#fat

My parents split up when I was about 2. I realize more and more how much I'm like my father. My gentleness comes from my mother. ↗

— Justin Townes Earle

#comes #father #gentleness #how #i

If you want to look young and thin hang around old fat people. ↗

— Jim Eason

#fat #hang #look #old #people

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward! ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#always #america #be brave #before #brave

When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#born #copper #father #i #i was born

The father's greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

#being #believes #complexity #deal #father

I got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father. ↗

— Missy Elliot

#father #got #i #mother #she

You see, I had been riding with the storm clouds, and had come to earth as rain, and it was drought that I had killed with the power that the Six Grandfathers gave me. ↗

— Black Elk

#clouds #come #drought #earth #gave

Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young. ↗

— Duke Ellington

#being #fate #kind #me #too

If I did not have for him the warm affection a son feels toward a less austere and preoccupied father, I at least had an immense respect for him, and a great admiration. ↗

— Lincoln Ellsworth

#affection #austere #did #father #feels

Music was around in my family in two ways. My mother would occasionally sing to me, but I was mostly stimulated by the classical music my father had left behind. I had an ear for music, I suppose, so that's what began my interest in music. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#began #behind #classical #classical music #ear