#fat

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#control #does #fate #him #his

I was the same kind of father as I was a harpist - I played by ear. ↗

— Harpo Marx

#father #i #kind #played #same

And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I don't think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5' 11". So I just picked baseball. ↗

— Willie Mays

#basketball #because #black #college #could

When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coaches'. 'I never listened to what the coaches said. I would call my father and he would give me advice from prison. ↗

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

#call #coaches #father #give #give me

We hear the stories every day now: the father who puts on a suit every morning and leaves the house so his daughter doesn't know he lost his job, the recent college grad facing up to the painful reality that the only door that's open to her after four years of study and a pile of debt is her parents'. These are the faces of the Obama economy. ↗

— Mitch McConnell

#college #daughter #day #debt #door

Style is innate to who I am. My father gave me a picture the other day. I must have been about seven, and I had on wing-tip shoes and some cool pants. I thought, 'Wow!' ↗

— Dylan McDermott

#am #been #cool #day #father

I was pretty young when my father was prime minister, so it wasn't really a big part of my life. My folks were away a lot, meeting foreign dignitaries and that sort of thing, but it never struck me as odd. If anything it allowed me to get into all sorts of mischief. ↗

— Julian McMahon

#anything #away #big #dignitaries #father

I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream. ↗

— Thomas Francis Meagher

#been #bid #birth #country #death

I'm a grown woman and sometimes, I might be a little fat, you know? Am I alone there? Not really. ↗

— Leighton Meester

#am #fat #grown #i #know

My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family. ↗

— Simon van der Meer

#family #father #mother #schoolteacher #teacher