"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

#Fathers Day Quotes #Kings Quotes #Dad Quotes

“I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.”
“I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.”

Source : "Frontline" Interview, www.pbs.org. July 29, 1996.
“I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.”
“What God is to the world, parents are to their children.”
“The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion.”

Source : Mary Hunter Austin, Marjorie Pryse (1987). “Stories from the Country of Lost Borders”, p.57, Rutgers University Press
“On his mounting the scaffold to be beheaded: 'I pray you, Master Lieutenant, see me safely up, and for my coming down, let me shift for myself.' To the executioner: 'Pick up thy spirits, Man, and be not afraid to do thyne office; my neck is very short; take heed, therefore thou strike not awry, for saving of thyne honesty.'”
“The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.”
“At MTV, although the audience is smaller, I found it more interesting to deliver news to a specific group of people, because my story then did not have to try to be all things to all people.”

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