Happy Father’s Day to all Dads, Grandpas, Great Gramps, Step-Dads, Uncles, Foster Dads and men who guide us through our lives. This collection of quotes is for you:
“Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad.” ~ Anne Geddes
“Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.” ~ Ruth E. Renkel
“A father carries pictures where his money used to be.” ~ Author Unknown
A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. ~ Author Unknown
“It is much easier to become a father than to be one.” ~ Kent Nerburn
“By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.” ~ Charles Wadsworth
“The first man a little girl falls in love with is her Dad.” ~ Author Unknown
“I've learned that a father's blessing can fill a son's soul to the brim.”~ Kelly Tobey
“The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.” ~ Confucius
“What do I owe my father? Everything:” ~ Henry Van Dyke
“The most important thing that a father can do for his children is to love their mother.” ~Theodore M. Hesburgh
“When I measure myself I always use Dad as a guide” -- Author Unknown
“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.” -Jim Valvano
“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.” Sigmund Freud
“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.” ~Mark Twain (1874)
He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass." "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys." ~Harmon Killebrew
One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him into that predicament. But a child does owe his father a debt, if Dad, having gotten him into this peck of trouble, takes off his coat and buckles down to the job of showing his son how best to crash through it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. ~Enid Bagnold
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! ~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. ~Mark Twain, "Old Times on the Mississippi" Atlantic Monthly, 1874
Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~Author Unknown
Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself. ~John Gregory Brown, Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery, 1994
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge. ~Phyllis Diller
Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
The greatest gift I ever had Came from God; I call him Dad! ~Author Unknown
Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~Elizabeth Stone
Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter
Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
There's one sad truth in life I've found While journeying east and west - The only folks we really wound Are those we love the best. We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest, And deal full many a thoughtless blow To those who love us best. ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away. ~Dinah Craik
Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life. ~Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again. ~Jimmy Piersal, on how to diaper a baby, 1968
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Connemara Public Library at Chennai is the State Central library. This library is one of the 4 National depository libraries which are receiving a copy of all books, news papers and periodicals published in India free of cost. This library is also functioning as the information Centre for UNESCO since 1956. Connemara Public Library is rendering useful service by having separate divisions for Reference, Text Books, Periodicals, Bibliography, Indian Languages and English Books.
The proposal for a museum in Madras was mooted by the Madras Literary Society in 1846 AD and Sir Henry Pottinger, the then Governor, obtained the sanction of the Court of Directors of the East India Company in London.
In January 1851 AD, Dr. Edward Balfour, Medical Officer of the Governor's Security was appointed as the First Officer in charge of the Government Museum. The announcement in the Fort St. George Gazetteer dated 29th April 1851 AD contained the first statement regarding the opening of the Madras Government Museum. The Government Museum or else called as the Central Museum was started in the College of Fort St. George, in the property of the present office of the Director of Public tutoring, on College Road. The college had been recognized in 1812 AD and made a significant involvement to the development of South Indian Languages. The Museum was started in the first floor of the college with the 1100 geological specimens of the Madras Literary Society. It gradually developed and extended under the supervision and management of a succession of directors.
As the building was in a falling down condition, the Museum’s supervisor, Dr. Balfour advocated shifting it to another building.
In December 1854 AD, it was shifted to a building named the Pantheon, also known as the Public Rooms or meeting Rooms, where the elite of the city met.
The building was being utilized for banquets, balls and impressive performance from the last decade of the 18th Century. The estate of the Pantheon was the property of Hall Plummer, civil servant and public works contractor who consequently, in 1793 AD, assigned the foundation to a Committee of 24, which keeping up the public amusements in the city at that time. In 1821 AD, the Committee sold the main house and middle garden space to E.S. Moorath, a rich Armenian merchant, who in turn, sold it back to the Government in 1830 AD, for Rs.28,000. The property was formerly 43 acres in coverage and expanded from Casa Major Road to the current Police Commissioner’s Road, and it was flanked by the Pantheon Road and Halls Road.
The Public Library was ongoing in 1853 AD. It was opened to the public in June 1862 AD. The building of the library and lecture hall began in December 1873 AD and finished in 1875 AD and officially opened by the Governor on March 16, 1876 AD. Captain Mitchell, controller, was dependable for amplification the library. He is regarded as the instigator of the Connemara Public Library.
