All Quotes

My dad and all my family were into baseball. His brothers, my mom's brothers, my mom's father. Baseball was just always a part of our family.
‐‐ Mark Teixeira

My dad and grandpa were in the army and as a country singer you're constantly playing at military bases all across the country and meeting soldiers and their families and hearing their stories.
‐‐ Dierks Bentley

My dad and I are best friends. He's pretty much responsible for the way I turned out. He would provide a little artistic inspiration here and there in the form of a guitar, stuff like that.
‐‐ Trent Reznor

My dad and I compete on the pool table; that's the most important competition of our lives. The fact that I'm writing and it works for me is one of the great joys for him. We talk about writing, and it's great.
‐‐ Nick Harkaway

My dad and I had been close - he called me Tuyet Bang, Vietnamese for 'avalanche,' because of my nonstop energy. I took a lot from him, like being a risk taker, and I know how much he loved my mother.
‐‐ Michelle Phan

My dad and I have always been somewhat competitive.
‐‐ Rufus Wainwright

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

My dad and I used to do movie marathons when I was a kid at the Chinese Theatre, and I just remember thinking, 'One day I want to have a movie here' And then later on, when 'Save The Last Dance' premiered there, that was definitely a full circle moment.
‐‐ Bianca Lawson

My dad and I used to shoot little one-stop animations on an old 8mm film camera when I was no more than 7 or 8, and when he was away at work, I would keep shooting nonsensical, short animated films using 'Star Wars' figures or Smurfs - depended what the narrative was.
‐‐ Duncan Jones

My dad and I used to watch 'Ninja Warrior' all the time back when it was in Japan. I would always say, 'I could do that,' kind of joking, but obviously kind of serious.
‐‐ Kacy Catanzaro

My dad and I watched 'Amadeus' when I was 6, and I knew I wasn't going to be an engineer.
‐‐ Sara Chase

My dad and mom did what a lot of parents did at the time. They sacrificed a lot of their life and used a lot of their disposable income to make sure their children were educated.
‐‐ Sundar Pichai

My dad and mom divorced when I was around ten, and I didn't live with him after that, though he was close by and we saw each other weekly. I wasn't really aware that he was a writer; I didn't start reading his writing until I was about fifteen. It occurred to me then that my dad was kind of special; he's still one of my favorite writers.
‐‐ Andre Dubus III

My dad and my brother have Google alerts out on me.
‐‐ Cassidy Freeman

My dad and my mom convinced me to go into biomedical engineering because they said astronauts going to Mars will need life support systems.
‐‐ Rony Abovitz

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

My dad and my uncles used to always be in the studio at my house.
‐‐ Lil' Romeo

My dad and uncles were among the 125,000 proud black American volunteers who, throughout their entire lives, considered their decision to serve during WWII as their greatest honor.
‐‐ Burgess Owens

My dad, as a guy, had to quit school in the ninth grade, fought in the Battle of the Bulge. And spent his life pushing wheel barrels of heavy wet cement. So we've gone from pushing cement to now in one generation pushing legislation. But we always want any president to succeed, to do well; that means America does well and Americans do well.
‐‐ John Barrasso

My dad became a soap opera actor, and I was an extra in a skating rink scene on the soap. I didn't audition. It was nepotism all the way.
‐‐ Jennifer Aniston

My dad, being a businessman, constantly talked to me about carrying myself in a certain way and treating people with respect. And I think that's something that's carried over throughout my life. It's how I deal with certain situations.
‐‐ Colin Kaepernick

My dad being a DJ, I heard all the hits, no matter what. My mom always had on the radio because my dad was on it.
‐‐ Chad Channing

My dad, being a jingle writer, and my mom, being a jingle singer, they hooked me up with some people when I was a kid that worked with children's jingle singing groups. I used to sing jingles as a kid.
‐‐ Reeve Carney

My dad being a salesman taught me you can sell anybody anything if you've got the ability to believe.
‐‐ Marilyn Manson

My dad being an Army officer, I was just born to it. I was raised in a military manner, and it was a given that Army brats went to West Point, so I went to West Point in 1941. And being in the military has been my life.
‐‐ John Eisenhower

My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more.
‐‐ Karin Slaughter

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

My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.
‐‐ Paul McCartney

My dad, Bob Blum, used to dash across Grand Central's main terminal catwalk several times daily as a young CBS correspondent, running copy from newsroom to studio and back - because CBS' first broadcasts were from Grand Central Terminal. The pictures on people's television sets used to shake when the trains came in!
‐‐ Jenna Blum

My dad bought a Beatles tape when I was in fifth grade, and that was the first time I ever really - I mean I was into music, but that was the first time it really blew my mind. When I heard the 'Red Compilation,' which wasn't like a proper album, I thought, 'music was more than I had ever thought it was before.'
‐‐ Andrew Dost

My dad bought me a dartboard for my 11th birthday, and I became intrigued by the game.
‐‐ Eric Bristow

My dad bought me a guitar and people would ask me to play.
‐‐ Rod Stewart

My dad bought me a guitar when I was very young, and I never looked back.
‐‐ Arthur Darvill

My dad brought 'Clerks' to Sundance 22 years ago, and that's when his career started.
‐‐ Harley Quinn Smith

My dad brought me up to be a good person.
‐‐ Courtney Eaton

My dad calls me 'Mac' a lot, from 'Mike Tyson's Punch Out' - Little Mac is the main character. I was obsessed. I can still beat Mike Tyson on 'Punch Out.'
‐‐ Mayer Hawthorne

My dad came from Cuba when he was a teenager not speaking English. And I grew up here speaking Spanglish. That's the world in which I grew up, and that's a world in which a lot of second generation immigrants find themselves.
‐‐ Ted Cruz

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.
‐‐ Richard M. Daley

My dad came over from Ireland when he was 13 and lived on the streets, working on building sites, and has just retired from his job delivering furniture for John Lewis. My mum has had the same job for 30 years as a sales assistant at Marks and Spencer. They've always been really great; they just want me to be happy.
‐‐ Amanda Hale

My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
‐‐ Zara Phillips

My dad claims that he was able to trace us back to the West Virginia Hatfields. When I look at the old pictures, the patriarchs have kind of a physical likeness to some of the men on the father's side of my family. I want it to be true.
‐‐ Juliana Hatfield

My dad, coming from a very traditional family, always wanted me to be a doctor. So he would always ask me, 'What are you going to be when you grow up?' And I'd have to say 'Dr. Chen.'
‐‐ Jane Chen

My dad could be beyond brilliant but totally introverted. If we're talking about computers, he's on. Otherwise, he's a total recluse - he stays in the house and won't leave, and I'm like that. If I'm not working, I'm locked up in my room.
‐‐ Alessandra Torresani

My dad couldn't connect to my wanting to be a filmmaker. He was very connected in entertainment, and through him I met Steven Spielberg and got rides on his private plane to California. I'd see Spielberg's people reading scripts. I was like, 'That's what I want to be when I grow up.'
‐‐ Doug Liman

My dad cut my hair once - I wanted a bob and he gave me a bowl cut. That was a tough few years.
‐‐ Alexa Chung

My dad dated a lot of supermodels.
‐‐ Zoe Kravitz

My dad dedicated his life to getting across the wildlife message, and I love that I can carry on his legacy. I want to make sure his message never dies.
‐‐ Bindi Irwin

My dad designed houses and was an architect for many years.
‐‐ Nikki Reed

My dad did every single accent under the sun, and he would read bedtime stories.
‐‐ Lily James