#fat

It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job othe than at one's best ability. ↗

— Lord Mountbatten

#best #entered #ever #father #job

My great-grandfather was a coal miner, who worked in Pennsylvania mines when carts were pulled by mules and mines were lit by candles. Mining was very dangerous work then. ↗

— Tim Murphy

#carts #coal #dangerous #great-grandfather #lit

I obviously have a great love and appreciation of jewelry, thanks to my mother, much to the dismay of both my father and my boyfriends. ↗

— Ivanka Trump

#both #dismay #father #great #great love

You ask how it is possible to be your own father and son. You should seek answers, although it is better to anticipate some, to be the light and dream. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#anticipation #dejan-stojanovic #dream #dreams #father

I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#father #him #i #man #poor

The children we bring into the world are small replicas of ourselves and our husbands; the pride and joy of grandfathers and grandmothers. We dream of being mothers, and for most of us that dreams are realised naturally. For this is the Miracle of Life. ↗

— Azelene Williams

#adoption #babies #father #icsi #infertility

As you grow older, it becomes harder to feel 100 percent happy; you learn all the things that can go wrong, you become superstitious about tempting fate, about bringing disaster upon your life by accidentally feeling too good one day. ↗

— Douglas Coupland

#happy #life #superstitious #tempting-fate #wrong

Men who live valiantly and die nobly have a strength and a courage from the eternal Father. ↗

— Josephus Daniels

#die #eternal #father #live #men

The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless. ↗

— Anais Nin

#child #confronted #created #father #fatherless

My dad was born poor, made a fortune during his life, and then died suddenly—murdered by his only son, leaving his vast estate to a daughter I didn’t know he had.
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— Jarod Kintz

#daughter #family #father #inherit #inheritance