Dad Quotes - Page 10

• My Dad always told me ‘Flowers mean I’m sorry, chocolates mean I love you.’

  Lauren Conrad

  Sorry, Flower, Love You

  "Lauren and Jason, Take 2 / The Hills". Drama, Reality-TV, 2006.

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• And what is a stage dad, or a stage mom? It's someone who's protective. That's all.

  Nigel Lythgoe

  Mom, Stage, Protective

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• I miss my dad every day, but I know he would be proud to see me continuing to swim and going for another shot at the Olympics.

  Eric Shanteau

  Missing, Swim, Would Be

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• I know I'm never going to be as successful as my dad, but I get bored doing nothing. I couldn't go from vacation to vacation and have no motivation.

  Tamara Ecclestone

  Motivation, Successful, Vacation

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• Dad somewhat enjoyed being called gay. He said it made women want to prove the assertion wrong.

  Jennifer Grant

  Gay, Want, Made

  Jennifer Grant (2011). “Good Stuff: A Reminiscence of My Father, Cary Grant”, p.87, Knopf

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• When it comes to Father's Day, I will remember my dad for both being there to nurture me and also for the times he gave me on my own to cultivate my own interests and to nurture my own spirit.

  Jennifer Grant

  Father, Spirit, Remember

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My dad was a tyrant. He used to physically beat the crap out of us.

  Dennis Wilson

  Tyrants, Used, Beats

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• It's all any reasonable child can expect if the dad is present at the conception.

  Joe Orton

  Children, Reasonable, Conception

  'Entertaining Mr Sloane' (1964) act 3

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• But I can see. I can see everything. I can see things that Mom and Dad can’t. Or won’t.

  Edward Bloor

  Mom, Tangerines, I Can

  Edward Bloor (2006). “Tangerine”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Dad made me laugh a lot. He was a real comedian. He had a real sarcastic sense of humour, he could really make a fool out of people. I have to watch it a little bit, because I caught that habit from him. I was really fond of him. He was my idol.

  Julian Lennon

  Sarcastic, Real, Idols

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• My dads music was a great inspiration to me.

  Julian Lennon

  Inspiration, My Dad

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• I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey

  Parker Stevenson

  Children, Memories, Water

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• Some people think the NDP may want to get rid of the monarchy but I can assure you that that's absolutely not the case. My Dad was a big time monarchist and so am I.

  Jack Layton

  Thinking, People, Loyal

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• Dads, is it too bold to hope that our children might have some small portion of the feeling for us that the Divine Son felt for His Father?

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Hope, Children, Father

  "The Hands of the Fathers". www.lds.org. April 1999.

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• Ledisi means to come here, to bring forth. It’s a Nigerian word and it’s from the Yorubu culture, I believe, and my parents named me, my dad and my mom, and really my dad, and I had no choice in that. That’s my real name and that’s what it means.

  Ledisi

  Mom, Real, Believe

  Jazz Monthly Interview, www.jazzmonthly.com.

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• When we started making electronic music I imagined that the reaction we got from the rock musicians must have been similar to the one the beat groups got from people like my dad.

  Trevor Horn

  Rocks, People, Horny

  "Horn of plenty". Interview with Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2004.

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• We came from a family where we ran our own small business. Our dad made his own products. We made our own sausages, our own meatloafs, our own pickles. Dad had to do everything himself. He had to figure out how to finance his business.

  Marcy Kaptur

  Mind Your Own Business, Sausage, Pickles

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• 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.

  David Beckham

  Inspirational, Kids, Arms

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• I watched Italia '90 with my Mum and Dad and my brother, you know, leaping around the house when the penalties were on... It would be great to be part of that, to have that kind of impact.

  Steven Gerrard

  Soccer, Brother, Impact

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Thank you Dad...
  for listening and caring,
  for giving and sharing,
  but, especially, for just being you!
  Happy Birthday to you

  John Walter Bratton

  Caring, Giving, Listening

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• If I could choose from all the fathers in the world, Dad, I'd choose you!

  John Walter Bratton

  Father, World, If I Could

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• Today is very
  For it's about a special birth
  For the very finest Dad
  That ever walked upon this Earth

  John Walter Bratton

  Special, Earth, Today

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• I'm glad God chose you to be my Dad!

  John Walter Bratton

  Daddy, My Dad, Glad

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• Dad: someone who hopes his son will turn out just like him,
  and who is afraid his daughters will meet someone who did.

  John Walter Bratton

  Daughter, Son, Turns

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• My kids love it. I thought I was the coolest dad in the world when I got to be in a Bond film, but 'Harry Potter', too? Well, I think I qualify for a medal for exceptional parenting or something, don't you?

  Robbie Coltraine

  Kids, Parenting, Thinking

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