“My dad - who was a tough guy, a Green Beret - always looked nice and wore these bright Sansabelt pants. He always said, "You have two options: You can be a follower or you can be a leader. And you don't ever want to follow anybody." And that's kind of become my philosophy about everything.” WantKindSaidTwoPhilosophyGuyLeaderNiceDadToughGreenMy DadFollowersPantsTough GuyTwo OptionsGreen Beret Author:Bubba Watson
“I think when I was a kid, and I was in England and it was all about The Stones, The Who, The Kinks and The Beatles and that's what my dad was into.” ThinkingKidsDadStonesEnglandMy DadKink Author:Slash
“My dad worked for Del Monte and then for Monsanto as one of the chief scientists on the Calgene Flavr Savr Tomato. But it was a huge disaster because the tomato didn't taste good. And then my dad started his own genetics company and I began doing that with him. He and I ran a genetics company for 10 years. And so I sold seeds to Florida.” YearsCompanyHugeDadTasteScientistMy DadSeedsDisasterChiefsRanFloridaGeneticsTomatoesMonsanto Author:Sanjay Rawal
“The Flavr Savr wasn't about taste at all; that was just the name. It was about the shape and the shipability of it. My dad's company was all about flavor. His tomatoes are some of the best selling at Trader Joe's and Whole Foods.” WholeNamesCompanyDadTasteShapesMy DadSellingFlavorTomatoesTradersWhole Foods Author:Sanjay Rawal
“My dad was a breeder. Most of his work happened in little test plots and didn't require much labor. He tried growing them for a while, and realized that farming is hard. It's just brutally hard. We didn't have the interest or fortitude to farm.” LittlesHardInterestGrowingHappenedDadLaborTestsMy DadPlotFarmsFarmingFortitudeBreeders Author:Sanjay Rawal
“My dad loved Scotland, so we would pile into his caravan and head for the Highlands, to Fort William and Loch Ness. It was such an adventure - my siblings and I were allowed to roam and explore the local beaches. We loved the freedom of those trips.” AdventureDadMy DadLocalsBeachScotlandSiblingFortsMy SiblingsCaravans Author:Rick Astley
“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.” YearsWellsKindI CanPlayAgeWantedMy OwnRecordsFourDadGuitarMy DadMeant To BeDrummerBangingPlaying Guitar Author:Shuggie Otis
“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.” FirstsPlayWantedFoundDadOne DayGuitarMy DadStudiosLabelsSession Author:Shuggie Otis
“I hope I pass on my dad's good humor, work ethic and lack of self-seriousness. Our house was always a fun place where you'd get knocked around quickly if you took yourself too seriously.” IfsSelfHouseFunDadEthicsMy DadWork EthicSeriousnessGood Humor Author:Willie Geist
“I grew up as an only child. I think it might just be that my dad really didn't care that I was a girl. "You're gonna do certain things 'cause I want you to, and that's the way it is."” ThinkingWayWantChildrenMightCareCertainGirlCausesGrewDadGrew UpMy DadI Want YouOnly Child Author:Mitchell Baker
“My mom and my dad taught me the greatest gifts we have are our family, our health and the right to clean water and good land.” WaterLandTaughtMomDadCleanMy DadMy MomOur FamilyGreatest GiftsClean Water Author:Erin Brockovich
“Growing up working with my dad, I really had no interest in doing the actual work, so I was always like drawing on the wood, doing stuff like that. It just has a real hands-on approach.” RealHandsStuffInterestGrowing UpGrowingDadApproachMy DadWoodsDrawing Author:Eddie Martinez
“My dad taught me at a very young age that I should work harder than everyone else: Be the first one in and the last one out.” ShouldFirstsAgeLastsYoungTaughtHard WorkDadHarderMy DadYoung AgeWork Harder Author:Mandana Dayani
“I've always been aggressive and an underdog, and my dad was worried that I would always be that: constantly seeking inspiration from negativity.” InspirationDadMy DadSeekingWorriedAggressiveNegativityUnderdog Author:Doseone
“My dad got me a chemistry book one Christmas and I burnt the garden shed down. I remember there was the most beautiful smell forever after in the remains.” BookBeautifulRememberForeverDadGardenRemainsMy DadSmellChemistryShedEver After Author:Beth Orton
“My brother and I were born in an Irish county called Tipperary. We were both very math- and science-inclined in high school. My dad trained as an electrical engineer, and my mom is in microbiology.” SchoolBornBrotherMomDadHigh SchoolMy DadMy MomMathMy BrotherEngineersCountyElectricalMath And ScienceMicrobiology Author:John Collison
“I had old bunk beds that my dad got from Seabrook Farms. They were first used by German prisoners during World War II, who were sent to work the farms during the war. The metal beds with their thin mattresses could easily be used as a jungle gym and I loved them.” WorldFirstsWarUsedDadBedMy DadWar Of The WorldsGymPrisonerFarmsWorld War IiMetalsWorld War IJungleMattressesBunkBunk Beds Author:David Mixner
