Quotes About Perspective

Dad, as a good American, believed his newspapers.

My dad would always say, "When you look at a photo do you see yourself last?"

On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.

I never got into fights with kids about whose dad is bigger and who can beat up who. What am I going to say? My dad can kill your dad when he's asleep?

[My mom] worries about me going and taking drugs, whereas my dad advises me on what drugs to take and what ones not to take. So, they're very different.

I liked a lot of the things other people liked - Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Van Halen, AC/DC - but if I compared it to my dad's music, there just seemed to be elements missing.

On the one hand, I've had such a normal upbringing with my mum, who has kept me grounded, but on the other, the wild experiences through my dad.

My dad told me, 'Your movie's never as good as the dailies and never as bad as the rough cut.

My uncles were all funny. My dad wasn't funny, but my uncles were all funny. Now I go back and I like him better than them, they were manipulative funny.

I was lucky enough to watch my son hit a grand slam at sports camp, and that was great. Yes, I may miss some things, but honestly, I think I get to see more than a dad who works a daily 9 to 5.

I was born when my dad was 50... It's weird growing up with a dad that much older than you. We'd go to the movies, we're both getting discounts.

I delivered leaflets for my dad and was paid £5 per thousand, which was slave labour.

It's a different story because guess what, the kid is only 28 years old, 28. He's not his dad, not his grandpa. He's 28 years old.

My son Jack once said to me, 'Dad, do you think people are laughing with you or at you?' And I said, 'I don't care as long as they're laughing.'

My dad was always fascinated and amused by Trump, so I learned to be fascinated and amused by Trump.

Of the many horrors of divorce, the most egregious is that it robs a kid of the best of both worlds. Dads can do many things that even the best moms can't, and vice versa.

My daddy was the type that if you asked him, "Dad, am I going to get off punishment soon?" - he would extend it. It was like jail.

I ask for a lot of advice from different fathers - all kinds of dads.

From someone whose dad buys him a spade for Christmas, I thought you'd be grateful!

In the original draft I was 27 and Peter was 55 in the script. That's not the same as a guy in his 40s and a dad in the end of his 70s. It's a different point in both our lives.

Dad was supportive, intelligent, read to me as a kid, left me a trillion dollars. It's hard to complain.

Teddy said it was a hat, So I put it on. Now dad is saying, "where the heck's the toilet plunger gone?

When my children complain that I'm forgetful, I remind them that DAD is just ADD spelled sideways.

Dating is a give and take. If you only see it as "Taking," you are not getting it.