I think I need to get home and talk to my dad. He'll be worried if he doesn't see us. Would you like to meet him?" "I'd be honored," Blake said with a nod. - Debra Anastasia What are you doing?'Helen put her hand over his to stop him from shifting. 'I'm going inside to talk to your dad. I don't want him to feel like he can't trust me with his daughter.' 'Lucas, I swear to whatever god you think is holy that I will get out of this car and walk to school if you go inside and talk to my dad.' Lucas smiled and shifted back into first, driving away from her house. 'Who told you the gods were holy? - Josephine Angelini I hate you." My sister said it different than she said it to my dad. She meant it with me.She really did. "I love you," was all I could say in return. "You're a freak, you know that? Everyone says so. They always have." "I'm trying not to be." Then, I turned around and w...

As I was walking up the stairs to dad's old room, and I was looking at the photographs, I started thinking that there was a time when these weren't memories. That someone actually took the photograph, and the people in the photograph had just eaten lunch or something. - Stephen Chbosky Mom sobbed something into Dad's chest that I wish I hadn't heard, and that I hope she never finds out that I did hear. She said, "I won't be a mom anymore." It gutted me pretty badly. - John Green I pulled the oxygen tubes from my nostrils and raised the tube up over my head, handing it to Dad. I wanted it to be just me and just him. - John Green Listening to Dad's guitar, halting yet lovely in the search for phrasing, I thought: Fair is whatever God wants to do. - Leif Enger Dad: Honey, have you seen my glasses? I cant find them. Mom: I haven't seen them. Calvin: (with glasses, to Dad) Calvin, go do something you hate! Being miserable builds character! - Bill ...

When you're shooting a film, you really don't get to be a dad, and you don't really get to be a husband. You don't really exist at all. But I do drag my family with me on location whenever I can. - Eric Bana Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right. - Wade Boggs I'd love to be a dad. I hope I'd be great at it. That's every man's fear, yet his most important job. - Matt Damon I've always wanted to be a dad. I just can't wait to have a little rug rat running around. I used to want five or six kids, but maybe I've become too self-absorbed over the years. I think two would be perfect. - Josh Duhamel My goal is for Gunnar to outlive me. That's the way it should be. My dream is for him to be a dad himself one day, so he can find out all the anxiety that kids bring to their dads. - Boom...

You know not having my real dad around and having a step dad made me want to be a great dad. So now I have been one for 9 years. And now 3 daughters. So, that is what I am - a dad, first and foremost, before anything else. It's just something that comes natural now. - Tim Mcgraw When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age. - Tim Mcgraw

But although Australia was also involved in the Vietnam conflict, I can remember my dad telling us that if we were in Australia, we wouldn't be drafted until we were 20. - Mel Gibson We had our first earthquake over here recently. That was a bizarre feeling. I just became disoriented and I remember my dad freaking out. Nothing broke or anything. - Ashley Scott

Carter pulled out several lengths of brown twine, a small ebony cat statue, and a thick roll of paper. No, not paper. Papyrus. I remember Dad explaining how the Egyptians made it from a river plant because they never invented paper. The stuff was so thick and rough, it made me wonder if the poor Egyptians had had to use toilet papyrus. If so, no wonder they walked sideways. - Rick Riordan Nona had been bonkers since I could remember. Dad said it was menopause, but I had looked that up once, and I highly doubted that was the case. - Holly Hood

This is how it essentially is for Bunny Junior. He loves his dad. He thinks there is no dad better, cleverer, or more capable, and he stands there beside him with a sense of pride he's my dad and he also, of course, stands beside him because he has nowhere else to go. - Nick Cave Daddy is trying really fugging hard to think of a not-terrifying reason why you'd wake Daddy up in the middle of the night to ask that fugging question. But no. No. Daddy does not have a match or a lighter. - John Green I was always the new kid in school, I'm the kid from a broken family, I'm the kid who had no dad showing up at the father-son stuff, I'm the kid that was using food stamps at the grocery store. - Dave Mustaine

