“I have a really, really strong work ethic and I learned that from my dad because my dad was a workaholic but he always had even more time for us. As hard as he would work, he always made the time. So it's just about balancing family, I think, and work - and giving everything 100%. And that's what he taught me.” ThinkingGivingStrongDadEthicsMy DadWork EthicWorkaholic Author:Tori Spelling
“My dad took me to a high school basketball game and this very, very famous coach in Michigan, by the name of Lofton Greene - he was a guy that my dad was familiar with. He was from our hometown. And I watched the game and I said I didn't see this guy doing a lot of coaching. And my dad told me, well, it's just like a teacher - which he was - he said if you do a good job teaching during the week, when they take the test on Friday, that's not the time you have to do a lot of demonstrative things.” SchoolGuyTeacherWeekTeachingDadBasketballHigh SchoolMy DadCoachesFamiliarCoachingGood JobFridayHometownVery Famous Author:Tony Dungy
“There's this script that my dad wrote that portrays my brother's life, and I don't want to bore you with the details, but there's something in that that's really great. I would love working with him. I don't know in what way, but if I need a coach next time I'm on the set, or to produce or make something, absolutely. He's one of the main reasons I am where I am today. His mentorship and guidance.” ReasonTodayDadMy DadCoachesGuidanceNext TimeReally Great Author:Steve Howey
“My inspiration comes from many sources, and one of those sources is precisely the maison Versace. When I was a little boy, my family was not very well off. I had a sister who worked in a hairdressing salon. I lost my dad when I was 4 or 5 years old. I grew up with eight sisters and my mom. Nine incredible women all a little "à la Donatella Versace." Real strong women from the South of Italy, women who had sensuality. They had a confidence in their body and in their sensuality. And it was a poor family, I am very proud to say it.” RealInspirationStrongPoorBoysMomProudDadMy FamilyIncrediblesMy DadMy MomSensualityStrong WomenLittle BoysVersace Author:Riccardo Tisci
“My parents were always encouraging of us being creative however we wanted to be. People say, "You didn't get pressured into having to be a director?" But it's hard to be around my dad and not be curious about filmmaking, because he thinks it's the ultimate medium.” PeopleThinkingParentCreativeDadUltimateMy DadCuriousFilmmakingBe Creative Author:Sofia Coppola
“What I've learned much about myself by now is as the quality and discipline of my quiet time with the Lord goes, so goes the rest of my life. Whether or not I'm staying in the Word daily decides how I respond to conflict, what kind of dad and father I am, and every other aspect of my life. That's probably why Satan seems to daily distract me from that most essential thing on my to do list: spend time with God.” KindFatherQualityLordDadDisciplineQuietConflictSatanEnd TimesSpend TimeQuiet Time Author:Matthew West
“Even in the 1960's, look at the minority percent of those kids being raised without a father. It was around 20 percent. America is at 80% today. I think the government is to blame for that. I think the media is to blame for that. I think you have to look at television shows and sitcoms. How do they portray fathers? They are dopey. They are dumb. They are fat. The mom is hot and the kids make fun of dad, and mom makes fun of dad. We have just relegated his role to be sort of the dumpy loser guy. And we need to get that back.” ThinkingKidsTodayGuyFatherFunMomDadHotBlameDumbLoserSitcom Author:Kevin Sorbo
“The advise my dad gave me: "To know is to study." Get some training under your belt, so that nobody what somebody asks you to do, you know how to handle it accordingly. I learned so much while working, because I developed a solid work ethic in school. Whereas, a lot of my friends had no work ethic; and because of that, they're sitting at home today.” HomeTodaySchoolStudyDadTrainingEthicsMy DadWork EthicAdvise Author:Anthony Mackie
“I didn't read much as a kid. Strangely enough, when I first met my dad, Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler, I didn't know he was my dad and I fell in love with him. I put his poster on my wall.” EnoughKidsWallDadMy DadPostersAerosmith Author:Liv Tyler
“For me, the most gratifying part in touring is singing the songs that I know tmy fans love, it's those moments when they put their hands up and their heads down that you know that you have hit a nerve. It's those moments when the people in the audience say "sang". It's those moments that I'd listen to growing up, even on Donny Hathaway live, where the people were speaking to my Dad at the Troubadour and I used to wonder, 'wow, what are they talking about?' There's an electricity that cannot be rivaled when you are creating for people live and in real time.” PeopleRealMomentsSongWonderAudienceGrowing UpDadSingingMy DadElectricity Author:Lalah Hathaway
“I was 12 or 13 years old. So I started to write poetry and fiction, even though I was really into biology because my dad was a science teacher. I kept writing all those years.” WritingTeacherDadMy DadBiology Author:Darren Aronofsky
