#fat

Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins. ↗

— Major Taylor

#bow #champion #day #each #even

Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers. ↗

— Tecumseh

#country #defend #fathers #form #graves

A doctor today would never prescribe the treatments my grandfather used in the Confederate Army, but a minister says pretty much the same thing today that a minister would have said back then. ↗

— John Templeton

#back #confederate #doctor #grandfather #minister

Three of my children are medical doctors, they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don't know much more about soul than he did. ↗

— John Templeton

#body #children #did #doctors #grandfather

I grew up looking at my father as to how to behave. In watching him I grasped so many things. His own temperament was of a calm person. He was very composed and I never saw anger in him. To me, that was fascinating. ↗

— Sachin Tendulkar

#behave #calm #composed #fascinating #father

If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets. ↗

— Sachin Tendulkar

#couched #death #die #door #efforts

What harsh judges fathers are to all young men! ↗

— Terence

#fathers #harsh #judges #men #young

How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy. ↗

— Terence

#always #fate #how #least #should

My father bought me a little cardboard accordion, and when I was three I got this little machine. ↗

— Toots Thielemans

#bought #cardboard #father #got #i

My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal. ↗

— Clarence Thomas

#could #education #frugal #grandfather #grandmother