1,617 Quotes About Dad

My dad was an engineer, and he became the CEO of Chevron. His was an engineer's mind-set: Everything's kind of a problem how do you approach the problem?

My worldview comes from a collection of the books I have read, the people I have met, and my conversations with my dad.

You can say that Mitt Romney started with nothing! He didn't get an inheritance from his dad.

The funny thing about our act is that dad gets the worst of it, although I'm the one who apparently receives the bruises . . . the secret is in landing limp and breaking the fall with a foot or a hand. It's a knack. I started so young that landing right is second nature with me. Several times I'd have been killed if I hadn't been able to land like a cat. Imitators of our act don't last long, because they can't stand the treatment.

I don't know if I could date a single dad. It would depend on the guy.

As a five-year-old kid, I used to sit in front of the TV - I never missed 'Dukes of Hazzard,' not once. It was me and my dad's show.

My dad had come from Ireland and worked in the mills. My mom was Scottish and worked as a domestic, ... I didn't have any relations who had ever gone to college. I knew I could handle the academics, but the mills were working. People were making a lot of money.

My dad had a vision of what a bookseller's role in society was.

Grandpa was the executive. Dad was... well... not. He was something of the rebel instead.