Top 585 Dad Quotes

A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad.
Lenny Kravitz
I grew up in an era where Dad worked, Mum looked after the family, and if I think of the qualities she brought to that – nurture and support are so valuable.
Sean Dyche
I always wanted to be a stand-up comedian, even as a kid. Me and my dad would watch ‘Evening at the Improv’ on A&E.
Adam DeVine
I think the reason my relationship works so well with my dad is that we can separate our tennis lives from our personal lives.
Alexander Zverev
My mom and dad did something special when they made me.
Terrell Suggs
I was born in India, and we came from a poor family and

I was born in India, and we came from a poor family and lived in a rural village. My dad came over to Canada as a refugee, and years later, we were able to join him.
Rupi Kaur
My dad was my hero. And I got my personality from my mother.
Magic Johnson
When I was a little girl, my dad always said to me that I was going to be this great businesswoman, that I was going to be the CEO of IBM. So that’s what I came into the world thinking, that I was going to go into the business world and make my mark there.
Pramila Jayapal
Everything that I’ve done in my life is always I wanted to be the best in everything I do. I want to be the best husband, the best dad, the best receiver.
A. J. Green
And I love Mel Brooks. My Dad loved his movies, too, they’re awesome, the kind of thing that if you’re in for ten minutes, you’re in for two hours.
Mike Myers
My dad was a terrible businessman.
Al Franken
I was always told I was Daddy’s little girl. In fact, we owned toy stores, and I would run in and want to get the latest toy off the shelf. My mom would say no way, and my dad would say, ‘Get whatever you want, baby.’
Paula White
All my brothers and my dad at one point had dreadlocks.
Zendaya
I was in the bath at the time, and my dad came running in and said, ‘Guess who they want to play Harry Potter!?’ and I started to cry. It was probably the best moment of my life.
Daniel Radcliffe
Bob Dole. He’s like the neighbors’ Labrador retriever your dad used to curse for all that barking, all that darn digging in your mom’s tulip bed, and now look, you live next door to a godforsaken pack of teeth-baring rabid Pomeranians, and, good golly, Bob Dole!
Jeanne Marie Laskas
The love for fitness is something I picked up from my dad, and I make it a point not to miss working out.
Naga Chaitanya
I had a real bad attitude after my dad passed of liver cancer. I was 9, and we were really close.
John Wall
I always say that even though my dad was alive during Woodstock, he was just not invited. He just seemed like he was from a different generation.
Adam F. Goldberg
I’m a father. It isn’t just my life any more. I don’t want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed.
Billie Joe Armstrong
Nine per cent of my viewers are men, of which the majority is, I think, 45 to 50. I like to tell myself it’s just my dad watching.
Zoe Sugg
My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.
Beau Bridges
I learned as my dad’s kid that unless you physically can’t get there, unless you physically can’t do it, you need to show up for work.
Joe Buck
A little before my 10th birthday, I was like, ‘Can I please have a puppet, Mom and Dad?’ They were like, ‘No. You are a singer, not a ventriloquist. You have three brothers, and you’re in gymnastics. There’s no way we have time for this.’
Darci Lynne Farmer
My mum and dad got divorced when I was nine and my brother was seven, and all they strived to do was to make sure we weren’t affected.
Michelle Keegan
My mom is Filipino and my dad is half Russian and half Irish.
Cheryl Burke
My dad was a real working musician in the late ’70s and early ’80s. He had a band that was signed to Elektra/Asylum and they would perform at like Madame Wong’s and Whiskey A Go Go all the time.
Weyes Blood
I try to live my life like my father lives his. He always takes care of everyone else first. He won’t even start eating until he’s sure everyone else in the family has started eating. Another thing: My dad never judges me by whether I win or lose.
Ben Roethlisberger
My dad was raised Orthodox in Atlanta. He speaks Hebrew. He speaks Yiddish. He married a Jewish woman who is not Orthodox, so I was brought up by two different kinds of Jews.
Alex Borstein
Employee fathers need to step up to the plate and put their family needs on the table.
James Levine
I was an only child, and I spent a lot of time alone. My dad was an only child, too, so we didn’t have a big family, and I was really close with both of my parents. Like any kid, I thought I knew more than they did.
Richard Jenkins
My dad wanted me to play football so bad, he took me to Washington High School on the west side of Atlanta because they were number one. They never lost.
Young Thug
The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
E. B. White
I saw ‘The Exorcist’ at the cinema when I was quite young, maybe 14. When I went back home, my mum and dad weren’t in, so I had to wait for them on the main road. I were too scared to enter the house.
Sean Bean
My dad was Dublin born and bred – a Dublin boy – but he always pushed me to play for what was Wales Under-15s in my day.
Chris Coleman
My dad is one of my favorite human beings in the world. He’s just a good person, and he could entertain a brick wall.
Thomas Rhett
David and Dad didn’t get along too well growing up. I mean we all got along, but it was harder on David, because David wasn’t going to be the son that Dad wanted. But now they’re like best friends.
Amy Sedaris
OK, I have a nickname. My family calls me 'Trey' becaus

