Quotes on Dad

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.

Author: Andre Agassi

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

Author: Peter Agre

Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.

Author: Tim Allen

In my case, I was born to parents who were very young, and I don't think they were entirely ready to have a child. My dad was going to college and working two or three jobs at the same time, and my mum was working and going to school.

Author: Gillian Anderson

My dad is a bank president and my mom was an accountant and they didn't think that seeking the life of a freelance writer was very practical, you see. Of course, I was just as determined to do it.

Author: Kevin Anderson

My dad had emphysema and both of my parents had chronic bronchitis and ended up with cancers - all smoking related.

Author: Loni Anderson

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.

Author: Stuart Appleby

My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is very important to me. I think anything that contradicts it is probably not true.

Author: John Astin

My mom and dad met at UCLA when he as a captain in the Air Force and she was in her junior year.

Author: Tracy Austin

You can tell your uncle stuff that you could not tell your dad. That is kind of the role of an uncle. I feel very much like a father sometimes but sometimes I feel like a teammate.

Author: Dusty Baker

Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them.

Author: John Boehner

Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.

Author: Wade Boggs

As it has been told to me, my Dad had some kind of deal with Dick Clark. But when we got here, that fell through. So we were out here with no job, no furniture, no food.

Author: Danny Bonaduce

I'm in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the One-Hit Wonder Wall. I'm still very troubled by the fact that I'm in the hall and my dad isn't.

Author: Debby Boone

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.

Author: David Bowie

We all feel really blessed to have been with my dad for these 85 years.

Author: Beau Bridges

My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.

Author: Beau Bridges

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.

Author: Jeff Bridges

Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was an adult, Tucker, and Blown Away, but it was so much fun to play with your parent like that.

Author: Jeff Bridges

My dad was an Arsenal supporter and he used to take me there, but I've always been Chelsea.

Author: Eric Bristow

My dad told me that no one could ever make it as a writer, that my chances were equivalent to winning the lottery - which was good for me, because I like to have something to prove.

Author: Poppy Brite

When I was a kid, I used to imagine animals running under my bed. I told my dad, and he solved the problem quickly. He cut the legs off the bed.

Author: Lou Brock

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

Author: Louise Brown

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.

Author: Jackson Browne

Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, I'd like to study piano.

Author: Jackson Browne

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.

Author: Abigail Buren

We've got a dictatorial president and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved. Your guy's acting like he's king. His dad was at a 90 percent approval rating and he lost! And the same thing can happen to him!

Author: Dan Burton

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

Author: Yancy Butler

Well, I am a lot like my dad, and the character of Ted is based on my dad.

Author: Max Cannon

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

Author: Jim Carrey

Because I was starting out in my 20's. I wanted to do it on my own. I didn't want to use my dad or have people say I was using him.

Author: Rosanne Cash

When my dad died a lot of songs came, and they're still coming.

Author: Rosanne Cash

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.

Author: Nick Cassavetes

He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.

Author: Barbara Castle

My dad was a big believer in treating people well, oftentimes even when he himself wasn't well.

Author: Neil Cavuto

My sister and I said, Dad, are you doing to do anything about that? And he mentioned treatments other people sent him that he'd been working on. So we thought it would be kind of cool to give these guys a real script.

Author: Rae Chong

My dad? He died when I was 19, which is a bad time for your dad to die, because there's an awful lot of things you have to resolve with your parents past your teens if you've been a difficult teenager.

Author: Robbie Coltrane

No, like I said, my dad was never really part of the tennis. His involvement around what I did with the tennis and with my mom and my grandparents was really not a part of my life.

Author: Jimmy Connors

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

Author: Rachael Cook

I grew up in a big Irish, Catholic family. My dad was a pretty rough guy. So one of my brothers left home when he was 15 and found his way to the gym. It gave me the opportunity to go and spend some time with him and work out in the gym.

Author: Gerry Cooney

A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He'd be a good film professor.

