Parental Admiration Quotes

My father, to me, was 10 feet tall.

My mum is just the sweetest person on Earth, and if I turned into her, I wouldn't be that upset at all; in fact, it would be an honour.

My father is my hero. No matter what, I'll always forgive him.

My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.

People who, as children, were intellectually far beyond their parents and therefore admired by them, but who also therefore had to solve their own problems alone. These people, who give us a feeling of their intellectual strength and will power, also seem to demand that we, too, ought to fight off any feeling of weakness with intellectual means. In their presence one feels one cannot be recognized as a person with problems just as they and their problems were unrecognized by their parents, for whom he always had to be strong.

My dad says he likes to bask in my glow.

One or two people have named their children after characters in my songs. That's pretty intense.

One day, I found my dad's dressing-gown in an old suitcase, and it transported me back to when I was five and thought he was a god or a superhero who could do anything. After that, I wrote my first positive book about fathers, about my dad.

For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.

Our daughters have always been a credit to us. And I am so proud of them.

I have grown up looking up to my dad and bhaiya.

Never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in my father's.

My dad is my dad. I love him, and I realize that he's as famous as he is. Of course, I don't look at him like everybody else does. Because I know his little faults, I know his weaknesses. Nobody's perfect. But he's my dad. Just like your dad is to you.

Along with my dad, my mother's pretty high up there. She's a star! Her interests are so diverse - she's an art collector and a sports enthusiast.

From childhood, both my brother and I have had only one hero, and that's our dad.

I'm not ashamed to confess that I often note down many of the crazy things my children say.

I would probably confess that I was the greatest disappointment of my mother's life, but my father only admired his son's moxie, drive, hustle, and wherewithal to pursue his dreams no matter how I achieve them.

If you were good at tennis, you were a star in my dad's world.

This mum comes up, she's got a five-year-old kid and she says, 'Can he have your autograph, you are his favourite person in the whole world.' I thought, 'How cool is that? I've got five-year-old fans,' and as I'm signing this autograph, the mum goes, 'Yeah, yeah, you're by far the best Wiggle.'

My mother was my greatest fan.

Of all time, my craziest fan experience was signing a little baby's forehead, like a newborn baby. The parents came up to me, they wanted me to sign his forehead.

My dad is basically my best friend. I'm that dude's spitting image and couldn't be more proud of that. They just don't come any better than my dad.

I always grew up thinking how amazing my dad was, how strong he was.

To every little girl, her father is a hero. My father actually is one.

When you were a kid, it [work in IBM] seemed like an awesome job. I'd get to go to work and have a briefcase. I loved how Dad wore a tie and got a car. I didn't know if all those things came together. I'd see my dad go off to work and we'd wait for him to come home, and we'd all be excited to see him.