Quotes About Dad

Dad is a really surprising guy. Every time I think he's going to be useless, he ends up doing something amazing and saying exactly the right thing.

Um…I'm not afraid of hard work. I'm good at dealing with all sorts of people and…and I make a mean cup of tea." I began to blather into the silence. The thought of it being her son had thrown me. "I mean, my dad seems to think that's not the greatest reference. But in my experience there's not much that can't be fixed by a decent cup of tea…" There

Mmm.' She was thinking. My sister actually has a 'thinking face'. It makes people wait before speaking to her. Dad says my thinking face makes it look like I want to go to the loo.

Stupid?" said his dad. Norm was beginning to wonder whether he should butt in. Because this conversation was clearly going nowhere fast. Was this really what happened when you got old? You ended up arguing about flipping aftershave? And cheese? It was like some nightmarish vision of the future. "Beast Pour Homme?" said Norm's dad. Norm's

being summoned into The Front Room Of Doom wasn't ominous enough in itself. What was about to happen? wondered Norm. Because something was definitely about to happen. He hadn't just been called in to talk about the weather, or the price of flipping loft insulation. And apart from anything else, how come his dad had asked if it was him as he came in the front door? Everyone else was already there! Who did his dad think it was? The flipping Gruffalo? "Sit

I have a theory that I really want my kids to know - the only coloration that they make between dad being in films and reality is just a lot of people doing a lot of hard work.

When you're shooting a film, you really don't get to be a dad, and you don't really get to be a husband. You don't really exist at all. But I do drag my family with me on location whenever I can.

Growing up, my father was a financial analyst for an oil company. He was just a regular dad. And when I would say, 'Hey, come see my play ' he'd say, 'Sure.' He'd see one, 'Oh, good play' - you know, very typical dad reaction.

My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.

My dad was a fairy," said Zach. "And by that I don't mean he dressed well and enjoyed musical theatre.

It's a sad fact of modern life that sooner or later you will end up on YouTube doing something stupid. The trick, according to my dad, is to make a fool of yourself to the best of your ability.

Or as my dad always says: it only becomes a social problem when the working man joins in.

Tolkien and my dad had weirdly convergent ideas about the musical nature of the universe, although my dad would probably have been more forgiving of Melkor's improvisation. You know, providing it didn't step on his solo.

There was a long silence as we swam around in the strange currents of Dad's words.

I'm just a regular 24/7 dad now.

I'm just a pretty regular dad.

Personal relations were critical to the success of dad's diplomacy all across the world during his presidency.

My dad plays guitar in the church band, so it's like music as a service. He plays at old-people homes, so that's like music as a gift.

My dad was on 'Zombieland,' and I love that movie. So yeah, I think I like the horror genre!

I needed to step away from music because the truth was I couldn't be the dad I wanted to be to my kids. My truth was that I could not reconcile the two worlds - the entertainment world and being the dad I wanted to be in the present. You can't substitute time, you just can't.

I think I'm a bit more of a rule-breaker than my mom. She's very sweet and very worried. She was valedictorian. I think I got a little bit of an edgier side from my dad.

My dad is in Mississippi. He exited the Navy and made a ton of money as an entrepreneur.

I try not to spend too much time with regret, although I wish I'd had more hang time with my dad.

When I was 16, my dad took me to a DNA conference at the Exploratorium science museum in San Francisco, California, and I was captivated by this way of looking at biology and by the discussions of bits of nucleic acid that could make us sick.