Dad Quotes

• My dad made a huge impact on me in terms of right and wrong.

  

  Jim Pattison
  • Dad

• I was always a kid trying to make a buck. I borrowed a dollar from my dad, went to the penny candy store, bought a dollar's worth of candy, set up my booth, and sold candy for five cents apiece. Ate half my inventory, made $2.50, gave my dad back his dollar.

  

  Guy Fieri
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Kids

• My dad was in the service, so I went to 12 schools in 13 years.

  

  Jay Ellis
  • Dad
  • Service

• Well, Steve Vai joined my dad's band right around the time when I actually started playing guitar. So he gave me a couple of lessons on fundamentals, and gave me some scales and practice things to work on. But I pretty much learned everything by ear.

  

  Dweezil Zappa
  • Time
  • Work
  • Pretty

• If it wasn't for my dad, I would never have known about pentathlon, because it's not popular at all in Australia.

  

  Chloe Esposito
  • Dad
  • Popular

• I would be sitting in my flat watching TV, and 'Doctor Who' would be on with my flatmate there. I would have loved to share the fact that I was the new Doctor, but I couldn't. I was going mad. My dad was rather flabbergasted. When I told him, he laughed. He was excited, elated and very proud.

  

  Matt Smith Poison
  • Dad
  • Proud
  • Mad

• From my first dunk at 14 years old to my second NCAA Championship at the University of Tennessee, my intense training with my dad was always to credit.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Training
  • Old
  • Credit

• You get to a certain age and you can't judge yourself on your dad or your parents.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Age
  • Parents
  • Judge

• We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible.

  

  Peter Agre
  • Dad
  • Bible
  • Christmas

• I remember going to the Gap when I was in the fifth grade, and I desperately wanted a pair of blue jeans. I was with my dad, and I remember picking up the jeans, looking at them, and thinking that they had to fit me. But there was nothing that fit me. This was before the age of stretch, so I was trying on adult Gap.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• My dad has sometimes felt that I grew up a little lacking in sufficient eccentricity - in the sense that I'm willing to live as an adult in a house with walls that are parallel to each other, that sort of thing.

  

  Jaron Lanier
  • Up
  • Live
  • House

• My mom was sort of involved in amateur dramatics like Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, and played the violin. My dad played banjo and piano and sang as well, so there was all this music in my childhood.

  

  Colm Wilkinson
  • Music
  • Mom
  • Childhood

• I'm just constantly trying to be a good dad.

  

  David Charvet
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Dad

• My dad was around every second. Teaching me the game.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Game
  • Me
  • Teaching

• My dad was a soul fan and a singer himself, and he loved vocal harmony, stuff like the Beach Boys and Motown like the Four Tops, which was a big influence on me.

  

  Kathleen Anne Brien
  • Soul
  • Dad
  • Beach

• I think my dad did legal work for someone who had a Packard Bell 8088, and they couldn't pay him, so they gave him a computer. I was initially not allowed to touch it, but that didn't last long. I started tinkering with it, and there were many times I screwed up the computer.

  

  Jeremy Stoppelman
  • Up
  • Work
  • Long

• I was around computers from birth; we had one of the first Macs, which came out shortly before I was born, and my dad ran a company that wrote computer operating systems. I don't think I have any particular technical skills; I just got a really large head start.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Think
  • Start
  • Computers

• My dad showed me a football and would throw it up and have my dog - a German Shepherd - chase me around when I went after the ball. I caught it because I was scared of that dog. The next year, my dad talked to the commissioner of a local league and convinced him to let me play as a first grader with third graders.

  

  Austin Seferian-Jenkins
  • Up
  • Football
  • Dog

• My dad is my dad. I love him, and I realize that he's as famous as he is. Of course, I don't look at him like everybody else does. Because I know his little faults, I know his weaknesses. Nobody's perfect. But he's my dad. Just like your dad is to you.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Dad
  • Perfect
  • Famous

• Most definitely, my dad was my biggest influence.

  

  David Cassidy
  • Dad

• I come from a very musical family. My dad taught me to play guitar. I play violin and drums as well. Violin, I started in elementary school. Drums actually came when I was in a program called 'Rock Star,' which was really awesome. We were doing a song by the Ramones, so I thought, 'Why not play the drums?'

  

  Amandla Stenberg
  • Family
  • School
  • Why

• I like the Dodgers because my dad does - wait, no, not the Dodgers. Strike me down! The Yankees. I like the Yankees.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Me
  • Down
  • Wait

• Dad was joyful until the day he died, and I think that joy was deeply rooted in his love affair with God.

  

  Mark Shriver
  • God
  • Dad
  • Joy

• My dad was a tyrant. He used to physically beat the crap out of us.

  

  Dennis Wilson
  • Dad

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