Dads Quotations

I think a generation ago, dads went to work, they came home, and they had their dinner, had a drink, and then went to bed. I don't know what it was like in your house, but that is how it was in mine. I think it is cool to have the dads in the trenches and doing the real parenting work.

I told my parents I wanted to be an actress years before I wrapped my head around what my dad did for a living. It's not easy to explain the job of the television journalist, especially when a lot of my friends' dads had jobs that were a lot easier to explain, like a lawyer, a banker or a doctor.

I don't have problems starting writing. I have problems stopping. I'm one of the last dads to arrive at school to collect the kids, because I want to get this paragraph just right.

With so many forty- and fifty something mums and dads in Converse stalking the streets, I can see why there's a slew of books about the menopause and middle age, the most recent addition being David Bainbridge's plucky, glass-half-full meditation or, as he calls it, 'natural history.'

When I'm home, I've got the kind of time that other dads who live there full time don't have. I can go and have lunch with my kids at school and that sort of thing.

There are ways we can go do a better job of educating young moms and dads about the vital role they have as the child's first teacher. I think there are ways in which we can partner with local school districts and states to do a better job to provide nutrition options at school.

One thing I've been happy as peach pie about - because I'm all about the children and the happiness of a woman because that makes the happiness of the home - is that nannies, day cares and babysitters are all collapsing, which is forcing moms and dads to raise their children at home.

When moms and dads put their kids in acting class, good luck. Because you're just filling them with stuff they don't need yet.

The thing about dads is, even when they're very good, they don't do anything like as much as most mums do.

I know this is a weird niche, but a lot of my female friends have these strange stories where there their dads have seen the small successes of their daughters and have decided that they are creative as well.

My youngest son's pre-school class was recently asked what their dads do for work. The responses were things like, my dad sells money, and my dad figures stuff out. My son said, 'I've never seen my dad do work.' It's true. Skateboarding doesn't seem like real work, but I'm proud of what I do.

I think dads let babies take more of a risk, maybe bounce off a bed more or jump off a couch or do more risk-taking things.

We're interested in what motivates dads to be good parents because there are so many men who just aren't good fathers. This work could help to tease apart what makes a good dad.

We want them to have moms and dads and normal families.

The fact that so many dads are AWOL (absent) in their teens' lives increases the teens' risk of substance abuse,

There are other dads out there and mums that are going to join the queue, and I just find this revolting,

Mums ask me how to get their husbands off the couch as well as asking me to marry them. But kids ask me to get their mums and dads to play with them more as well.

My father had inklings of my cultural aspirations. He would take me to the library, things like that. But he wasn't one of those dads who had read George Orwell and was a member of the Communist party. We had no books at home.

My father was a food lover and a deadbeat dad, and maybe a connection between good food and bad dads was forged early, in the deepest folds of my subconscious, where we make so many decisions about our parents.

I would guess that it's probably easier to get the girls to dance with their dads than get the boys to dance with their moms.

If we don't clean up our corrupt system of financing political campaigns, the people's agenda won't get done, ... Our loophole-ridden campaign finance system puts the special interests at the table, while locking moms, dads and kids out of the room.

But it's not enough for Dads just to be around, and it's not enough for dads to say, 'We're going to have some focus time together.' They have to make a conscious effort to relate well.

Having the program here on a weekend is a way for parents, who may not be able to get to the fairs, to have their children's information available in case it is needed. I was very pleased to see not only moms, but dads as well. I think the children really enjoyed it. This was a very good learning experience and will help us plan for next year.

Kids used to come round to my house, and I'd force them to do a play in the bay windows of my house and get all the mums and dads to sit and watch. I'd write the programme, write the play and be the star.

My mother's husband died when I was 4, and I thought he was my dad until I was 15 and found out that my legal guardian was my real dad. He kind of acted like my dad, anyway. But he wasn't with my mother living at home with us. It's an unusual kind of story, but it was cool because I had two dads for a while, and it was useful in creating the character in the movie.

I think our moms and dads were ready to get back in the routine, and the kids were just great they seemed delighted to be back.

I suppose we all have experiences with problems with our family, ... I think every boy has an issue with their dad, and lots of dads have issues with their sons.

The 1990s were an eye-opener. You had the strongest labor market in 30 years; all things being equal, those were good times for African Americans. A lot of black moms were entering the labor market, but the dads kept dropping out.

Most of the members are moms and dads and grandparents. We're dealing with a good corner of the market.

