Quotes about Dad

“My dad always told me, 'I don't care what you do. Just aim to be the best at it. Even if it's the world's best window cleaner.'”

“With my mom and dad around, I became a child yet again.”

“When I was a kid I went and saw Bill Cosby with my dad, and I remember sitting there and laughing so hard.”

“I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect.”

“When my father died in my arms it had such a profound affect on me that at that very moment when my dad passed I realized that I needed to face my own fears.”

“I grew up in Birmingham, but my parents are originally from Barbados. My dad, Romeo, was a long-distance lorry driver, and my mother, Mayleen, worked in catering.”

“A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.”

“When I started go-go dancing on tables for a living, I didn't want to tell my mom or my dad. I made 25 dollars a night, and I was able to make my rent, with the four girls I lived with.”

“My dad died when I was three so my mom had to raise four kids on her own, and I think there's a part of me that pulls upon having watched my mom do that our whole lives. She had to make it work.”

“Humans have voids, and you need things to fill voids... I didn't have a dad to fill that male model void, so when I heard Eminem or freaking seen Dave Chapelle, that's what I gravitated to.”

“My mom and dad played this music all the time when I was growing up, so to me songs by Jerry Lee and Fats Domino are the classics, they're the best songs ever.”

“My father came from a very poor background, but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never in need. My dad was determined to make sure that we didn't want for things. He wanted to give us more opportunity than he had, a better shot at a better life.”

“We grew up in a very demanding environment. Dad expects us to prove ourselves... so my siblings and I worked hard to reach what we have today, and I guess we have to continue working hard to maintain it.”

“My dad and I actually don't speak anymore. It's still something that I'm trying to figure out and I definitely don't have all of the answers to.”

“I'd always also been interested in being in the army because my dad was in the army and my brother is an officer in the army.”

“The most important thing I do is I'm a dad.”

“My Dad was a tailor and he would give my mother housekeeping money each week and call it her 'wages.'”

“I never saw my dad cry. My son saw me cry. My dad never told me he loved me, and consequently I told Scott I loved him every other minute. The point is, I'll make less mistakes than my dad, my sons hopefully will make less mistakes than me, and their sons will make less mistakes than their dads.”

“My dad would always say, 'What can you do to make the world a better place?' Well, I can make people laugh.”

“The most important influence in my childhood was my father.”

“My dad and grandpa were big golfers, and I think any boy wants to be like their dad. So growing up around him being at the golf course, it was an easy choice for me.”