Dad Quotes
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What's going to be funny is when they think Mom and Dad are a little bit cool, because right now, we're not cool Mom and Dad.
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The thing is, my dad's always been more of a bookworm; he was interested in more intellectual pursuits, but nobody can escape the passion that football stirs.
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I had an Indian Scout motorcycle during high school, but I never could take it to school. My dad would sneak out at night and pull the spark-plug wires.
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My dad does tons of voiceovers; he was Duke in 'G.I. Joe' and 'Transformers' and Handy, Lazy, and Grouchy Smurf, so I grew up with the best bed time stories ever.
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My kids are good artists, and they do a pretty good version of Dad in their caricatures.
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My dad was very much a struggling actor and spent more of his life as a postman, as a member of a tarmac firm, as a van driver.
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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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I realised I could run after finding out that my dad used to run and it gave me the morale that if he did it then maybe I could also run.
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I think pressure is good. Just watching my brother and my dad be professional athletes, I think pressure has driven them and has caused them to excel more.
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I am a product of nepotism. I don't think I would have had the profession that I'm in currently... if it wasn't for my dad.
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My mom went through civil rights; my dad went through civil rights. My name was Kenya because they wanted to give me an African name.
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I always shout out my dad. My artistic roots come from him. He had his own T-shirt company and taught me the trade.
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I grew up watching Monday Night Football with Howard Cosell and the other guys with my dad.
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My dad took on every job he could get. He worked like mad. But then, at some point, he had saved up enough to open his first pub.
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My dad was an architect, and he wasn't a rich guy, but in our little world in Philadelphia, he was famous. He loved to see his picture in the paper. I wanted to be more famous than him.
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I was born in Hereford, England, in 1944. We moved when they had an opportunity to get a visa, about 1950. My dad always thought Europe was a bit too small for him. He wanted to see the United States... The typical immigrant story. He wanted a better life for his children, too. He always tried to get the visa, and it didn't come up.
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They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do.They fill you with the faults they had And add some extra, just for you.
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Dad had a music store, and he'd often bring home comedy albums that I would listen to. I started listening to Bob Newhart and Bill Cosby, and developing taste. They really influenced my style of comedy.
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My British mum met my American dad when she was on holiday in the United States when she was 19. She kinda never looked back. I was born in the United States, raised in Montana and London.
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Dad worked his entire career as an aviation technician. Mom was a legal secretary who became a teacher. We lived a simple American life.
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My dad wanted me to be a businessman, but I felt that wasn't for me.
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My dad says that when I was two or three I used to go out dressed as a different character every day. I remember thinking it was perfectly normal to wear different coloured shoes and carry a pink umbrella. But now I've got a goddaughter of that age; I realise it's not normal at all.
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My grandfather and dad worked at General American Transportation Corp. in Chicago, a company that made tank cars and freight cars. We had a pragmatic, Republican, manufacturing, Illinois consciousness as far as employment went.
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When my dad died, I had to go to therapy.