“My mother played the piano and my father the violin, I can remember my dad teaching me how to waltz; I had my feet on his, my mother playing the piano, and my husband will tell you the lessons weren't very successful.” I CanRememberMotherFatherSuccessfulFeetTeachingDadLessonsHusbandMy DadPianoMy HusbandViolinWaltz Author:Quentin Bryce
“My dad is really just lazy. He has nothing, I feel, to offer this world.” WorldFeelsThis WorldDadOffersMy DadLazy Author:Sasha Grey
“My dad was a bass player in a Latino band when I was growing up. So we always had musical instruments in our basement.” Growing UpGrowingPlayerDadBandInstrumentsMusicalMy DadBassLatinoBasementsMusical InstrumentsBass Players Author:Lindi Ortega
“My dads great. Hes an amazing artist. A sculptor. Hes wonderful and supportive. I love going to museums with him - we talk about... everything.” ArtistWonderfulDadMy DadMuseumsSupportiveSculptors Author:Grace Gummer
“I came up poor. My mother only had a fourth-grade education. My dad didn't have any education at all. But they were very structured. They worked hard. You know, they didn't complain. They didn't murmur. And they believe in the Christ.” KnowsBelieveHardMotherChristPoorDadMy DadComplainingGradesFourthFourth Grade Author:Evander Holyfield
“I grew up playing games, and I remember Christmas 1981 when my dad got us an Intellivision, and we all sat around and played 'Astrosmash' for hours on end. It was a big part of my youth.” EndsBigsRememberGamesHoursYouthGrewDadGrew UpMy DadSatPlaying Games Author:Roger Craig Smith
“I guess I knew my dad was into photography, so a part of me was interested in picking it up to understand him a little better.” LittlesDadPhotographyMy Dad Author:Gia Coppola
“I hate short hair on men - the 'real' man is something I don't know. My dad was always playing with hairbands, making rings, while the women were wearing jeans, white T-shirts and Converse. That was the uniform at home.” KnowsMenRealHomeHateWhiteHairDadI HateMy DadRingsShirtsUniformsJeansT ShirtReal MenConversesShort Hair Author:Lou Doillon
“I think the best advice I ever got about acting was from my dad, which was, 'If they don't buy the fish on the first toss, throw it back in the wagon and go to the second house.' Which is like an old Jewish fishmongers' story about how you become a successful fish monger.” IfsThinkingFirstsStoriesHouseActingSuccessfulAdviceDadMy DadFishesTossBest AdviceWagons Author:Lin Shaye
“After about midday my dad sent cars from his private collection for us. We were told to get in. We had almost lost contact with my father and brothers because things had got out of hand. I saw with my own eyes the [Iraqi] army withdrawing and the terrified faces of the Iraqi soldiers who, unfortunately, were running away and looking around them. Missiles were falling on my left and my right - they were not more than fifty or one hundred metres away. We moved in small cars. I had a gun between my feet just in case.” HandsEyeRunningFacesFallFatherLostLeftMy OwnCasesSawsFeetCarBrotherDadHundredGunArmyMovedMy DadSoldierContactFiftyCollectionsRunning AwayTerrifiedMissilesWithdrawingFather And Brother Author:Raghad Hussein
“My dad was a cross-country truck driver.” CountryDadCrossesMy DadDriversTruckTruck Driver Author:John Searles
“I actually wanted to be a police officer like my dad for the longest time, up until my sophomore year in high school when I started doing plays. I did plays when I was little, but in high school, I started getting into acting.” YearsLittlesPlayWantedSchoolActingDadHigh SchoolPoliceMy DadOfficersPolice OfficerSophomoreSophomore Year Author:Chad Lindberg
“I have three older brothers, and we all have different combinations of parents. My father was the best man at my mom's first wedding! And my brother's mother - my dad's first wife - is the sister to my mom's first husband's second wife. So my brothers are both stepcousins and stepbrothers. It's very '70s rock.” MenFirstsDifferentMotherThreeFatherParentWifeRocksBrotherMomDadHusbandMy DadMy MomCombinationMy BrotherOlder Brother Author:Inara George
“My dad is a loving person. He would never disown me. At some point we will be together again. I love my father, and he loves me.” PersonsTogetherFatherDadMy DadTogether AgainLoving Person Author:Mosab Hassan Yousef
“My dad once told me that the secret to a happy life was never to start something with a girl unless you were willing to follow wherever it led. It's the best piece of advice he has ever given me, and probably the reason I was born.” ReasonGirlGivenBornSecretPiecesAdviceWillingDadMy DadHappy Life Book:Rivers of London Source: Rivers of London
“My father wasn't a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher - one of those Victorians, hard as iron - but my dad was tough enough.” MenHardEnoughCharacterFatherDadToughMy DadIron Author:Anthony Hopkins
“My dad grew up basically in a hut in Taiwan without enough food to eat. And within one generation his son in America gets to do a comedy show about whatever he wants.” WantEnoughShowsAmericaComedyGenerationsSonGrewDadGrew UpMy DadHutsTaiwanComedy Shows Author:Aziz Ansari