It was properly opened on December 5, 1896 AD by Sir Arthur Ellibank Havelock, the then Governor and named after its progenitor, Lord Connemara, Governor of Madras. Designed by H.Irvin, the then Consulting designer to the Government of Madras, it had a wonderful hall with a grand reading room and gorgeous teak wood shelves.
The library had an impressive tower 200 feet high, the uppermost in Madras at that time. But in March 1897 AD, the tower was demolished as it was establish to be in a shaky condition.
Libraries proscribed by different bodies which were in need of space were invited to reside in some segment of the Connemara Library. The Madras Literary Society Library was the first to function inside the Connemara Library until it was shifted in 1905 AD to its current building on College Road. The Madras University Library engaged the space vacated by the Madras Literary Society Library and functioned there until 1928 AD when it moved to Chepauk. The Oriental Manuscripts Library which was also housed in the Connemara Library till 1935 AD, moved into the University Buildings at Chepauk. Books were procured on behalf of the Victoria Technical Institute from the DhanakotiMudaliar bequest and still housed in the Fine Arts Section of the Connemara Public Library. Later the library came below the control of the Director of Public Instruction.
In 1854 AD, a young cheetah and tiger were held in reserve the museum and visitors came to see them from outlying places. As visitors to the museum improved, Dr. Balfour requested the Navab of the Carnatic, to send the wild animals he had to the museum. In September 1855 AD, a announcement was issued asking for the animals to be gifted to the Museum Zoological Gardens. By the first half year of 1856 AD, the Madras Museum had zoological garden with 360 animals. In 1863 AD, the City metropolis took over the Zoological Gardens and shifted it to the People’s Park.
The plans for the Madras Aquarium were pinched up in 1905-1906 AD by Dr. Thurston, the then supervisor of the Museum in discussion with a Committee. As this was the first Aquarium, methods of freshening, etc. found useful in Europe had to be correctly customized and adopted. The aquarium was opened to the public on October 21, 1909 AD and was very popular.
When the Fisheries Department came to be organized, the administration of the aquarium was taken over by it on April 1, 1910 AD. During 1942 AD, owing to the threat of a Japanese attack on Madras, the city was evacuated, the collections in the Aquarium were unnerved and it ceased to exist. Attempts to reconstruct the aquarium have not fructified.
The period 1941-1946 AD were bad years for the Museum. An enormous part of the buildings and the grounds had to be handed over for an ARP depository stationed in the Museum. The galleries had to be used as storerooms and therefore the showcases were detached. The most precious among the collections, such as bronzes, copper plate grants, preferred coins, relic caskets of Bhattiprolu, etc. were sent to places of safety. As the Amaravati sculptures were too heavy and hard to transport, the Government planned that they should be protected in situ in the Gallery.
In December 1896 AD, the Front Building (Anthropological Galleries) and The Museum Theatre were opened. The new expansion (main entrance) was built in 1939 AD in order to show stone sculptures, period-wise. The Government Museum took over the Victoria Technical Institute Building (constructed in 1909 AD) and named it as National Art Gallery and was thrown open to the public on November 27, 1951 AD.
The Museum renowned its Centenary on November 27, 1951 AD which was inaugurated by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. In Order to display the beautiful rich collection of bronzes, a divide building was constructed in 1963 AD. In the same year, a new building block was added to the Chemical preservation Section to cope with the increasing work of conservation. A new building for the Birds Gallery was also opened in 1963 AD.
A part building for Contemporary Art was opened in January 25, 1984 AD and a new Children’s Museum building was opened in April 1988 AD. The Raja Ravi Varma paintings, which are measured as National Treasures, have been positioned in a gallery with Fiber Optic lighting. This system of lighting gives a impressive lighting effect. The Contemporary Art Gallery has been lit using Dichroic Halogen lamps. These lamps reveal back the heat. They also have a pleasant visual effect. These lighting methods are technology demonstrators and a first for museums in India at the time of their fitting in 2001 AD.
prominent collections in the Museum are the world famous South Indian bronzes, copper plates, the DowleshwaramAmaravati sculptures, Tanjore (Thanjavur) armoury, inscriptions on stones hoard of gold coins of RajaRaja I and Kulothunga I, the Chengam hoard of copper coins, artifacts from the Megaliths of Adichanallur, the Bruce Foote Collection of ancient stone implements, Roman and other artifacts from the famous site of Arikamedu (near Pondicherry), the exquisite crystal reliquaries from the BhattiproluStupa and the gigantic skeleton of the whale obtained on shore near Mangalore.
