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Your Quotes for 18 June 2006 - Fathers' Day

Today is observed as Fathers' Day in the US, possibly other places. I miss my father, wonder whether I have been a good father myself, and hope the day brings either good times or good memories for you.

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
     - Anne Sexton

Society moves by some degree of parricide, by which the children, on the whole, kill, if not their fathers, at least the beliefs of their fathers, and arrive at new beliefs. This is what progress is.
     - Isaiah Berlin

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
     - Mark Twain, 1835 - 1910

A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.
     - Marlene Dietrich, 1901 - 1992

My best training came from my father.
     - Woodrow Wilson, 1856 - 1924

Fatherhood is pretending that the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
     - Bill Cosby

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