#fat

My father was a sea captain, so was his father, and his father before him, and all my uncles. My mother's people all followed the sea. I suppose that if I had been born a few years earlier, I would have had my own ship. ↗

— Joseph C. Lincoln

#before #born #captain #earlier #father

If the Founding Fathers and other patriots who fought during the Revolutionary War could see the United States today, I believe they would be proud of the path that the thirteen colonies, now fifty strong states, have taken since then. ↗

— John Linder

#colonies #could #during #fathers #fifty

The relationship I have to my fatherland is like that of mothers with crippled children: they love them all the more, the more crippled they are. Germany is the background of all my plans, the return to Germany. ↗

— Friedrich List

#children #crippled #fatherland #germany #i

I know who I am as a person, as a father, and as a husband. ↗

— Brian Littrell

#father #husband #i #i am #know

Second guesses in putting are fatal. ↗

— Bobby Locke

#guesses #putting #second

Sometimes life has a cruel sense of humor, giving you the thing you always wanted at the worst time possible. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#hardy-cates #heartbreak #liberty-jones #sugar-daddy #travises

It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean. ↗

— John Locke

#depths #fathom #great #his #know

My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening. ↗

— Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#baby #bride #corpse #every #father

Temperamentally, Sam and I are very much alike. He's a lawyer, my father's a lawyer, and I always wanted to play one. On so many levels the role just felt right. I fell in love with it as I would a woman. ↗

— Rob Lowe

#always #father #fell #felt #i

It paid barely a living wage, but he stayed with it—gradually and in the end gratefully arriving at the point in life when you understand there are no great changes ahead. ↗

— Ann Packer

#fathers-and-daughters #insightful #age