Jim Gaffigan Quotes About Dad

Quotes about: Dad

• There should be a children's song: 'If you're happy and you know it, keep it to yourself and let your dad sleep'.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Fathers Day, Song, Children

  FaceBook post by Jim Gaffigan from May 09, 2012

• As a dad, you are the Vice President of the executive branch of parenting. It doesn't matter what your personality is like, you will always be Al Gore to your wife's Bill Clinton. She feels the pain and you are the annoying nerd telling them to turn off the lights.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Pain, Dad, Light

• Failing and laughing at your own shortcomings are the hallmarks of a sane parent.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Dad, Laughing, Parent

  Jim Gaffigan (2013). “Dad Is Fat”, p.25, Crown Archetype

• Whenever one of my children says, 'Goodnight, Daddy,' I always think to myself, 'You don't mean that.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Fathers Day, Children, Dad

  FaceBook post by Jim Gaffigan from Oct 19, 2012

• If you're a guy over 30 by yourself in the hotel pool, you automatically look like a murderer who's just relaxing after he strangled a family. "Yeah-that dad was a tough one to kill."

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Dad, Guy

• Twitter allowed me to talk about parenting in short snippets and find out what I really wanted to say about it, which is that I'm a dad who had no idea what he's doing.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Dad, Ideas, Wanted

  "Jim Gaffigan Talks Family, Food And Dad Is Fat". Interview with Samantha Abernethy, chicagoist.com. May 10, 2013.

• My wife and I, we work together. And we wrote this book, "Dad Is Fat." And in the book, I was encouraged constantly by my editor to be more personal and talk about more personal experiences.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Dad, Book, Editors

  "Comic Jim Gaffigan On Stand-Up, Faith And Opening For The Pope". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 24, 2015.

• We all take Mother's Day seriously and then it's like a month later, a bunch of kids get together and say, "I guess we should do this for the old man, too." Father Day's is weird. It's like celebrating Darth Vader's birthday. It's odd I think. Even the gifts we give dads. Like neckties, which are just like a silk noose. Or books. Would you ever want someone from another generation to give you a book?

  Jim Gaffigan

  Dad, Father, Book

  Source: www.esquire.com

• All I want to do is be a good dad, but I'm pretty bad at it.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Dad, Want, Good Dad

  "Jim Gaffigan On Parenting". Interview with Chris Wright, www.esquire.com. May 6, 2013.

• I was the youngest of the six kids, and to make my older siblings laugh, that was very important. I did a great impression of our dad that made them all laugh, so that gave me a lot of power within the family.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Dad, Sibling, Kids

  "Q&A With Jim Gaffigan: ‘Hot Pocket’ Comedian Reaches Out to Our Wounded Soldiers (VIDEO)". Interview with Joshua Kors, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 8, 2012.

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