“My mother married three times. My dad is... I don't really have one. I mean, he does exist, but I have zero relationship with him.” MeanDoeMotherThreeDadMarriedMy DadZeroThree Times Author:Leslie Mann
“My dad's half-Lebanese, my mom is full Lebanese. I'm three-quarters Lebanese. Irish-Lebanese.” ThreeHalfMomDadMy DadMy MomQuartersLebanese Author:Tom Shadyac
“My dad is my best friend, my father, and my boss. When I do something that is exciting and he likes it, it feels three times as good as you can imagine.” FeelsThreeFatherImagineDadExcitingMy DadLikesBossThree TimesMy Best Friend Author:David Lauren
“I didn't miss any games, but Coach Knight came out and spent three days with my family in Chicago when my dad passed away. I came back and played and it was good therapy for me. Having a basketball family and a coach who understood and actually became like a father figure for that time was comforting to me, and I'm sure that will be comforting to Coleman.” ThreeFatherGamesMissingFiguresDadComfortBasketballUnderstoodMy FamilyMy DadCoachesTherapyChicagoComfortingKnightsPassed AwayFather FigureDad Passed Away Author:Mike Krzyzewski
“My legacy to me is-when I drop dead and they're at my funeral - I want my three kids to get up and say, 'He's an awesome dad'.” WantKidsThreeDadGet UpLegacyMmaFuneral Author:Dana White
“For my last meal I'd want an Irish breakfast with soda bread and one of my dad's omelettes with three or four eggs.” WantLastsThreeFourDadMy DadBreadMealsEggsBreakfastSoda Author:Erin O'Connor
“The first real concert, other than going with my dad to see Three Dog Night, was Smashing Pumpkins and Garbage. I was fourteen or fifteen. I liked Shirley Manson because she reminded me of Annie Lennox. They both have these deep, sexy, powerful alto voices.” FirstsRealNightThreeVoicePowerfulDogDadMy DadSexyConcertsFifteenGarbageFourteenPumpkinAnnieSmashingMansonThree DogSmashing Pumpkins Author:Amy Lee
“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.” RememberThreeMomDadMy DadMy Mom Author:Joshua Roman
“When I was three, my dad thought it would be hilarious to teach me swear words, then have me say them to his friends. They would laugh and laugh. I realize now the laugh was pure shock value, but it felt really good, and I've been chasing it ever since.” Would BeValuesThreeFeltRealizingTeachLaughingComedyDadPureMy DadShockSwearChasingSwear WordShock Value Author:Sarah Silverman
“I have three dads: my biological father, God and Bob Dylan.” ThreeFatherDadBobDylanBiological Fathers Author:Jack White
“I guess I'm what you call a slush-piler. I just sent my manuscripts to the slush pile of publishers and hoped for the best. Over seven years, I was rejected seven times on three different books. The fourth attempt was picked up by a small publisher, and I still have great memories of staying up all night, talking to my brother and sisters (my dad called me at 2:30 in the morning because I was overseas).” YearsStillsBookDifferentNightThreeMemoriesTalkingMorningBrotherDadSevenMy DadMy BrotherStayingFourthRejectedPublishersBrothers And SistersSeven YearsAll NightManuscriptsUp All NightGreat MemoriesDifferent BooksSlush Author:Markus Zusak
“The kids accepted my drinking as a part of life. Not a particularly pernicious part. I didn't beat up on them. Basically I don't think I was so different from a lot of dads who have three or four martinis when they get in from work, wine with dinner and so on.” ThinkingDifferentKidsThreeFourDadBeatsWineDrinkingDinnerAcceptedParts Of LifePerniciousMartini Author:Stephen King
“Christmas was always a big holiday in our family. Every Christmas Eve before wed go to bed, my mom and dad would read to us two or three stories and they would always be The Happy Prince, The Gift of the Magi and Twas the Night Before Christmas, and I would like to keep that alive.” TwoStoriesBigsNightThreeAliveMomDadBedMy MomOur FamilyHolidayMom And DadChristmas Eve Author:Cameron Mathison
“I've got three kids. I worry about them but the gospel freed me and freed my wife. We are not trying to make our kids think that we're super spiritual or we've got it all together. They see mom and dad being real people. What they hear dad talking about at home is not different from what they see from dad [at church]. That won't guarantee that they'll avoid the whole PK, MK thing. But we are hopefully not contributing to what normally produces that crisis, which is pretending.” PeopleThinkingTryingDifferentRealWholeHomeKidsTogetherSpiritualThreeChurchTalkingWorryWifeProduceMomDadCrisisMy WifeHopefullyGuaranteesPretendingBeing RealContributingGuarantees ThatMom And DadHopefully Not Author:Tullian Tchividjian
