Dad Quotes

Going through the grief period of my dad and losing him - that was the worst thing because you know when you get that call. When you are seven, eight years old, you have that almost vision in your mind of what that's going to be like and what your going to feel like and it doesn't prepare you.

I've got high standards when it comes to boys. As my dad says, all girls should! I'm from the South - Tennessee, to be exact - and down there, we're all about southern hospitality. I know that if I like a guy, he better be nice, and above all, my dad has to approve of him!

My dad saw my husband's boss at a conference, and he said to stop paying my husband until we produce children.

I'm just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living.

My dad taught me true words you have to use in every relationship. Yes, baby.

We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible.

Becoming a dad means you have to be a role model for your son and be someone he can look up to.

I had the opportunity to go to law school, and my dad, who was an accountant, couldn't believe I wanted to walk away from that and start cooking.

My dad believes in God, I think. I'm not sure if my mom does. I don't.

I feel like if I'm going to give you a book about my dad, then I really want to give you my dad, because he is interesting and he is funny and if you're buying a book about him, I don't want you to have to sit through stuff that's not him.

I wanted to be a mechanic. When I was 14 I wanted to quit school and go work on my car. But my dad said Son, you shouldn't do that. You should stay in school until your education is finished, and when you're done, don't make your hobby your job.

And then before going back for my sophomore year, I decided to change my major to arts and sciences, and my dad cut a deal with me: He said if I'd quit school he'd pay my rent for the next three years, as if I were in school.

My folks have played everything from rock, disco, pop, funk, and blues. My dad has always brought and played different genres like jazz, classical, and Latin. With all this in my pocket, I feel I have a taste of everything for my influences.

I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night.

I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.'

My dad's a bodybuilder. My whole life I've been taught to train the hard way. I believe in earning strength, not buying it. My grandfather raised me old school: In baseball, you work for whatever you get.

The surprising thing about fatherhood was finding my inner mush. Now I want to share it with the world.

And, you know, my dad would show me some things sometimes, but the best things that I got to do were to actually see really good players play up close. That gives you an idea of fingering and technique and what not.

Being a father to my family and a husband is to me much more important than what I did in the business.

When you're the youngest and the only boy, you get spoilt but you get told you're spoilt so you don't get to enjoy it very much. I was the only man in the house because my parents divorced and my dad moved away when I was 13.

You know, I'm just - I'm really happy for my dad.

When dad told me Mr Steptoe had passed away, I broke down.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

My dad worked several jobs to pay for my expense in skating.

I bought a house for my mom, I bought a house for my dad, I bought a house for my sister.

My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.

My dad was a Methodist minister.

It is because my dad died suddenly that I became an actor. I thought, I'm going to make money doing this thing I enjoy.

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.