“I have learned so much from my dad. Perhaps the biggest thing I've learned from my dad is how to be prepared at all times... whether it's for a big court case or a hostile media interview. My dad always says "Stick to your points, focus on what you are there to get across, and try not to get sidetracked."We are often trying to communicate complicated legal cases or explain laws, and it's important to keep going back to the 3 core points you want people to take away - from interviews, from our radio shows, from meetings, and from court.” PeopleTryingImportantFocusDadMeetingsMy DadCommunicateComplicatedAll TimeKeep GoingI Have LearnedBe Prepared Author:Jay Sekulow
“For me, there is nothing better than being able to work with my dad every day. But, I know that isn't God's plan for everyone. Fathers, trust God and be a great example for your sons. Even if I didn't work with my dad, the example he set in his personal and public life - as my dad and as a husband, a brother, and a son - is a major part of the reason I am who I am today. Inspire them, encourage them, and guide them. Do everything you can to instill the right values and a strong faith that can carry them through even the toughest times.” ReasonTodayValuesFatherStrongInspireSonBrotherDadHusbandMy DadTrust In GodI Am Who I Am Author:Jay Sekulow
“I loved that people loved my dad. He never said no to an autograph but didn't make fame a "thing" or act any differently. And it was beautiful to have that support from his fan base when I started to study acting.” PeopleBeautifulActingSupportStudyDadFameMy Dad Author:Genesis Rodriguez
“I still talk to my mom every day and she passed away when I was 28. And I still talk to my dad. The reality is that they're with you forever; the bond continues and they're there to help you and guide you. The best coaches I ever had, the best teachers, my parents, they all made it safe for me, not by being warm and fuzzy all the time, but by loving me so much, they were willing to make me better.” HelpingRealityParentForeverTeacherMomDadMy DadMy MomCoachesBest TeacherPassed AwayWarm And Fuzzy Author:Mike Babcock
“There was so much anti-Irish sentiment not just from other kids at the school I went to in Britain, but also the teachers themselves. I remember very clearly a lot of the things people said to me and my sisters. And of course those sentiments go back a long way. When my dad visited London in the 50s and was looking for somewhere to stay, there were signs outside boarding houses that said "No blacks, no Irish."” PeopleLongKidsSchoolRememberHouseTeacherDadMy DadSentimentsMy Sister Author:Maggie O'Farrell
“When I worked at The Independent newspaper, I had colleagues who would laugh and say that whenever they picked up the phone to my dad and heard his accent, they thought they were about to hear a five-minute warning to get out the building. People in Britain have always thought it acceptable to make racist remarks about the Irish. The prejudice underlying that supposed joke was everywhere.” PeopleLaughingBuildingDadJokesPrejudiceIndependentMy DadRacist Author:Maggie O'Farrell
“We always planned to move back to the Republic but it never happened, I'm not sure why. My dad is one of those immigrants who never leaves the place he came from. He talks about Ireland all the time. If any Irishman wins at any sort of sport, he sees it as a personal achievement.” MovingWinningSportsDadAchievementMy DadNot SureIreland Author:Maggie O'Farrell
“It's always an interesting question of what was it like as Norman Mailer's son because I could easily turn it back and say what's it like not to. I didn't always realize my dad was Norman Mailer. I always knew he was Dad, and then I forget the exact age when it dawned on me that, you know, he is actually someone who affects the public consciousness of the time. It was amazing. I mean he was a rock star and brilliant and kind and funny and generous and scary when he needed to be and, you know, hard as a father.” KindMeanAgeFatherRealizingForgetInterestingConsciousnessSonDadMy DadScaryBrilliantGenerousRock Star Author:John Buffalo Mailer
“I think that one of the things that my dad was grappling with towards the end was how that shift had happened now and he would go on a book tour and do his shows and it would be you know fulfilling and good, but he wouldn't have the same impact that he used to and it wasn't because people were less interested. It's just because people are distracted by the million different sources of entertainment and information in front of them at any given time.” PeopleThinkingBookDifferentDadMy DadFulfillingDistracted Author:John Buffalo Mailer
“I remember talking to my dad about legalization in a book we did together called "The Big Empty." He was saying like, "Oh, no, no, as soon as it's legalized it will be ruined." "The corporations will get their hands on it. You'll have, you know, pot with vitamin C and, you know, 'Viagratized High Toke.'" You know different things like that. That it won't be, you know, they'll put chemicals into it. It won't be that pure plant that it is now. He may have a good point there.” BookDifferentTogetherRememberDadEmptyPlantMy DadPot Author:John Buffalo Mailer