“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 try to do everything from the viewpoint of what's best for my kids. I have three kids and two great dads and it's not always easy, but you have to try to be a little selfless and we manage just fine.” TryingLittlesTwoKidsThreeEasyFineDadManageSelflessViewpointsGreat Dad Author:Kimora Lee Simmons
“You could probably go three or four months without the word 'God' coming from my dad's mouth; Mum would pray for a parking space.” ThreeSpaceFourMonthsPrayingDadMouthsMy DadMumParkingParking Space Author:Laurence Fox
“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.” ThreeParentGrewMomDadGrew UpPercentRaisedMy DadMy MomNinety Author:Brian J. White
“I had a Spider-man costume when I was about three, and I lost the mask. So I went to the underwear drawer and put a pair of red pants on my head. My dad came home and just laughed, and I ran into my room and burst into tears.” MenHomeThreeLostRoomsTearsDadRedMy DadRanMaskPairsLaughedPantsCostumesSpidersUnderwearDrawersSpider Man Author:Emun Elliott
“I'm sitting in the drive-through and I've got my three girls in the back and this station comes on and it's playing “Jailhouse Rock,” the original version, and my girls are jumping up and down, going nuts. I'm looking around at them and they've heard Dad's music all the time and I don't see that out of them.” GirlThreeHeardRocksDadSittingOriginalsVersionsStationsNutsJumpingUp And DownMy Girl Author:Garth Brooks
“I loved Dad more for treating the biological reality as trivial, irrelevant. He loved me no less than his other three children.” ChildrenRealityThreeDadIrrelevant Author:Allegra Huston
“From a very young age, I liked to take apart things. All of my Christmas gifts would wind up in a million pieces. I actually recall taking apart my dad's lawnmower three times to understand how combustible engines work.” AgeYoungThreeMillionsPiecesWindDadMy DadEnginesRecallsThree TimesYoung AgeChristmas Gift Author:Homaro Cantu
“By being with my kids. I'm like a lion who hunts and comes home to be looked after and sleep. I think girls tend to be drawn towards their dad. I'd love to have a son, but I have three kids who are great - three geezer birds and that's all I need to worry about.” ThinkingNeedsHomeKidsGirlThreeSleepWorrySonDadBirdComing HomeLionsHunts Author:Ray Winstone
“My mom always said that she didn't wear a red nose and big shoes because that's the reason people are scared of clowns. My dad is a sociology teacher, so he probably figured that out with her. Those are the things that are exaggerated, that don't give off the signals of humans. You know, if you draw a picture of a circle and ask somebody to feel empathy with the circle, they won't. But if you draw literally two, three dots inside the circle, like two eyes and a nose, you immediately feel empathy.” PeopleIfsKnowsGivingFeelsHumansSaidTwoReasonBigsEyeThreeAsksTeacherMomDadEmpathyDrawsRedMy DadShoesScaredMy MomCirclesNosesSignalsSociologyClownDotsExaggeratedBig Shoes Author:Jesse Eisenberg
“My dad's a musician, and he taught me how to play when I was three, I think, so I've been playing ever since. It's something I've always done. And when you're really young, and you play music for people, people get really excited, so you get this inner sense that you are good at it, even though I've always been really not good at it.” PeopleThinkingDonePlayYoungThreeTaughtDadMusicianMy DadExcitedGet Real Author:Bob Schneider
“When I'm smiling and having fun, that's when you should have a problem. If I'm out there frowning and looking mean, that's when you know you've beat me - because I'm not having fun. I've been playing basketball since I was three. Everybody since I was three tried to tell me to stop smiling. Even my dad. My dad apologized to me when I was ten.” IfsKnowsShouldMeanProblemThreeFunDadTenBasketballBeatsShould HaveMy DadHaving FunFrowningPlaying Basketball Author:Dwight Howard
“I dreamed you a field of running horses, Selah. For you, Bianca, a balloon the size of the sky, my body a kite you can throw into the air.Pull me by string and horse.Tell me everything won't end in death. That everything doesn't end with February. Dead wildflowers wrapped around a crying baby's throat.I've slowed my heartbeat to three beats a minute. I've redrawn the clouds into birds, a fox chasing them into the mountains.I'm going to move my hand today.I vomit ice cubes.There's a ghost next to me.Get up, Dad.(Light Boxes)” EndsBodyHandsLightRunningTodayMovingThreeNextAirSkyMinutesCryFieldsBabyDadMountainBeatsBirdHorseCloudsSizeBoxesGhostGet UpIceStringsThroatFoxesChasingHeartbeatBalloonsFebruaryKitesCubesWildflowers Author:Shane Jones
