Dads And Grads Quotes

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.' ~ Steve Schirripa

There had never been a funeral in our town before, at least not during our lifetimes. The majority of dying had happened during the Second World War when we didn't exist and our fathers were impossibly skinny young men in black-and-white photographs - dads on jungle airstrips, dads with pimples and tattoos, dads with pinups, dads who wrote love letters to the girls who would become our mothers, dads inspired by K rations, loneliness and glandular riot in malarial air into poetic reveries that ceased entirely once they got back home. ~ Jeffrey Eugenides

Confident women are raised by loving dads. ~ Nitya Prakash

The best fathers have the softest, sweetest hearts. In other words, great dads are real marshmallows. ~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I ask for a lot of advice from different fathers - all kinds of dads. ~ Hank Azaria

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

In brief, we spend billions to get from dads the money few of them have, and virtually nothing to allow dads to give the time they do have-the time their children need. ~ Warren Farrell

My kids don't go back and forth; none of this 50/50 time with the mums and dads. My children live with me; that is it. ~ Kate Winslet

It's like our country is being run by a bunch of bad alcoholic dads right now. ~ Patton Oswalt

Kids seem to get me when I play colleges - they like it because I go after them. They'll come up after and say I am like their dads, only funny. ~ Lewis Black

Dads in the family are even more important than women in the workplace: The workplace benefits from women, but the family needs dads. ~ Warren Farrell

I did have two dads; one was a socialist, and one was a capitalist. I really decided I would rather be a capitalist. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

Working moms, and increasingly working dads, don't want a government handout, but they do need a hand up. ~ Madeleine M. Kunin

Loving my son, building my son, touching my son, playing with my son, being with my son ... these aren't tasks that only super dads can perform. These are tasks that every dad should perform. Always. Without fail. ~ Dan Pearce

But here's the first clue: the male-female pay gap is not a gap between men and women; it is a gap between moms and dads. Or more precisely, between men and women's work-life decisions when they become moms and dads. ~ Warren Farrell

I have always wanted my children's dads to be involved in their lives. Not just the day-to-day aspect, but the emotional shifts that they go through, when little things pop up - they need to be included, absolutely, and for the children to feel that they are. ~ Kate Winslet

One of the tragic consequences of divorce is that the kids are legally obligated by the courts to spend a fixed amount of time with their dads. In normal families, dads and children happily ignore each other. ~ C.D. Payne

We can buy you one of those books they have for little kids 'Timmy Has Two Dads'. Except I don't think they have one called 'Timmy Has Two Dads and One of Them Was Evil'. That part you're just going to have to work through on your own. ~ Cassandra Clare

Dads. Do your faces light up when you first see your child in the morning or when you come home from work? Do you not understand that a child's entire sense of value can revolve around what they see in your face when you first see them? ~ Dan Pearce

CVS is an extreme case among retailers. Its new hires are almost always either recent grads or people who have bounced around the pharmacy world so often that they have nowhere left to go. ~ Dennis Miller

Most moms and dads, they want to be good moms and dads. But it's an incredibly hard job when you are stressed out, when you are poor, when your life is in chaos. And giving them some of the tools to be better parents, to whittle away at that parenting gap, gives those kids a much better starting point in life. ~ Nicholas Kristof

Let's face it, I like Stanford grads. I'd always hear about this campus, and everybody is riding bikes, and people hopping into fountains. ~ Barack Obama

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. ~ Zach Cregger

I'm out there competing with a million other hungry grads. You know they should have warned us in high school. Instead they told us we were all fucking special snowflakes and the world was at out feet. Such bullshit. ~ Karina Halle

The main trouble with Hollywood is that the guys you have to pitch to, the guys who run the studios, are all business school grads. ~ Terry Zwigoff

Teach for America recruits top recent college grads, young professionals, people we believe are the U.S.'s most promising future leaders, and asks them to commit two years to teach in high-need urban and rural communities. ~ Wendy Kopp

Perhaps the best reason to consider the hard sciences is that, well, one study suggests science, engineering, medicine, and dentistry graduates live longer than arts graduates (or law grads). So whatever money you make you can keep a bit longer. ~ Warren Farrell

