Dad, I love you
Father, Dad, Daddy, Pop, Pa, Papa - many different names for many different people, but whether it is "I love you Dad", "I love you Daddy" or whatever it is your child calls you, those words will always mean so much.
Any man can be a father
But it takes someone special
to be a Dad
Anne Geddes
This lens is a tribute to my Dad and all the Dads like him.
Lens pic: I Love You Dad
art print by Grant
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Origins of Father's Day
Día de padres, Dia de pais, Giorno di padri, Vatertag, Jour de pères
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Worldwide Father's Day is celebrated on different dates, with the majority of countries that have a designated Father's Day, celebrating it on the third Sunday in June. In some Catholic countries, it is celebrated on the Feast of St Joseph.
The first celebration of Father's Day is believed to have been held on 05 July 1908 in a church in Fairmont, West Virginia, by Dr. Robert Webb of West Virginia at the Central United Methodist Church of Fairmont. However, Sonora Smart Dodd of Spokane, Washington is credited with having come up with the idea of an annual Father's Day one Sunday in 1909 while listening to a Mother's Day sermon at the Central Methodist Episcopal Church at Spokane. She arranged a tribute for her father on 19 June 1910. William Smart, was a veteran of the US Civil War and his wife died when their sixth child was born. He brought up his children on his own on a rural farm in Eastern Washington State.
It took many years to make Father's Day "official". In spite of support from the YWCA, the YMCA and churches the idea was initially met with derision. It was not until a national committee was formed in the 1930s by trade groups that a commemorative day was formally agreed.
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Barack Obama Podcast on being a father
Podcast made in the run up to Father's Day 2008
Barack Obama Podcast: On Fatherhood
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It's funny how a father's wisdom increases as their child gets older!
A Newly Born Jackson's Chameleon Rests on its Dad's Horns
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4 years: My Daddy can do anything!
7 years: My Dad knows a whole lot
8 years: My father does not know quite everything
12 years: Oh well, naturally Father does not know that either
14 years: Oh, Father? He is hopelessly old-fashioned
21 years: Oh, that man-he is out of date!
25 years: He knows a little bit about it, but not much
30 years: I must find out what Dad thinks about it
35 years: Before we decide, we will get Dad's idea first
50 years: What would Dad have thought about that?
60 years: My Dad knew literally everything!
65 years: I wish I could talk it over with Dad once more
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Celebrities talking about their fathers
Celebs have Dads too!
Entertainer Frank Sinatra Getting Affectionate Hug From Daughter Nancy
as Actor Yul Brynner Looks On
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. . . . my dad is my hero. I'm never free of a problem nor do I truly experience a joy until we share it. I need him to know when I am hurting. I need him to know when I'm happy. I need him to know to hear me. . . .
Nancy Sinatra
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It's a wonderful feeling when your father becomes not a god but a man to you - when he comes down from the mountain and you see he's this man with weaknesses. And you love him as this whole being, not as a figurehead.
Robin Williams
Shirley MacLaine Holding Her Oscar in Press Room at Academy Awards
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Paschal, John
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If I wanted something from my father, I would put my little feet together pigeon-toe style, tilt my head and smile. I got what I wanted every time.
Shirley Maclaine
Golfer Jack Nicklaus During National Open Tournament
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My guide, my companion, me mentor, my supporter, my defender, but always most of all my closest and surest friend. . . .We would sometimes squabble over trivialities, but always knowing in our hearts that nothing could ever change how we felt about each other and, in my case, that here was the rock that I could always turn to.
Jack Nicklaus
She should have listened to her Dad!
Clearly she did not.....
Diamond Dust Shoes, 1980 (Lilac, Blue, Green)
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Andy Warhol
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I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
Imelda Marcos
Dad stuff!
