“I had to tell Dad, 'It will be okay and be positive; keep praying and have faith'. I have always known about cancer, but to be around someone who has it and to see what it does in such a short space of time was hard. It makes you think about your life, about what is important.” ThinkingDoeImportantHardSpaceKnownPrayingDadOkayCancerHave FaithMake You ThinkBeing Positive Author:Jermain Defoe
“When you're a child, the most important thing is to be able to live a life of comfort. You want to be sure that the moon goes up at night and the sun comes up in the morning and dad comes home from work.” WantChildrenImportantHomeAbleNightMorningSunDadComfortMoonImportant ThingsCome UpComing Home Author:Keegan-Michael Key
“Wild Swans' showed me there are Chinese traditions that still affect my life. For example, it's not that women are inferior, exactly, but my dad and my brother are the most important men in my life and I would do anything for them. I feel like I should be the one cooking and looking after them.” MenFeelsShouldStillsImportantExampleBrotherDadTraditionCookingMy DadChineseMy BrotherInferiorsSwans Author:Katie Leung
“People always want to ask me about my dad. Which I get because he's a phenomenal actor, and that's for the world, that's out there. But my mother is every bit as impressive and as important for the world as my dad is. It's just that she's not an actor.” PeopleWorldWantImportantMotherActorsAsksBitsDadMy DadAsk MeImpressivePhenomenal Author:Domhnall Gleeson
“I think it is important to be a friend to your kids. But it is also equally important to set boundaries. My mother was a strong influence and so was my dad. My mom was my friend whom I couldn't cross.” ThinkingImportantKidsMotherStrongInfluenceMomDadMy FriendsCrossesMy DadMy MomBoundaries Author:Karisma Kapoor
“We've come a long way from having one land line that was forbidden to be answered during dinner. We had no answering machine, just a dad who barked, 'Who calls during dinner? If it's important, they'll call back.' He was right.” IfsWayLongImportantLinesLandDadMachinesDinnerForbiddenLong WayAnswering Machines Author:Regina Brett
“I was the youngest of the six kids, and to make my older siblings laugh, that was very important. I did a great impression of our dad that made them all laugh, so that gave me a lot of power within the family.” MadeImportantKidsLaughingDadSixImpressionSiblingOlder Sibling Author:Jim Gaffigan
“I grew up watching my Dad, Uncles Ciaran Murray and Brendan Murray, and cousin, Aedin Murray, who were all national caliber Gaelic football players in Ireland. I try to watch as much Gaelic football as I can, it is my first love. I bleed Green, White, and Orange. Gaelic football players don’t get paid to play, you play to represent your county that is more important than earning money.” TryingFirstsI CanImportantPlayWhiteWatchesPlayerFootballGrewDadGrew UpPaidGreenMy DadIrelandFirst LoveEarningUnclesOrangeCousinCountyFootball PlayerCaliberEarning MoneyGaelic Author:Patrick Murray
“Dads in the family are even more important than women in the workplace. The workplace benefits from women, but the family needs dads.” NeedsImportantDadBenefitsWorkplace Author:Warren Farrell
“Performing at my best is important to me and should be to everyone. I am blessed that my dad is a chiropractor. Getting adjusted regularly - along with practicing other good health habits that my mom helped me to establish - are all part of my goal to win in life and on the field.” LifeShouldImportantWinningSportsGoalFamilyPracticeFieldsHealthMomHabitDadBlessedMy DadMy MomPerformingHealthy LivingGood HealthQuarterbackAmerican FootballAdjustingRegularity Author:Aaron Rodgers
“I'm lucky because my dad taught me to be frugal and save. And that's important because I want to know that I don't have to take an acting job for two or three years if I don't want to and that I'll still be able to make my house and car payments and buy food for my dogs.” IfsKnowsWantYearsStillsTwoImportantAbleJobsThreeHouseActingDogCarTaughtDadLuckyMy DadThree YearsMy DogPaymentFrugalCar Payments Author:Ashley Greene
“I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep trying new things.” TryingImportantDadMy DadNew ThingsKeep TryingExperimentationTrying New Things Author:S. Robson Walton
