#fat

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

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them. ↗

— Anthony Edwards

#children #enough #father #going #having

It’s always funny watching something so beautiful not know how beautiful it really is. It’s sad even. ↗

— Holly Hood

#life #love #romance #beauty