Princess Bride Inigo Montoya "You Killed My Father, Prepare to Die" T-Shirt - Pitch Black
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My Dad Rocks
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Sterling Silver #1 Dad Disc Charm with 20 inch Sterling Silver Chain
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"Between Me and You: Dad; A Few Things I've Been Meaning To Ask" - Journal for Fathers
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Daddy's Diaper Changing Apron - Unique New Dad Gag Gift- Baby Shower Gift Idea
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He should have listened to his Dad!
Why don't we believe our Dads?
John F. Kennedy in Repose
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My father told me that all businessmen were s***-**-*******, but I never believed him until now.
John F. Kennedy
Well known parents on fatherhood
Celeb Dads
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"Three boys is difficult at times, but there's nothing that gives you that feeling of coming home and seeing the kids and spending time with them. Nothing better in the world than that."
David Beckham
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
Bill Cosby
I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich.
Colonel Potter, M*A*S*H
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, (Baseball Player)
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I felt something impossible for me to explain in words. Then, when they took her away, it hit me. I got scared all over again and began to feel giddy. Then it came to me... I was a father.
Nat King Cole
Dad's favourite phrases
(Well the printable ones anyway!)
What's your Dad's favourite phrase?
Keep 'em clean, this is a G-Rated lens!
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Come on, let the dog see the rabbit
Dad would say this if ever we got in his way - he more...1 point
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Riding a horse and cart round the wall of death.
My Dad's answer to "What are you doing?"1 point
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You die if you worry, you die if you don't!
This from my Dad who worried himself into an early more...1 point
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You know my favorite letter--A!
My dad says this every time school issues come up more...1 point
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You Make A Better Door Than You Do A Window.
when we got between him and what he was looking at more...1 point
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I'm just a young boy of 16 trying to get along in this world.
when we asked him his age.1 point
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yeah, well...
This means that he's not in the mood to argue1 point
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Play the Fool; the Fool Gets Hurt!
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Memories of fishing and soccer with Dad
(Despite the fact that I am a girl!)
Silhouette of Father and Son Fishing Photographic Print
Winsett, Bob
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I did a lot of my growing up before women's equality issues surfaced, but if I wanted to do or learn something that was perhaps more traditionally a boy's past-time, it did not matter diddly squat to my Dad. He liked to go fishing with my brother and one day, because I was bored I asked if I could go too. Not only did he teach me how to fish but he taught me how to be ever so careful and gentle when removing the hook from the fish's mouth and how to make sure it went back into the water straight away.
In the Summer of 2008, on a visit to my parents, my Dad, hubby and I took the girls fishing at one of the village ponds which is only a short walk from their house. Although he will be 80 this year, my Dad was still the Dad I remember as a child and he even ended up hanging upside down in a tree, untangling the line, when Lizzie tried to cast and it went hilariously wrong!
When I was 12 years old, my Dad took me to my first football (soccer in the US) league match. It was the start of a great love for the game. What was so unusual is that despite our poor background I attended an all girls' grammar school, which was full of very well heeled young ladies. Then there was me! Young ladies did not go and watch football matches, but by the time I left the school I had converted quite a few of my class mates to the joys of the game.
Dads at the movies
Some great clips featuring Dads
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Some of my fav films about Dads
Parenthood
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Father of the Bride (15th Anniversary Edition)
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Father of the Bride 2
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Three Men and a Baby
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Special Edition)
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If by Rudyard Kipling
From father to son
IF
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream-and not make dreams your master;
If you can think-and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!";
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings-nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run-
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And-which is more-you'll be a Man, my son!
Rudyard Kipling
Wild Horses, Red Roan Stallion with Foal in Sagebrush-Steppe Landscape,
Adobe Town, Wyoming, USA
Carol Walker
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The Broken Window
A story that sums up my Dad to a tee - pun intended!
Now that front garden was just about big enough to do a little golf practise - just some pitching. We would pitch from the house to the front fence and then pitch back again towards the house. In retrospect, I can see now what a bad idea that was - but we were having fun and we would do it ever so gently. And anyway, Dad was with us so what was the problem?
