Top 30 Papa Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Papa Quotes from famous people such as Bryson Tiller, Jon Huntsman, Jr., Marjane Satrapi, Joe Morton, Charles Dickens, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I was working at Papa John's full-time. I had just quit

I was working at Papa John’s full-time. I had just quit my part-time job at UPS. I was there for two years.
Bryson Tiller
I was criticized at some level within the Republican Party by those who say government should not be in the economic development business at all. My response is that the only country I know that doesn’t have an economic development plan is Papa New Guinea.
Jon Huntsman, Jr.
I always say to people, ‘You know, if Romeo and Juliet got married, nobody would care about them.’ Imagine Romeo and Juliet, six kids yelling, ‘Mama, Mama, Papa, Papa!’
Marjane Satrapi
In the case of Papa Pope, certainly he’s making his daughter’s world and the world of the republic a much better place.
Joe Morton
Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
Charles Dickens
I was born and raised in the state of Indiana, and it’s where I started Papa John’s, so this state and our partnership with the Pacers hold a special place in my heart.
John Schnatter
My mother, along with Papa’s other eventual wives – Pauline, Marty Gelhorn, Mary Welch – they all, at one time or another, no matter how angry they were at him at the moment, said, ‘Look, Papa is special. He writes so beautifully. We have to let this go on.’
Jack Hemingway
I fed them every day. So it was a papa that kept food on the table for them. I did that. I did my part.
Joe Jackson
The people of Haiti have always called me Papa Doc. I was first their doctor. Now I am also their president for life.
Francois Duvalier
Papa loved to have me show off my scars.
Jack Hemingway
‘Healing,’ Papa would tell me, ‘is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.’
W. H. Auden
I adored my grandparents and spent every weekend with Mama and Papa Wicks. They had seven children, so they needed a big house – and it seemed only logical to them to build into their house a pipe organ in a music room with a sixteen-foot ceiling.
Frances Hesselbein
My son, Arzhel, is two, and he eats vegetables twice a day. We have a vegetable garden on our farm in the Southwest, and he gets two baskets, one over each arm, and says, ‘Garden, Papa!’ and then he eats what he picks.
Alain Ducasse
I have a house, with two big plasma-screen TVs, two dogs, a grill, chessboard. I like to keep it low-key: invite friends over, order some Papa John’s pizzas and Coors Light, play poker and ping-pong and chill. I’m pretty private.
Jared Padalecki
Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours.
Anna Freud
NFL leadership has hurt Papa John’s shareholders.
John Schnatter
I don’t believe in honors – it bothers me. Honors bother: honors is epaulettes; honors is uniforms. My papa brought me up this way.
Richard P. Feynman
The same kids listening to Papa Roach will listen to an Xzibit CD.
Xzibit
I remember there were two tapes that my papa had in his truck at all times when I was younger. It was a Ralph Stanley gospel cassette and the ‘Hee Haw’ gospel album.
Tyler Childers
Companies like Papa John’s are largely a collection of small independent businesses.
John Schnatter
Ron Reagan amazingly qualifies as an honest broker. I asked him if he was a mama’s boy and he said no, more of a papa’s boy. At the same time he was willing to say that his father had many shortcomings and needed to be held accountable.
Eugene Jarecki
Some people ask me whether I’m a ‘mama’s girl’ or a ‘papa’s girl.’ I’m nobody’s girl. My brother clings to our parents; I’m the one shoving them out the door.
Hayden Panettiere
In my case, a papadaddy is a father. My paternal grandfather was called Papa by my father who was called Daddy by me.
Clyde Edgerton
Melanie is more of a disciplinarian with the little girl than me, probably because it’s my first baby. She gets everything easy from Papa. I am more weak. She takes advantage of me.
Antonio Banderas
The first memory I have in the world is of death and tears. That is how I would mark the beginning of my life: the way people mark the end of one. My family had gathered at Papa Joe’s house because Mam’ Grace was slipping away, only I didn’t register it that way. For some reason I thought that it was her birthday.
Charles M. Blow
Papa died when he was 77.
Manolo Blahnik
I asked my kids, ‘Do you know what Papa used to do.’ They said, ‘You were a boxer, you won the Olympics!’ And that’s what they know.
Sugar Ray Leonard
Te Papa Museum is brilliant.
Richard C. Armitage
I was proud of Papa for his sports.
Jack Hemingway
Papa had some amazing qualities. He was a very spiritual person. He was very passionate about his work. He was a completely self-made man. At the same time, his generosity and kindness were two aspects of him that really defined his personality.
Tulsi Kumar