Dad Quotes - page 59

My dad was a janitor for U.S. Radium Corporation, and he stayed there for 37 years. So he didn't read. (Walter Dean Myers)
We've always been modestly leveraged, and we've never believed in a great deal of leverage on either our private equity business or on our investment banking business. And I think it really goes back to my uncle and dad growing up in the Depression and just seeing what happened to people who were overly levered. View quote
Warren Stephens
I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad. View quote
will.i.am
My dad was an agent for Met Life. In the '50s, I remember the mortality rate was something like - you had - 58 was the average age. Then it was moved up to 62, and then 65, 68. View quote
Willard Scott
My dad traveled a lot, so I only usually saw him on weekends, growing up. His favorite actors in the world were Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds. If Clint or Burt had a movie out, we would go to the movies. He didn't like movies, generally, unless Clint or Burt were in them. View quote
William Earl Brown
My dad was a really good surfer, and by the time I was 10, he was dragging me out on some good days at Bells. I'd reckon they were solid, 6-foot days, and he'd tell me to wait on the shoulder. I'd see him coming through the barrel, and he'd just scream at me to go. I'd drop in, and he'd give me a hoot from behind - I've always loved it. View quote
Xavier Rudd
It's not our fault our generation has short attention spans, Dad. We watch an appalling amount of TV. View quote
Yeardley Smith
It is not weird for a dad to be doing the dishes, the laundry, and taking the kids to school, and read them stories for bed. View quote
Zach Cregger
But my father was also the one who told me I needed to clean up my mouth or I'd never find a man. What's very important to him is manners. Show up on time. Always send thank-you letters. He is one of the more thoughtful humans I've ever met. He's a great man and a very good dad. View quote
Zosia Mamet
I blame my dad for my sweet tooth. His motto was 'Life is short; eat dessert first.' How can I argue with that? View quote
Wendy Mass
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. (SZA)
My dad is a big extrovert - he's a doctor - but he always loved Shakespeare, and he took us to tons of theater. View quote
Vanessa Kirby
My first job was working for my dad. He was a used-car dealer, and I used to wash the cars down, clean them out, and so on. I would do stuff for him pretty much every day. It was quite a good job, to be honest. View quote
Tyson Fury
A lot of my friends, when I was 14 or 15, they were all up and down, wanting to go out on a Friday night, and my dad had me working really late on Fridays and Saturday mornings and even on Sunday mornings. And when I'd finished all that, we used to spend the rest of the time talking about boxing. View quote
Tyson Fury
We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible. View quote
Peter Agre
Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical Society education committee, where he sat on the committee with Linus Pauling, who had authored a very phenomenally important textbook of chemistry. View quote
Peter Agre
When I was a boy, I used to pull a big cross saw with my dad. He'd use his right hand, so I'd have to use my left. View quote
Joe Frazier
The funny thing about our act is that dad gets the worst of it, although I'm the one who apparently receives the bruises [...] the secret is in landing limp and breaking the fall with a foot or a hand. It's a knack. I started so young that landing right is second nature with me. Several times I'd have been killed if I hadn't been able to land like a cat. Imitators of our act don't last long, because they can't stand the treatment. View quote
Buster Keaton
I learned to hear silence. That's the kind of life I lived: simple. I learned to see things in people around me, in my mom, dad, brothers and sisters. View quote
Sidney Poitier
My father was the quintessential husband and dad. View quote
Sidney Poitier
My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the bone, well, that's my dad. And he was a very good man. (Sidney Poitier)
When I was a kid, I thought my dad was a little bit harsh with me at times. Sometimes I needed an arm around me instead of my dad telling me what I did wrong, but it obviously worked. View quote
David Beckham
I would never complain about the position I'm in or the attention I get. At the end of the day, I'm very lucky to have what I have and do what I do, but I don't see myself as any different from anyone else who works hard and is a dad and a husband. View quote
David Beckham
At times I've got a really big ego. But I'll tell you the best thing about me. I'm some guy's dad; I'm some little gal's dad. When I die, if they say I was Annie's husband and Zachary John and Anna Kate's father, boy, that's enough for me to be remembered by. That's more than enough. View quote
John Denver
I'm not great at dealing with death, I have to say. I find death very hard: my mum, my dad, Sid Vicious. I'm not a monster; I feel it and it scares me. One death at a time, please, is all my heart will bear. View quote
John Lydon