#fat

I was everything, patriarch, priest, father and judge. ↗

— John Sutter

#father #i #judge #priest

Always you find that the more decisive event wins so my father's sort of annual decisiveness which came upon him on the Day of Atonement every year, he suddenly remembered that he was Jewish. ↗

— Janet Suzman

#annual #atonement #came #day #decisive

I consider anybody who weighs over 200 pounds fat, and time was when I could not refrain from telling such people so. ↗

— Gloria Swanson

#consider #could #fat #i #over

There was no place at all for me in my father's military world. ↗

— Gloria Swanson

#me #military #place #world

My father-in-law was once Chairman of Military Affairs in the Senate, the latter part of the Wilson Administrations. He knew a lot about and was fond of the Army. ↗

— Stuart Symington

#affairs #army #chairman #father-in-law #fond

I'm a firm believer that all this packaged stuff that Americans are buying up in gobs is making them fatter. ↗

— Michael Symon

#buying #fatter #firm #firm believer #i

My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude. ↗

— Ice T

#brother #came #dude #family #father

My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt. ↗

— Ice T

#aunt #father #grade #i #live

I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#carnage #first #first world #first world war #forget

Well, it gives, certainly to my father, who is the one that suffered the most in our family, and understanding of how the ideals of a country are only as good as the people who give it flesh and blood. ↗

— George Takei

#certainly #country #family #father #flesh