Author: Sofia Coppola

As my dad said, you have an obligation to leave the world better than how you found it. And he also reminded us to be givers in this life, and not takers.

Author: Phil Crane

It's as though all the terms of a family were present at one time rather than his dad and his mum. Not just a present authority, but the resident memory of what qualifies what else is the case.

Author: Robert Creeley

I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education.

Author: Peter Criss

I would ask my dad what he did, and he'd say, 'I listen to people's problems.' In some way what he did for a living is in my genes.

Author: Marcia Cross

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

Author: Miley Cyrus

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!

Author: Miley Cyrus

I think my dad is a lot cooler than other dads. He still acts like he's still 17.

Author: Miley Cyrus

I probably have an earlier curfew than anyone. My mom wants to keep me really safe and my dad's not overly protective, but he's a dad no matter what.

Author: Miley Cyrus

My dad says I could sing before I could talk, if that's possible. I was always humming and things like that.

Author: Miley Cyrus

My dad came out of the Roosevelt era and the Depression. One person and one party made a difference in his life. That's what everybody forgot when they called my father and other people political bosses.

Author: Richard Daley

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

Author: Gavin DeGraw

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.

Author: Jim DeMint

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

Author: Dustin Diamond

My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now.

Author: Cameron Diaz

I have to remind my dad, 'Journalists - no matter how many cigars they smoke with you - are not your friends, so don't talk to them.'

Author: Cameron Diaz

My dad's probably one of the kindest people in the world. When I was younger that's not how I was- I was a little spoiled brat.

Author: Leonardo DiCaprio

I grew up with the white picket fence. My dad went to work nine to five, and he had a station wagon.

Author: Matt Dillon

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

Author: Anthony Doerr

When my dad first started out in the police force, wearing the uniform was a sense of pride, and it was respected in the community for what the police force was all about. Unfortunately today, the uniform is a target.

Author: Jerry Doyle

One of the scary things is that, when you're a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no fear. When you're an adult, you realize your father had fear, and that you have it, too.

Author: David Duchovny

I pop gum. My parents get so annoyed with me. I know my dad wishes he never taught me how to do that.

Author: Hilary Duff

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.

Author: Christopher Eccleston

I know exactly where I've come from, I know exactly who my mum and dad are.

Author: Christopher Eccleston

That is where the irony of the film comes off, in terms of the language it employs - where he tries desperately to be a 'TV Dad,' to give advice and it's so pat it becomes ridiculous.

Author: Atom Egoyan

I wasn't sure how my dad would react. There was an agent sitting behind them and he told me he was embarrassed to watch the scenes. My parents have always been very open. They trust my decisions.

Author: Shannon Elizabeth

I'm a four star general in this thing, and you don't rise to the ranks of a four star general by hanging about the house being the perfect dad.

Author: Sam Elliott

As much as I transferred my mother to Elizabeth Shore of The Black Dahlia, as much as her dad mutated into an obsession with crime in general, well, I have thought about other things throughout the years.

Author: James Ellroy

That's a tough question; I've been acting since I was 10. My dad was an entrepreneur, so I guess something along those lines. I wouldn't want a 9-5 job.

Author: Will Estes

I've been acting since I was 10. My dad was an entrepreneur, so I guess something along those lines. I wouldn't want a 9-5 job.

Author: Will Estes

I am blessed to have Mom and Dad.

Author: Kevin Eubanks

My dad was a carpenter and I would work with him during the summer and umpire on the nights I wasn't playing.

Author: Jim Evans

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

Author: Dakota Fanning

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.

Author: Tom Felton

My dad was great. He was very droll, very dry.

Author: Albert Finney

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

Author: Dan Fogelberg

I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.

Author: Harrison Ford

I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.

Author: Jeff Foxworthy

My dad was very successful running midgets in Texas. Then, his two drivers ran into some bad luck. People started saying that Daddy had lost his touch. That it was the cars and not the drivers. I wanted to race just to prove all those people wrong.