Half-sloshed mums're rolling their eyes at sun-pinked dads burning bangers on barbecues. ~ David Mitchell

No beautiful, I'm not seeing anyone. I've been real focused myself. But I'm not foolish enough to let you get by. Even if I have to go through two over-protective dads," Genesis answered. "So. I've got to get back on the road, but I'll see you next weekend. Friday night eight o'clock sharp. And trust me, I won't be late." Genesis bent and kissed Curtis on his cheek. Curtis blushed terribly in front of everyone. This was so ridiculous, they had absolutely no privacy. Genesis gave him another wink before he released his hand and turned to walk up the stairs. His dads walked over to him and Ruxs handed him his suit jacket. He snatched it out his dad's hand and turned to walk out the front door. "Have fun dads." Curtis could hear Day's laugh after his comment, along with the other men, as he walked angrily up the driveway to their car. His dads had made a circus act out of a very nice moment he'd shared with a really great guy. ~ A.E. Via

Don't argue with a fool, people won't be able to tell the difference. ~ Dad's Advice

Dad would fix this. Because that's what dads do. They fix things. ~ Rick Yancey

Dads. Do you not realize that a child is what you tell them they are? That people almost always become what they are labeled? Was whatever your child just did really the "dumbest thing you've ever seen somebody do"? Was it really the "most ridiculous thing they ever could have done"? Do you really believe that your child is an idiot? Because she now does. Think about that. Because you said it, she now believes it. Bravo. ~ Dan Pearce

Other times, we dads are presented as the "enforcer" Vice President, the Dick Cheney. ~ Jim Gaffigan

Dads are supposed to pursue sons, not the other way around. ~ James L. Rubart

It's rally bad when dads cry. ~ Sarah Ockler

My dad's been one of those dads who loves showing newspaper articles to the neighbors. ~ Girl Talk

Other dads actually sat at the dinner table. Mine left me a fifty and a reminder to do my goddamn katas. ~ Lilith Saintcrow

I did what all good Iriah dads do when faced with a worthy adversary..I said Ask your mother!! ~ Eoin Colfer

Dads. Do you honestly expect anybody to believe that you can't find 20 minutes to step away from your computer or turn off the television to play with your child? It has to happen every single day. Do you not understand that children will hinge their entire facet of trust on whether or not their dad plays with them and how involved he is when he plays with them? Do you know the damage you do by not playing with your children every day? ~ Dan Pearce

Upper education used to open doors. Not so true anymore. The degree used to be a screening tool, but that is falling by the wayside as there are a glut of college grads on the market. ~ Dale Archer

Programs like WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) subsidize the exclusion of dads. ~ Warren Farrell

Dads are the leaders in their homes, and our kids need leaders. ~ Greg Schiano

Dads. It's time to tell our kids that we love them. Constantly. It's time to show our kids that we love them. Constantly. It's time to take joy in their twenty-thousand daily questions and their inability to do things as quickly as we'd like. It's time to take joy in their quirks and their ticks. It's time to take joy in their facial expressions and their mispronounced words. It's time to take joy in everything that our kids are. ~ Dan Pearce

Dads don't need to be tall and broad-shouldered and clever. Love makes them so. ~ Pam Brown

Father, you are sending mixed signals. You dispatched a woman to murder me today and now you're upset about my wedding reception? ~ Ilona Andrews

Hire inexperience. This year we plan to hire 200 engineers - half of whom are recent grads. Young people are not burdened by years of experience. They haven't learned - or been told - what is right or wrong. With engineering, there is no tried and tested path. You try, and fail, and fix, and fail again. ~ James Dyson

First off, let's clear this up - fries are not a side dish and you can't count those as a vegetable. Sorry. ~ Tez Brooks

Most moms and dads think they are either the best or the worst parents in the world. Both are wrong. ~ Kevin DeYoung

If you're the dad of a daughter, your job is particularly important, affecting her self-esteem, her autonomy, and her aspirations (according to one study, out of the University of British Columbia, daughters who see their dads doing chores are less likely to limit their
career aspirations to stereotypically female industries, like teaching or nursing). But you can't just talk the talk, you have to actually walk it. We promise, it'll pay off for you, too! Working dads who spend more time with their kids are happier in their jobs. They're also more patient, empathetic, and flexible - and at least one study claims it might just help them live longer. ~ Jessica Bennett

