Dad Quotes

Our dad was a great guy and we will never forget him.

As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.

My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning.

If a cow walked into this room, I'd probably walk out. I could milk it, but my dad never forced me to do a lot of chores like that, mostly because he loved doing it himself.

My dad is the nicest guy you'll ever meet, and the easiest going.

My dad remembers being in school with my uncle, and the teacher would say outright to the class that the Japanese were second-class citizens and shouldn't be trusted.

I also turn down what's probably a good amount of coinage to be made out of playing dads, an incredible number of obnoxious dad.

And of course I've got kids of my own now, and they love me being in the Harry Potter films. I'm now part of a phenomenon. You become incredibly cool to your kids, and you get a young fan base. So you became the cool dad at school. You're suddenly hip.

My dad's a scratch golfer and I've got the knack of seeing something and then replicating it. I saw my dad swing a club and I worked out how to do the same thing. My backswing and follow-through have been basically the same since I was two.

My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me.

I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said "Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is".

I'm the fun dad, I am also the disciplinarian.

I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me.

Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of.

My dad was a great dad.

My dad always said he couldn't remember a time when I did not want to act.

And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet.

Every family is different. I am mom and I am dad and I'm going to do my best. You should be proud, walk through life saying I have the coolest family. I am part of a modern family.

You see another side of Draco when he's with his dad. When Draco is with his dad, he doesn't say anything. He keeps his mouth shut. He's sort of bullied by his dad, so he acts very different.

We were always around my dad, so he wasn't absentee at all. I don't think it was normal, but it was exciting. You always had lots of creative people around, and my parents took us everywhere.

My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preached that the pen is mightier than a Molotov cocktail.

I just went off for two months traveling around Europe on a motorcycle and pretty much turned my phone off. I did 5,000 miles with my dad. We went through Holland, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Italy... and then I did Spain and France by myself.

But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24.

My dad would give me $10, which is a lot of money when you're 9, to sing at church, on tables at restaurants, at family functions, just about anywhere.

My dad and I played music. He teaches me a song or two every time I'm home.

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.

I'm left handed, but my dad taught me to play guitar right-handed.

My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.

Peter Boyle on Everybody Loves Raymond is more of an insane Dad.

When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less of a literary rivalry with him as I've gone on. I certainly don't feel I need his approval, although maybe that's because I'm confident that I've got it.