Quotes by Dad My dad is a motorcycle guy, not some Hollywood dude. Shia LaBeouf dadguyfather Dad and I did not care at all for your story in The New Yorker … [I]t does seem, dear, that this gloomy kind of story is what all you young people think about these days. Why don't you write something to cheer people up? Shirley Jackson dadcheerwriting I was always embarrassed because my dad wore a suit and my mother wore flat pumps and a cozy jumper while my friends' parents were punks or hippies. Shirley Manson dadhippiemother Being with my kids is really important to me, being a good dad and being around a lot. Shooter Jennings dadimportantkids I got a drum set at the age of four. I wasn't playing that well, just kind of banging around. I just wanted to play drums and my dad got me a set. I played for several years, but I wasn't meant to be a drummer, I guess. I can play drums on my own things - obviously on some of my own records I play drums. But I didn't start playing guitar until I was 11. Shuggie Otis guitardadplay My dad's intense love for art and music is what drove me to learn music Shreya Ghoshal intensedadart I was never pushed into the business. I wanted to play the guitar. When my dad found out I could play pretty good he took me into the studio one day. I did my first session for his label. We did quite a few sessions up there. Shuggie Otis guitardadplay I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life. Sidney Poitier father-sonfathers-daydad My dad introduced me to the game, gave me a stick. Since then I've had a passion for it. Sidney Crosby passiondadgames My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the bone, well, that's my dad. And he was a very good man. Sidney Poitier dadmenfather My father was the quintessential husband and dad. Sidney Poitier dadhusbandfather But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity. Sidney Poitier dadintegritymen I learned to hear silence. That's the kind of life I lived: simple. I learned to see things in people around me, in my mom, dad, brothers and sisters. Sidney Poitier dadmombrother Killing time in the precinct, I find a copy of one of my early volumes in a dump-bin on the pavement outside the charity shop. The price is 10p. It is a signed copy. Under the signature, in my own handwriting, are the words, "To mum and dad". Simon Armitage handwritingsignaturesdad I think everyone thinks their dad is a little bit odd or crazy. As they get older, they develop their own little habits. They have a certain way that they like to live their life, and nothing is going to interrupt that. Simon Bird dadcrazythinking My dad did teach me a very important lesson about people when he explained to me that everybody around you will have an invisible sign on their head, which says, "Make me feel important." Simon Cowell dadimportantpeople I have very good advice to give to kids this age, which is, you shouldn't listen to your mum or dad and you just have to work it out for yourself. And the reason I've taken the age range down this year, and I never would have done it 10 years ago, is what I've seen with the success of Willow Smith. You don't have to be so cutesy anymore. Simon Cowell dadtakenkids My dad wasn't someone who was a great disciplinarian, we had a fun relationship, but he gave me really constructive advice in my life, which I still carry today and I do pass on to other people. So if I can have the same relationship with my son as I had with my dad, then I think he'll be very happy and I'll be very happy. Simon Cowell dadfunson On one level, going bust didn't bother me. It was the 80s, and there wasn't the stigma about bankruptcy that you might think. My mates weren't bothered. My dad was in business.. he knew that it happened, too. He loaned me the money to bail me out, and I got a loan from the bank to pay him back. Simon Cowell dadbusinessfriendship My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men. Simon Newcomb boyfrienddadfather«151152153154155156157158159160161»
