Quotes / Like Father, Like Son

"I'm my father! Oh my God, this is horrible. I've been trying so hard not to be my mother, I did not see this coming!"

— Rachel Green, Friends, "The One with Phoebe's Cookies"

"Oh, there you are, Dad. I didn't notice you hiding in my sister's entire personality like that."

— Roy Greenhilt, The Order of the Stick

[Henry Spencer snatches Detective Lassiter's gun to shoot at the car pursuing them]
Lassiter: Spencer! What the hell are you doing?!
Shawn Spencer: [Currently hanging onto the front of the car with a bullet in his shoulder] Which 'Spencer' are you talking to?
Lassiter: Doesn't matter! You're the same person!
Shawn: Am not!

— Psych

Absent ^note  after finding out the events of the previous two chapters in Chapter 3 : That's so stupid I have no choice but to believe you.

(later, in Chapter 5...)

Absent's father ^note  upon finding out that his son has become a Pokemon : This is so absurd I have no choice but to believe you.

— SOSchip

Rumpelstiltskin: You didn't have to be banished. You chose your power over mine.
Black Fairy: I was trying to protect you!
Rumpelstiltskin: As someone who has made the very same decision, I know a lie when I hear it. You sentenced me to a life of cowardice.
Black Fairy: I altered your fate so that we could be a family. Together. Everything I did was for you, to protect you. It's a vile, dangerous world son.
Rumpelstiltskin: Because of villains like you... And me.

— Once Upon a Time

"At the outskirts of Gaga, there were once a man and wife. Their only daughter, born to that destitute land, became enamored with the cities she read about in her books. She begged for fine confections and luxurious garments. Once she realized her own parents would not be able to grant her desires, she left home, at the age of sixteen. Then, in order to become affluent with the utmost expedience, she chose to become a thief. She led a band of currish thieves, over three hundred strong, and would stop at nothing, even murder, to obtain her spoils. Her infamy spread throughout Gaga. Their own daughter's familiar name came to pain her parents, but life went on. Then one day... their very own daughter returned to them. And in her arms she bore an infant. Their daughter was clearly ill. "I am dying. I want you to care for her. Raise her so she won't become like me." Then, after apologizing for her wantonness and wrongdoings, their daughter breathed no more. The couple raised their granddaughter, showering her with love. And she, knowing of her mother's path, thought to herself "I will never become a bad person." Instead of becoming a taker, she would become a giver. But as they say "Blood is thicker than water." At times, the fear that the blood of a villain that was running through her veins would rear its head and whisper to her "Those who take will also lose. Someday you will come to do as she did.""

— Choujin X, on Ely Otta and her mother

Calvin's Mom: Someday I hope you have a kid that puts you through what I've gone through.
Calvin: Yeah, Grandma says that's what she used to tell you.

— Calvin and Hobbes

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