- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
Father Quotes
On fathers, faith, and what gets passed down.
This collection includes a personal account of learning Catholic prayer practice during a conversion, and a decision two parents made together about which faith tradition their child would follow. For devotional reading, see Prayers.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father, Aparesh Lahiri, was a musician too, and at a very young age, I was geared up for a career in music.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father Apresh Lahiri and mother Bansari Lahiri were great composers of their time.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel more and more like 'myself' these days. Before becoming a father, I can remember a low-level feeling of somehow not quite being myself.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.
- Forging
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I returned from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1972, my father was running a forging business with a turnover of Rs 3.5 crore. But I had no patience and wanted to grow the business via exports.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a government officer and for him, the ultimate dream was to see me become an IAS officer.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've spent my whole life playing football. My father didn't want me to play rugby because he felt it was very hard on the body, so at school, I was encouraged to play football, and that's where everything started.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is good to be a young father, a young parent. You have that energy, and you are growing up with them.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My son had seen 'Dum Laga Ke Haisha,' but he wasn't happy about it because my father bullies me in the film.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I inherited the company from my father after he died very unexpectedly from a heart attack in 1966. He was just 51 years old, and I was 21.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was studying at Stanford University with two quarters left to go before receiving an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering. Then, I got the telephone call from my mother. I had no choice. I went home, and I jumped into the company feet first, right from day one. There was no time to grieve my father.
- Company
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- Nov 07, 2020
Interestingly, many Indian companies where there's a father-and-son combination are being run as joint CEO organizations because the father has not given up running the company and the son is actively involved in running the company, and there is division of responsibilities.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up listening to a lot of Ray Charles and '60s rock, thanks to my father, and then my brothers got me in to KISS and whatnot, so I guess that's where I got my first taste for music.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am grateful to my father for sending me to school, and that we moved from Somalia to Kenya, where I learned English.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Israel, to Canadian parents. My father immigrated in 1948, part of a wave of young men and women who came as pioneers, to fight for a Jewish homeland. Their motive was in large part a reaction to the Holocaust, and their slogan was 'Never Again.'
- Israel
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father is sure that Israel keeps the Holocaust from happening again. I worry that it might hasten its recurrence.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before I was married, I didn't consider my failure to manage even basic hand tools a feminist inadequacy. I thought it had more to do with being Jewish. The Jews I knew growing up didn't do 'do-it-yourself.' When my father needed to hammer something he generally used his shoe, and the only real tool he owned was a pair of needle-nose pliers.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020