#fat

My father started growing very quiet as Alzheimer's started claiming more of him. The early stages of Alzheimer's are the hardest because that person is aware that they're losing awareness. And I think that that's why my father started growing more and more quiet. ↗

— Patti Davis

#aware #awareness #because #claiming #early

Then is when I decided to take it to Archie to see if they could do it as a comic book. I showed it to Richard Goldwater, and he showed it to his father, and a day or two later I got the OK to do it as a comic book. ↗

— Dan DeCarlo

#book #comic #comic book #could #day

The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late. ↗

— Daniel Defoe

#best #cannot #die #early #fate

My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy tales that he had made up shaped me profoundly, too. ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

#fairy tales #family #father #had #how

Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages. ↗

— Ariel Dorfman

#fate #power #responsibility #secretary #through

Today the fate of humankind is even more crucially linked than ever before. The boundaries between the problems of "others" and "our" problems are being increasingly erased. ↗

— Janez Drnovsek

#being #between #boundaries #crucially #erased

Young people know how important it is for dads to be involved in their lives. As I travel the country and talk with students, some of them tell me that their lives would be totally different if their father was around. ↗

— Arne Duncan

#country #dads #different #father #how

I'm ridiculous in my oversharing; my mom and sister are very open but a little more judicious than me... and my father is a decidedly private person. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#father #i #judicious #little #me

My father was a promoter of Fresh Fest, and they needed an opening act. He got me a slot as a dancer. We tried it out the first time in Atlanta and the crowd went crazy. I was the opening clown. ↗

— Jermaine Dupri

#atlanta #clown #crazy #crowd #dancer

I spent time at my grandfather Dino's gourmet store where he brought in chefs from Naples to cook. I thought of them as rock stars. ↗

— Giada De Laurentiis

#chefs #cook #gourmet #grandfather #i