- Mother
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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The important thing for my father bringing me on the board of HCL Technologies was to expose me to our largest asset, which is HCL Technologies.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course I have my father guiding me, and I have people who I have actually grown up with and who advise me.
- Company
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- Nov 07, 2020
The largest expense in our philanthropy is capital expenditure because we are building these institutions. This institution-building idea stems from my father because he has the experience of building a company from scratch.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not having a father always made you feel that perhaps you weren't quite the same as other people. You felt you weren't complete.
- Mother And Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing is that my father's story helps to communicate what was at stake with my mother, and my mother and father had so much a partnership that his story is integral to her story, as her story is to his - really, her story can't be told without his story.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
In some ways, I've been left with this great 'idolic' image of my father, but there's a sense of absence, too. You miss his advice and, also, his getting to know the person I have become.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a former Governor, and more importantly, as a father, I know all too well how protective elected officials are of the special relationships they have with their children.
- Buffet
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- Nov 07, 2020
I once did a gig at an office Christmas party in the showroom floor of a friend's father's home appliance shop in the suburbs of Melbourne. It was to a much older crowd. Without a microphone. Or a stage. With the queue for the buffet behind me.
- I Was Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Nagpur and brought up in Ahmedabad, where my father had a small factory.
- Country Singer
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was an aspiring country singer and songwriter. He just didn't get that off that ground. I was afraid, very tentative to do anything with music for years. I didn't tell him I was playing in bands when I was away from home, because it had been such an unpleasant experience and a letdown for him.
- Brother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a family where soccer has always been very present. My uncles, my father and my brother were all players.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father never felt the need to wrap himself in anybody's mantle. He never felt the need to pretend to be anybody else. This is their administration. This is their war. If they can't stand on their own two feet, well, they're no Ronald Reagans, that's for sure.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020