Dad Quotes - Page 33

Bowie mattered to me. He reinvented himself so many times - it must have been a daring statement to do that, risking failure. And hanging out with him and seeing him like that - he's my dad's age, born in the same month - when you find someone who's been through a really dark period, which most of his music I care about is from, Low, Lodger, "Heroes" era.... But he came out of it and made something that mattered.

My dad really wanted to learn how to sail and, when I was 16, he became a quarter partner in this small, 24-foot trimaran.Three weeks a year, I'd go with him and we'd sail from Florida out around the Bahamas.

When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age.

Tim Kaine is your friend's dad who catches you smoking weed at a sleepover and doesn't rat you out but talks to you about brain development.

My dad has always taught me these words: care and share.

My dad told me this: You get out of it what you put into it. If you put in effort and log your time, you'll get the results.

Growing up with my dad taught me to either lie like a pro or not bother.

My dad always told me that anyone's voice is just another instrument added to the music.

Killing time in the precinct, I find a copy of one of my early volumes in a dump-bin on the pavement outside the charity shop. The price is 10p. It is a signed copy. Under the signature, in my own handwriting, are the words, "To mum and dad".

My dad's intense love for art and music is what drove me to learn music

One of the things I am very aware of not having in my life is the love of my father. ...but I know now that it is hard to make up that loss in the life of a daughter. It's your dad who tells you that you are beautiful. Its your dad who picks you up over his head and carries you on his shoulders. It's your did who will fight the monsters under your bed. It's your dad who tells you that you are worth a lot, so don't settle for the first guy who tells you you're pretty.

American pop group N'SYNC's. I listened to it endlessly in my dad's car. This also made me wanna be a singer.

I do find violence entertaining, but that doesn't make me a bad person. I grew up watching all these action films when I was a kid. My dad would bring back 'Rambo' and whatever, and we'd watch it together. It's not affected me in any way other than I just appreciate the entertainment value of violence on film.

I got a curve so sneaky it might be your daddy.

Mommy is one of the chosen people … and daddy believes that Jesus is magic!

How that is so I don't know. How Mama and Daddy know me sixteen years and hate me, how a stranger meet me and love me. (131)

There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.

I would have rather had a dad with change jingling in his pocket; one who would have spent the last forty minutes of the world raking leaves for his kids to jump in, so that they perished in one loud, bright instant, giggles still bubbling up from their bellies, never suspecting a thing. Yeah, well. Tough luck, rich boy.

With my dad passing away, he's always watching me-a big smile on his face, watching every snap on the 50-yard line.

My parent are very proud, but Dad ripped into me for throwing a club on the 11th. He's happy with the way I played, but he always has to have something to moan about!

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

I always wanted to be a stay-at-home dad making art, making movies.

Rich dad has taught me "You can't do it" doesn't necessarily mean "you can't". It more often means "they can't".

In every state of the Union, Fundamentalists still fight to ban all the science they dislike and prosecute all who teach it. To them, 'traditional family values' denotes their right to keep their children as ignorant as their grandparents (and to hate the same folks grand-dad hated.)

When I grew up, people said, 'You'll never be the man your dad was.' And I said, 'Gee, I hope not.'