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We had this neighbor who was an actor, and he was going to an audition one day, driving by our house, and he asked if I wanted to tag along. He was reading for the part of the father, and they were reading for the part of the son the same day, and he told me to sneak in there and make it look like I knew what I was doing.

You know at 14, when you lose your hero - your father - that's why I hold him on such a high pedestal.

When my father began playing for Led Zeppelin our family was living in a 14-foot trailer.

Bill Cosby is not Black America's Father, and never was.

I lost my father when I was a kid, so we were close unit; my sister and mother - obviously, I'm very close to them.

My father was born in Denmark. He came to this country when he was 12 years old.

It's a hard job, you know? I prefer to fight. Fighting is easy, being a father is much harder.

I was born and raised in Rogers Park in Chicago. My father sold furniture, and my mother was a Chicago public school teacher and proud member of the Chicago Teachers Union for decades.

When I was a deacon, my father took me and my older brother to general priesthood meeting in the Tabernacle. I remember how thrilled I was to be in the presence, for the first time, of the prophet of God, President Heber J. Grant, and the other prophets and apostles.

Free agency, given us through the plan of our Father, is the great alternative to Satan's plan of force. With this sublime gift, we can grow, improve, progress, and seek perfection.

As the Only Begotten Son of the Father in the flesh, Jesus inherited divine attributes. He was the only person ever born into mortality who could perform this most significant and supernal act.

Being a father or a mother is not only a great challenge, it is a divine calling. It is an effort requiring consecration.

We learn much of parenting from our own parents. My love for my father deepened profoundly when he was kind, patient, and understanding.

No one ever had a better father than I did. Father was a disciplinarian, and Mother was a very loving woman who taught us out of the scriptures. The Book of Mormon was her favorite.

My father died in 1957, just before I was born. My mother went to her Jewish aunt, who slammed the door in her face.

We would not have been a successful family without my father and stepfather, who were working-class men with better dreams for their children. We just wore them out.

When my mother left home, her family sat shivah for her, more because my father was not Jewish than because he was black.

While I was in university, my father became very ill and my father was unable to work. We needed to pay the bills, so in my 20s I became the sole income earner in my family.

My father would tell me my defects but never praise me to my face. The good things about me he would only tell others when I wasn't around.

He's been the greatest father for me. Going around the streets of Chicago with my dad, people always tell me they can't believe how much my dad has matured. Or, 'You wouldn't believe how your dad used to be.' There's always lots of words about how much he's changed.

I was left £50 when I was ten by a fairly distant cousin, which my father invested in GEC shares on my behalf. I became interested in the market and was given some more shares by my father, which is when I began looking to see how the shares were performing and learning how to read company reports, balance sheets, and so on in order to gauge that.