Quotes about fat
father taught talent
My father taught me that the easiest thing to do was to quit. He'd say, 'It doesn't take any talent to do that.' Ken Venturi
father army men
It is the Creator´s Grand Army, and he is the Commander-in-Chief... With these facts before you, now try to guess man´s chiefest pet name for this ferocious Commander-in-Chief? I will save you the trouble but you must not laugh. It is Our Father in Heaven. Mark Twain
father inspirational-life views
When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. See what happens when you "know it all", at any stage of life? Farther down the track you may see clearly how certain personal opinions, held onto too tightly, could be fogging up the view, and providing incorrect insight. Prosperity is the best protector of principle. Mark Twain
father science years
When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how much he had learned in the last seven years. Mark Twain
father thinking twenties
I used to think my father was an idiot, until I turned twenty-one... Then I thought he was a genus. Mark Twain
father men monkeys
What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey. Mark Twain
fate dark dark-places
Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places. Mary Renault
fate media library
Fame is fickle. If the media turn against me, I will just have more time in the library. Not bad as a fate. Mary Beard
fate complaining
Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it? Marquis de Sade
father book kids
When I was a kid, the book that I liked the most was 'Aesop's Fables.' There was a version of it that my father read stories to us kids out of. I liked the idea of the short story format. Mark Mothersbaugh
father two people
My father told me you have two loves in your life: What you do and the people youre with. Mario Van Peebles
father hands missing
The first time at age 5 and a half, when I took a racket in my hands and my father fed me some balls, I made 50 backhands in a row - didn't miss a single one. Marion Bartoli
father too-much remember
Michael could never remember his father ever having uttered a word about death, as if the Don respected death too much to philosophize about it. Mario Puzo
father men two
Italians have a little joke, that the world is so hard a man must have two fathers to look after him, and that's why they have godfathers. Mario Puzo
father son wish
Tell my father I wish to be his son. Mario Puzo
father heart eye
More than fifty-five years ago my father told me, "The Bible does not belong on the shelf but in your hand, under your eye, and in your heart."
father fall people
I would say my biggest mentor has been my father because he always has been. Actually both of my parents have always been ones to encourage me to be myself and stay true to myself and not fall into what other people want me to do. Nicole Richie
father car watches
I went to watch my father at Silverstone in the early 1950s, and I've still got the car he was in. Nick Mason
father photographer makers
My father, an architectural photographer, was an incurable tinkerer, maker and mender. Nick Park
fate ordinary worst
As soon as you become a writer, you lose contact with ordinary experience or tend to. ... the worst fate of a writer is to become a writer. Mary McCarthy
fate people worst
To be disesteemed by people you don't have much respect for is not the worst fate. Mary McCarthy
father love-you heartache
I recommend you come to know your Father in Heaven. Come to love Him. Always remember that He loves you and will give you guidance and support if you will but give Him the chance. Include Him in your decision making. Include Him in your heartaches and heartbreaks. Include Him when you take inventory of your personal worth. Marvin J. Ashton
father commitment expression
Undoubtedly our Heavenly Father tires of expressions of love in words only. He has made it clear through his prophets and his word that his ways are ways of commitment, and not conversation. He prefers performance over lip service. We show our true love for him in proportion to our keeping his words... Marvin J. Ashton
father choices-made heaven
Do not allow yourselves to be made to feel inadequate or frustrated because you cannot do everything others seem to be accomplishing. Only you and your Father in Heaven know your needs, strengths, and desires. Around this knowledge your personal course must be charted and your choices made. Marvin J. Ashton
father son men
What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must. Who is God, the one and only true? Money is God. Gold and Greenbacks and Stock-father, son, and ghosts of same, three persons in one; These are the true and only God, mighty and supreme. Mark Twain
father book thinking
My father's book is about is about a number of things, but about Houdini's rage to not be a failure like his father, and it's also about converting X-rated material, namely bondage, into family friendly safe fare, which is what he did. It's also about death and resurrection, and rising to live again another day when everyone thinks you're dead. Nicholas Meyer
father fighting hands
My father's generation's crisis was fighting fascism. Ours is fighting climate change. It is much harder because you can't see it, it is not an obvious threat. But the solution is in our hands. Nicholas Stern
father differences feelings
Like her father, he wasn't comfortable sharing his thoughts and feelings. She tried to explain that she needed to be closer to him, but it had never seemed to make a difference. Nicholas Sparks
fate destiny way
Do you ever wonder why things have to turn out the way they do? Nicholas Sparks
fate cutting events
Where does a story truly begin? In life, there are seldom clear-cut beginnings, those moments when we can, in looking back, say that everything started. Yet there are moments when fate intersects with our daily lives, setting in motion a sequence of events whose outcome we could never have foreseen. Nicholas Sparks
father character play
Before 9/11, I was playing a wide range of characters. I would play a lover, a cop, a father. As long as I could create the illusion of the character, the part was given to me. But after 9/11, something changed. We became the villains, the bad guys. I don't mind to play the bad guy as long as the bad guy has a base. Navid Negahban
father men heaven
All of us must walk the same strait and narrow path, know the same kind of experiences as those we would seek to lead and to serve. There is not one strait and narrow path for the officers-the chosen-and another for the enlisted men. We are all to experience life "according to the flesh"; there is no other way, for it is the way to immortality and eternal life. Given the resplendent riches of the promised kingdom, why would anyone wish to walk another path than the one that leads us back to our gracious and merciful Father in Heaven? Neal A. Maxwell
father men hands
The submissive will make it through to that final scene, for the word of God will lead the man and woman of Christ "in a straight and narrow course across that everlasting gulf of misery . . . and land their souls . . . at the right hand of God in the kingdom, to sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and with Jacob, and with all our holy fathers" (Helaman 3:30) "who have been ever since the world began . . . to go no more out." Neal A. Maxwell