Dad Quote by Rainn Wilson

I was named after my mother's maiden name.

— Sprague Grayden

My mom raised me on her own, so I decided to take her name 'cause she was my mom and my dad.

— Kaya Scodelario

[My father] loved me tenderly and shyly from a distance, and later on took a naive pride in seeing my name in print.

— Arthur Koestler

When I was born, my mother didn't know what to name me. Eventually she named me after Thom Yorke.

— Thom Yorke

I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet.

— Philip Levine

“We loved our father for the poet he'd become.”

— Frederick Reiken

Named after my mother.

— Bonnie Raitt

My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.

— Natasha Trethewey

“dad now realize how you became poet”

— sakhiabbas

I think it was Dad who gave me my nickname 'Katy Custard,' recognising my deep, positive and lasting relationship with it.

— KT Tunstall

My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her.

— Guy Johnson

“The truth is: I did want to be my dad's poem. I wanted to be his drawing, his novella, his most refined work of…

— Alysia Abbott