Dad Quotes
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My dad is a doctor, a professor of psychiatry, and my mum is a psychotherapist.
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My dad was not happy about my not becoming an architect like him.
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I'd like to die like my old dad, peacefully in his sleep, not screaming like his passengers.
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My dad was Superman to me, and in my mind he always will be.
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My dad made a film called 'Willow' when he was a young filmmaker, which screened at the Cannes film festival, and people were booing afterwards.
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When I was growing up we didn't have a massive house and there were five women running around, so my dad and I had to stick together!
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You can say that Mitt Romney started with nothing! He didn't get an inheritance from his dad.
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I've wanted to be a drummer since I was about five years old. I used to play on a bath salt container with wires on the bottom, and on a round coffee tin with a loose wire fixed to it to give a snare drum effect. Plus there were always my Mum's pots and pans. When I was ten, my Mum bought me a snare drum. My Dad bought me my first full drum kit when I was 15. It was almost prehistoric. Most of it was rust.
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I started playing drums at a pretty early age because my parents were musicians. My dad was an amazing multi-instrumentalist and I can play a lot of instruments, but my dad actually played all the instruments I could play and then added another twenty five or thirty five different categories on there ...he was incredible! He got an act actually in Vegas, my parents Bobby and Phyllis Sherwood.
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I didn't know that Left Eye's dad passed away right when she wanted to tell him that she just signed to LaFace Records. After I signed to Jive Records and just before I put out my first album, my mother passed away. It was very odd how much we had in common.
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Among my dad's generation, when you gave another man a pocketknife as a gift, it was a show of respect. I'll still give someone the knife out of my pocket.
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When I was a child, I had wax in my ears. Dad didn't take me to the doctor, he used me as a night light.
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I hope I pass on my dad's good humor, work ethic and lack of self-seriousness. Our house was always a fun place where you'd get knocked around quickly if you took yourself too seriously.
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Even if I tried to be my dad, it would be a mediocre, slightly embarrassing version.
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People are so used to seeing John Goodman as a lovable dad or the quirky characters he played in the Coen Brothers films.
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A middle child, I was born in the depths of the Great Depression. My dad and mom were factory workers, struggling to make ends meet.
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My dad taught me really early so I could take a lot of pressure off my elbow. Because the way I throw it, it doesn't crank up my elbow like everyone else's curveballs.
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I've seen 48 Stanley Cups in my life. I was about six or seven when I started going to games with my dad.
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My dad has given me the best gift anyone has ever given me. He gave me wings to fly.
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The physical DNA has always been part of our family. My dad was a good boxer and gymnast; my mum is a ballroom dancer, and my brother does martial arts.
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My dad plays guitar in the church band, so it's like music as a service. He plays at old-people homes, so that's like music as a gift.
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I'd like to play Matt Damon's daddy. He's a wonderful actor, I really admire him, and I'd like to play his dad one day.
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I usually travel with a lot of people, like my dad, mom and sisters.
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My dad was an adventurer, my mother a romantic. When they met in college, both were creative writers; the writing was a bond.
