Dad Quotes

• My dad was a truck driver. We all used to ride along with him. And the way he'd keep awake was to sing while he was going down the road. So we all joined in.

  

  Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Road
  • Sing
  • Driver

• 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.

  

  Alice Eve
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Character

• My dad served in the Air Force as ground crew for several years, and doesn't really talk about it. I know that it's there. I think my main thing about direct or indirect experiences as near to home as it were is the idea of self-sacrifice really.

  

  Jeremy Northam
  • Home
  • Air
  • Sacrifice

• If people want to talk about Bob Dylan, I can talk about that. But my dad belongs to me and four other people exclusively. I'm very protective of that. And telling people whether he was affectionate is telling people a lot. It has so little to do with me. I come up against a wall.

  

  Jakob Dylan
  • People
  • Up
  • Wall

• I grew up moving around because my dad was in the Air Force - I think this has carried over into my work in that I like to hop around from one medium to another.

  

  Ann-Marie MacDonald
  • Up
  • Work
  • Moving

• My career plan at this point is 'Ice Age 5' through '10,' and even '12,' and 'Spider Man' - you know, basically I'd be Emma Stone's dad for the rest of my career. I really don't have any problem doing that.

  

  Denis Leary
  • Age
  • Career
  • Rest

• My dad is an economist who does global development research. What he practices is a kind of quantifiable empathy: trying to empathize with systems rather than people.

  

  Leslie Jamison
  • People
  • Trying
  • Empathy

• My dad's always taught me how to do stuff on my own.

  

  Brooklyn Beckham
  • Dad

• I think I might get laid more...by my dad.

  

  Tom DeLonge Blink-182
  • Thinking
  • Dad
  • Laid

• I remember somewhere in his 70s, my dad started wearing a nightgown - like an old-school grandpa gown! I can see how that might be somewhere in my future.

  

  Dierks Bentley
  • School
  • Remember
  • Future

• I grew up in Nashville in a white suburb. We lived next to a Klan member. We didn't see hoods, but my dad knew that guy was a Grand Dragon.

  

  Dee Rees
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Dad

• I'm named after a horse. My mom's best friend had a horse named Brooke, so my dad suggested 'Brooklyn' as a more formal version, and it just stuck - and now I live in Brooklyn part-time, so go figure.

  

  Brooklyn Decker
  • Time
  • Live
  • Friend

• Neither of my parents are involved in politics or anything like that, but my dad is political, certainly, and we would have always talked about politics and religion and money, and all those things that you're not supposed to talk about at the dinner table, we did.

  

  Leo Varadkar
  • Money
  • Parents
  • Political

• We came from a family where we ran our own small business. Our dad made his own products. We made our own sausages, our own meatloafs, our own pickles. Dad had to do everything himself. He had to figure out how to finance his business.

  

  Marcy Kaptur
  • Family
  • Business
  • Small

• As a child, as far as I was concerned, my dad had an amazing job, and we had all the money we needed. My life was so fun and carefree that I didn't realize at all that we weren't rich - until I met someone rich. Still, I've never met a rich kid who grew up as happy as I did.

  

  Artie Lange
  • Life
  • Up
  • Money

• I have played football all my life, and my dad went to see Manchester United in 2005. Since then, I have been a fan.

  

  Chad le Clos
  • Life
  • Dad
  • Football

• My dad spent his whole life getting into fights for telling what he believed to be the truth. Basically it comes from my dad-and he's screaming right-wing, so there you are.

  

  Thom Yorke Radiohead
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Dad

• Hello, my sister, Libby, also your daughter, is snogging a potato in my bed. What are you going to do about it?' Dad started yelling uncontrollably. I wonder if he is having the male menopause? If he starts growing breasts, I will definitely be running away with the Circus.

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Growing
  • Running
  • Wonder

• I don't really have any childhood memories of my dad, unfortunately, .. I was 10 years old when he passed, so my memories are kind of skewed. I don't have many memories of my childhood, period.

  

  Lalah Hathaway
  • Childhood
  • Years
  • Period

• As a family, we were always active. Lots of walking, lots of running as well as riding bikes with dad.

  

  Alistair Brownlee
  • Family
  • Running
  • Walking

• My dad traveled so much for work that, when he was home, we always wanted to spend as much time with him as we could, so going to practices and doing stuff like that with him took precedence over Saturday morning cartoons. We'd go to practice with my dad just so we could be a part of it.

  

  J. B. Bickerstaff
  • Time
  • Work
  • Home

• I tell ya, I was an ugly kid. I was so ugly that my dad kept the kid's picture that came with the wallet he bought.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Picture
  • Ugly
  • Wallet

• My mom, dad, grandparents, we all do voices.

  

  Bill Hader
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Grandparents

• One day we were sitting in our little classroom in the middle of Australia Zoo, and Dad bursts in and says, 'OK, today we're going to go climb a mountain,' - the Glass House Mountains are about 20 minutes away - so we packed up all our math work and ran out the door and climbed Mount Tibrogargan.

  

  Bindi Irwin
  • Up
  • Work
  • Today

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