My dad used to say that living with regrets was like driving a car that only moved in reverse. - Jodi Picoult My dad used to say that life's a journey, but somebody screwed up and lost the map. - Rachel Caine My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did. - Phil Mcgraw Viola blows out a thoughtful air. "My dad used to say, 'There's only forward, Vi, only outward and up.'" "There's only forward," I repeat. "Outward and up," she says. - Patrick Ness

My Dad says that being a Londoner has nothing to do with where you're born. He says that there are people who get off a jumbo jet at Heathrow, go through immigration waving any kind of passport, hop on the tube and by the time the train's pulled into Piccadilly Circus they've become a Londoner. - Ben Aaronovitch We approach the house and I wave at Jimmy. "And if he thinks he's eating with us, he's got another thing coming," my dad says. Jimmy approaches us and takes the shopping bags from me, looking inside them. "Lamb roast. Am I invited? - Melina Marchetta Oh, really? Is that why he's hot and bothered for Arcadia here?" Kar Yee tossed an accusatory glance my way. She was well aware that honesty wasn't one of my strong suits. "Probably," Jupe confirmed. "My dad says he likes her so much that if she kicked him in the balls, he'd just thank her. - Jenn Bennett My dad says I could sing before I could talk, if that'...

My dad was a fairy," said Zach. "And by that I don't mean he dressed well and enjoyed musical theatre. - Ben Aaronovitch My Dad says that being a Londoner has nothing to do with where you're born. He says that there are people who get off a jumbo jet at Heathrow, go through immigration waving any kind of passport, hop on the tube and by the time the train's pulled into Piccadilly Circus they've become a Londoner. - Ben Aaronovitch And it's when I'm standing there this morning, in my PJs and a hijab, next to my mum and my dad, kneeling before God, that I feel a strange sense of calm. I feel like nothing can hurt me, and nothing else matters. - Randa Abdel Fattah My life isn't that dramatic. My dad really loves me, he just can't talk on the phone. He's too crippled and shy, and that's almost harder. He's there and he loves me, and I try and try and try, it's just impossible to have a relationship. - Joey Lauren Adams He took ...

My dad died of a stroke. - William Shatner My dad died when I was three so my mom had to raise four kids on her own, and I think there's a part of me that pulls upon having watched my mom do that our whole lives. She had to make it work. - Leslie Bibb When my dad died a lot of songs came, and they're still coming. - Rosanne Cash It is because my dad died suddenly that I became an actor. I thought, I'm going to make money doing this thing I enjoy. - Paul Giamatti My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover. - Tom Glazer Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn't just a new livelihood. It was a new life. - Paul Ryan I come at night, waiting for some piece of the puzz...

My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.' - Joe Biden My dad always said that when you're struggling with something, look at all the people around you and realize that every single person you see is struggling with something, and to them, it's just hard as what you're going through - Nicholas Sparks And like my dad always said, the first step is always the hardest. - Sarah Dessen My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.' - Daisy Donovan My dad always said he couldn't remember a time when I did not want to act. - Gwyneth Paltrow My dad always said I was hard-headed, that it would take something like that to wake me up spiritually, and I guess it did. My heart had gotten so beat up that I didn't have anything left to give. - Scott Stapp When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and ...

For My Dad. - Mitch Albom You know, I'm just - I'm really happy for my dad. - Nicole Richie You guys looking for my dad? People are always, like, looking for him, and he's never around. Daddy is so not here. And I mean that literally and spiritually. - Eoin Colfer He grumbles incoherently, opens the window a fraction and continues to smoke away. It's like every time Sidney Drake enters a new location he has to readjust the atmosphere, akin to one of those sci-fi shows where they oxygenate the planet, but for my dad it's in a suffocating reverse. He replaces the clean wholesome air with a non-stop puff of toxic poison. - Tom Conrad Don't Cry Daddy is a pretty sad song. He got to the end of it and it was just real quiet and Elvis says, I'm gonna cut that someday for my daddy. And, by God, he did. He lived up to his word. - Mac Davis He asked what was wrong. "It's just that why would you have one for him and not one for my dad?" "What d...

