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Dad Quotes – Page 10

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People ask me from time to time what it was like growing up with Henry Fonda as my father. I say, Ever see Fort Apache? He was like Colonel Thursday.

Peter Fonda

More and more couples are having this negotiation or discussion, but I'm still amazed at the number who aren't and where the cultural norm sort of kicks in and they just assume that mom's got to be the one who stays home, not dad.

James Levine

My father was an ardent socialist for many years.

Leon Askin

My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.'

Cary Grant

I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy.

Janice Dickinson

I lost my father was I 10 years old, and I always looked for a father. I missed my father very much.

Anthony Quinn

My dad was a musician and I traveled around with him, so it was something that I knew.

Taryn Manning

My dad says he likes to bask in my glow.

Robert Pattinson

I met Leo Fender, who is the guru of all amplifiers, and he gave me a Stratocaster. He became a second father to me.

Dick Dale

The number one thing I've been doing is being daddy.

Austin Peck

My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.

Madeleine Peyroux

Judy Garland's father was gay. That seems to be the consensus. They left Minnesota and went to California because he got caught with some boy backstage.

Judy Davis

Daddy loves you, but he smacks you, and he can shout at you and smash things, but Daddy still loves you. So when you get into a relationship with someone who does all of that, why would it be unusual?

Trisha Goddard

That's what my Dad always told me, on the ballot, they should always have a third choice, like none of the above, then if enough people picked that, they'd have to get new candidates.

Meg White

Things with my dad were pretty good until I won an Academy Award. He was really loving to me until I got more attention than he did. Then he hated me.

Tatum O'Neal

As the proud father of two teens and past Chairman to the Presidents Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, I am committed to educating parents and especially young people on ways to live a long, healthy and active life.

Lee Haney

Do you know that other than my father, I've never had a man take care of me?

Dionne Warwick

I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.

O. J. Simpson

I was very protective of my father and I didn't like these people who hung around outside all day. They creeped me out.

Lisa Marie Presley

You see another side of Draco when he's with his dad. When Draco is with his dad, he doesn't say anything. He keeps his mouth shut. He's sort of bullied by his dad, so he acts very different.

Tom Felton

My father was a motorsports journalist and a motorbike fan. He gave me my motocross bike.

Jacky Ickx

I suppose my father was more influential in my starting to play the guitar.

Andy Partridge

I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records.

Alvin Lee

I know exactly where I've come from, I know exactly who my mum and dad are.

Christopher Eccleston

But although Australia was also involved in the Vietnam conflict, I can remember my dad telling us that if we were in Australia, we wouldn't be drafted until we were 20.

Mel Gibson

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Jim Valvano

There was a bit of a comparison that Bret was making between Vince McMahon and my dad. He looked up to Vince as a dad and stuff, and it was a shame to see the whole thing end the way it did.

Owen Hart

I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12.

January Jones

Playing for Yogi is like playing for your father; playing for Billy is like playing for your father-in-law.

Don Baylor

I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set.

John Malkovich

I'm left handed, but my dad taught me to play guitar right-handed.

Dustin Diamond

My dad was an Arsenal supporter and he used to take me there, but I've always been Chelsea.

Eric Bristow

The stag tells him that he is the eldest of the sons - the father's favorite - and he warns the father that if he tries to shoot any of the stags, their antlers will tear him to pieces.

Georg Solti

I don't know, I just want to be happy. I could be in a hole somewhere. Or I could completely lose it and be some hippy living in the woods with my dad.

Shia LaBeouf

You come on as a guest. You don't get the girl anymore. But that is our lives. You start off as the boyfriend, then you are the lover, then you are the husband, then you are the father, and then you are the grandfather.

Albert Finney

My dad gave me my first bike at 16. I soon fell off and was in a wheelchair for weeks. I haven't fallen since.

Hugh Laurie

My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings.

Jay London

It's hard when your father's the coach. Sometimes you don't know where one leaves off and the other begins.

Pete Maravich

It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate his father.

Vaughn Monroe

Because my father was a psychiatric nurse, I know my way around the system.

Trisha Goddard

I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up.

Jennifer Lawrence

I think some of the pressure comes from the expectations of other people. Like if your father played baseball, they expect you to be the big lifesaver or something when you play a sport.

Barry Bonds

President Bush is supporting Arnold but a lot of Republicans are not, because he is actually quite liberal. Karl Rove said if his father wasn't a Nazi, he wouldn't have any credibility with conservatives at all.

Bill Maher

What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason.

Rod Stewart

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I'm getting a little older. I see now that I'm taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

Adam Sandler

We started out as boss and player, and Wellington was almost like my father.

Frank Gifford

I'm looking out for myself, but I'm looking out for my dad, too.

Jamie Redknapp

My husband is from Hawaii and his father who was also born in Hawaii was a teenager when Pearl Harbor happened, right before church and he ran up and got on the roof of his grandfather's house and watched the planes go over.

Sigourney Weaver