Quotes about dad
dad battle peanut-butter
Is Tyson okay?' I asked. The question seemed to take my dad by surprise. 'He's fine. Doing much better than I expected. Though 'peanut butter' is a strange battle cry. Rick Riordan
dad hero littles
When he pulled away, he smiled kindly at me. I felt so good, I'll admit I teared up a little. I guess until that moment I hadn't allowed myself to realize just how terrified I had been the last few days. "Dad-" "Shhh," he said. "No hero is above fear, Percy. And you have risen above every hero. Not even Hercules-
dad school civilization
I’ve met plenty of embarrassing parents, but Kronos, the evil Titan Lord who wanted to destroy Western Civilization? Not the kind of dad you invited to school for Career Day.
daddy monsters blowing-up
Daddy will explain. Come, he is blowing up monsters.
dad annabeth
Um, dad?" I called "How's it going?" "Percy!" Annabeth whispered. "We're in a hurry!
dad rocks people
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
daddy mills take-me
Daddy, will you take me to the mill, again? Trenton Lee Stewart
dad hero dark
Bowie mattered to me. He reinvented himself so many times - it must have been a daring statement to do that, risking failure. And hanging out with him and seeing him like that - he's my dad's age, born in the same month - when you find someone who's been through a really dark period, which most of his music I care about is from, Low, Lodger, "Heroes" era.... But he came out of it and made something that mattered. Trent Reznor
dad growing-up kids
Great pressure is put on kids who don't have dads to get out and make money, and make life easier for everybody. It was always, 'Hurry up, grow up, make money, there's no man to do it for us.' Tracey Ullman
dad scripts firsts
The script for 'In Good Company' was the first one I ever showed my dad. Topher Grace
dad careers people
My dad was a businessman, and he would say, 'Work for free at the best company. Don't get paid a lot of money to work with the worst people.' And that's exactly how I see my career.
dad kids good-dad
I'm a good dad; I spend a lot of time with my kids. Steve Zahn
dad wrestling my-dad
Pro wrestling is what my dad did Vince McMahon
dad player cards
My dad was a big card player. Vince Vaughn
dad creative balance
My Dad used to say that the balance of the world relied on all of the monks who were living outside of society in creative isolation. I don't quite understand the ascetic life or the private life or the monastic private life. But I definitely understand privacy's value. Sufjan Stevens
dad important important-things
The most important thing I do is I'm a dad. Stuart Scott
dad intuition lucky
There's a lot of research behind the scenes that you don't get to see, but I have an instinct that my dad nurtured from when I was born. I was very lucky then. Steve Irwin
dad noses kicking
I would sooner die of a taipan bite then tell my dad that I got bitten by a taipan. Because my nose would bleed from his kicking my ass.
dad hero legends
See, I've always seen Jacques Cousteau as a hero, mate. He's a legend - like my dad, just a legend. And so what he did for conservation in the '60s through the '70s was just phenomenal.
dad oxygen years
My dad was in a wheelchair and on oxygen for the last few years of his life. Steve Earle
dad kids car
My dad used to love Steely Dan, the Stones, Jethro Tull and all that. There was always Steely Dan going in my dad's car, but I remember The Royal Scam in particular because it has 'Kid Charlemagne' on it. St. Vincent
dad games youth
I grew up playing games, and I remember Christmas 1981 when my dad got us an Intellivision, and we all sat around and played 'Astrosmash' for hours on end. It was a big part of my youth. Roger Craig Smith
dad suffering luck
My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one. Sam Shepard
dad real grandfather
My dad's side of the family ... they're a real bizarre bunch, going back to the original colonies. That side's got a real tough strain of alcoholism. It goes back generations and generations, so that you can't remember when there was a sober grandfather.
dad son bonus
Thankfully, in my youth I had the best financial advisor a son could ask for: my dad Walter. When I got that first signing bonus in 1978, Dad took my cheque, announced, 'This is what we're going to do,' and bought an annuity with it. Wayne Gretzky
dad newspapers
Dad, as a good American, believed his newspapers. Upton Sinclair
dad village lennon
I grew up in Greenwich Village. Dad was friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Yancy Butler
dad kids church
I'm from the church, my dad was a pastor's kid. Wyclef Jean
daddy singing stuff
I get my flow from Daddy, my singing ability from Mommy, the camera stuff from both. That's just what happens when you hang out with the Smiths. Willow Smith
dad play dry-up
I didn't want to play a lawyer. I didn't want to play a doctor. I didn't want to play a single dad. I wanted to do something I felt I could learn from, something that would be a challenge and something that would not dry up. William Petersen
dad father years
My dad was a preacher. My relationship, for example, with my father -- very difficult, and very painful, and it took me 50 years to wipe the face of my father off the face of God. William P. Young
dad our-generation watches
It's not our fault our generation has short attention spans, Dad. We watch an appalling amount of TV. Yeardley Smith
dad taken cat
My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing. Zoe Kravitz