“I believe we all need to be aware of the biases we have. I am aware of mine; I am a white woman who grew up in a middle-class American family with a mom and a dad who were both educators. I can't make it different - I wouldn't want to - and I don't want to pretend to be something I'm not.” BelieveDifferentI BelieveMomDadEducator Author:Beth Murphy
“My father was a very fun dad; he was always coaching our soccer sports teams, he made sure that we had activities to do. He was kind of goofy and fun. But at the same time, he had a lot of lessons to teach us so that we didn't grow up and just not be good people. I try and reflect a lot on how I was raised by my father in the character that I'm playing now in being a dad. You've got to be strong for these kids. You also have to be fun and teach them all the lessons, not just one, or two, or three.” PeopleTryingKindCharacterKidsFatherStrongFunSportsTeachGrowing UpTeamDadBe GoodSoccerCoachingGood PeopleGoofy Author:Milo Ventimiglia
“Trying to understand the fear I had of truly opening my heart - first, you have to be whole to do that. The fears, the voices in my mind saying, "Oh, you don't want to do that, you might get hurt, they might abandon you - "those are ghost voices from my mom and dad.” TryingMindHeartHurtMomDadMy HeartMy MomGhostAbandonMom And Dad Author:Jane Fonda
“I can't tell you how many times at the breakfast table my dad would curse out Franklin Roosevelt. I love my father. He was an intelligent man, but he really didn't like regulations of the Roosevelt style, or the taxes. He was an Dwight Eisenhower man. And that's what Eisenhower did, committed to breaking down the program.” MenFatherStyleDadTaxesProgramIntelligentMy DadCommittedCurseBreaking DownFranklinDwight Author:Oliver Stone
“The golden child may be the oldest one, unless it's the youngest. It may be the toughest one, unless it's the most sensitive. It's not even necessary that Mom and Dad have the same favorite - and typically they don't.” MayChildrenMomDadGoldenSensitiveMom And DadGolden Child Author:Jeffrey Kluger
“Paul McCartney had a baby when he was 61; Rod Stewart was 66; Rupert Murdoch was a stunning 72. Not only does that mean they'll have less stamina than the average dad, that means they'll, well, check out a lot sooner too.” WellsMeanDoeBabyDadAverageChecksStunningStamina Author:Jeffrey Kluger
“Most definitely always been a passion, and always been one of my goals in life as a young person, to have my own business. My dad gave us his entrepreneurial mindset, so that was also ingrained, as well as the tennis. So in a lot of ways it's a part of making my parents proud. I think we all want to make our parents proud, you know?” ThinkingPassionParentGoalProudDadMy DadMindsetTennisEntrepreneurialOwn BusinessLife Goal Author:Venus Williams
“Most of us have grown up, you know, I think there are very few people who have grown up in a home that was, like, super normal. You know, we all have dispositions because maybe you didn't have a mom or you didn't have a dad, maybe your mom died early or maybe mom and dad argued or they got a divorce or who knows? You have issues that maybe you've started younger or maybe you have your own issues because you have them.” PeopleThinkingHomeMomDadDivorceYour MomMom And Dad Author:Venus Williams
“My parents preached so much about Christianity and my mother thinks Jesus is the best thing that ever happened to the world - which he is - and God found a way of making examples for me. Like, just growing up, bullets would hit my partner but not me and I'd be right there. Or my Dad had a thing where he would make me play for the sorry team during football and make me go up against all my friends. It built a certain kind of character and a humble factor into me because I knew I had to work for it. And then to be able to beat them or be just as successful at so many things.” ThinkingWorldKindCharacterMotherJesusParentChristianityGrowing UpSuccessfulTeamFootballDadSorryMy DadHumble Author:Cyhi the Prynce
“My dad has a very dry sense of humor and my mom has a more fun, silly sense of humor. My mom is the type that, at the dinner table, you'd look over at and she'd have a piece of asparagus hanging down her nose. Classic mom bit.” FunMomDadMy DadMy MomSillyClassicSense Of Humor Author:Katie Dippold
“Having my foundation be from two positive black role models in my life, my mom and my dad, two strong-minded intelligent individuals who clearly have made a great deal of great decisions in their lives and put me in a position, via educational institutions, to be around other intelligent people and to have a strong moral foundation, from which I try to never stray far. It all spurred me to carve out my own little niche as a human being.” PeopleTryingIndividualStrongBlackDecisionMoralMomDadIntelligentMy DadEducationalMy MomRole ModelsNiche Author:Mr. Lif
“It sounds like a cliché, but mother is really one of my closest friends, and so's my dad. He and I weren't very close when I was younger, but now we're best friends.” MotherDadMy Dad Author:Laura Dern