OK, I have a nickname. My family calls me ‘Trey’ because I’m William the third. My dad has the same name, which is always confusing because my dad is well known, and I’m also known.
Bill Gates
A lot of people ask why I don’t talk about my dad, and I want to, I just don’t have that many stories. When he moved out, he moved to a different state, so it was just my mom and I.
Jo Koy
Steph’s such a good dad for girls. He’s super attentive, and he’s, like, not too manly to get down on the floor and play with them and have a tea party.
Ayesha Curry
In my experience on ‘New York Undercover,’ where I played a dad, I was 26 years old, and I didn’t have kids then. And at that time, it would blow me away that people said they became a better parent because of watching my role on that TV show.
Malik Yoba
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
I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
Anais Nin
I found out when I was 18 that Dad had left my mother and the family before he realised he was ill and then died. When I asked Mum about it, she just sort of shrugged it off and said she’d thought I knew about it all along. Of course I hadn’t, though I’m sure she must have been desperately unhappy at the time.
Martin Clunes
For the guys who would say, ‘oh, your dad, this and that, you’ve got to the league or here because of him’… they’re hypocrites.
Austin Rivers
I was born in Canada, and then my dad played pro soccer in England and then also on an island off the coast of Portugal. So we lived there for, like, 10 years. And then we moved to Minnesota. So I feel like I’ve experienced a lot of different cultures, and I’m still figuring out who I am.
Kylie Bunbury
My mother told me Homer Ditto was not my father. Nope. Mom had had a fling with some other guy who was my dad. Some dude who didn’t stick around too long who Mom was happy to get rid of. She chose Homer, and Homer chose me, so he lent me his name even though I didn’t have his blood.
Beth Ditto
My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.
Paul McCartney
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
Dick Clark
Our dad was a great guy and we will never forget him.
Lara St. John
I get on fine with my mum and dad, but if they want to see the grandchildren, they come to me.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson
My dad’s not here, but he’s watching in heaven.
Bubba Watson
My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.
Anthony Hopkins
No, I never thought about my father’s money as my money.
Christie Hefner
I’d always also been interested in being in the army because my dad was in the army and my brother is an officer in the army.
Phil Dunster
My dad used to be a rapper, he had a rap group. They did proper old school, boom-bap music. He had a high top and everything.
AJ Tracey
If you ask my dad, I’m always the person that found the little bird out of the nest and is trying to put it back or take care of it.
Jill Ellis
I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn’t. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You’re looking at a real daddy.
Barry White
When I was a kid, I worked as a clerk at my parent’s motel. From when I was eight or nine, I rented rooms, helped with laundry, folding tons of towels. And then I also worked at my dad’s gas station more as a young adult and as an adult.
Sabaa Tahir
I ate supper after Dad saw the evening shift down the shaft, and I went to sleep to the ringing of a hammer on steel and the dry hiss of an arc welder at the little tipple machine shop during the hoot-owl shift.
Homer Hickam
It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.
Pope John XXIII
In 2009, I fractured my skull in a freak accident at an L.A. restaurant. I suffered a seizure and was rushed into hospital. I was so out of it that I refused to let them scan my brain. My dad rushed to my bedside and talked me into having the CAT scan – he told me that I might die if I didn’t go through with it.
Eliot Sumner
When my dad divorced my mom it was kind of like him leaving me also.
Nicole Richie
My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.
Beau Bridges
My uncle, my dad always made sure I had guard skills. But as far as defending everybody, that wasn’t really my mindset until my rookie year.
Draymond Green