Moms and dads tell the children what to do. Kids tell their parents their wishes and dreams. ~ Tedd Tripp

Her father is fastened to his room, with his records and his drugs and his quiet. She crawls under her covers. It is her fault for triggering one of his spells. Normally she can tightrope through his moods. At least it had been brief. Most girls do not have to deal with a father like hers. They would be afraid of the way she lives, lawless in a roachy apartment. They would be scared of his fits. Madeleine would be scared too, she thinks, falling asleep. If she had only experienced finished basements and dads who acted like dads. But Madeleine loves her father, and how can you be scared of someone you love? ~ Marie-Helene Bertino

Dad has shamelessly played the Mom card. Against which there is no defense. ~ Denis Markell

Vic's father was badass. Other dads built things. Hers blew shit up and rode away on a Harley, smoking the cigarette he used to light the fuse. Top that. ~ Joe Hill

There's no way I can care properly for my children if I don't first care for myself. ~ Tez Brooks

children are. Moms to push their swings. Dads to wipe the dirt off scraped knees. Beyond the park there's a water ~ Jenny B. Jones

How go the preparations for the wedding?"
"Very well. How goes the world domination?"
"It has its moments. ~ Ilona Andrews

What makes America unique is not that it built MIT, or that its grads are generating economic growth and innovation, but that every state in the country has universities trying to do the same. "America has 4,000 colleges and universities," said Allan E. Goodman, president of the Institute of International Education. "The rest of the world combined has 7,768 institutions of higher education. ~ Thomas L. Friedman

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. ~ Anna Chlumsky

I can't think of anything worse than being brought up by two gay dads. ~ Rupert Everett

If we want to raise children who will remain faithful to Christ and His Church, they need to see fathers on their knees in prayer. ~ Randy Hain

I've seen women who don't have great relationships with their dads, and it all comes down to this: You have to tell girls you love them every day. ~ Chris Rock

Women work as much as men now, if not more. There's a resurgence of dads in the home and moms working. ~ Morena Baccarin

My dad was one of those dads that would make me stop crying by threatening to beat me. ~ Felipe Esparza

And although there were countless single dads who were raising daughters, no one could deny that there were milestones that a girl wanted a mother for. ~ Lisa Kleypas

Anyone could father a child. But a good parent puts his child's needs before his own. A parent should be selfless not selfish. ~ Penelope Ward

I also turn down what's probably a good amount of coinage to be made out of playing dads, an incredible number of obnoxious dad. ~ Bill Pullman

When my mother heard about this, she was furious, and she crossed Nellie off her prayer list. My dad put her on his instead, so she didn't miss out. ~ Jeanette Winterson

In a study of more than twelve thousand teenagers after divorce, children living with single dads fared better than children living with single moms. ~ Warren Farrell

Make dads the godly leaders [of the family] with the women in submission, raising kids for the glory of God. ~ Randall Terry

Well, my dads are always saying I'm the handsome one in the family, but it's always nice to hear a girl say it, too. Especially if she's under fifty. ~ Paula Stokes

Social expectations about what constitutes a good or a bad mother haunt every decision, and the rise of the parental advice industry ensures that moms and dads feel inadequate at every turn. ~ Jessica Valenti

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. ~ Simone Elkeles

I have three dads: my biological father, God and Bob Dylan. ~ Jack White

Accept the fact that girls squeal when they're happy or confused or excited or scared or because they just saw a certain boy in line. ~ Harry H. Harrison Jr.

