Father’s Day Story

father day story

Father’s Day is celebrated on a variety of dates worldwide and typically involves gift-giving, and special dinners to fathers and family-oriented activities.
There was a tradition to celebrate Father’s Day around thousands of years ago. In Babylon a son called Elmesu carved a father’s day message on a clay card. In his message Elmesu wished his father a long and healthy life. There is no knowledge as to what happened to this father son duo but it is believed that several countries retained the custom of celebrating Father’s Day.

The actual beginnings of Father’s Day are rather sketchy, and there are several stories of how this holiday started. While these are considered to be true, probably the most common and widespread story is that the June holiday that is known today as Father’s Day is said to have started growing its roots in the year of 1909.

A woman by the name of Mrs. John B. Dodds, who lived in Spokane, Washington, campaigned for a Father’s Day celebration. Her interest in having an organized holiday for fathers was sparked after she heard a church sermon on the virtues of Mother’s Day. The sermon reminded Mrs. Dodds about her childhood years, when her mother had passed away while in childbirth with her sixth child. Mrs. Dodds’ father, William Smart, who was a veteran of the Civil War, was then left to carry on as both father and mother to the newborn baby and their five other children. With medical doctors being in short supply, and medicine being in just its early stages of development, many women died while giving birth to their babies. It was simply, at that time, a hazard of the effort to bring forth new life onto the earth. And when Mrs. Dodds thought of all fathers’ great role. She decided that they all should be honored with a special day all their own. She campaigned and worked to spread her message, and even got the help of friends and family to write letters to influential people who could make this dream happen for her. And, finally, after much hard work and determination, a local celebration was finally proclaimed in the year of 1910. Mrs. Dodds wanted the date of the holiday to be on her father’s birthday, which was the fifth of June, but the festivities had to be moved to the nineteenth of June so there would be enough time to prepare.

Eventually, annual celebrations blossomed throughout the United States and Canada, but it wasn’t until 1972, when Richard M. Nixon signed a congressional resolution that Father’s Day became established. Finally, over sixty years later, after it was first campaigned for, Father’s Day was officially established as being celebrated on the third Sunday of every June.
With the transformation of the American family throughout the years, this holiday was expanded to include honoring not only fathers, but also stepfathers, uncles, grandfathers, guys that act as big brothers, and any other males that have played the father role in ones’ life.

Father’s Day SMS / Quote

Father’s Day SMS, Father’s Day Quotes, Father’s Day Sayings, Popular Father’s Day SMS on Father’s Holidays.

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His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand

Do u know what’s the meaning of FAMILY?
F=Father
A=And
M=Mother
I=I
L=Love
Y=Yooou

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The greatest gift.. I ever had..Came from God..I call him Dad!

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I know just the person who needs “101 Ways to Be a Great Dad”. Don’t worry it isn’t you! Happy Fathers’Day!

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You’ve seen me laugh You’ve seen me cry and always you were there with me I may not have always said it But thanks and I love you Happy Father’s Day.

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Some things are just better the way they are like you! Happy Father’s Day!

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God gave me the greatest gift I ever had,
God gave me a best friend in the form of my dad.
Father’s Day wishes for a dad who is one in a million!

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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters.Happy Fathers’Day !
George Herbert,

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He didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
Clarence Budington Kelland

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It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. Happy Father’s Day

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You may be out of sight but you’re always in my mind. Happy Father’s Day

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Thanks for being there through the tears, laughter and dirty diapers. Happy Father’s Day!

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For the best dad who always had a smile for me.
Though we may be far apart right now,
But here’s a big hug and kiss for you
To let you know how special you are
Happy Father’s Day!

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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. Happy Father’s Day

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A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!
Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836

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Dad, you’re someone to look up to no matter how tall I’ve grown.

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My father died many years ago, and yet when something special happens to me, I talk to him secretly not really knowing whether he hears, but it makes me feel better to half believe it.
Josefowitz

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Good fathers make good sons

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A father is a fellow who has replaced the currency in his wallet with the snapshots of his kids.

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By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.