“The hardest thing in the world is to have a relationship, to be committed to one person and feel vulnerable. Recently one of my son's came to me and said ''it's hard for me to have a relationship, you and dad have been married three times each.''” WorldFeelsPersonsHas BeensSaidHardThreeSonDadMarriedCommittedHardestVulnerableMy SonHardest ThingThree Times Author:Pamela Anderson
“Michael [Douglas] is, I think, a great actor. He's made some very interesting pictures. When he was going to college, I was very proud of him, but when he said, 'Dad, I want to be in a play,' he had a bit part. I went to see it and Michael said, 'Dad, how was I?' I said, 'You were terrible.' I thought he would go on to be a lawyer and in three months, he was in another play and I went and, I must admit, he was great. I think he has been good in everything he's done.” ThinkingWantHas BeensMadeSaidDonePlayThreeActorsBitsInterestingCollegeMonthsGoes OnProudDadTerribleLawyerVery InterestingThree MonthsGreat ActorsGoing To CollegeProud Of Him Author:Kirk Douglas
“Three of Donald Trump's kids have come forward to defend him, and called him 'an incredible dad and role model.' Donald was so moved that he wrote one of them back into his will. 'I'm not gonna tell you which one . . . it's Donald Jr.'” KidsThreeRolesTrumpDadModelsMovedIncrediblesRole Models Author:Jimmy Fallon
“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
“You can talk about things indirectly, but if you want to talk how people really talk, you have to talk R-rated. I mean I've got three incredibly intelligent daughters, but when you get mad, you get mad and you talk like people talk. When a normal 17-year-old girl storms out of the house or 15-year-old boy is mad at his mom or dad, they're not talking the way people talk on TV. Unless it's cable.” PeopleIfsWayWantYearsMeanGirlThreeHouseTalkingBoysTvsMomDadNormalDaughterIntelligentMadStormCablesNot Talking Author:Bob Saget
“There are only three great powers in the universe: God in heaven, the pope in the Vatican and Dadá in the great box.” UniverseThreeHeavenDadBoxesPopeGreat Power Author:Dada Maravilha
“The British Union of Fascists, Oswald Mosley`s group, the black shirts, they were banned in Britain in 1940. And Max Mosley`s dad, Sir Oswald Mosley, ended up spending three years in World War II, 1940 to 1943, interned in the U.K. as basically an enemy of the state. He spent that time in prison, as did Max Mosley`s mother.” WorldYearsWarStatesMotherThreeBlackEnemyGroupsDadPrisonUnionsBritishSpendingShirtsWar Of The WorldsBritainThree YearsWorld War IiWorld War IMaxFascistsBanned Author:Rachel Maddow
“My parents moved to American Samoa when I was three or four years old. My dad was principal of a high school there. It was idyllic for a kid. I had a whole island for a backyard. I lived there until I was eight years old and we moved to Santa Barbara.” YearsWholeKidsSchoolThreeParentFourDadHigh SchoolMovedMy DadEightIslandsFour YearsPrincipalSantaBackyardsBarbaraIdyllicSanta BarbaraSamoa Author:Eric Stoltz
“I can't stop some idiot from crashing into a building or blowing up a bus, I can only be your dad and give you a few pure truths. Number one, duct tape will save your life. Number two, Tupac is alive, but I need you to keep that on the DL because of Suge. And number three, don't be afraid of anything - except the television news because they're lying to you every night.” NeedsGivingI CanTwoLyingNightThreeNumbersAliveTelevisionBuildingDadPureNewsIdiotBusTapeEvery NightNeed YouI Need YouYour DadBlowing UpDuct TapeNumber ThreeTelevision News Author:Christopher Titus
“A salamander can grow a new tail in three weeks. My dad can score new tail in three minutes.” ThreeGrowsWeekMinutesDadMy DadScoreTailsSalamanders Author:Christopher Titus
“I had a happy childhood in a nice suburban area, pretty idyllic, upper middle class and very, very white. My dad is an attorney. My mother is a housewife. They had five kids in seven years: me, my brother, and three sisters. I'm the oldest. We were all very active. My mother was exhausted.” YearsKidsMotherThreeWhiteClassFiveNiceChildhoodMiddleBrotherDadAreasSevenMy DadActiveMy BrotherMiddle ClassExhaustedSeven YearsAttorneyHousewifeHappy ChildhoodIdyllicUpper Middle ClassThree Sisters Author:Anthony Jeselnik
“We already had an adopted daughter, 10-year-old Courtney, from my previous marriage. To me, there is no difference between 'natural' and 'adopted.' My own childhood showed me that when it comes to loving your kids, concepts like that don't apply. I was the oldest of six, and three of my siblings were adopted. Mom and Dad even took in foster children. 'There are no limits to how much you can love,' Dad always said.” YearsChildrenSaidKidsThreeNaturalDifferencesMy OwnChildhoodMomDadLimitsSixDaughterConceptsAdoptedSiblingLoving YouFoster ChildrenMom And DadMy SiblingsCourtneyDad Love Author:Al Roker
