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{{quote|BETTER DROWNED THAN DUFFERS IF NOT DUFFERS WONT DROWN|a telegram from the children's father, in ''[[Swallows and Amazons]]''}}

{{quote|'''Ned's Mother:''' [About a young Ned's destructive behaviour] You gotta help us, Doc. We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas!|''[[The Simpsons]]'', "Hurricane Neddy"}}

{{quote|'''[[Indiana Jones]]:''' It was just the two of us, dad. It was a lonely way to grow up, for you too. If you'd been an ordinary, average father like the other kids had, you'd have understood that.
'''Henry Jones:''' Actually, I was a wonderful father.
'''Indiana:''' When?
'''Henry:''' Did I ever tell you to eat up, go to bed, wash your ears, do your homework? No, I respected your privacy, and I taught you self-reliance.
'''Indiana:''' What you taught me was that I was less important to you than people who'd been dead for five hundred years in another country. And I learned it so well, we've hardly spoken for twenty years.
'''Henry:''' You left just when you were becoming interesting.|''[[Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade]]''}}

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