When it comes to SUVs, if your lifestyle says you need an SUV, then you may not get an 8-cylinder but you may just get a 6-cylinder or a bigger sedan, ... Gas is definitely a factor, but I still see there's a lot of soccer moms or soccer dads who need a bigger SUV.

We recognize that a growing portion of our population isn't Caucasian and isn't suburban, A lot of the dads who come from different countries don't have an experience with the Boy Scouts of America, so we have to explain to the parents what we do. We're also working very hard in places like the inner city. A lot of times we have to hire a scoutmaster, maybe a college student, and pay him a stipend to lead a troop.

Those were the days when dads didn't get involved and our dad was involved.

Both our dads wanted us to try it. I only lasted about two weeks. I really don't remember why I quit, but it just wasn't there for me.

Two dads have sent me letters that said my books changed their daughters' lives. I send them packages with T-shirts and posters because, come on... that's the coolest.

Today's ruling defies logic and common sense by saying that children can have two moms. That policy establishes that moms and dads as a unit are irrelevant when it comes to raising children.

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Bill Taylor and I have been friends a long time, and our dads were good friends, ... We were at squirrel camp that year, and Bill asked me if I wanted to try it (coaching).

Baseball is the first of our national team sports. It is the game of memory from when we are children, not only in terms of learning how many home runs Babe Ruth or Hank Aaron hit, but in remembering the score of the game our dads first took us to or where we made that catch in center field that we still can't believe.

Father's Day is an interesting holiday because a lot of Dads don't go out and say that this is what they really want.

These children are meant to be valued and nurtured and the best place we can do that, we say, is put them in a home where there is a mom and a dad. We have millions of moms and dads out there who are aching to be able to adopt a child.

Our dads used to do this, and now us cousins always get together for it.

People get that dads have a place in the lives of their sons. But you have to be just as present with daughters, maybe even more so. You have to get in there and be part of the game.

You see a lot of dads buying the smallest dirt bikes for their 4-, 5- or 6-year-olds. There is no curriculum that I know of for kids that age. You can purchase training wheels with us. You can limit them with the throttle so the top speed is inhibited.

It's kind of an exploitation or a seduction scenario. We think moms and dads ought to be concerned about it.

It was the first time for some dads to talk about their issues.

It is what their dads would have wanted. The military doesn't have the resources, so we have to help on the outside.

It's fun to give kids high fives. Dads can tell their kids, 'That's Luke Jensen, he serves with both hands.' My dad used to talk to me about Rod Laver and Pancho Segura. The beauty of sports is that it crosses all generations and genders.

Dads come home at night and don't experience the same daytime issues raising a disabled child. They want information on how to be a good parent.

Dads are especially hard to buy for. Anything they really want they tend to buy for themselves.

Dad played with me a great deal, as dads should do, and our chief sport was baseball. He bought me a hardball when I was three years old, and he used to sit in a rocker on the front porch while I sat on the grass in the yard, and we'd play catch by the hour.

It?s nice to get the kids and dads together and to get a chance to do fun things.

It's nice to have someone to talk to who knows you and knows the game and everything. Growing up, we played Little League and we were always on the same team. Our dads were always the coaches. We know each other as players pretty well.

Everyone says, 'Your life changes, your life changes,' but I enjoyed my life too much. This idea came to me that would incorporate my love for the outdoors and hiking with a new child. The Grateful Dads was born.

It's younger and younger that men are noticing it, and caring about it. They heard their dads worrying about it.

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In every movie and every TV show, the dads are morons. And dads tend to react by doing what dads do best: They check out. They say, 'Ask your mother.'

Children without fathers are five times more likely to grow up poor, twice as likely to drop out of high school and more likely to end up in foster care or juvenile justice facilities, ... There is no doubt that dads make a difference in children's lives.

By accepting flexible work requests from their female employees but not from their male staff, employers are helping reinforce the gender pay gap, when instead they could be enabling young dads to play a more active role in the raising of their children.

I don't make any excuses for that, either. The reason why we have such a wide demographic is the mums and dads go, 'I remember that song from back in the '70s. That was a great song.' A lot of great music was around in those times and we want to appeal to everybody.

He always told us don't play because he played or because other people think we should play. If it's fun for us and if it's what we really want to do, then he'd say to work as hard as you can to be successful at it. He never was one of those dads who was on us all the time.

Their moms and dads and children and grandchildren can know a proud America will always stand in the long shadow of their service and sacrifice.

The dads do more than I do. They are the ones that do the driving and take their kids all over.

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