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" Quotes and Sayings About my dad

When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you.

Always Cows Dad Dairy
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And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.

Band Behind Dad Get
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I remember playing with my dad, and my kids will remember this as well.

Dad I Remember Kids Playing
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I'm a polygamist. I can afford to have as many wives as I can afford to have. All Africans believe in it. My dad has four wives.

Afford African Believe Afford
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There is nothing that would upset me more than my dad being bribed by the press. It's like, 'Just let them run it, then. Don't you give them ammunition.

Nothing Upset More Dad
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My dad was a Presbyterian minister. Yes, I am one of those dreaded P.K.s - Preacher's Kids. Be afraid.

Afraid Am Dad Dreaded
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My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.

Always Champ Dad Down
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My dad's probably one of the kindest people in the world. When I was younger that's not how I was- I was a little spoiled brat.

Brat Dad How Little
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Fortunately, as it pertains to guns, my dad and uncle introduced me to guns the way it needs to be done: smart, slow and safe.

Dad Done Fortunately Guns
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.

Adventurous Age Dad Formative
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I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.

Any Dad Had He
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I feel lazy when I'm not working. I learned all my business sense from my dad. He always believed in me, and I think the last thing he said to me before he passed away was, 'I know you're gonna be OK. I'm not worried about you'.

Feel Lazy When Working
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It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.

Before Dad Dream His
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When I started wrestling, I hounded my dad to teach me. Eventually, he gave in, but he was careful to instill in me a respect for other wrestlers. He wanted to be sure I wasn't going to hurt anyone.

Anyone Careful Dad Eventually
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My dad was never married. He was kind of a rolling stone. But he was never disrespectful. At the same time, even though he had women in his life when I was a kid, there wasn't any consistency.

Dad Was Never Married
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My family calls me Declan. But most people call me E.C. I think it comes from my dad. It's an Irish convention. You usually call the first child by the initials.

Call Calls Child Convention
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I was built up from my dad more than anyone else.

Anyone Anyone Else Built Dad
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My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.
About Dad Did How
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When we were in D.C. my daddy used to cut his hair with a bowl. Crucial. If you're African, Haitan, Jamaican or even more poor than the people in the project, you'll know about that.

African Bowl Crucial Cut
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I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.

Could Dad Date Dates
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Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.'

Begun Daddy Day Done
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I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.

Always Coolest Dad Did
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The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don't know if I'll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

AsFarAs Comedy Dad Ever
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My dad would call me his Cuban princess because I had really dark olive skin because I was always in the sun; but I don't really go in the sun anymore, so that is why I am so white.

Always Am Anymore Because
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As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.

Also Bittersweet Child Dad
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My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.

Dad Embarrassing Getting Got
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My dad is a Ghanaian immigrant, and he wanted a son who was an engineer.

Dad Engineer He Immigrant
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I thought I had everything going for me. I wasn't listening to nobody. And my dad was like, 'Uh-uh, you can't make money from music.

Thought Had Everything Going
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According to my parents, I just started drumming when I was two. I traveled with them from five to seven on the road, playing percussion. Between 8 and 12, my dad sort of prepared me by teaching me every aspect of road life.

According Aspect Between Dad
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My dad was my hero. And I got my personality from my mother.
Dad Hero Personality Mother
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I got blessed from my mom. She's the personality; she's the one who smiled, so I took on part of her, and who also wanted to help and save the world. Then I took on part of my dad, who is tough.

Blessed Mom Personality Smiled
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Everybody in my family were great storytellers. My dad and his brothers would just go on and on; they could tell amazing stories. I think it was something to do with the Celtic, oral storytelling tradition. People very much had that propensity towards telling tales.

Amazing Brothers Celtic Could
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I have really musical parents, and my dad was always encouraging, but the desire to get onstage and perform really did come from me. I'd never push my future children.

Always Children Come Dad
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I mean, my dad's a television producer, and I knew I could get a job as an assistant or a reader with one of his friends, but it wasn't exactly what I wanted to do.

Assistant Could Dad Exactly
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I forgive my mom for being a psycho and my dad for being a loser.

Being Dad Forgive Loser
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Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing well.

About Certainly Come Dad
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My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous.

Courteous Dad Guy Kind
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My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.

Bless Dad Had Him
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Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical.
Always Back Dad Looking
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I know a lot about the Titanic. My dad was a Titanic expert.

About Dad Expert Know
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I said something really stupid once. I told a friend that my mother was so beautiful, but my dad was ugly. My dad heard it and just laughed it off, but I felt guilty. It haunted me for years. I should never have said that.

Something really Beautiful
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I don't really know any other musicians like me. I grew up backstage with my dad who played in a post-war dance band, so I always feel at home at a venue.

Always Any Backstage Band
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My dad would give me $10, which is a lot of money when you're 9, to sing at church, on tables at restaurants, at family functions, just about anywhere.

About Anywhere Church Dad
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My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He wanted to be a painter, but then he also wrote science-fiction novels in his spare time.

Also Always Artist Bunch
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I use all my skills that I can muster up, but the fun thing is that I find some untapped skills every once in a while. I get that from my daddy.

Daddy Every Find Fun
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The founder of the Mona Foundation actually knew my dad for years, and the more I learned about it, the more I realized I really found the perfect charity. It sponsors schools and educational initiatives all over the planet.

About Actually Charity Dad
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My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.

After Dad Maria Me
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I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me.

Ball Ball Player Dad He
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My - both my sisters died with pancreatic cancer. My brother died with pancreatic cancer. My daddy died of pancreatic cancer. My mother died with breast cancer.

Both Breast Cancer Brother Cancer
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I always wanted to be a father. I have a beautiful relationship with my dad and beautiful memories. I always knew I was going to have a family.

Always Beautiful Dad Family
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