#fat

My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could. ↗

— George Weinberg

#benefit #columbia #could #course #educated

The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world. ↗

— Max Weber

#characterized #disenchantment #fate #our #times

I decided I would go with them, but it would be at my father's house that I would eat. I would share his food, and his poverty. ↗

— Phoolan Devi

#poverty #food

My father was a pedant and a bully who cared about nobody, and I was not to see him until I was eighteen. ↗

— George Weinberg

#bully #cared #eighteen #father #him

My parents both had Oxford degrees, they read important books, spoke foreign languages, drank real coffee and went to museums for pleasure. People like that don't have fat kids: they were cut out to be winners and winners don't have children who are overweight. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#both #children #coffee #cut #degrees

My mother, father, stepmother and surrogate mother have all died of cancer; my best friend has got terminal cancer and at least five of my other friends have had cancer but survived it. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#best friend #cancer #died #father #five

We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument. ↗

— Lawrence Welk

#family #father #i #instrument #just

With a diplomat father, for whom foreign postings were a fact of life, my siblings and I were expected to attend boarding schools in Britain. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#boarding #britain #diplomat #expected #fact

...art is weaker than life - in the end I have a bag of letters to scrabble into order - rune tiles to cast my fate... ↗

— John Geddes

#fate #life #rune-tiles #scrabble #words

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life. ↗

— Carolyn Wells

#beg #boon #fate #fears #i