I was very close to my father. Very close.

“My father became a mythical figure, more force than man. . .he was a force my mother would use as a threat of wrath…

— Dagoberto Gilb

My father was close with Krishna garu.

— Devi Sri Prasad

I was very close to my father. At the age of ten I wanted to do plays, and my father was very encouraging. When…

— Kim Cattrall

I was extremely close to my father, inseparable. Where we hung out most of the time was the pub.

— Samantha Power

“Father is close, Mother is close, but neither is as close as Chairman Mao.”

— Jung Chang

“Hugh had led men into battle with success and was on reasonably good terms with the king, though they would never be intimates; in…

— Susan Higginbotham

“I was close enough to my father to see that he’d heard the exchange. For a moment, I wondered if he’d silence the fools…

— Lesley Livingston

I held my father's hand while he died of cancer, and it's really painful when you do something like that up close and personal.…

— Elizabeth Warren

I was really close to my father since I was young. He always told me that I had to work in order to become…

— Jose Aldo

I wasn't close to my father, but I wanted to be all my life. He had a funny sense of humor, and he laughed…

— Judy Garland

When I pray, I feel close to my Father in Heaven, and I feel His guiding hand in my life. If there is one…

— Jane Clayson

I didn't feel particularly close to my father.

— Henry Louis Gates

My father was very encouraging.

— Paolo Nutini

My grandmother made sure that I went to church every Sunday. And she'd come over and pick us boys up, and we would go…

— John Mellencamp

We began intercepting Japanese radio transmissions, which indicated the two forces were very close to each other. We found out later that we were…

— Jack Adams