“Growing up, I was lucky that my dad was never out of work. I was very fortunate in one way: that I never experienced real hardship, because my dad is this real dynamo. He was always working, so I had a sense of the ups and downs and endless disappointments, but at the same time I was never worried that we couldn't eat or pay the bills.” WayRealPayGrowing UpGrowingDadLuckyBillsMy DadDisappointmentEndlessOne WayWorriedFortunateHardshipUps & DownsAlways Working Author:Mary Harron
“I grew up around poets and novelists and my dad wrote poems about everything - from a cat sleeping in a window to a car wreck he passed on the highway. I learned not to censor myself: that was one of things I learned in my apprenticeship, my creative-writing apprenticeship with my dad.” WritingSleepCreativeCarPoetGrewDadGrew UpCatWindowMy DadNovelistsHighwaysCreative WritingWrecksSleeping InApprenticeshipCar Wreck Author:Lucinda Williams
“I sat on the piano bench next to my mother in church. Something happened before I set foot on this planet. I was crawling around inside of her. She was a church pianist. My dad was a brilliant singer. I was hearing it.” MotherNextChurchHappenedFeetPlanetsDadMy DadHearingBrilliantSingersPianoSatBenchesPianistCrawling Author:Al Jarreau
“My dad graduated seminary there, and so did (sounds like) Mark Kimball's grandfather. They sang in a quartet together, my dad and Mark Kimball's grandfather.” TogetherSoundDadMarkMy DadGrandfatherQuartetsSeminary Author:Al Jarreau
“Struggling to stay in the middle class, and I love that. That's me and my dad and my family.” ClassStruggleMiddleDadMy FamilyMy DadMiddle Class Author:Tavis Smiley
“My dad and I are very different people. For example, he's been stabbed; I'm afraid of bugs. He's a mechanic; I once had to exchange a "broken" rental car because I didn't realize I was driving around with the parking brake on. I could keep going, but you get it.” PeopleDifferentRealizingCarExampleBrokenDadMy DadDrivingKeep GoingMechanicBugsDifferent PeoplesParkingBrakeCar Rental Author:Jason Mulgrew
“I went back to a small town in Poland where my dad grew up. It was a very traumatic experience for me as a young man to know that my father's family were killed by Nazis, killed by Hitler. And that left, you know, if not intellectually, at least an emotional part of me which said, God, we have got to do everything we can to end this kind of horrific racism or anti-Semitism. And I have spent much of my life trying to fight that.” IfsKnowsMenTryingKindSaidEndsYoungFightingFatherLeftEmotionalGrewDadGrew UpRacismTownsMy DadYoung ManNaziSmall TownPolandAnti SemitismHorrificTraumatic Experiences Author:Bernie Sanders
“My dad was opening fast bowler for Yorkshire's second team and I couldn't believe he could die. He wasn't going to get better for at least six months, so I left school early to become the family breadwinner.” BelieveSchoolDiesLeftTeamMonthsDadSixMy DadOpeningGet BetterSix MonthsBowlersYorkshireBreadwinner Author:Brian Blessed
“I'm not really sure if I have anything that inspires me. I think what goes into my work is everything beforehand that I do with my dad. He teaches me acting, and I think maybe without him it would be pretty hard. I started acting for fun, really, because my dad's an actor and my sister's an actor, so I started doing it and it was normal. But it got places really fast, and I started doing feature film auditions and stuff.” IfsThinkingHardWould BeFilmActorsFunStuffActingTeachInspireDadNormalMy DadFeaturesMy SisterAuditions Author:Kodi Smit-McPhee
“I like the wrestling and executing the throws. My dad was a wrestler and he showed me some of those techniques, too.” DadMy DadTechniqueWrestlingWrestlerExecuting Author:Paige VanZant
“I never really took into account the number of homeless families. As a kid, we used to feed the hungry at my church every other Saturday, and one day this kid from my school was there. Somewhere between that moment of realization and appreciation for what my Dad sacrificed for us to have, and me becoming "Anthony Mackie" I lost it. This movie [Shelter] really made me realize that, and it was very humbling and very sickening to see that within myself.” MadeMomentsKidsSchoolUsedLostRealizingChurchNumbersBecomingDadOne DayAccountsMy DadAppreciationHungryRealizationThat MomentShelterHomelessSaturdayHumbling Author:Paul Bettany
“I'm trying to have my own thing, and I don't know if it's even possible. I didn't realize so many people actually think I'm trying to be like my dad. I read comments like 'She's no Elvis.' I'm not trying to be. I never set out to be.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsTryingRealizingMy OwnDadMy DadComment Author:Lisa Marie Presley
“As a kid, I had this ultimate goal to be a teacher. I wanted to be a history teacher like my dad.” KidsWantedGoalTeacherDadUltimateMy DadUltimate GoalHistory Teacher Author:Mike Trout
“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 love my daddy. My daddy's everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad.” MenI CanDadTreatsMy DadMy DaughterDaddyDaughter To FatherFather Daughter Love Author:Lady Gaga