- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dad Quotes
The small stuff you inherit.
These dad quotes lean into small, specific memories — watching Monty Python over dinner, catching yourself sounding just like him mid-sentence, or joking that most of your audience is really just your father. For humor along the same lines, see our Jokes page.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad met my mom at Casper College in the orientation line. He studied business and eventually transferred to the University of Wyoming at Laramie.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Starting in the third grade, my dad had me read the 'Denver Post.' I had to discuss two articles with him before dinner, and we would also watch '60 Minutes' together.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was nothing more I wanted to do than to see my dad react well to my music. I still do. I send him my demos all the time.
- Lawyer
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad is my biggest source of inspiration. He's a lawyer, and when he'd get home, we always sat down and listened to music.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small - panto being a sort of English phenomenon. There's traditionally a part of the show where they'll invite kids up on the stage to interact with the show. I was too young to remember this, but my dad says that I was running up onstage before they even asked us.
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
We definitely have a football mentality. My dad was a football player also, so just growing up, that's how it was.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was one of four children. His three siblings were female, and he loved and protected them.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Blessed with Mom and Dad's remarkable genes, raised on big words and big, iconoclastic attitudes, Larry and I, before entering kindergarten, knew who we were, what we wanted, and how we would get there.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother's Polish; my dad was Irish.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mum is, like, my biggest fan, and she's the one who will basically do all the publicity for me back home... She'll constantly be talking to me saying, 'Dan, what's going on? We've heard this. Tell us about it! Dad wants to know!' And so I'll give them as much information as I can, and Mom and Dad are both my biggest fans.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.
- Mom And Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody always wants to rebel against their parents' music, but nobody listened to music louder than my dad.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020