Dad Quotes

• Right about when I turned 13, I realized that women could be jockeys, from my travels to the racetrack with my dad.

  

  Chantal Sutherland
  • Women
  • Dad

• My mum wanted me to be a doctor like my dad, and at 7, I really wanted to be a politician, and I managed in my mind to combine the two.

  

  Leo Varadkar
  • Mind
  • Dad

• When I talk to my mom and dad, and I'm in Paris, I'm like, 'Can you believe it?' It's ridiculous. I have a serious love for what we do. It's not something we take for granted.

  

  John Gourley Portugal. The Man
  • Believe
  • Mom
  • Serious

• My dad builds houses, and, for the earlier portion of my life anyway, we moved around quite a bit. It took us to some just really amazing places.

  

  John Gourley Portugal. The Man
  • Life
  • Dad
  • Amazing

• My dad is obsessed with music, so I was raised around this guitar player that really wanted me to be a guitar player. One of my earliest memories is him kind of forcing a guitar on all my brothers and me. You know, "You have to practice three hours a day!" I hated guitar at the time. I kind of picked up trumpet to spite him.

  

  Zach Condon
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• My mom is a Pan-Africanist. My dad is still Orthodox Sunni Muslim, but he's super fun. He worked in television for years. He was a Black Panther.

  

  SZA
  • Fun
  • Black
  • Mom

• I can't help but recall my dad and mom. Depression era kids, 8th and 9th grade educations, clawed and scratched to make a living as dairy farmers their whole life. At least two drought cycles nearly took it all away. They just worked harder, longer... and they made it.

  

  Bob Beauprez
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Help

• I was born in 1968, just eighteen months after my sister Chrisse and just one year after Dad passed the bar exam.

  

  Carre Otis
  • Sister
  • After
  • Exam

• One of the first movies my dad took me to see was the original 'Road Warrior.' And I was kind of raised on the action movies of that era: 'The Terminator' and 'Die Hard' and, of course, all of the 'Star Wars' movies.

  

  Aisha Tyler
  • Action
  • Die
  • Star

• 'You're never too old to dance, Dad...and you're never too old to dream.''That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard you say. Were you saying that with irony or for real?'

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Real
  • Dream
  • Dance

• My dad was an engineer, and he became the CEO of Chevron. His was an engineer's mind-set: Everything's kind of a problem; how do you approach the problem?

  

  Bill Keller
  • Mind
  • Dad

• It was funny how dad was more honest in a book that anyone in the world could pick up and read than he could be talking to me. Or maybe it was sad. One or the other. Sometimes it’s hard to tell.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Up
  • World
  • Book

• I was called a 'CD' by a suicidal teenager, who is alive today because I became her 'Chosen Dad,' who loved her. We all have the potential to re-parent ourselves and others.

  

  Bernie Siegel
  • Today
  • Dad
  • Teenager

• The only time I think about life beyond F1 is when I contemplate becoming a dad. But there's no way that's going to happen while I'm still racing. To be successful in F1 you need to be very selfish in lots of ways and you're away from home for long periods. That's not the kind of father I want to be.

  

  Jenson Button
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• I've always loved video games. I played 'Ms. Pac-man' with my dad, and I Ioved 'Galaga' and 'Tempest' and grew up on the standing arcade games. Even to this day, my dad will call me if he's playing 'Ms. Pac-man' and hold the phone up to the game.

  

  Aisha Tyler
  • Up
  • Game
  • Dad

• My dad put me with all the greatest people. It definitely helped me now, because I know so much more about music and composition. It's cool. I love Pops. I'm super thankful for everything he's done to help my career.

  

  Ty Dolla Sign
  • People
  • Music
  • Done

• When I started watching matches, it was those of Marseille. After that, it was Lyon. I went to see them all the time in the league or the Champions League with my dad.

  

  Antoine Griezmann
  • Time
  • Dad

• All of my dad's family, his brothers and sisters, my nana and grandad and all of the cousins emigrated to Australia within two years of each other. Irish families are close at the best of times, but when you move to the other side of the world, we were like a big posse over there.

  

  Genevieve O'Reilly
  • World
  • Family
  • Irish

• I'm a soccer dad at heart. I want five kids, and I want to get married. I want to coach Little League.

  

  Mekhi Phifer
  • Heart
  • Kids
  • Soccer

• In our family, mom and dad are Longhorns, our first two kids are Aggies and we're hoping our last one is a Longhorn. It gives us family fun on Thanksgiving Day.

  

  Bob Wells
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Fun

• My daughter doesn't love me because I'm on TV, she loves me because I'm her dad.

  

  W. Earl Brown
  • Love
  • Dad
  • Daughter

• I wasn't like a Fifties dad.

  

  Martin Freeman
  • Dad

• I want to carry on in my dad's footsteps and make sure his message lives on forever. I feel like that's why I've been put on this planet - to get my message across.

  

  Bindi Irwin
  • Why
  • Dad
  • Forever

• I think our dad and our mom have always told us that in racing we're a team, and we work together, and that's how it's always been, and I think that's how it's always going to be.

  

  Amber Cope
  • Work
  • Together
  • Team

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