Quotes by Dad I was raised by my mom. My dad was always traveling, but she allowed me and encouraged me to be close to my dad. So I grew up with three parents: my mom, my dad and my stepmom. Ninety percent of the time I was with my mom, and 10 percent was with my dad. Brian J. White dad parent mom As a little kid, not only is my dad Jo-Jo White, but M. L. Carr is involved in the family, Red Auerbach is my godfather, and my stepmother was an Olympic-caliber sprinter. Athletes were all around. I happened to be a natural athlete. If I wasn't, it might have been hell. But I never got any pressure from my mom and dad to be an athlete. Brian J. White dad mom kids My worldview comes from a collection of the books I have read, the people I have met, and my conversations with my dad. Brian Kilmeade dad book people I had this idea... I wanted the sound to sing and have that thickness but yet still have an edge so that it could articulate. So my dad and I designed the guitar... the one that was made from an old fireplace. Brian May guitar dad ideas Dad worked his entire career as an aviation technician. Mom was a legal secretary who became a teacher. We lived a simple American life. Brian Sandoval dad mom teacher Ben remembered reading about curators in "Wonderstruck", and thought about what id meant to curate your own life, as his dad had done here. What would it be like to pick and choose the objects and stories that would go in your own cabinet? How would Ben curate his own life? And then, thinking about his museum box, and his house, and his books, and the secret room, he realized he'd already begun doing it. Maybe, thought Ben, we are all cabinets of wonders. Brian Selznick dad reading book He wished he was with his mom in her library, where everything was safe and numbered and organized by the Dewey decimal system. Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for, like the meaning of your dream, or your dad. Brian Selznick dad mom dream My mom is my heart. But my [step]dad was my role model, the hardest working man I ever knew. Brian Urlacher dad mom heart We had to give each other permission to be different as parents. That's why there's a mom and a dad with two different approaches, because you do need both. Bridgette Wilson dad mom two My dad had a movie theater so I was there every night. Brion James theater dad night Dads should lead their family in the right ways of thinking. In this case, it would’ve been nice if the President would’ve been an actual leader and helped shape their thoughts instead of merely reflecting what many teenagers think after one too many episodes of Glee. Bristol Palin teenager dad nice My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother. Broderick Crawford boyfriend dad mother I had a pretty regular childhood, with a rad mum who taught me to love reading and thinking and laughing, and (as far as I was concerned) a regular dad who drove trucks for a living and did radio interviews on weekends and got stopped in the street a lot when we went out. Brooke Fraser weekend dad reading What I respect about my dad is he comes forth and he tells the truth, and he's a very honorable person, I respect him a lot. He, I know deep down, has a good heart. Brooke Hogan dad telling-the-truth heart To me, my parents are my mom and dad, and we were able as kids to do a lot of cool things. Just being part of that family definitely brought out and cultivated the creative arts in us. Brooklyn Sudano dad mom art My dad always told me, 'I don't care what you do. Just aim to be the best at it. Even if it's the world's best window cleaner.' Bruce Dickinson dad care world My grandfather and my dad's brothers and my dad all worked in construction. It's the whole cultural thing, you know, your parents want you to go to the next level of whatever, and I decided that I ought to be an architect. I can't tell you why. And I tried, and I had no aptitude for it. Bruce Molsky dad parent brother I didn't have a blueprint from my childhood that I could call on, which is an enormous deficit when you're trying to put together a family life. I didn't see a family life where men were thriving inside of it. You know, my dad tended to blame the family for his inability to achieve what he wanted to achieve, you know? So, unfortunately, I was coming from that particular frame of mind. Bruce Springsteen childhood dad men My dad was young. He went to work. But he'd been to war. He'd seen some of the world. It wasn't like he was going to be an extensive traveler or something. That didn't seem to be in the nature of - in his nature or in the nature of his parents or many of the folks in my family, really. They were - we had a cousin that went to - off to Brown University. It was like a nuclear explosion took place. Bruce Springsteen cousin dad war My dad had a very difficult life, a hard struggle all the time at work. I've always felt like I'm seeking his revenge. Bruce Springsteen dad revenge struggle «1718192021222324252627»