“I wear my dad's cross. It's very important to me. I hang it in my locker before each game.” ImportantGamesDadCrossesMy DadLockers Author:Hope Solo
“Kids need a mom and a dad, and people understand that. Marriage between a mom and a dad is most important for kids.” PeopleNeedsImportantKidsMomDad Author:Tim Huelskamp
“My mother taught me to focus on being myself and not to worry what other people think about you. I know that as long as I'm a good person I'll stay on the right path. From my dad I learned that when someone tells you “No” it's only the beginning of a conversation. They both have always let me know that I can do anything I want to do as long as I don't give up. They are the most important role models in my life because they are exactly who I want to be when I grow up. They are supportive and understanding and I try every day to remember what they've taught me.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantGivingTryingPersonsLongI CanImportantRememberMotherGrowsUnderstandingCan DoRolesWorryGrowing UpPathFocusTaughtDadConversationGiving UpModelsLet MeMy DadRole ModelsSupportiveGood PersonDon't Give UpRight PathBeing MyselfDay To Remember Author:Lauren Conrad
“As an older dad who grew up in a rural culture in the South, certain things were expected of women, and that included raising the children. But I think its just as important for the father to give the baths, to hug, to change the diapers, to tell the stories.” ThinkingGivingChildrenImportantStoriesCertainCultureFatherGrewDadGrew UpSouthExpectedHugBathsDiapers Author:Clyde Edgerton
“My dad went to USC and it always had been very important to me and my family.” ImportantDadMy FamilyMy DadUsc Author:Miranda Cosgrove
“One of the things that gives me a lot of pleasure about both the solo show and the book is that it tells people about my dad. He really was an important man. He was a kind of pioneer of regional theater. He was the first American producer to ever produce all of Shakespeare plays.” PeopleMenGivingFirstsKindImportantBookPlayShowsPleasureProduceDadGive MeTheaterMy DadProducersSoloPioneersShakespeare Play Author:John Lithgow
“I started taking piano lessons when I was 8 and I wrote my first song shortly after. Music was really important in my family. My grandma was a professional violin player and my parents first met when my dad was giving my mom guitar lessons.” GivingFirstsImportantSongParentPlayerMomDadLessonsMetsMy FamilyGuitarMy DadMy MomPianoViolinGrandmaMy GrandmaPiano Lesson Author:Eric Hutchinson
“When I come home, I'm not a basketball player, but "dad". While everyone sees me as an NBA player, to my boys, I'm just "dad" and that's very important.” ImportantHomeBoysPlayerDadBasketballNbaComing HomeBasketball PlayerMy BoysNba Player Author:Dwyane Wade
“THE FACT THAT MY DAD IS A PREACHER HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ANYTHING. HE PROBABLY WOULDN'T AGREE WITH SOME OF MY MATERIAL BUT THEN AGAIN THERE'S NO SIGN ON MY COMEDY EVENT THAT SAYS "REVIVAL HERE TONIGHT". IM SURE GOD HAS MORE IMPORTANT THINGS TO DO THAN GO TO MY 8 OCLOCK OMAHA SHOW. THE SHOW IS THE SHOW AND CHURCH IS CHURCH.” ImportantFactsShowsChurchComedyEventsMaterialsDadAgreeImportant ThingsMy DadThings To DoTonightPreacherRevivalOmaha Author:Larry the Cable Guy
“It was always so important to my dad for us to understand about the Genocide and to know about our family history.” KnowsImportantDadMy DadOur FamilyGenocideFamily History Author:Kim Kardashian
“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.” LoveLifeInspirationalChildrenImportantFunnyMotherFatherCan DoFamilyMarriageMomWise WordsDadImportant ThingsMy DadParenthoodFatherhoodOur FatherFamily LoveFather SonMother And FatherAbout FamilyMom And DadHappy Mothers DayYour DadFather And SonBeing A FatherMother's LoveHappy FamilyGreat FatherChristian FatherMother And ChildGreat MarriageGood FatherInspirational MothersMother ProverbsBest FamilyMothers Day InspirationalLove Your FamilyInspirational MarriageHappy First Fathers DayLoving FamilyMother ChildFathers Day InspirationalLove And FamilyFatheringHappy Fathers Day GodFather MotherInspirational FatherLove My DadMom And ChildDad LoveFathers Day PoemsI Love My DadChristian Fathers DayFathers Day CardFatherhood InspirationalParent Child RelationshipEncouraging MarriageLoving My FamilyRaising A FamilyFather ChildParents MarriagePerfect Father Author:Theodore Hesburgh