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My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding, and the baby at every christening
Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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Any man can be a father, but it takes a special person to be a dad

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It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

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That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all.
August Strindberg

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One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father
George Herbert quotes

Chinese New Year SMS/Quotes

Happy Chinese New Year SMS, Happy Chinese New Year Quotes, Happy Chinese New Year Sayings, Popular Chinese New Year SMS on Chinese Day Celebration.

Chinese New Year SMS / Quotes

“Happy Chinese New Year 2008”

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“Gong Xi Fa Cai!” / “Kung Hei Fat Choy
Wishing you enlarge your wealth”

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“Kong Xi Fa Cai, Make your great dreams come true this chinese new year!”

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“Wishing You and Your Family A Happy Joyful New Year. Gong Xi Fa Cai!”

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“Gong xi fa cai,xin nian kuai le
wish u all 2 be prosperous, Happy new year!”

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“Zhu ni xin nian kuai le, wan shi ru yi, long ma jing shen !!”

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“Xin Zheng Ru Yi Xin Nian Fa Cai”

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“Happy Chinese New Year to Everybody!”

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“Without Happy — dayz are “sadday,
moanday,
tearsday,
wasteday,
thirsday,
frightday,
shatterday”
So be happy everyday. Happy New Year!”

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“New Year,
New Vision,
New Spirit,
New Hope,
New Fresh.
All in NEW must be BETTER, do the BEST. Happy New Year. ”

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“When u ask god 4 a gift, be thankful if he sends.. not diamonds, not pearls, nor riches, but d love of real people around u! Happy New Year! ”

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“Yesterday is a history,2day is a gift n 2morrow is mistery..so welcome the new year with joy,love,faith n peacefull ”

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“An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.”
–Bill Vaughan

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“New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday.”
–Charles Lamb

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“Cheers to a New Year and another chance for us to get it right.”
–Oprah Winfrey

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“New Year’s Day… now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.”
–Mark Twain

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“Happiness is too many things these days for anyone to wish it on anyone lightly. So let’s just wish each other a bile-less New Year and leave it at that.”
–Judith Crist

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“Many people look forward to the New Year for a new start on old habits.”
–Anonymous

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“May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions!”
–Joey Adams

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“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called “Opportunity” and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.”
–Edith Lovejoy Pierce

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“A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to the world!”
–Charles Dickens

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“Resolve to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution
to the fund of general enjoyment.”
–Sydney Smith

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“Your Merry Christmas may depend on what others do for you. But your Happy New Year dependson what you do for others.”
–Anonymous

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“Certain corpuscles, denominated Christmas Books, with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident upon the exodus of the old and the inauguration of the New Year.”
–William Makepeace Thackeray

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“Every new year people make resolutions to change aspects of themselves they believe are negative. A majority of people revert back to how they were before and feel like failures. This year I challenge you to a new resolution. I challenge you to just be yourself.”
–Aisha Elderwyn

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“He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool.”

–F. M. Knowles, A Cheerful Year Book

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“The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul.”
–G. K. Chesterton

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“We meet today
To thank Thee for the era done,
And Thee for the opening one”
–John Greenleaf Whittier

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“I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.”
–Anais Nin

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“Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.”
–Oscar Wilde

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“I’m a little bit older, a little bit wiser, a little bit rounder, but still none the wiser.”
–Robert Paul

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“A New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one Year and out the other.”
–Anonymous

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“From New Year’s on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining.”
–Leonard Bernstein

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“The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. Unless a man starts on the strange assumption that he has never existed before, it is quite certain that he will never exist afterwards. Unless a man be born again, he shall by no means enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.”
–G. K. Chesterton

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“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning.”
–T. S. Eliot

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“Then sing, young hearts that are full of cheer,
With never a thought of sorrow;
The old goes out, but the glad young year
Comes merrily in tomorrow”
–Emily Miller

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“Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each New Year find you a better man.”
–Benjamin Franklin

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“A happy New Year! Grant that I
May bring no tear to any eye
When this New Year in time shall end
Let it be said I’ve played the friend,
Have lived and loved and labored here,
And made of it a happy year.”
–Edgar A. Guest

