Dad Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, ‘Don’t spend anything unless you have to.’”
– Dinah Shore

“My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.”
– Victor Borge

“Fathers in today’s modern families can be so many things.”
– Oliver Hudson

“When I was a kid, I used to imagine animals running under my bed. I told my dad, and he solved the problem quickly. He cut the legs off the bed.”
– Lou Brock

“Being a father to my family and a husband is to me much more important than what I did in the business.”
– Tom Bosley

“My dad always said, ‘Don’t worry what people think, because you can’t change it.’”
– Daisy Donovan

“My father was never anti-anything in our house.”
– Errol Flynn

“My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I’ve always been comforted by the power of prayer.”
– Anna Lee

“Rich men‘s sons are seldom rich men’s fathers.”
– Herbert Kaufman

“When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.”
– Robert Bly

“No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother’s affair.”
– Margaret Turnbull

“Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten.”
– Conrad Hall

“I’m not sure what the future holds but I do know that I’m going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said ‘Nic, it is what it is, it’s not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.’”
– Nicole Kidman

“Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they’re fun, they do things together, they’re best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they’re going to respect Mom.”
– Tim Allen

“I’ve got high standards when it comes to boys. As my dad says, all girls should! I’m from the South – Tennessee, to be exact – and down there, we’re all about southern hospitality. I know that if I like a guy, he better be nice, and above all, my dad has to approve of him!”
– Miley Cyrus

“Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist – because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That’s how she found out what happened on the day my father died – she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose.”
– Mitt Romney

“Don’t forget Mother’s Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad’s Third Wife Day.”
– Jay Leno

“My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, “You’re tearing up the grass”; “We’re not raising grass,” Dad would reply. “We’re raising boys”.”
– Harmon Killebrew

“My dad said to me growing up: ‘When all is said and done, if you can count all your true friends on one hand, you’re a lucky man.’”
– Josh Charles

“Don’t force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It’s the child’s desire to play that matters, not the parent‘s desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.”
– Tiger Woods

“It was my 16th birthday – my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do – write songs and sing them to people.”
– Stevie Nicks

“Dad almost died of a heart attack in the middle of making Apocalypse Now, the biggest movie of his life. It doesn’t make you want to jump into that business.”
– Charlie Sheen

“I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I’ve got a lot of that in me as well.”
– Joel Osteen

“I think a dad has to make his daughter feel that he’s genuinely interested in what she’s going through.”
– Harry Connick, Jr.

“My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all – the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do.”
– Mitt Romney

“Apparently, one in five people in the world are Chinese. And there are five people in my family, so it must be one of them. It’s either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother, Colin. Or my younger brother, Ho-Chan-Chu. But I think it’s Colin.”
– Tim Vine

“My brother Bob doesn’t want to be in government – he promised Dad he’d go straight.”
– John F. Kennedy

“Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that’s why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.”
– Wade Boggs

“My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn’t have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don’t be afraid to fail.”
– Sara Blakely

“Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn’t teach me everything he knows.”
– Al Unser

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