“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."” PeopleFeelsImportantTeachDadLessonsMy DadInvisibleImportant Lessons Author:Simon Cowell
“I'm glad I was raised by my dad for other reasons, too. There are things you can learn from a father, as a son, that you can never learn from Mom. Special things, important things. Like "never challenge Dad to a fist fight.” ImportantReasonFightingFatherChallengesSpecialSonMomDadImportant ThingsRaisedMy DadGladFistsSpecial Things Author:Christopher Titus
“I never wanted to be an actor. My dad was an actor, and he never brought joy home, so I didn't view it as something that I would want to do. But I got fired as a secretary, and then I started studying, I started doing it just to earn money. And it took me a long time to learn to love it. And what I loved was telling a story. I tried to avoid making plays or films that weren't telling a story that I felt was important. I discovered in the process that it makes you more empathic because you have to enter someone else's reality and learn to see through many other people's eyes.” PeopleWantLongImportantPlayStoriesHomeRealityEyeWantedFilmJoyActorsFeltProcessViewsStudyDadLong TimeMy DadSecretary Author:Jane Fonda
“My dad worked very hard for the money he made, and my mom worked very hard to keep this household up and running and all the kids fed and everything. And she did it in a brilliant fashion. They both did. In fact, the work ethic, to me, is so important in this life.” MadeImportantHardFactsRunningKidsFashionMomDadEthicsMy DadMy MomBrilliantThis LifeFedsHouseholdWork Ethic Author:Kim Basinger
“I think the most important thing I learned from my dad is the importance of telling the truth...treat other people well, work hard at the job and tell the truth.” PeopleThinkingWellsImportantHardJobsHard WorkDadTreatsImportanceImportant ThingsMy DadTelling The Truth Author:Sean McDonough
“Father's Day is important because, besides being the day on which we honor Dad, it's the one day of the year that Brookstone does any business.” YearsDoeImportantFatherDadHonorOne DayDays Of The YearFunny Fathers DayFunny Father Author:Jimmy Fallon
“At the end of the day, you realize that this is important stuff, but it isn't as important as how my kids feel about me. That's how I'm going to measure my success - not how I did as counsel to the president or as attorney general. How did I do as a dad?” FeelsImportantEndsKidsStuffPresidentRealizingDadThe End Of The DayAttorney Author:Alberto Gonzales
“When I was very young my mother sang to me at bedtime and my dad would often play the banjo or fiddle in the evening. I knew music was important and central to everything, most particularly it had a powerful healing value and created a sense of peace and security. This stood out to me as I always felt the world was precarious and dangerous, and music supplied those moments of real peace and safety.” WorldImportantRealPlayMomentsYoungMotherValuesFeltPowerfulHealingSecurityDangerousDadSafetyMy DadEveningBedtimePrecariousFiddleBanjosPeace And Security Author:Rory Block
“I didn't grow up with my dad, so it was always very funny to me, and always has been, what an important part DNA plays in one's life.” Has BeensImportantPlayGrowsGrowing UpDadMy DadDna Author:Kiefer Sutherland
“The work that I've been trying to do with violence against women and children comes from seeing quite a bit of violence. I just think it's important that we try to help the young boys who are watching the fathers do it - because if it's OK for the fathers to do it, then these young boys are watching their dads and going, well, nothing's happening to them, so maybe this is OK. But actually, this violence needs to stop in the sandpits.” IfsThinkingNeedsTryingWellsChildrenImportantHelpingYoungFatherBitsBoysViolenceSeeingDadHappeningsViolence Against Women Author:Kelly LeBrock
