#fat

Our parents came home one day and heard us, and they thought it was the radio, but our grandfather told them it was us. ↗

— Barry Gibb

#day #grandfather #heard #home #one day

Family businesses that have been around for generations are suddenly closing their doors, and while I'm not comparing my situation or my family's situations to theirs, the fact that my father's business, which has been around for 30 years, might not be around, it gives me a perspective that makes me want to fight even harder for a lot of people. ↗

— Alexi Giannoulias

#been #business #businesses #closing #comparing

I remember when my father passed away, we drove the funeral procession past the bank so he could say one last goodbye. That's how much the bank meant to my father. ↗

— Alexi Giannoulias

#bank #could #drove #father #funeral

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#before #grandfather #had #hidden #him

I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#college #culture #famous #father #geisha

I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#detailed #english #english teacher #father #got

We started out as boss and player, and Wellington was almost like my father. ↗

— Frank Gifford

#boss #father #like #out #player

When I lost my friends, it was because I had used the power of giving on them recklessly. I swept into their lives with my big fat checkbook, and I erased years of obstacles for them overnight - but sometimes, in the process, I also accidentally erased years of dignity. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#also #because #big #dignity #erased

Thin people are beautiful, but fat people are adorable. ↗

— Jackie Gleason

#beautiful #fat #people #thin

That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all. ↗

— August Strindberg

#enemy #family #father #position #provider