Dad Quotes

I was punished for blowing the whistle on my father's lifestyle.

I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.

The most important influence in my childhood was my father.

I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.

A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool.

My father-in-law gets up at 5 o'clock in the morning and watches the Discovery Channel. I don't know why there's this big rush to do this.

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.

I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, you harvest, but working is something you always need to do.

My father, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem.

Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.

My father was the guy on the block who said hi to everyone.

My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'

My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.

No, I never thought about my father's money as my money.

As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.

My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

But the love of adventure was in father's blood.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.