“In fact, I lost my dad at a young age and had to put myself through school. I didn't have a lot of the advantages Donald Trump had but I had the most important ones you can get, which are loving parents who cared about me and helped me develop a sense of self. But it certainly wasn't Donald Trump's doing.” ImportantSelfFactsAgeSchoolYoungLostParentTrumpDadAdvantageMy DadYoung AgeSense Of SelfLoving ParentsLost My Dad Author:Megyn Kelly
“I'm a dad, and that's really important to me, and I realize now that I'm a dad that it's a major part of my identity.” ImportantRealizingIdentityDadMajors Author:W. Kamau Bell
“Fathers are very, very important in building the foundations and self-esteem of children. For me, the way that I was raised, consideration, courtesy and manners are really key and I think the father plays a big role in setting an example to children in how to behave out in the world and how to treat people. It's a little bit different when it comes from the dad rather than the mum somehow.” PeopleThinkingWorldChildrenImportantDifferentFatherBuildingDadMannersBehaveConsiderationMumCourtesy Author:Liv Tyler
“Children are all unique, so when you're blending families it's really important to get to know each individual child... Being a stepparent can be a really incredible opportunity. Sometimes children pay attention and listen to someone who's not their blood parent. Sometimes I notice how my son Milo learns things from my best friends and people that have been around him, his grandparents and so on, in a way he can't from his own mum and dad. It takes a village!” PeopleChildrenImportantSometimesOpportunityIndividualParentAttentionSonDadUniqueIncrediblesPay AttentionMy SonMumGrandparentMy Best FriendMum And Dad Author:Liv Tyler
“Growing up, my parents were my heroes in the way they conducted their lives. My dad works in child protection. As kids, our experiences shape our opinions on ourselves and the world around us and that's who we become as adults, because of that experience. He's certainly been my hero. A hero is someone who puts themselves on the line and sacrifices their own safety for the greater good and for others. And I think anyone in any sort of profession where the welfare of other people instead of individual is inspiring and important.” PeopleThinkingWorldChildrenImportantKidsIndividualParentOpinionGrowing UpSacrificeHeroDadSafetyMy DadProtectionProfessionWelfareMy HeroGreater Good Author:Chris Hemsworth
“I grew up in a family of educators - my dad was a professor, my mom was a high school grammar and French teacher - so certainly my entire life education was stressed as incredibly important. And I think especially for my parents, who are both immigrants, and when immigrants come to this country, they understand that education is something that no one can take from them. You might leave the country with absolutely nothing, but no one can take your education from you.” ThinkingImportantCountrySchoolParentTeacherMomDadHigh SchoolMy DadMy MomStressedEducator Author:Soledad O'Brien
“My dad, Julien Temple, is unbelievable, so supportive. He's helped me to make such important decisions and he's so proud. I really admire him... I think he's one of the most talented people in this industry, so to have him be proud of what I'm doing is incredible.” PeopleThinkingImportantDecisionProudDadIncrediblesMy DadAdmireBe ProudUnbelievableSupportive Author:Juno Temple
“My son's dad is committed, and involved, and amazing. We're actually really good friends. But I think it's dangerous to speak negatively to the child about your ex or the absent parent, because, believe it or not, they learn very quickly who the other parent is. And it's important that they develop their own attitudes and opinions about that other parent based on their experiences, not based on what someone has said about them.” ThinkingBelieveChildrenImportantSpeakParentAttitudeOpinionDangerousDadCommittedGood Friend Author:Nia Long
“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
“It is important not to copy other people's careers but set the tone of who you want to be. My father's always encouraged me to do that.” PeopleWantImportantFatherCareersDadToneCopies Author:Nicole Richie