“All three of my parents - I also had a stepmother - were teachers, and my dad taught high school, and as he always reminded me when I was going to spend some money on something, 'Your mother and I, in the Depression, had to decide whether to spend a dime on a loaf of bread or if we could go to a movie with it.'” IfsSchoolMotherThreeParentTeacherTaughtDadHigh SchoolMy DadBreadDimesStepmothers Author:Dick Cavett
“I grew up in such a macho family. I had a former Green Beret for a dad, a mom who's really rough-and-tumble, and three very macho brothers.” ThreeBrotherGrewMomDadGrew UpGreenFormerRoughMachoGreen Beret Author:Hilarie Burton
“I spent most of the 90s trying to make it as a producer - which is a difficult game to get into at the best of times, let alone pre internet - and then I got married, had three boys and we moved house. I had to sell a lot of my gear, so a lot of the original set up went. I was busy being a dad and working, but still loved music.” TryingStillsThreeGamesHouseDifficultBoysInternetDadMarriedOriginalsSellsMovedBusyProducersGearsBeing A Dad Author:Ekoplekz
“After the age of seven, I began living between my dad in Alaska and my mother in Baltimore. Every three or four months, I would fly the 5,000 miles between the two. And having grown up in Alaska, Baltimore was astonishing.” TwoAgeMotherThreeFourMonthsDadSevenMy DadMilesAstonishingAlaskaBaltimore Author:Leigh Newman
“When I was 16, I used to drive huge loads of laundry in a three ton truck. I would turn round at night to drive back and see the band in a place north of Toronto called Dunn's Pavilion. I would drive that truck all day and they drive back and all the way until one day I wrecked the truck. I fell asleep and wrecked it. I was OK and so was my helper. I called my dad and the first words out of his mouth were, "are you OK?" I was really lucky I had a kind father.” WayFirstsKindUsedNightTurnsThreeFatherHugeDadOne DayLuckyBandMouthsRoundsMy DadLoadTruckLaundryTorontoHelpers Author:Gordon Lightfoot
“When I was about five my dad built a stage for me in our basement. A full stage, with a curtain, a backdrop and a dressing room. There were three colored spotlights - a red one, a white one, and a blue one. Blue was for nighttime scenes, and red was for when we were in hell. If the neighborhood kids wanted to use the stage, they had to incorporate me into the play.” IfsPlayUseKidsWantedThreeWhiteRoomsHellFiveStageDadSceneBuiltRedBlueMy DadNeighborhoodCurtainsDressingsSpotlightBasementsNighttimeDressing RoomsBackdrop Author:Paul Reubens
“So yeah, when I was a kid, when I was 16, 17, I'd come home from high school, and my dad collected all of Barbra Streisand's records. And she was very young then. I think she probably had three records out, and she was 21, and we had them all. And I knew every single song, every breath, every elision, every swell. And I sang along to it.” ThinkingHomeKidsSchoolYoungSongThreeRecordsDadHigh SchoolBreathsYeahMy DadComing HomeStreisand Author:Meryl Streep
“My dad noticed some kind of talent on piano when he asked me to play a couple random songs on piano when I was 6 and I just did it. I attempted lessons but I was just so bad at reading notes. I would read "Three Blind Mice" by ear, so learning notes was almost impossible.” KindPlaySongThreeReadingImpossibleTalentCoupleDadLessonsEarsBlindNotesMy DadPianoMice Author:Christina Grimmie
“I had a different upbringing - my dad worked three jobs. You know, it wasn't as easy as they had it.” KnowsDifferentJobsThreeEasyDadMy DadUpbringing Author:Robert Davi
“My dad really wanted to learn how to sail and, when I was 16, he became a quarter partner in this small, 24-foot trimaran.Three weeks a year, I'd go with him and we'd sail from Florida out around the Bahamas.” YearsWantedThreeWeekFeetDadMy DadPartnersQuartersSailFloridaBahamas Author:Travis Rice
“It's hard for me to believe sometimes that my three kids never met my dad. Because one of the things - one of the real blessings to me is that while my dad left this Earth when I was in my 20s, he's just as much a part of, of my life now than he was then, in terms of I often think of my dad. I think of what my dad might do in a certain situation. And so he continues to be, you know, my hero, my role model.” ThinkingKnowsBelieveRealSometimesHardMightKidsEarthCertainThreeLeftTermSituationRolesHeroDadMetsBlessingModelsMy DadRole ModelsBe YouMy Hero Author:Mike Pence