“Look, if somebody said tomorrow, "We're making a Lethal Weapon formula movie, but it's incredibly well-written and for two women," I'm not going to say, "Oh, forget it, it's formula." I got an idea the other day, that somebody should write a typical formula movie, a Lethal Weapon, and make it with me and my dad. It could be all father-and-daughter capers. But I'd want someone really weird to direct it.” WritingForgetDadTomorrowDirectMy DadForget ItReally Weird Author:Laura Dern
“My dad, was, by trade, he had a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering. He's a huge, huge jazz fan. He used to travel all the time for projects, and he used to collect jazz records. He used to collect hundreds and hundreds of jazz records because he had this passion for it. That's kind of how they had certain hobbies together with my mom.” KindTogetherPassionMomDadTradeJazzMy DadMy Mom Author:Eldar Djangirov
“My mom was a musician, and my dad had this passion for music. That's kind of how a lot of their relationship was built. When I came around, I was constantly exposed to music.” KindPassionMomDadMusicianMy DadMy Mom Author:Eldar Djangirov
“My dad would play me all of these records: Miles Davis records, John Coltrane records, Bill Evans records, a lot of jazz records. My first exposure to music was listening to jazz records.” ListeningDadJazzMy DadColtrane Author:Eldar Djangirov
“When I was going through the stuff with my dad and thinking about terms like restraining order and domestic violence, I was really just searching for a way to define what I was going through. I didn't really understand what it meant to disown a parent or not want to have a parent in your life. Even the word parent was confusing to me because my father came into my life so late in my teen years.” ThinkingFatherParentTermViolenceDadMy DadConfusingDomestic Violence Author:Chelsea Martin
“There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.” SometimesWantedFatherTearsDadBenefitsAlcoholViolentMotivatedAlcoholicsFather Son Author:Dean Koontz
“A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad.” FirstsFatherDadFirst TimeDramaticYour Dad Author:Lenny Kravitz
“Working moms, and increasingly working dads, don't want a government handout, but they do need a hand up.” WantNeedsHandsGovernmentMomDadHands UpHandoutsWorking Mom Author:Madeleine M. Kunin
“My mom and my dad wanted my brother and I to have a better life, you know, better education, better jobs. It was probably harder, much, much harder, for my parents. When you're a kid, you can learn a language much more easily; I learned English in less than a year.” KnowsYearsKidsWantedJobsLanguageParentBrotherMomDadHarderMy DadMy MomMy BrotherBetter LifeBetter Jobs Author:Mila Kunis
“I maybe missed money in my childhood, but I didn't miss love, that's for sure. My dad wasn't there, but I can tell you not even once did I think I was missing something.” ThinkingI CanChildhoodMissingDadMy DadMissing Something Author:Olga Kurylenko
“My parents couldn't give me a whole lot of financial support, but they gave me good genes. My dad is a handsome son-of-a-gun, and my mom is beautiful. And I've definitely been the lucky recipient. So, thank you, Mom and Dad.” GivingWholeBeautifulParentSupportSonMomDadLuckyGunGive MeMy DadFinancialMy MomThanksGenesHandsomeMom And DadFinancial SupportGood Genes Author:Ashton Kutcher
“When I was 13, I had my first job with my dad carrying shingles up to the roof. And then I got a job washing dishes at a restaurant. And then I got a job in a grocery store deli. And then I got a job in a factory sweeping Cheerio dust off the ground.” FirstsJobsDadMy DadStoresDustRestaurantsFactoriesDishesRoofGroceriesWashingSweepingGrocery StoresWashing DishesShingles Author:Ashton Kutcher
“My dad is a motorcycle guy, not some Hollywood dude.” GuyFatherDadHollywoodMy DadMotorcycle Author:Shia LaBeouf
“I didn't know my dad for a long time. My dad was on drugs and my dad was at the VA Hospital, my dad was off in his own world selling drugs or using them or there would be crack heads in the house or whatever it would be.” KnowsWorldLongWould BeFatherHouseDadDrugLong TimeMy DadSellingCracksHospitalsSelling Drugs Author:Shia LaBeouf
“I don't know, I just want to be happy. I could be in a hole somewhere. Or I could completely lose it and be some hippy living in the woods with my dad.” KnowsWantFatherLosesDadMy DadWoodsHolesWant To Be HappyI Just Want To Be HappyJust Want To Be Happy Author:Shia LaBeouf
“Now my dad is with me, traveling with me and a big part of this whole thing is I like to mix it up a little bit, you know. Who gets to take their father on a private jet across the country and stay in first class hotels? So we're enjoying it, but I'd stop if it's not possible.” IfsKnowsFirstsLittlesCountryWholeBigsFatherBitsEnjoyClassDadLittle BitMy DadHotelJetFirst ClassPrivate Jet Author:Shia LaBeouf
“I spent a lot of time on farms when I was young. My uncle and my dad owned a big farm.” BigsYoungDadMy DadFarmsAgricultureUncles Author:Emeril Lagasse