Dad Quotes - Page 22

I started jogging with my dad when I was five years old.

The biggest critic I have in my life is my dad, so everything else is just a breeze; it doesn't really matter to me.

I've got good genes. My dad was a martial arts instructor - and he was good.

I'm very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn't think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that's happening to me. I'm rather surprised at who I am, because I'm actually like my dad!

I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.

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

I think he would have been proud and smiling... when we laid him to rest because his family was together. I think that was a great gift to be able to give Dad at the end.

My dad really liked Didier Drogba and there was always a Chelsea game on when I was growing up.

I would always see my dad who was a big scotch drinker just enjoying his scotch with one ice cube or neat.

My dad was a great man, and I loved him, but he had some demons he fought. It was tough to see some of those things as a kid, but I believe God doesn't save you from things; he saves you through them.

When my book 'Rich Dad's Prophecy' was released in 2002, most financial newspapers and magazines trashed it because I discussed a looming stock market crash.

My parents are very hard working people who did everything they could for their children. I have two brothers and they worked dog hard to give us an education and provide us with the most comfortable life possible. My dad provided for his family daily. So, yes, that is definitely in my DNA.

Because of my father, we are that Shining City on a Hill.

I found myself very lost after 'The Partridge Family,' and I lost my dad and I lost my manager, and I lived in a bubble, and it took me 15 years to get through that and a lot of psychotherapy, and I'm laughing about it now!

I have been through a lot of ups and downs in life, both personally and professionally, and I discovered over the years that I have a lot of fortitude, and I got that from my dad.

Parents are the centre of a person's solar system, even as an adult. My dad had a stronger gravitational pull than most, so his absence was bound to leave a deep and lasting void.

When your dad's a cop, calling 911 is really just like calling Dad at work.

The most important influence in my childhood was my father.

When my dad died, I was eight. Becky was seven. My mum had cancer, the first of two bouts that she's fought and beaten.

My dad has sayings for days. 'You bloom where you're planted' ties into farming, but it also sums up the ideals and morals that we have as a family by staying in Firebaugh.

My dad was a drummer for The Mamas & The Papas, and his mother was in the jazz world, so music has always been very much in my blood.

Since I was a boy, from this house, I was out rescuing crocodiles and snakes. My mum and dad were very passionate about that and, I was lucky enough to go along.

I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.

Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.

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.'

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

I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

If my father had hugged me even once, I'd be an accountant right now.

I'm always being told I've got an old head on young shoulders, which is probably due to the way my mum and dad brought me up.