Dad Quotes - page 66

My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to somebody else. (T-Pain)
My dad always told me that anyone's voice is just another instrument added to the music. View quote
T-Pain
It's a complex relationship when your dad happened to be president and you are president and then you have all the amateur psychology that goes on when people try to speculate about motivations. View quote
Jeb Bush
My dad was a sports writer when I was younger and then he became just a general columnist. But I grew up with him literally getting into brawls with football coaches. View quote
Amy Klobuchar
Because of his military service, Dad was buried in Arlington National Cemetery. View quote
Buzz Aldrin
I've always wanted to act and I grew up a little on film sets when my dad was working as an actor. View quote
Saoirse Ronan
I've always been quite mature because of the way my parents brought me up. They were very good at talking to me like a person rather than a baby, and I was around so many actors and directors from such a young age because my dad is an actor. I was more comfortable with adults rather than actually being an adult child. View quote
Saoirse Ronan
But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism. View quote
Fiona Apple
And then before going back for my sophomore year, I decided to change my major to arts and sciences, and my dad cut a deal with me: He said if I'd quit school he'd pay my rent for the next three years, as if I were in school. View quote
Sarah Silverman
Dad was the first man I fell in love with. He was a very funny man. He grew up in the East End of London and was very dynamic, and I understood why my mother fell in love with him. View quote
Patsy Kensit
I was really into sci-fi books as a kid. My dad is a physicist and he used to take my brothers and I into his lab when we were little. We played games with liquid nitrogen and Van de Graaff generators. He had the keys to the observatory at St Andrew's University and he'd get us up in the middle of the night to show us Halley's Comet. That's partly why the album is called Eye To The Telescope. (KT Tunstall)
I'm from Santa Cruz in Northern California, and the 49ers were my dad and I's bonding time. View quote
Marisa Miller
I used to say, 'Man, I think I'd be a really good dad. I'll be a great provider. I'm funny; I'll go on trips with them - I'll do all sorts of stuff.' But the momming? I'm not made for that. I have a really good mom; I know what she put into it. View quote
Elizabeth Gilbert
When my dad divorced my mom it was kind of like him leaving me also. View quote
Nicole Richie
You know, I'm just - I'm really happy for my dad. View quote
Nicole Richie
Traded him for Alec," Clary said. "Not permanently" "No," said Jace. "Just for a few hours. Unless I don't come back. In which case, maybe he does get to keep Alec. Think of it as a lease with an option to buy." "Mom and Dad won't be pleased if they find out." "That you freed a possible criminal by trading away your brother to a warlock who looks like a gay Sonic the Hedgehog and dresses like the Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?" Simon inquired. "No, probably not. View quote
Cassandra Clare
I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong. View quote
Ann Richards
My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education. View quote
Benedict Cumberbatch
Mother told me once that some Westonians privately criticised Dad for retreating so soon. They apparently felt it would have been more dignified to have waited a week or so before running away. I think this view misses the essential point of running away, which is to do it the moment the idea has occurred to you. Only an obsessional procrastinator would cry, "Let's run for our lives, but not till Wednesday afternoon. View quote
John Cleese
I didn't have any role models really. My best friend was a dog. My mum and dad saved a dog from the gutter and that dog was my brother before Jesse was born. Sami was his name and he was my role model. View quote
Ville Valo
My dad was depressed a lot of the time, and there were a lot of things in his life that he never resolved. (Juliana Hatfield)
Every few months Torrey's parents flew from Mexico to Boston to harangue her. She was crazy, she had driven them crazy, she was malingering, they couldn't afford it, and so forth. After they left Torrey would give a report in her tired drawl. "Then Mom said, ‘You made me into an alcoholic,' and then Dad said, ‘I'm going to see you never get out of this place,' and then they sort of switched and Mom said, ‘You're nothing but a junkie,' and Dad said, ‘I'm not going to pay for you to take it easy in here while we suffer.' ” "Why do you see them?” Georgina asked. "Oh,” said Torrey. "It's how they show their love,” said Lisa. Her parents never made contact with her. The nurses agreed with Lisa. They told Torrey she was mature for agreeing to see her parents when she knew they were going to confuse her. Confuse was the nurses' word for abuse. View quote
Susanna Kaysen
My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish. View quote
Paul McCartney
Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical. View quote
Paul McCartney
My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous. View quote
Paul McCartney