#fat

The fact I had my father as an adversary was such a powerful tool to work with. I subconsciously fought him to the degree that I drove me to be one of the most successful musician in the world. ↗

— George Michael

#degree #drove #fact #father #fought

Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, is right there... she's in town because her father was at Johnson Smith College... and she was delivering a speech there. ↗

— Al Michaels

#because #college #condoleezza #condoleezza rice #delivering

I think as any mother would be she was absolutely over the moon. And actually we had quite an awkward situation because I knew and I knew that William had asked my father but I didn't know if my mother knew. ↗

— Kate Middleton

#actually #any #asked #awkward #because

I was quite nervous about meeting William's father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me. ↗

— Kate Middleton

#easier #father #friendly #gone #i

The wedding ring on my left hand was bought by my grandfather, Samuel Miliband, in Brussels in 1920. I never knew him, as he died when I was one. But his ring was kept by my aunt until it was placed on my finger by my wife Louise 32 years later. ↗

— David Miliband

#bought #brussels #died #finger #grandfather

A man does not automatically become a public figure because he happens to build an empire out of chicken fat. ↗

— James Pinckney Miller

#because #become #build #chicken #does

I remember when I was a little boy my father didn't love me; he couldn't. He loved my older brother but he couldn't love me somehow, at least not in a way I could understand it. ↗

— Keith Miller

#brother #could #father #i #i remember

My father was a middle manager at an oil company, but I never knew anything about his work. Whatever business acumen I have just got gleaned over the years. ↗

— Donna Mills

#acumen #anything #business #company #father

My mother gave me my drive but my father gave me my dreams. ↗

— Liza Minnelli

#drive #father #gave #me #mother

I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future. ↗

— Liza Minelli

#absolutely #before #could #dreams #drive