Quotes by Dad I'm really, really lucky. I was given my dad's good genes. Josh Brolin genesdadlucky My interests are guitars, cars, and vacation. I've been playing guitar all my life. My dad was a professional guitarist, but I'm terrible, which lets me off the hook, so I just play for myself. Josh Hartnett vacationguitardad My hat was pulled down and this girl said 'Are you really him?' I whispered 'Yeah, I'm really him.' She screamed, 'Mom! Dad! It's Heath Ledger! Josh Hartnett dadgirlmom My father's life was changed right before my eyes [when he trusted Christ]. It was like someone reached down and switched on a light inside him. He touched alcohol only once after that. He got the drink only as far as his lips and that was it-after forty years of drinking! He didn't need it any more. Fourteen months later, he died form complications of his alcoholism. But in that fourteen-month period over a hundred people in the area around my tiny hometown committed their lives to Jesus Christ because of the change they saw in the town drunk, my dad. Josh McDowell dadbiblejesus Can’t you even tell me if I’m on the right track?" Buckminster purred, and Dad shrugged his shoulders again. "But if you don’t tell me anything, how can I ever be right?" He circled something in an article and said, "Another way of looking at it would be, how could you ever be wrong? Jonathan Safran Foer trackdadwould-be Every kid needs to say, 'I want what my mom and dad have.’ Josh McDowell dadmomkids To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Josh Billings dadfamilychildren My mom says that my dad coerced me into choosing the cello. He says that's not entirely true. I don't remember; I was three. Joshua Roman dadthreemom Dear Hilde, if the human brain was simple enough for us to understand, we would still be so stupid that we couldn't understand it. Love, Dad. Jostein Gaarder dadsimplestupid I wonder if we have a lot of sons running around saying, "I want a Dad." But you won't abide in anyone. Judah Smith dadrunningson I enjoyed [playing lawyer in From The Hip] as an ode to my dad. My dad went to Harvard and Harvard Law School, so he had some friends that practiced in Boston. So, there was a big law firm that he hooked me up with the senior partner, then the senior partner hooked me up with a young lawyer who worked in the firm. And the young lawyer was married to a public defender. So I would hang out with them, and I could see both sides of it, those that are corporate attorneys and those that help the poor and the disenfranchised. Judd Nelson seniordadschool Hamilton awkwardly folded himself into the passenger seat. "Couldn't you get something bigger?" he asked as he banged his knee against the dashboard. "We're supposed to be a diversion," Jonah said. "Got to make an entrance. Can't do that in a minivan, Giganto Boy. Can't do much in a minivan except look about as uncool as it gets." "Hey! My dad drives a minivan." "Snap. Judy Blundell kneesdadboys My dad was a big fan of comedy. He wanted to be a stand-up. He loved Lenny [Bruce]. He also loved Lord Buckley and jazz and stuff. He was a hipster. My parents were kind of beatnik-y, you know, for Salt Lake City. But my humor, I think, came from wanting to disarm people before they hit me. Judd Apatow hipsterdadthinking Part of the reason I thought that I might do a series is, my dad has pretty much been on the same road to work for years and years. And it's like, "Could I do something like that? Am I so independent that I can't punch the clock at the same place?" So part of it was a kind of exercise. "Can I be responsible in this way?" And lo and behold, I could. Luckily. It'd be bad if I couldn't. Judd Nelson independentdadexercise I'm going to talk to her." "And how's that going to go? You're just going to walk up to her and say, 'Hey, I know you've never seen me before, but I'm your dad. Oh, and guess what? You've won the evolutionary lottery: You're a vampire. Let's go to Disneyland! J.R. Ward vampireheydad It's not my business to raise anybody else's kids. Mom and Dad got to do all that. Juicy J dadmomkids Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don't learn to submit to authority, we won't ever learn to submit to God. Joyce Meyer dadwifemen My dad's so likeable, you wouldn't feel in competition with him. If any boyfriends have ever felt that, they're long gone. Julia Sawalha competitiondadlong When you watch your mum and dad sing and they're happy and it brings them joy, it is then a natural choice to go where the joy is. Music was always that place in our family. Julia Stone dadchoicesjoy Going to the theater is such a joyous experience. My dad would take my sister and me to plays when we were very young, like six or seven years old. Julia Roberts dadplayyears«8586878889909192939495»
