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Advice & More June 2015

Quotation Quotient

Father's Day Quotes - What's Your QQ?

By Arlen Grossman

"My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You’re tearing up the grass.' 'We’re not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We’re raising boys.'”

1. "I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection."

A. Miley Cyrus

B. Dick Van Dyke

C. Sigmund Freud

 

2. "To be a successful father there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years."

A. Ernest Hemingway

B. Colin Powell

C. George Washington

 

3. "The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get."

A. Macaulay Culkin

B. Tim Russert

C. George Will

 

4. "It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all."

A. Alice Walker

B. Beyoncé

C. Rosalynn Carter

 

5. "Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers."

A. Johnny Carson

B. Meryl Streep

C. Aldous Huxley

 

6. “Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.”

A. Oscar Robertson

B. Oscar de la Renta

C. Oscar Wilde

 

7. "People see Archie Bunker everywhere. Particularly girls; poor girls, rich girls, all kinds of girls are always coming up to me and telling me that Archie is just like their dad."

A. Sherman Hemsley

B. Carroll O'Conner

C. Edith Bunker

 

8. "There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence."

A. Samuel Johnson

B. Jack Johnson

C. Lyndon Johnson

 

9. "Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected."

A. Floyd Mayweather

B. Red Buttons

C. Ward Cleaver

 

10. "The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan."

A. Garrison Keillor

B. Vladimir Putin

C. Leonardo da Vinci

 


Answers: 1-C, 2-A , 3-B , 4-A , 5-C , 6-C , 7-B , 8-A , 9-B , 10-A

Scoring:             

10 – QQQQ = Quote-Master   

8-9 – QQQ = Scholar                      

6-7 – QQ = Literate

4-5 – Q = Semi-Literate

0-3 – No Q = Quote-Dunce

BONUS QUOTE: "My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You’re tearing up the grass.' 'We’re not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We’re raising boys.'”
– Harmon Killebrew, 1936-2011, played 22 years in major league baseball and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1984.)

 

Arlen  Grossman lives in Monterey, California. Enjoy more quizzes at  quotationquotient.com. Comments and suggestions are welcomed at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

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