#fat

My grandfather played a mandolin, so I got my hands on that. Then on down to a banjo, and I found I couldn't play any kind of soft or mournful music with that so I took up the fiddle in my late 20s or early 30s - and that was far too late. But it keeps me off the streets. It has been a love of mine since I was 17 maybe. ↗

— Brendan Gleeson

#banjo #been #down #early #far

Well people often ask me how I felt growing up with a father who was a politician and who was often away. But when I'm asked that question I often reflect on my inability really to be able to answer it in any relative sense because I never grew up with a father doing anything else. So I just have no idea what it would be like otherwise. ↗

— Alexander Downer

#answer #any #anything #ask #asked

We were not fathers also to convey the promise, as Abraham was; nor although the promise, as collectively taken, had belonged to us, as to Abraham it did. ↗

— Thomas Goodwin

#also #although #belonged #collectively #convey

My father died prematurely at the age of 52 when I was 24, and it is a recurring regret that he never lived to see me succeed beyond university and drama. ↗

— Richard E. Grant

#beyond #died #drama #father #i

No, that's not it. The first time we met was at Fat Tuesday's. Benny was playing, this was, I think in 1989? ↗

— Benny Green

#fat #first #first time #i #i think

My goal was to play drums, but my father made me take piano lessons. He told me I needed to learn to read music first, so I took lessons for six years. I thank God that he made me take those lessons, because it taught me a tremendous amount. ↗

— Brian Austin Green

#because #drums #father #first #goal

In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate. ↗

— Georges Duhamel

#beds #every #fate #men #piety

My father was a doctor. ↗

— David Alan Grier

#father

You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - father, mother, wife, children - everything that you have. But the one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self. ↗

— Bede Griffiths

#also #attachments #children #everything #father

I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father. I want to be judged on my own merits. ↗

— Park Geun-hye

#anyone #divergent #father #i #judged