Young people know how important it is for dads to be involved in their lives. As I travel the country and talk with students, some of them tell me that their lives would be totally different if their father was around. - Arne Duncan Having been born and raised in 'The Sportsman's Paradise', I had an instant longing for Daddy. When I was hurt as a little girl, I would curl up in his lap and he would rock me. Figuratively knocking me to my knees, I suddenly - fiercely - wanted Daddy to hold my hand and assure me I was going to get through this. Seeing Dr. England's clenched jaw and look of sympathy and knowing Daddy's reaction would have been similar did little to help the ache. - Allison La Crosse - T R Graves Still, I couldn't get over Dad calling those farmers. People might think helping is hard, but really that's the easy part; just look how good it makes people feel. Look how happy all those Red Bend ladies were about chipping in. It's the asking t...

I wanted my dad to be proud of me, and I fell into acting because there wasn't anything else I could do, and in it I found a discipline that I wanted to keep coming back to, that I love and I learn about every day. - Tom Hardy Still, I couldn't get over Dad calling those farmers. People might think helping is hard, but really that's the easy part; just look how good it makes people feel. Look how happy all those Red Bend ladies were about chipping in. It's the asking that's so painful. It takes real courage, real strength , to say you're not strong enough to do it alone. Mom must really be hurting for Dad to be so brave. - Catherine Gilbert Murdock I wanted to travel with my dad to be close to him again. Having babies and raising my own family took so much of my time, I didn't have a chance to be with him very often. - Nancy Sinatra I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver. - Chely Wright ...

My dad died of a stroke. - William Shatner My dad died when I was three so my mom had to raise four kids on her own, and I think there's a part of me that pulls upon having watched my mom do that our whole lives. She had to make it work. - Leslie Bibb When my dad died a lot of songs came, and they're still coming. - Rosanne Cash It is because my dad died suddenly that I became an actor. I thought, I'm going to make money doing this thing I enjoy. - Paul Giamatti My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover. - Tom Glazer My mom and dad died, but in their place I got a house of fog that's easy to hide my feelings in. (No smoking, please.) - Jarod Kintz Her dad died unexpectedly, so I hid the flowers, because flowers are reminders of spring and life, and also of headstones and death. Also, I hid the flowers because they we...

Becoming a dad means you have to be a role model for your son and be someone he can look up to. - Wayne Rooney Becoming a dad was the proudest moment of my life. Playing football does not even compare. - Wayne Rooney

You can be a mama's boy, be a daddy's boy, but you can't be both. So you cling to the one you think you might lose. - Mitch Albom When you're shooting a film, you really don't get to be a dad, and you don't really get to be a husband. You don't really exist at all. But I do drag my family with me on location whenever I can. - Eric Bana Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right. - Wade Boggs I'd love to be a dad. I hope I'd be great at it. That's every man's fear, yet his most important job. - Matt Damon I've always wanted to be a dad. I just can't wait to have a little rug rat running around. I used to want five or six kids, but maybe I've become too self-absorbed over the years. I think two would be perfect. - Josh Duhamel My goal is for Gunnar to outlive me. That's t...

I think 'Family Guy' and 'American Dad' have definitely staked out their own style and territory, and now the accusations are coming that 'The Simpsons' is taking jokes from 'Family Guy.' And I can tell you, that ain't the case. - Matt Groening 'American Dad' is, by its nature, much more political. - Seth Macfarlane

I don't think I've had a holiday in my entire life that wasn't about my dad's work. - Kat Dennings From the moment I told her about my dad, it was as if her whole body sighed in relief. As if someone else's misery comforted her, made her feel as if she wasn't alone. - Simone Elkeles I feel like if I'm going to give you a book about my dad, then I really want to give you my dad, because he is interesting and he is funny and if you're buying a book about him, I don't want you to have to sit through stuff that's not him. - Justin Halpern