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“And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown. And he replied: Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. Thatshall be to you better than light, and safer than a known way.”
–Minnie L. Haskins

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“This bright new year is given me
To live each day with zest
To daily grow and try to be
My highest and my best!”
–William Arthur Ward

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“What can be said in New Year rhymes,
That’s not been said a thousand times?
The new years come, the old years go,
We know we dream, we dream we know.
We rise up laughing with the light,
We lie down weeping with the night.
We hug the world until it stings,
We curse it then and sigh for wings.
We live, we love, we woo, we wed,
We wreathe our prides, we sheet our dead.
We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear,
And that’s the burden of a year.”
–Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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“Glory to God in highest heaven,
Who unto man His Son hath given;
While angels sing with tender mirth,
A glad new year to all the earth”
–Martin Luther

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“Each age has deemed the new born year
The fittest time for festal cheer”
–Walter Scott

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“Of all sound of all bells, the most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.”
–Charles Lamb

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“In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, never in want.”
–Irish toast

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“And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. And it’s not because I’m lonely, and it’s not because it’s New Year’s Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.”
–When Harry Met Sally, the movie

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“With all the Rose’s Perfume with all the lights in the world with all the children’s Smiles…I Wish U that ur all dreams comes True..*HAPPY New Year 2008*”

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“May The Year 2008 Bring for You Happiness,Success and filled with Peace,Hope and Togetherness of your Family and Friends….Wishing You a…*HAPPY NEW YEAR* ”

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“Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.”

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“Fresh Air….
Fresh Idea….
Fresh Talent….
Fresh Energy….
I wish U to have a …..
Sweetest Sunday,
Marvellous Monday,
Tasty Tuesday,
Wonderful Wednesday,
Thankful Thursday,
Friendly Friday,
Successful Saturday.
Have a great Year. HAPPY NEW YEAR”

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“Each moment in a day has its own value. Morning brings HOPE, Afternoon brings FAITH, Evening brings LOVE, Night brings REST, Hope you will all of them everyday. HAPPY NEW YEAR”

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“My wishes for you, Great start for Jan, Love for Feb, Peace for march, No worries for April, Fun for May, Joy for June to Nov, Happiness for Dec, Have a lucky and wonderful 2008.”

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“May this new year bring many opportunities your way, to explore every joy of life and may your resolutions for the days ahead stay firm, turning all your dreams into reality and all your efforts into great achievements.”

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“Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in thethings that were and are past.”

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“New Year’s Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.”

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“The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.”

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“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language
And next year’s words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.”

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“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.”

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“Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever.”

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“People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and Christmas.”

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“And ye, who have met with Adversity’s blast,
And been bow’d to the earth by its fury;
To whom the Twelve Months, that have recently pass’d
Were as harsh as a prejudiced jury –
Still, fill to the Future! and join in our chime,
The regrets of remembrance to cozen,
And having obtained a New Trial of Time,
Shout in hopes of a kindlier dozen.”

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“Each age has deemed the new-born year
The fittest time for festal cheer.”

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“Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account. ”

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“Glory to God in highest heaven,
Who unto man His Son hath given;
While angels sing with tender mirth,
A glad new year to all the earth.”

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“A new oath holds pretty well; but… when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it.”

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“But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.”

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“New Year’s Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive.”

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“One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things.”

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“Of all sound of all bells… most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.”

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“May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions.”

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“He who breaks a resolution is a weakling;
He who makes one is a fool.”

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“Every man regards his own life as the New Year’s Eve of time.”

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“The only way to spend New Year’s Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.”

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“Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.”

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“Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.”

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“No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.”

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“New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday.”

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“The merry year is born
Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.”

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“Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.”

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“Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it’s twice as onerous a duty.”

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“Wishing you and your loved ones a very happy new year. May a new year brings better health, more success, happiness and prosperity, with lots of love!”

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“With each passing moments, let us embrace the new year with a brighter, colorful, and joyous future. Happy New Year!”

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“Experiences in life are lessons. Love and care create more power to exist and survive. And may GOD fill our HEARTS with GLADNESS. HAPPY NEW YEAR”

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“Life is like a book, each day has a new page, with adventures to tell,lessons to learn and tales on good deed to remember.
Happy New Year!”

