.

Writing this book was very therapeutic because it helped me face my relationship with my dad.

My dad and my uncles owned a bar outside of Cincinnati. I worked there growing up, mopping floors, waiting tables.

I think women look for that quality in a man of being a good dad whether they're immediately wanting to be a parent or not.

I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.

My mother wanted to name me Jackie or Jacqueline but she got to name my sister and my brother, so my dad and my brother insisted on naming me. And they were big fans of 'The Little Mermaid.'

My father was the quintessential husband and dad.

My dad was a musician and I traveled around with him, so it was something that I knew.

My mom and my dad wanted my brother and I to have a better life, you know, better education, better jobs. It was probably harder, much, much harder, for my parents. When you're a kid, you can learn a language much more easily; I learned English in less than a year.

What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason.

You know my father as governor, as president, but I knew him as dad. I was so proud to have the Reagan name and to be Ronald Reagan's son.

Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film.