To know that the book has touched the lives of others has been the greatest joy for my father and me.
And Hancock and his descendants served as a constant source of conversation between my father and me, a vital link between us when, class-wise, and in every other wise, each year placed us farther apart.
Throughout my life, my father tried to give my brothers and me a good financial education.
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Groups like Echo Taps strive to remind us, and make sure the notes of freedom are played, heard and echoed from generation to generation, they way my grandfather and father taught me.
"My father looked at me and said, 'God save the world, '" she recalls.
The day I came home from school and my father told me we would soon take a trip across the Atlantic is one of my most vivid childhood memories.
So after a few months, my mother's people sent me and my brother back to this little village in Arkansas to my grandmother, my father's mother who was raising me, and she used to braid my hair.
"My father taught me that love and honor are the two most important things in life, " confides Zar Gul.
It is something my parents have always told me to do, especially my father, and that is my priority.
As was my custom, as a deterrent to possible wrongdoers, I had my pistol outside the window in my right hand, and my left inside on the Bible my father had given me just before deploying to Iraq.
These days the words of my father come back to me more and more.
My father Leonel and mother Adriana have given me their support and have helped me a great deal and still to this day I can always count on them.
My mother and father had those dreams for me.
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The Rite of Spring was the first orchestral score that I asked my father to buy for me, and I could spend hours poring over the mixed meters and ingenious bar-line placements.
If my father were still around and it were me who was writing the book, I have no doubt he'd strenuously counsel me to pick a different city any other city (even New York), though preferably someplace totally obscure about which people don't have strong opinions or, worst of all, facts.
In the days when giftgiving was acceptable among journalists, my father was showered with perks that he would share with me and my brother.
It was the early 1990s, and my father had a rather unusual (and highly risky) proposition for me: How would I feel about having my own AmEx card?
I've lived here all my life and, before me, my mother lived here all her life and, before her, her father and grandfather.
One of the reasons I didn't act a fool when I was in school was because I feared my father taking the belt to my butt, and that was enough to keep me on the straight and narrow.
And let me tell you, every semester my father was determined to pay his little portion, and to pay it on time.
My father urged me to take the risk and fight the machine and gave his blessing.
In the early 1970s my father decided to encourage me to save and teach me a bit about investing.
Behind me, the door to the main building opened and shut, and I kept my back to whoever was coming out, hoping to pass unobserved, but the invader of my private romance was Father James, another recipient of my unguarded affection, and he had seen me.
My friends, when I was growing up, my father was often at sea, and the job of raising my brother, sister and me would fall to my mother alone.
My father was paid a fee for me, and I was brought down with 40 other children.
Anyway my father used to come home from work and tell me jokes.
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