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“Always welcome the new morning with a new spirit, a smile on your face, love in your heart and good thoughts in your mind.
Happy New Year”

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“Today 2 person ask me about u. I gave them your details and contact. they will b looking 4 u soon. their names are Mr HAPPINESS and Ms LUCK. Happy New Year”

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“Sunday went 2 Monday 2 c Tuesday n ask Wednesday whether Thursday has told Friday thatSaturday is NEW YEAR. Happy NEW YEAR”

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“Days are too busy…
Hours are too few…
Seconds are too fast…
but there is always a time for me to say..
Happy new year..”

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“GOD never takes a day off to love, to care, to guide and blessed all of you every moment of your lives n your families. Happy New year”

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“Yesterday is a memory, today is a gift, tomorrow is a hope. Let’s begin new year with faith, love, and peace. Wishing u all the best! Happy new Year!”

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“A New year
A New Start
A New Chapter
A New Beginning
Forget the bad
Cherist the GOOD
I sincerely wish u a very blessed new year ahead. happy new year”

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“Its a brand new year! wishing u an endless happiness, fortunes and peace in years to come”

Father’s Day in Various Countries

Father’s Day Celebration Date is varied among countries around the world. Let’s see when you should celebrate on Father’s Day😉

Father Day in Various Countries

Occurrence Country
  • March 19
Bolivia, Honduras, Italy (Festa del Papà), Liechtenstein, Andorra, Portugal, Spain (Día del Padre)
  • May 5
Romania (Ziua Barbatului)
  • May 8
Albania (Parents’ Day), South Korea (Parents’ Day)
  • Ascension Day (in the sixth week following Easter Sunday or 40 days after Jesus Resurrection)
Germany
  • First Sunday of June
Lithuania
  • June 5 (Constitution Day)
Denmark
  • Second Sunday of June
Autria, Belgium
  • Third Sunday of June
Argentina, Antigua, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, People’s Republic of China, China (Taiwan), Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Ecuador, France, Ghana, Greece, Guyana, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Japan, Malaysia, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Netherlands, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Singaporem, Slovakia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, Ukraine, United States, Venezuela, Zimbabwe
  • June 17
El Salvador, Guatemala
  • June 21
Syria, Lebanon
  • June 23
Nicaragua, Poland, Uganda
  • Last Sunday of June
Haiti
  • 13 Rajab (the seventh month of the Islamic calendar)
Iran
  • Second Sunday of July
Uruguay
  • Last Sunday of July
Dominican Republic
  • Second Sunday of August
Brazil
  • August 8
Taiwan
  • First Sunday of September
Australia, New Zealand
  • New Moon of September (there are 2 states of the moon: New Moon (black) and Full Moon)
Nepal
  • First Sunday of October
Luxemberg
  • Second Sunday of November
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Sweden
  • December 5
Thailand (the birthday of His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej)

