Dad Quotes

• My family was always playing music; I always enjoyed it. My cousin, who is a little older than me, he started playing music, so I wanted to, also. I asked my dad for a guitar, and he got me a banjo, so that was my introduction to playing. I played it like a guitar. I had a few lessons, learned out a few chords, and figured it out right away.

  

  Kurt Vile
  • Music
  • Family
  • Cousin

• We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Life
  • Children
  • Together

• I really enjoy being a dad, and maybe I took it too seriously, but I love being around my kids.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Love
  • Kids
  • Enjoy

• I don't recommend this, but my dad - to help us get through the winter, he bought a kerosene heater, and he had it in the kitchen so that the furnace wouldn't have to kick off.

  

  Chris Gibson
  • Help
  • Winter
  • Kitchen

• My wife noticed that I wrote really good complaint letters about faulty products and that I could get anything I wanted out of these big corporations, and she said that I was a good writer and that I should go to my dad and ask him for help.

  

  Brian Herbert
  • Good
  • She
  • Help

• With 'The Sixth Sense,' my dad and I discussed how this was not so much a horror story as a story about communication. I understudied with my dad, in a sense. It made a huge difference.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Story
  • Communication
  • Sense

• There's been times when I've had heartbreaking moments and I'm like, 'I can't believe you said that,' or 'I can't believe you did that'. And it hurts, it still hurts, and it'll always hurt, but I've never had somebody that I truly cared about just walk out on me, whether it was a boyfriend, or an aunt, mom or dad.

  

  Shailene Woodley
  • Believe
  • Mom
  • Moments

• There was always music in our home. My mom and my dad loved music. I remember when we were kids we would have these great parties at the house with congas and bongos and African drums, and it was amazing. It wasn't until years later that I found out that they were actually Black Panther meetings.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Great
  • Music
  • Home

• Growing up, my dad and my mom were there for my sister and I.

  

  Courtney B. Vance
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Mom

• The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Predator

• My nursery school did a production of 'The Three Little Pigs.' I played the third pig. When the wolf knocked on my door, I refused to get up and answer it because, to me, he was knocking the wrong way. I just lay there, snoring away on stage, fully immersed in my character. My dad turned to my mom and said: 'Dustin Hoffman.'

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Up
  • School
  • Character

• There was nothing more important I could do than be supportive as a dad.

  

  Arne Duncan
  • Important
  • Dad

• You need your mom and dad to protect you. It means they love you so much.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Love
  • Mom
  • Protect

• My dad is a big jazz fan, and that was the reason I first got into jazz.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Reason
  • First
  • Jazz

• My dad said, 'Stay humble, and you gotta work harder than everybody else.' My mom said, 'Always be yourself.' She always told me only God can judge me.

  

  Nate Robinson
  • God
  • Mom
  • Judge

• The satisfaction you get when you finally beat your dad is amazing, that rush of adrenaline.

  

  Lee Westwood
  • Dad
  • Amazing

• Fereydun, that's my dad's name. My grandmother, my dad's mom, when she was pregnant, she was dating a man from Persia, a Persian gentleman. It wasn't his child, but he was still very supportive and said, 'Hey, this is a great name,' and so it stuck. So that's what she named him.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • Great
  • She
  • Mom

• I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Children
  • Small
  • Water

• I speak English with my dad and Swedish with my mom; it's quite schizophrenic.

  

  Joel Kinnaman
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • English

• My mom is from Cuba, my dad is from Spain, and I grew up in Miami. So there's maybe a little more flair in me than typical Silicon Valley types.

  

  Eddy Cue
  • Me
  • Mom
  • Types

• When mom and dad were at the height of their careers, and things were super-crazy, and they couldn't leave their houses, there wasn't social media. It was all about autographs. Now, everyone's the press. I feel fame is perforated: it can be glorious, but it can completely destroy a human, too.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Mom
  • Crazy
  • Media

• I think, if I had a dad, I would have went the normal college route. I'm so stoked my life panned out how it was.

  

  Tyler, The Creator
  • Life
  • Dad
  • College

• Mum and Dad met campaigning on the Spanish civil war. Both were active peace campaigners. They died in 1986 and '87.

  

  Jeremy Corbyn
  • War
  • Peace
  • Spanish

• 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.

  

  Andre Agassi
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Tennis

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