Quotes about fat
father power passionate
Like my father before me, I'm a very passionate person, with boundless energy and tremedous willpower. Raymond Blanc
fate tv-shows london
I do a TV show about a priest in London, and he is also slightly beleaguered and is subject to fate and misfortune and daily difficulty. Tom Hollander
father class coal-miners
I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner. Tom Jones
father men thinking
It was my father who could do no wrong. So I didn't think of it as, oh, look, my father's a violent man. Toni Morrison
father names perfect
I remember a very important lesson that my father gave me when I was twelve or thirteen. He said, "You know, today I welded a perfect seam and I signed my name to it." And I said, "But, Daddy, no one's going to see it!" And he said, "Yeah, but I know it's there." So when I was working in kitchens, I did good work. Toni Morrison
father eye dark
If knowledge isn't self-knowledge it isn't doing much, mate. Is the universe expanding? Is it contracting? Is it standing on one leg and singing 'When Father Painted the Parlour'? Leave me out. I can expand my universe without you. 'She walks into beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies, and all that's best of dark and bright meet in her aspect and her eyes. Tom Stoppard
father air goal
I had a great family. My father was in the Air Force, so we were always disciplined, goal oriented. Thomas Jones
fate thinking destiny
Whether it's destiny or fate or whatever, I don't think I could do a French Laundry anywhere else. Thomas Keller
fate mourning secret
Secret fates Guide our states Both in mirth and mourning. Thomas Campion
father names movement
O Heavenly Father, convert my religion from a name to a principle! Bring all my thoughts and movements into an habitual reference to Thee! Thomas Chalmers
father men enemy
His father was no man's friend but his own, and he is no man's for else. Thomas Adams
father son essence
Baptizing them in the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost: there are three distinct persons: in the Name, not names; there is one essence. Thomas Adams
father able banking
My father invested his money so securely in the banking business that he was never able to get any of it out again. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
father boys views
I made friends with a boy who was a communist when I was 13 and that broadened my political views, but it also brought me into conflict with my father who was very Right-wing. Vince Cable
father air views
I know it sounds trite but I wanted to make a difference. Political debates with my father had been fraught because he was uncompromising and explosive but if he taught me one thing it was to air my views. Vince Cable
father college ordinary
My father was very clear; I had to have an ordinary upbringing. I was put to work as a lowly-paid trainee after college. I didn't like it at the time, but I can't help but feel that that was probably the best thing for me. Vijay Mallya
father college later-in-life
My father said that I could always become an actress, but I couldn't go back to college later in life. So I had to first finish my education, and then I could do what I wanted. At the time, I was not pleased, but now, I can't thank him enough. My parents were absolutely right. Vidya Balan
father ran
When I was about 10 I ran away to see my father. He couldn't have cared less. He just took me back as soon as he could. Vidal Sassoon
father moving son
Freud was the son of a Jewish merchant who had to move his whole family to Vienna because he couldn't get work. He, as a boy, had to watch his father be mocked and abused on the street for being Jewish... You develop a thick skin and you develop a certain kind of wit to defend yourself. Viggo Mortensen
fate guy suffering
We all experience many freakish and unexpected events - you have to be open to suffering a little. The philosopher Schopenhauer talked about how out of the randomness, there is an apparent intention in the fate of an individual that can be glimpsed later on. When you are an old guy, you can look back, and maybe this rambling life has some through-line. Others can see it better sometimes. But when you glimpse it yourself, you see it more clearly than anyone. Viggo Mortensen
father boss needs
Prosecutors say my father was the biggest crime boss in the nation... If you really want to know what John Gotti was like, you need to talk to my family. We lived this life. Victoria Gotti
father son two
My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons. Victoria Abril
fate thinking mouths
M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think. Victor Hugo
father circles age
The word Gothic, in the sense in which it is generally employed, is wholly unsuitable, but wholly consecrated. Hence we accept it and we adopt it, like all the rest of the world, to characterize the architecture of the second half of the Middle Ages, where the ogive is the principle which succeeds the architecture of the first period, of which the semi-circle is the father. Victor Hugo
father hate boys
When I was a little boy and played Liebestraum, my father used to hit me on the head with a newspaper every time I slopped the cadenza . . . I hate Liebestraum. Victor Borge
father home years
One afternoon, when I was four years old, my father came home, and he found me in the living room in front of a roaring fire, which made him very angry. Because we didn't have a fireplace. Victor Borge
father insecurity selfishness
I knew by the way he looked at her that he held her in a higher regard than he held even himself. No selfishness or insecurity kept him from seeing the full extent of her goodeness, as it so often does with the rest of us. That kind of love may only be possible in Abnegation. I do not know. My father: Erudite-born, Abnegation-grown. He often found it difficult to live up to the demands of his chosen faction, just as I did. But he tried, and he knew true selflessness when he saw it. Veronica Roth
father enemy trying
But very often in politics we have the experience called up from my father when someone was trying to help him in the campaign: I can take care of my enemies, may the Good Lord save me from my friends. Robert Foster Bennett
father son giving
Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich. Robert Frost
father kids boys
A man gets on a train with his little boy, and gives the conductor only one ticket. 'How old's your kid?' the conductor says, and the father says, 'He's four years old.' 'He looks at least twelve to me,' says the conductor. And the father says, 'Can I help it if he worries? Robert Benchley
father teaching school
My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city. Richard Ernst
father home chef
I never cooked at home - my father was the chef. Rene Redzepi
father party son
Howbeit, this one thing, son, I assure you on my faith, that if the parties will at hands call for justice, then, all were it my father stood on the one side, and the devil on the other, his cause being good, the devil should have right. Thomas More