#fat

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#father #me #mother #protected #threatened

I didn't have anything to do with being born to my mother and father. But I had a lot to do with Kristin Shepard's notoriety. I'm proud of the work I did on Dallas. ↗

— Mary Crosby

#being #born #dallas #did #father

I'm always around my mother and sisters. I always wanted to be a father, a husband. ↗

— Tom Cruise

#around #father #husband #i #i always

My father was overbearing. Very controlling. He was always the way he is, even before my success. He was not always a good person. He'd play mind games to make sure I knew my place. I don't see him, which is unfortunate. But I don't have any desire to see him. I vaguely know where he is, and I don't want to know. ↗

— Macaulay Culkin

#any #before #controlling #desire #even

It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. ↗

— John Philpot Curran

#become #common #fate #indolent #prey

There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be ten o'clock and they'll tell you it's nine. You're looking at the clock and you can't even fathom why they're lying. They just lie because that's what they do. ↗

— John Cusack

#chunk #clock #even #fathom #good

In the road ships must ride in 30, 40, or 50 fathom water, not above half a mile from the shore at farthest: and if there are many ships they must ride close one by another. ↗

— William Dampier

#another #close #farthest #fathom #half

said Father Nash “was a most wonderful man in prayer, one of the most earnest, devout, spiritually-minded, heavenly-minded men I ever saw. . . . He labored about in many places in central and northern New York, and gave himself up to almost constant prayer, literally praying himself to death at last. I have been informed that he was found dead in his room in the attitude of prayer. ↗

— Charles Grandison Finney

#father-nash #his-intercessor #his-success #attitude

When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I'd use it in a book. ↗

— Paula Danziger

#father #i #me #myself #someday

...[W]hen I told my dad why I was calling, he just said, 'Honey, you're so beautiful it doesn't matter what you wear.' I wondered how many dads in America were, at that very moment, giving their daughters the same useless advice mine was giving me. ↗

— Melissa Kantor

#clothing #fathers #beauty