#fat

Fate, or some mysterious force, can put the finger on you or me, for no good reason at all. ↗

— Martin Goldsmith

#finger #force #good #good reason #me

That's life. Whichever way you turn, fate sticks out a foot to trip you. ↗

— Martin Goldsmith

#foot #life #out #sticks #trip

The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather. ↗

— Victoria Gotti

#casting #central #father #godfather #life

I heard Yiddish when my father's family came to the house, which was as seldom as my mother could arrange it. ↗

— Joseph Greenberg

#came #could #family #father #heard

Dads. Do you not realize that a child is what you tell them they are? That people almost always become what they are labeled? Was whatever your child just did really the “dumbest thing you’ve ever seen somebody do”? Was it really the “most ridiculous thing they ever could have done”? Do you really believe that your child is an idiot? Because she now does. Think about that. Because you said it, she now believes it. Bravo. ↗

— Dan Pearce

#arguing #break #child #children #dads

What goes on between a father and a son, which is usually such a private matter, is that they are able to be honest with each other, and be honest with me, as a director. It's just remarkable. ↗

— Lee Grant

#between #director #each #father #goes

I loved the Godfather. I thought that was the best interpretation of our life that I've ever seen. Godfather I and Godfather II - the other one stunk. ↗

— Sammy Gravano

#ever #godfather #i #ii #interpretation

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. ↗

— Alexander the Great

#am #father #i #i am #indebted

My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#father #life-long #line #long #long story

The singing was something I got from my father. ↗

— Woody Herman

#got #i #singing #something