Dad and Fatherhood Quotes

"I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern."

"Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers."

"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 dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.'"

"I love being a dad. I just love it."

"My dad was a laborer. And he used to get up at 5:30 every morning. He worked for 50 years of his life, in all weathers for, by showbiz standards, petty cash. I remind myself of that when I feel a little bit spoiled or hard done by."

"My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do."

"I grew up upper-class. Private school. My dad had a Jaguar. We're African-American, and we work together as a family, so people assume we're like the Jacksons. But I didn't have parents using me to get out of a bad situation."

"When I was about 12 years old back in Houston, my Dad used to take us to the driving range."

"My dad and one brother are working the farm. They laughed when I said I wanted to act. We work very hard, but for my family, it's just another experience in life, y'know?"

"I really love Linkin Park, and I loved Chester Bennington, and it is horrible what happened to him. I grew up listening to him because my dad would make these mixtapes with a lot of different artists - Linkin Park, Avril Lavigne, The Beatles, Sarah McLachlan, I just really loved Linkin Park, and their production is really sick."

"I was raised in the greatest of homes... just a really great dad, and I miss him so much... he was a good man, a real simple man... Very faithful, always loved my mom, always provided for the kids, and just a lot of fun."

"I'm dying to be a great dad one day, whenever that day comes."

"But there's no substitute for a full-time dad. Dads who are fully engaged with their kids overwhelmingly tend to produce children who believe in themselves and live full lives."

"My parents are really conservative. My dad is Muslim, and my mom is the most conservative woman you've ever met. They're very aristocratic in the most quaint suburban way."

"Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today."

"My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted."

"The biggest critic I have in my life is my dad, so everything else is just a breeze; it doesn't really matter to me."

"I was born to a dad who was born in the South Bronx while the Bronx was burning, while landlords were committing arson to their own buildings."

"As a five-year-old kid, I used to sit in front of the TV - I never missed 'Dukes of Hazzard,' not once. It was me and my dad's show."

"My mother and dad were big animal lovers, too. I just don't know how I would have lived without animals around me. I'm fascinated by them - both domestic pets and the wild community. They just are the most interesting things in the world to me, and it's made such a difference in my lifetime."

"I've got high standards when it comes to boys. As my dad says, all girls should! I'm from the South - Tennessee, to be exact - and down there, we're all about southern hospitality. I know that if I like a guy, he better be nice, and above all, my dad has to approve of him!"

"My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that's not so bad; but New York City?"

"I do think my old fella wasn't much of a... I don't remember him ever being a 'dad' dad. He was too busy working. It was a hard life, man."

"Okay, fluoride in the water to help our teeth. Well, shouldn't that be the job of your mom and dad? To teach you how to brush your teeth and use mouth wash? What do we need the government to do it for? Clearly, what a scam. Fluoride in the water."

"My dad had this thing - everyone in Canada wants to play hockey; that's all they want to do. So when I was a kid, whenever we skated my dad would not let us on the ice without hockey sticks, because of this insane fear we would become figure skaters!"

"I think my dad is the only Arabic descendent who is an unsuccessful businessman."

"I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night."

"My mother is very emotional as well, but my dad is more of the guts of the family. He was the main preacher, so he kind of had this little Pentecostal flair, but they are born-again."

"A father and two sons run Adelphia. It's a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars. A billion. Three people - three people took a billion dollars. What were they gonna do, start their own space program? 'Let's send the monkey to Mars, Dad!'"

"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."

"My dad had a guitar that he gave me. I went to Walmart and bought a chord chart and hung it up in my room, and I was just trying to figure out how to play the guitar and put words with what I was learning."

"If your dad died before you were born, yeah, it hurts - but it's not like you had a connection with something that was real. Not to say it's any better - but to have that connection and then have it ripped away was, like, the worst. My dad was such a good dad that when he left, he left a huge scar. He was my superhero."

"Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day."

"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."

"When I was growing up, my parents were almost involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that."

"We believe that the real child-care experts are mom and dad. That's why we brought in the universal child care benefit way back in 2006."

"My dad died of a massive heart attack when he was 59, as he didn't look after himself."

"I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts."

"I'm not a girly girl. I go to the bar. I like to get dirty. I love sports. I'm like the son my dad never had."

"There's certain things that I was taught growing up about not quitting and seeing things through. I think if I would have come home and told my dad that I was going to quit the team, I think he would have kicked me out of the house. I don't think I'd have a place to stay."

"It's just really making sure I am doing the best job I can do as a dad. I do think that is my No. 1 job."

"People have told me, 'My dad passed on, but I have great memories of watching your shows with him.' It doesn't get any better than that."

"My dad saw 'A Dirty Shame.' I felt bad about my father knowing what 'felching' was."

"My mom is a Pan-Africanist. My dad is still Orthodox Sunni Muslim, but he's super fun. He worked in television for years. He was a Black Panther."

"When my first semester grades came out, my mom and dad told me I wouldn't be playing football."

"I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that."

"My mum left when I was three and my dad never remarried."

"My dad is a preacher. Growing up, I went to church every time the doors were open."

"'Nil By Mouth' was a bit autobiographical, but as I always pointed out at the time, that's not my dad."