Papa Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Papa Quotes from famous authors such as John Schnatter, Hayden Panettiere, Jack Hemingway, Ekta Kapoor, Charlie Brooker. Let’s look at these pieces of wisdom. We definitely have something to learn from them!

1
I was born and raised in the state of Indiana, and it’s where I started Papa John’s, so this state and our partnership with the Pacers hold a special place in my heart.
John Schnatter
2
Some people ask me whether I’m a ‘mama’s girl’ or a ‘papa’s girl.’ I’m nobody’s girl. My brother clings to our parents; I’m the one shoving them out the door.
Hayden Panettiere
3
When he was with you, he was totally yours. Of course Papa might tell you to wait in the car for five minutes while he talked to just this one person and he’d be right back. He might be gone an hour and a half. He was a very hard person to get out of places, actually.
Jack Hemingway
4
My father came from a chawl and became a top star in Bollywood and worked very hard for us. When I look at my dad, I feel very good that my papa did so much.
Ekta Kapoor
5
Calling Batman ‘the Dark Knight’ is like calling Papa Smurf ‘the Blue Patriarch’:you’re not fooling anyone.
Charlie Brooker
6
I fed them every day. So it was a papa that kept food on the table for them. I did that. I did my part.
Joe Jackson
7
Papa is a very chilled out person. He was very supportive from the beginning. I think Papa helped ease Mama into the idea of me acting. He told her that she seems passionate about it. He was very cool about it.
Janhvi Kapoor
8
I was working at Papa John’s full-time. I had just quit my part-time job at UPS. I was there for two years.
Bryson Tiller
9
I was criticized at some level within the Republican Party by those who say government should not be in the economic development business at all. My response is that the only country I know that doesn’t have an economic development plan is Papa New Guinea.
Jon Huntsman, Jr.
10
You play a ‘lowdown dirty shame slow and lonesome, my mama dead, my papa across the sea I ain’t dead but I’m just supposed to be’ blues. You can take that same blues, make it uptempo, a shuffle blues, that’s what rock n’ roll did with it. So blues ain’t going nowhere. Ain’t goin’ nowhere.
David Edwards
11
The original goal for Papa John’s was to make $50 grand a year and have $50 grand in the bank so I could get a date.
John Schnatter
12
It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, ‘Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your arm.’
Sam Levenson
13
I was proud of Papa for his sports.
Jack Hemingway
14
If you say to people, ‘I’m off to Papa New Guinea,’ you’ll often get a bad reaction – usually from people who’ve never been there. There’s this fear of the unknown. And 99% of the time, you end up surprised – it rekindles your faith in humanity.
Charley Boorman
15
When French troops entered Paris in August, 1944, Papa came in from Rambouillet and first liberated the Explorers’ club. But his major objective was the Ritz. He came in and assured security, making sure nobody else could get to the wine cellar.
Jack Hemingway
16
I don’t believe in honors – it bothers me. Honors bother: honors is epaulettes; honors is uniforms. My papa brought me up this way.
Richard P. Feynman
17
Companies like Papa John’s are largely a collection of small independent businesses.
John Schnatter
18
There’s nothing like a love for our children. I love being a papa, and that’s the truth.
Richie Sambora
19
My mother, along with Papa’s other eventual wives – Pauline, Marty Gelhorn, Mary Welch – they all, at one time or another, no matter how angry they were at him at the moment, said, ‘Look, Papa is special. He writes so beautifully. We have to let this go on.’
Jack Hemingway
20
‘Healing,’ Papa would tell me, ‘is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.’
W. H. Auden
21
My son, Arzhel, is two, and he eats vegetables twice a day. We have a vegetable garden on our farm in the Southwest, and he gets two baskets, one over each arm, and says, ‘Garden, Papa!’ and then he eats what he picks.
Alain Ducasse
22
Many in the media reported that I said Papa John’s is going to close stores and cut jobs because of Obamacare. I never said that.
John Schnatter
23
The people of Haiti have always called me Papa Doc. I was first their doctor. Now I am also their president for life.
Francois Duvalier
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In my case, a papadaddy is a father. My paternal grandfather was called Papa by my father who was called Daddy by me.
Clyde Edgerton
25
Papa loved to have me show off my scars.
Jack Hemingway
26
Ron Reagan amazingly qualifies as an honest broker. I asked him if he was a mama’s boy and he said no, more of a papa’s boy. At the same time he was willing to say that his father had many shortcomings and needed to be held accountable.
Eugene Jarecki
27
I asked my kids, ‘Do you know what Papa used to do.’ They said, ‘You were a boxer, you won the Olympics!’ And that’s what they know.
Sugar Ray Leonard
28
I adored my grandparents and spent every weekend with Mama and Papa Wicks. They had seven children, so they needed a big house – and it seemed only logical to them to build into their house a pipe organ in a music room with a sixteen-foot ceiling.
Frances Hesselbein
29
Every business decision I ever made I learned from my grandfather Papa Sam. He moved here from Russia when he was a boy. He worked his way up selling newspapers and ladies’ handbags, and eventually, he became Cadillac Sam, one of the biggest car dealers in Chicago.
Bobbi Brown
30
Papa continually emphasizes how much remains unexplained. With the other psychoanalytic writers, everything is always so known and fixed.
Anna Freud
31
My parents never told me about Papa’s lung cancer or the desperate nature of the operations he was about to undergo, which were a last-ditch effort to contain the spread of his cancer.
Beverly Sills
32
Melanie is more of a disciplinarian with the little girl than me, probably because it’s my first baby. She gets everything easy from Papa. I am more weak. She takes advantage of me.
Antonio Banderas
33
In the case of Papa Pope, certainly he’s making his daughter’s world and the world of the republic a much better place.
Joe Morton
34
Papa died when he was 77.
Manolo Blahnik
35
I remember there were two tapes that my papa had in his truck at all times when I was younger. It was a Ralph Stanley gospel cassette and the ‘Hee Haw’ gospel album.
Tyler Childers
36
The first memory I have in the world is of death and tears. That is how I would mark the beginning of my life: the way people mark the end of one. My family had gathered at Papa Joe’s house because Mam’ Grace was slipping away, only I didn’t register it that way. For some reason I thought that it was her birthday.
Charles M. Blow
37
The same kids listening to Papa Roach will listen to an Xzibit CD.
Xzibit
38
It’s especially important for my little girl to see her papa at work.
Luis Suarez
39
I always say to people, ‘You know, if Romeo and Juliet got married, nobody would care about them.’ Imagine Romeo and Juliet, six kids yelling, ‘Mama, Mama, Papa, Papa!’
Marjane Satrapi
40
Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
Charles Dickens
41
NFL leadership has hurt Papa John’s shareholders.
John Schnatter
42
Te Papa Museum is brilliant.
Richard C. Armitage
43
Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours.
Anna Freud
44
It is always great to work with Papa and bhaiya.
Bobby Deol