All Quotes

My dad was this sort of avant-garde guy who did all kinds of weird things. He was a true original and anybody who met him never forgot him.
‐‐ Paul Thomas Anderson

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

My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
‐‐ Rachel Hunter

My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.
‐‐ Dolores Huerta

My dad was very into cycling and had lots of magazines around the house. So I knew about the best cyclists of that era: Arnaud Tournant, Laurent Gane. I watched a lot of the Tour de France and the Tour of Spain with him.
‐‐ Grégory Baugé

My dad was very much a John Wayne kind of guy, but he was also a great guy, great sense of humor, a real dedicated dad. I don't think he ever missed a hockey game I was in.
‐‐ Denis Leary

My dad was very much a struggling actor and spent more of his life as a postman, as a member of a tarmac firm, as a van driver.
‐‐ Kate Winslet

My dad was very religious growing up and a little bit closed minded, and I think me being in the theater, two of my three sisters are dancers, so being in the arts world has changed and opened him up in a lot of ways.
‐‐ Frankie J. Alvarez

My dad was very rough with us.
‐‐ Jason Day

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.
‐‐ A. J. Foyt

My dad was working abroad, in Iraq, and he was a doctor. We used to go and visit him, in Baghdad, off and on. For the first ten years of my life, we used to go backwards and forwards to Baghdad, so that was quite amazing. I spent a lot of time traveling around the Middle East.
‐‐ Andy Serkis

My dad wasn't the biggest role model, but he was a great musician and I loved him very much. He was a character.
‐‐ Randy Houser

My dad, we'll be talking about goals for the next year. He's like, 'I think you can be here,' and I look at him like he's cross-eyed, like, 'Are you serious? That's so far out of my reach.' Well, then I always end up achieving it.
‐‐ Miranda Leek

My dad, well, he sells tractors, just like my granddad, and I'm darn proud of that.
‐‐ Cory Gardner

My dad went at 86. A car killed him. He was crossing the road.
‐‐ Peter O'Toole

My dad went to jail for a long time. We lost everything, and the situation never resolved itself. My parents had this sort of passionate, disastrous desire for each other - not ideal to grow up in.
‐‐ Natalia Kills

My dad went to USC and it always had been very important to me and my family.
‐‐ Miranda Cosgrove

My dad, when he was young, did Shakespeare in school, and my mom was a little bit of an artist, but everybody was pragmatic.
‐‐ Ato Essandoh

My dad, who is a heart surgeon, works with many adult patients who did not take good care of their bodies in their formative years. He is able to teach them how to break old eating and exercise habits and reshape their bodies, but not without a great deal of resistance.
‐‐ Daphne Oz

My dad, who was a teacher, used to tell me that a teacher's goal should be for every one of their students to get an A. If that's your goal every day - to make every student or player learn - then it doesn't matter if you won last year or didn't win. When next year's team shows up, I try to help every player become as good as they can be.
‐‐ Tony Dungy

My dad worked all sorts of jobs when I was growing up and finally ended up as a surveyor; my mum delivers meals to old folk around where we live. We didn't have much money when I was growing up, but I had a very happy childhood.
‐‐ Michelle Dockery

My dad worked as an executive at Lockheed Aircraft and worked on the U-2 and things like that. My mother was a homemaker, and she was vice-president of the Democratic Council of California back in the '50s.
‐‐ Robert Englund

My dad worked for a generator company and then UC Berkeley, and my mom was as a dental hygienist and then eventually a history teacher. My uncles and aunts, all of them are elementary school teachers or scientists.
‐‐ Cary Fukunaga

My dad worked for child protection.
‐‐ Liam Hemsworth

My dad worked for different companies that made whiskey for a long time, so we were definitely whiskey drinkers. Growing up, my friends would get toy cars, and I would get swag from whisky companies.
‐‐ Mike Krieger

My dad worked for Nestle for 26 years and ended up being the mayor of our hometown. One of the lessons I learned from him was to never mistake kindness for weakness.
‐‐ Brad D. Smith

My dad worked nights mostly and while we were growing up, and my mother also worked, so there were times where, when it was just the two of us at home, and, you know, they gave us a pretty long leash, actually.
‐‐ Scott Kelly

My dad worked on ambulances for a while; my mother had a lot of different jobs with the city.
‐‐ Desiigner

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

My dad worked three jobs and was a teacher. My mother was a teacher's aid, making, like, $3 an hour. My father went on to get his master's and became active in all these minority engineering programs. And my mother started running for public office. All that happened after the kids were adults. But I'm insanely proud of them.
‐‐ Robin Thede

My dad worked two jobs and moved us to the suburbs, and just being a black person, I went through a lot of racism and being called names and being bullied every single day. And it was hard. I didn't have any friends.
‐‐ Sherri Shepherd

My dad worked two jobs his whole life, and so I told him he's the reason I have 20 jobs.
‐‐ Magic Johnson

My dad works in child protection and he's spent many, many years in that line of work.
‐‐ Chris Hemsworth

My dad would always say, 'Girl, you've been given gifts. Use them.' And what he meant by that was, 'Don't just be successful. Don't just use your talents for your own success. But make a difference with them. Do something significant.' And when I put those two things together, it just causes me to not accept the status quo.
‐‐ Beth Brooke

My dad would always say, 'What can you do to make the world a better place?' Well, I can make people laugh.
‐‐ Jon Lovitz

My dad would always tell me, 'When you meet a man, look him in his eye and shake his hand,' and that's just something I've been doing for a long time.
‐‐ Adrian Peterson

My dad would call me his Cuban princess because I had really dark olive skin because I was always in the sun; but I don't really go in the sun anymore, so that is why I am so white.
‐‐ Bella Thorne

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.
‐‐ Katy Perry

My dad would go to work every day and write in a room full of funny people. He enjoyed it. I know great writers who find the process agonising but to me, writing has always been sheer joy.
‐‐ Joss Whedon

My dad would tell me bedtime stories, and he used to always leave them open-ended and finish at a crucial point with the words, 'dream on'. Then it was my responsibility to finish the story as I was drifting off to sleep. We would call them dreaming stories.
‐‐ Hannah Kent

My dad would write these sketches for me while I was at 'SNL.'
‐‐ Casey Wilson

My dad wouldn't buy me tight pants. I had to get my own money to buy them.
‐‐ Young Thug

My dad wouldn't even start the car until he heard the click of every seat belt.
‐‐ Drew Lachey

My dad wouldn't let me date until I was 16.
‐‐ Zendaya

My Daddy liked physical fitness and wanted me to be a prizefighter.
‐‐ Judy Johnson

My daddy, Rev. A. D. King, my granddaddy, Martin Luther King, Senior - we are a family of faith, hope and love.
‐‐ Alveda King

My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
‐‐ Dan Blocker

My daddy wanted me to be a farmer; feel the smoothness of Alabama clay and become one of the first blacks in my town to own land. But, I was worried about my history being caked with that southern clay, and I subscribed to a different kind of teaching and learning in my bones and in my spirit.
‐‐ John Henrik Clarke

My daddy was a World War I pilot, and I just wanted to be able to fly like he did.
‐‐ Forrest Bird