CRASH! I don't know who the guilty party was. I'm sure it was not me. It had to be my younger brother, it's just the sort of thing he would do!
Broken Windowpane Photographic Print
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It was a VERY loud crash, well I never heard any glass ever break quietly, and of course it summoned my Mother. She told me that as she reached the bottom of the stairs a golf ball landed at her feet. She rushed up to the window and looked out to see who had done it. By that time we had scarpered, including Dad!
Sigmund Freud
On Fatherhood
Sigmund Freud
Male Sea Horse with Young Sitting on its Snout after Birth
George Grall
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Christmas Gifts for Dads
or Fathers Day, Birthdays, any day....
Red Letter Days - the UK's number one gift experience company (UK only)
Timeless Message - ships worldwide
Fair trade gifts from Gifts With Humanity - ships worldwide
Help ease Dad's aches and pains with Energetix magnetic jewellry
A moment of reflection
For all the Dads away from home
This lens has gone more or less where I expected it to go - with one exception. It was only when I started to look for a song on YouTube that I came across some Father's Day tributes about the Military.
It got me thinking about all the families who have to live apart from their fathers, sons, brothers and uncles as they serve in military action, so many thousands of miles away from home. The families who live in fear of a knock on the door.
I have seen first hand the effect that surviving a military attack when your friends are killed around you, can have on the life of a young man. But at least the young soldier I know survived and made it home to his family.
Whether you believe that the current Military Action is justified or not, I hope you will join with me in a silent prayer or wish that these family men (and women) make it home safe to their families.
A tribute to Military Fathers who cannot be with their families
Military Tribute. "When you Come Back to Me Again"
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Sources of information on this lens
The Quotes on this lens are freely available on the web but were sourced from the following sites
- The Quote Garden
- Father Quotes, Sayings about Dads
- Fathers Day Celebration
- More quotes about fathers
- Fathers Day Quotes
- Fathers Day Quotes
- Top 50 Quotations for Father's Day
- Celebrate your Dad with these meaningful quotes...for his card or present.
Guess who taught me all about making perfect gravy?
Yes, my Dad!
Well he didn't teach me the bit about adding red wine, that was Delia Smith!-
Making perfect gravy
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This method of making perfect gravy has been used in my family for generations. Interestingly, it has always been my Dad who's made the gravy for our Sunday Roast Lunches and it was he who taught me how to make gravy. My Little Oxford Dictionary, th...
I love you Dad
A message for my Dad
Lion and Baby
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Dad, you have always been there for me. You have never judged me, you have never said: "I told you so."
You have always supported me in everything I have ever done, even when perhaps you did not understand. I am proud that my Dad has always approached life as though the glass is half full, rather than half empty and I have learned from that.
Dad, you have always had faith in me when perhaps I have lost my own faith in myself and I know that there is nothing that my Dad would not do for me.
You are my hero and I love you, Dad.
AJ
April 2009
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- divacratus divacratus Nov 16, 2009 @ 12:53 pm
- Nicely put up! Loved the pictures and the way you described things.
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- Pukeko Pukeko Nov 16, 2009 @ 12:34 am
- Well Done. Lovely tribute.
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- oneskms oneskms Aug 7, 2009 @ 5:33 am
- Great lens !
I have a 'figurine' in my window similar to your intro quote
"Anyone can be a father. It takes someone special to be a daddy"
To try and sum it up - It's just a wonderful 'roller coaster' of a ride (both the ups and downs)
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- Suzie-Shine Suzie-Shine Jul 16, 2009 @ 10:52 am
- Super lens. Dads are very special, well mine is. It's lovely to think that, no matter what, he'll be there for me - and always has been. Feel quite weepy!
Suzie
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- mbgphoto mbgphoto Jun 30, 2009 @ 8:29 am
- Wonderful lens to honor your Dad. I enjoyed your stories. 5*
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