#fat

The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance. ↗

— Aeschylus

#anvil #does #fate #firm #forging

I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it. ↗

— Shmuel Y. Agnon

#first #five #i #longing #old

The beginnings of my studies also came to me from my father, as well as from the Rabbinical Judge of our town. But they were preceded by three tutors under whom I studied, one after the other, from the time I was three and a half till I turned eight and a half. ↗

— Shmuel Y. Agnon

#also #beginnings #came #eight #father

The fate of the singers who, like my songs, went up in flame was also the fate of the books which I later wrote. All of them went up in flame to Heaven in a fire which broke out one night at my home in Bad Homburg as I lay ill in a hospital. ↗

— Shmuel Y. Agnon

#bad #books #broke #fate #fire

My father never saw me play ball, and I was an outstanding ballplayer. I missed all that adoration. ↗

— Danny Aiello

#ball #ballplayer #father #i #me

My mother was the total influence. My father was what we call a nomadic person; he was a wanderer. ↗

— Danny Aiello

#father #influence #mother #nomadic #person

The only thing I have to go by is what my mother and father told me, how I was brought up. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#father #go #how #i #me

I can't imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#father #i #imagine #like #only

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life. ↗

— Saul Alinsky

#bed #child #corrupting #corruption #father

My first concern was to take care of my drawing. I did not have any knowledge in arts, especially Haitian arts, apart from the paintings I saw in my father's office. ↗

— Ralph Allen

#apart #arts #care #concern #did