Author: A. Foyt

I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth.

Author: Ace Frehley

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

Author: Glenn Frey

My dad was in the Army and we traveled all over the place and I never failed to win first prize.

Author: Randy Gardner

I watched Italia '90 with my Mum and Dad and my brother, you know, leaping around the house when the penalties were on... It would be great to be part of that, to have that kind of impact.

Author: Steven Gerrard

But although Australia was also involved in the Vietnam conflict, I can remember my dad telling us that if we were in Australia, we wouldn't be drafted until we were 20.

Author: Mel Gibson

I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we'd play together.

Author: Vince Gill

My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover.

Author: Tom Glazer

I'm worried because of my mother, she's going to see my performance and she's quite hard. She's going to see me naked. And my Dad, woah. Yeah, they're going to see me like a woman, you know?

Author: Eva Green

Our songs touch people, and take them back to a time when there was no threat of terrorism, when you didn't have to lock your doors and when Mom and Dad took care of everything.

Author: George Grove

So my dad raised me, and he's a huge football fan.

Author: Lisa Guerrero

When I found out I got this job, I cried, of course - I'm a girly-girl - and then I called my dad, and he cried, too. On so many levels, this is a thrill for me.

Author: Lisa Guerrero

I grew up watching Monday Night Football with Howard Cosell and the other guys with my dad.

Author: Lisa Guerrero

Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten.

Author: Conrad Hall

The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.

Author: Zac Hanson

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.

Author: Marcia Harden

Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out.

Author: Randy Harrison

There was a bit of a comparison that Bret was making between Vince McMahon and my dad. He looked up to Vince as a dad and stuff, and it was a shame to see the whole thing end the way it did.

Author: Owen Hart

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

Author: Levon Helm

Dad and mom would have preferred that I be a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, or a great humanitarian.

Author: Levon Helm

Joanna points her camera at a section of society unused to having cameras pointed at it. But I don't know about categorizing them in terms of class; I'm a bit wary of that. My dad is the son of a shipbuilder.

Author: Tom Hiddleston

When I was younger, my family would go camping and fishing on our ranches. My dad loves being around all kinds of animals. He's the one who got me to be a really big animal lover.

Author: Paris Hilton

When I was growing up my mother would say, 'Your dad may have to learn about being a father because he lost his own and that would have affected him'.

Author: Tom Hooper

My dad said, 'The thing that I was told that was really helpful was that I mustn't be afraid of the things I was afraid of when I was five years old'. The shock of his childhood had put him in this defensive crouch against the world, and he needed to know that he had a nice wife and kids and it wasn't the same any more.

Author: Tom Hooper

I feel connected to the Second World War because my father lost his father in that war. So, through my dad and the effect it had on him of losing his father young, I always felt connected to the war. It goes back years, but it still feels to me as if we're completely living in it.

Author: Tom Hooper

Parents don't understand kids and kids don't understand parents. My parents were divorced when I was really young and I went to live with my dad.

Author: Mark Hoppus

When we started making electronic music I imagined that the reaction we got from the rock musicians must have been similar to the one the beat groups got from people like my dad.

Author: Trevor Horn

My earliest acting memory is making up a play for my mom and dad called The Lonesome Baby. I have no idea what The Lonesome Baby was about. I just remember the title. But I'm sure it was an epic.

Author: Jane Horrocks

I feel like I almost didn't grow up in the business, because my parents worked so hard at sheltering us from that. I was raised in Connecticut. And I honestly wasn't aware that my dad was a celebrity until I moved to Los Angeles a year ago.

Author: Bryce Howard

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.

Author: Bobby Hull

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

Author: Isabelle Huppert

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.

Author: David Icke

When my career first began, I didn't have children - so there's a whole lot of difference in the way I choose roles now. Not just films for my children, but how long I'm going to be away, and is Dad going to be home while I'm gone. That sort-of factor plays a part.

