“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
“My father didn't tell me how to live. He lived, and let me watch him do it.” — Clarence Budington Kelland
“Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night.” — Edna St. Vincent Millay · Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1952