Dad Quotes

• Ronnie didn’t want to show anything positive about my dad. He didn’t want to show he was a hero. ‘Jimmy Braddock was a great guy,’ my father always said. But you don’t build him up as the hero of the downtrodden by bringing my dad down.

  

  Max Baer
  • Father
  • Guy
  • Positive

• Well Dad, send the money, See what I can see, Try to find a Cadillac, A Sixty-two or three. Just something that won't worry us To keep it on the road. Sincerely, your beloved son, Henry Junior Ford

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Money
  • Road
  • Worry

• My dad is one of my favorite human beings in the world. He's just a good person, and he could entertain a brick wall.

  

  Thomas Rhett
  • World
  • Good
  • Wall

• My dad was a preacher. My relationship, for example, with my father -- very difficult, and very painful, and it took me 50 years to wipe the face of my father off the face of God.

  

  William P. Young
  • Father
  • Difficult
  • Example

• I've always been a Marvel fan. As a kid, I would pick up a two-foot stack of comics and read them in the back of my dad's car on long journeys across the States. That's how I used to make friends - I'd meet up with other kids, and we'd swap comics.

  

  Angela Bowie
  • Up
  • Long
  • Kids

• 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.

  

  Atom Egoyan
  • Dad
  • Advice

• My dad said, 'If no one was giving me acting work, I'd have to be prepared to create it myself.'

  

  Domhnall Gleeson
  • Work
  • Giving
  • Dad

• 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.

  

  David Icke
  • Children
  • Dad

• People had told me to try 'The X Factor' for years, but I thought I'd be moody and hate it all. But it's what I needed. I asked Mum and Dad to come to my 'X Factor' audition, and it was the first time that they'd been in the same room in years.

  

  James Arthur
  • People
  • Time
  • Hate

• I'm driving my dad's old ute. So it's a manual ute. It's massive, so when people see me coming, they just kind of run away!

  

  Bindi Irwin
  • People
  • Dad
  • Driving

• I came from a middle-class family. My dad was a professor; my mom was a nurse. I didn't come from money, and I didn't come from circles of power. I didn't come from the country club; I came from the town park.

  

  Megyn Kelly
  • Country
  • Family
  • Money

• I was always quite good at fixing and working with cars. My dad's always dealt cars, and I've always been brought up around them. They're one of the things I've always been interested in.

  

  Tyson Fury
  • Up
  • Good
  • Dad

• My mom and dad just loved the fact that I fooled around. They just embraced it. They'd always kind of enjoy it, and they liked it when I made them laugh.

  

  Dominic Monaghan
  • Dad
  • Mom

• My mom and dad taught me a lot. They kept me out of trouble and told me to go a better route. They taught me how to be a man, basically.

  

  Jason Pierre-Paul
  • Dad
  • Mom

• I could write about coal miners in Northern Pennsylvania, and people would ask if I was writing about my dad.

  

  Owen King
  • People
  • Writing
  • Dad

• I'm a junior, so my dad's name is Thomas Rhett Akins as well. So literally, from the day I was born, it was Thomas Rhett. It wasn't Thomas or Rhett, it was Thomas Rhett.

  

  Thomas Rhett
  • Dad

• Mickey Rourke's character in 'The Wrestler' - that was my dad, that was my uncles, that was so many members of my family. It was the only thing they knew. And then they would end up wrestling for a hundred bucks, go to autograph signings for two hundred bucks.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • Up
  • Family
  • Character

• I do want children. I study dads more. I watch what they go through. I admire my father more than I ever did and my brother and my sister.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Children
  • Father
  • Study

• Can't remember a time when I didn't want to be an actor... though it felt like something I couldn't do until I grew up. I mean, I knew kids could be actors - I recall seeing them on my dad's shoots and getting jealous.

  

  Katherine Waterston
  • Up
  • Time
  • Kids

• I go back five generations in Jamaica. My dad grew up in Port Royal, and my mom grew up in Kingston. My family is from the country like West Moreland and also in Manchester. I've been there countless times. As far as cuisine, there's not really much that comes out of Jamaica that's on a plate that I don't like.

  

  Dule Hill
  • Up
  • Country
  • Family

• I'm a what?" gasped Harry. "A wizard, o' course," said Hagrid, sitting back down on the sofa, which groaned and sank even lower, "an' a thumpin' good'un I'd say, once yeh've been trained up a bit. With a mum an' dad like yours, what else would yeh be?

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Up
  • Good
  • Dad

• Dad told me to stop running in circles, I couldn't, so he nailed down my other foot!

  

  Jack Roy
  • Running
  • Stop
  • Circles

• I grew up near King's Cross station in London, living in an apartment block where my dad was a caretaker.

  

  Phil Daniels
  • Dad
  • Grew Up
  • Station

• My dad is a big dreamer, so I got that from him. Golf was my main thing when I was a teenager, and that's what I wanted to do.

  

  Brandon Flowers The Killers
  • Golf
  • Teenager
  • Dreamer

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