When You Coming Home, Dad?/Quotes

"''You're a man of 'igh position

Esteemed by your peers

And when your little tykes are cryin'

You 'aven't time to dry their tears

And see them grateful little faces

Smilin' up at you

Because their dad, 'e always knows

Just what to do

You've got to grind, grind, grind

At that grindstone

Though child'ood slips like sand through a sieve

And all too soon they've up grown

And then they've flown

And it's too late for you to give''"

- Bert, "A Man Has Dreams", Mary Poppins

""If you miss little Timmy's softball game even once he'll end up a serial killer all because of your terrible parenting.""

- Nathan Rabin's review of North, The AV Club

"Thane: You're angry because I wasn't there when your mother died.

Kolyat: You weren't there when she was alive. Why should you be there when she died?!"

- Mass Effect 2

"''And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon

Little boy blue and the man on the moon

When you coming home, dad? I don't know when

But we'll get together then

You know we'll have a good time then''"

- Harry Chapin, "Cat's in the cradle"