Author: Amy Irving

My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people's sacred status, regardless of the pest.

Author: Steve Irwin

Since I was a boy, from this house, I was out rescuing crocodiles and snakes. My mum and dad were very passionate about that and, I was lucky enough to go along.

Author: Steve Irwin

There's a lot of research behind the scenes that you don't get to see, but I have an instinct that my dad nurtured from when I was born. I was very lucky then.

Author: Steve Irwin

My friends say, 'Man you're going to have kids sleeping on pillowcases with your face on it! You're going to be on toothbrushes and magnets and stuff.' I guess now that I'm a dad, I'm thrilled about that.

Author: Hugh Jackman

My dad had a movie theater so I was there every night.

Author: Brion James

My dad was an entrepreneurial businessman, and maybe I got some of his ability.

Author: Thomas Jane

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

Author: Lara John

Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church.

Author: Lynn Johnston

And my dad, you're a great actor but you're a better father.

Author: Angelina Jolie

I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12.

Author: January Jones

My dad liked how January went with Jones. My sisters' names are Jina and Jacey Jones.

Author: January Jones

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

Author: Star Jones

As a dad, he thinks that his philosophy is morally correct. He has no conscience whatsoever about letting his kids put a penny in a light socket to find out electricity is not so good for you, and if you want to learn how to swim, you have to be thrown into the deep end.

Author: Stacy Keach

Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.

Author: Edward Kennedy

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.

Author: John Kennedy

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

Author: Nancy Kerrigan

I think my dad is this great, wonderful... man with a lot of integrity, who is fighting for things he believes in and is serious in what he wants to see happen and serious in helping people.

Author: Vanessa Kerry

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".

Author: Nicole Kidman

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass"; "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys".

Author: Harmon Killebrew

He was a manager, one of the singers, I guess talent coordinator for the local talent in Harlem. His name was Lover Patterson. He was living right across the street from where my dad had his restaurant. I guess he saw a lot of kids come in, a lot of my buddies.

Author: Ben King

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

Author: Dexter King

My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of an army officer just so that he could continue helping me with my chess and accompanying me to tournaments.

Author: Alexandra Kosteniuk

A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad.

Author: Lenny Kravitz

My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.

Author: Bill Kreutzmann

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.

Author: Mila Kunis

My dad heard of a studio on the radio, and it was advertised as a place for kids to meet kids, and it was actually a studio, and that's where I met my manager and agent.

Author: Mila Kunis

Now my dad is with me, traveling with me and a big part of this whole thing is I like to mix it up a little bit, you know. Who gets to take their father on a private jet across the country and stay in first class hotels? So we're enjoying it, but I'd stop if it's not possible.

Author: Shia LaBeouf

I don't know, I just want to be happy. I could be in a hole somewhere. Or I could completely lose it and be some hippy living in the woods with my dad.

Author: Shia LaBeouf

I spent a lot of time on farms when I was young. My uncle and my dad owned a big farm.

Author: Emeril Lagasse

My dad is a really honest, hardworking, straight guy.

Author: Joe Lando

My dad was good friends with the Bad Medicine Blues Band - one of the only blues bands in Fargo, as you can imagine! He took me out to see them play when I was 12 years old and I was really inspired by their guitar player, Ted Larsen.

Author: Jonny Lang

My dad gave me my first bike at 16. I soon fell off and was in a wheelchair for weeks. I haven't fallen since.

Author: Hugh Laurie

I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up.

Author: Jennifer Lawrence

But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met.

Author: Norman Lear

I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records.

Author: Alvin Lee

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

Author: John Leeson

He was like a real dad, you know. We used to sit down with guitars and mess around.

Author: Julian Lennon

On the one hand, I've had such a normal upbringing with my mum, who has kept me grounded, but on the other, the wild experiences through my dad.

Author: Julian Lennon

Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day.

Author: Jay Leno