Most dads had hobbies that they passed down to their sons; hunting, fishing, auto repair. Dad's hobby was nuclear war, which meant his sons knew everything about it. ~ S.A. Bodeen

But there's no substitute for a full-time dad. Dads who are fully engaged with their kids overwhelmingly tend to produce children who believe in themselves and live full lives. ~ Tony Dungy

Dads - and people in general - should keep in mind that we as mothers put enough pressure on ourselves. We don't need outside pressure put on us. ~ Mila Kunis

I could see the combinations and permutations flutter through their minds. This was Boulder. It could easily be two moms. Two dads. A dad, a mom, and an orangutan. Three Amish hipsters and a transgendered Aboriginal mermaid. ~ Bill Konigsberg

Dads, is it too bold to hope that our children might have some small portion of the feeling for us that the Divine Son felt for His Father? ~ Jeffrey R. Holland

I took a year and a half off, when my kid was born, because I didn't want to be one of those dads where the kid doesn't know who his dad is. ~ Michael Pena

I don't have children that I've lost in a bitter custody dispute. But I see an enormous wound in kids due to a lack of their dads. ~ Warren Farrell

I have six brothers and sisters. My mother has six kids from two different marriages. And we would just sit around making fun of each other's dad, and all our dads had real problems. ~ Michael Che

Affirming words from moms and dads are like light switches. Speak a word of affirmation at the right moment in a child's life and it's like lighting up a whole roomful of possibilities. ~ Gary Smalley

This seemed to be how dads taught their boys to be men, but there had to be a point, maybe early on, when they were able to hold their hands. One tiny one engulfed by one big one. ~ Karin Slaughter

Fishing is much less about the fishing, and much more about the time alone with your kid, away from the hustle and bustle of the everyday. ~ Dan Pearce

Southern DADDY - Dandy At Doin' Diapers Y'all! ~ Richelle E. Goodrich

In too many cases, the moms, the dads, the sisters and brothers of children with cancer must stand by a hospital bed and watch helplessly as this horrible disease consumes the life of an innocent child. ~ Michael McCaul

There are Harvard grads, free thinkers, feminists, abolitionists, well-to-do people who want to go write poetry and live on a farm and cook and laugh and have a good time. As they themselves described it, it was an "inward facing" community. They were focusing on making a better existence for themselves, which I think is also the driving force of 20th century communalism in the US, the thought being that the world is corrupt, and we're going to build this little garden of innocence. ~ Christine Jennings

Our Father GOD is the measure by which we know the shortcomings of earthly dads and earthly clergy; for their vocation is to be His image on earth. GOD allows them to fail so that we might seek perfect fatherhood in Him. ~ Scott Hahn

All societies that have survived have survived based on their ability to prepare their sons to be disposable, in war and at work
and therefore as dads. ~ Warren Farrell

Young men are obsessed with their dads, and they remain obsessed if the dad is not around. Remember that there was a lot of discussion about how George W. Bush might have invaded Iraq to atone for the failures of his dad. ~ Dinesh D'Souza

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. ~ Casey Wilson

Of course, our roles within the family are radically different. Generational stereotypes of moms and dads have disintegrated A-bomb style. We are making it up as we go along, pioneering a new era of equality. ~ Gudjon Bergmann

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. ~ Al Roker

Nobody ever says, 'Hey daddy, thanks for knockin' out this rent.' 'Hey daddy, I sure love this hot water.' 'Hey daddy, it's easy to read with all this light.' Nobody give a fk about dads! ~ Chris Rock

Her dads warned her that some people won't understand their family and might say ignorant (their word) and hurtful things to her and it might not be their fault because of what they've been taught by other ignorant people with too much hate in their hearts, and, yes, it was very sad. Wen assumed they were talking about the same bad or stranger-danger people that hide in the city and want to take her away, but the more they talked to her about what Scott had said and why others might say things like that, too, the more it seemed like they were talking about everyday kind of people. Weren't the three of them everyday kind of people? She pretended to understand for her dads' sake, but she didn't and still doesn't. Why do she and her family need to be understood or explained to anyone else? ~ Paul Tremblay

When I first knew I was having children, I thought I wanted boys, but then I thought I'd be better with girls. I'm quite sensitive, and you get more cuddles with girls. And they like their dads. ~ Kelly Jones

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. ~ David Mitchell

I wonder if that's the difference between fathers and mothers. I'm friends with people who have kids that are like 5 and under, and they're still in that intense mother-bonding phase. It might just be that. Because the dads haven't changed. ~ Jen Kirkman

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. ~ Thomas Gibson