Ref: wikipedia

Father’s Day in Different Languages

Happy Father Day in Different Languages

How to Say “Father” in Different Languages


Afrikaans : vader
Albanian : baba ; atë
Apalai (Amazon) : papa
Arabic : babba ; yebba ; abbi (classical)
Aragones : pai
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Bangla : Baba ; Abba
Basque : aita
Bolognese : pèder
Bosnian : otac
Brazilian Portuguese : pai
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Calabrese : patre ; patri ; pa ; papà ; papallu ; patra
Caló : batú ; bato ; batico ; dadá
Catalan : pare
Catanese : pattri ; opà
Chechen (Caucasus) : daa
Chechen : da
Cree (Canada) : -papa
Croatian : otac
Czech : táta, otec
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Dakota (USA) : ate
Dutch : vader ; papa ; pappie
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East African : baba
English : father ; dad ; daddy ; pop ; poppa ; papa
Esperanto : patro
Estonian : isa
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Faeroese : faðir
Filipino : tatay, itay, tay ; ama
Finnish : isä
Flemish : vader
French : papa
Frisian : heit
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Galician : pai
German : banketi, Papi
Griko Salentino : ciúri
Guaran : túva ; ru
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Hebrew : abba(h)
Hindi : Papa ; Pita-ji
Hungarian : apa
Hungarian : apa ; apu ; papa ; édesapa
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Icelandic : pabbi ; faðir
Indonesian : bapa ; ayah ; pak
Irish : athair ; daidí
Italian : babbo
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Japanese : otosan, papa
Judeo-Spanish : padre ; baba ; babu
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Kobon (New Guinea) : bap
Kurdish Kurmanji : bav
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Ladin : pere
Latin : pater ; papa ; atta
Latvian : tevs
Limburgian : vader ; vajer ; pap
Lithuanian : tevas ; pradininkas ; protevis
Lombardo Occidentale : bubà
Luo (Kenya) : baba
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Maasai : papa ; paapa ; olaiiu
Malagasy : ray
Malay : bapa
Malay : bapa
Maltese : missier
Mandarin : bà ; bàba (informal)
Mandarin Chinese : baba
Mantuan : upà ; papà ; babbo
Maori : haakoro ; kohake
Mapunzugun : chaw ; chao
Modern Greek : babbas
Moravian : tata
Mudnés : pèder
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Nadsat : Pee
Nahuatl (Mexico) : ta’
Napulitano : pate
Nepali : buwa
Norwegian : pappa ; far
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Persian/Farsi : pedar, pitar ; simply Baabaa
Pipil (El Salvador) : tatah
Polish : tata ; ojciec
Portuguese : pai
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Quechua (Ecuador) : tayta
Quechua : tata ; churiyaqe
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Romagnolo : bà
Romani : dad
Romanian : tata
Romanian : tata ; parinte ; taica
Romansh : bab
Russian : papa
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Samoan : tama
Sango : baba
Sanskrit : tàtah ; janak
Sardinian (Limba Sarda Unificada) : babu
Sardinian Campidanesu : babbu
Sardinian Logudoresu : babbu
Shona : baba
Sicilian : patri
Slovak : otec
Slovenian : ôèe
Spanish : papá ; viejo ; tata
Swahili : baba ; mzazi
Swedish : pappa
Swiss German : Vatter
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Tagalog : tatay ; ama
Turkish : baba
Turkmen : däde ; kaka
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Urdu : Abbu ; Abbu-ji ; Abbu-jan ; bap
Valencian : pare
Venetian : pare ; popà ; ‘opà ; pupà ; papà
Welsh : tad
Xhosa (South Africa) : -tata
Yiddish : tatti ; tay ; foter ; tateh
Zeneize : poæ

How to Say “Happy Mother’s Day” in Different Languages

Africa – bo-moschkido dad
Albanian – Gëzuar ditën e babait!
Arabic – كل عيد أب وأنت بخير (in Latin characters: Kullu eid abb wa anta bi-khayr)
Brazilian Portuguese – Feliz dia dos pais!
Chinese – 父亲节快乐 (fu qin jie kwai le)
Dutch – De gelukkige Dag van Vaders Ik hou van je, Vader (i love you, Dad)
European Portuguese – Feliz dia do pai!
French – Bonne fête des pères
German – Glücklicher Vatertag
Hungarian – Boldog apák napját!
Irish Lá na hAithreacha sona
Italiano Buona festa del papa
Japan – Yukai Otousan Dei
Korean – 사랑해요, 아빠! (i love you, dad)
Latin – Felix dies patrorum
Polish – Wszystkiego najlepszego z okazji dnia ojca
Persian – روز پدر مبارک
Portugese – Dia de pais feliz
Russian – Счастливый день отцов
Slovak – Všetko najlepšie ku dňu otcov!
Spanish – Feliz Día de Padres
Swedish – Grattis på farsdagen!
Tagalog – Maligayang araw ng mga tatay
Tamil – தந்தையர் தின நல்வாழ்த்துக்கள்! (Thanthaiyar Thina NalvaazhththukkaL!)
Thai – สุขสันต์วันพ่อ (Sook-san-wan-por)
Urdu – Youm-e-Waalid Mubarak
Uruguay – Feliz Día del Padre