Father's Day 2021: Date, History, Significance & Heartwarming Quotes To Honour Your Main Man!

This year, Father's Day will be celebrated on June 20 (Sunday). Take time out to give your father a token of love and gratitude with these heartwarming quotes and messages

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It is rightly said that fathers are our first inspiration, our own superhero and our guiding light whose love shows us the way. Just like the mother, a has an equally important role in the upbringing of a child. Fathers spend most of their lives in shaping the future of their kids. Although we do not need a specific day to celebrate our fathers, yet it is best to take time out to give our fathers a token of love and gratitude. 

This year, Father's Day will be celebrated on June 20 (Sunday). The dates may vary each year as the day is marked on the third Sunday of June. 

History behind Father’s Day

Father’s Day was first celebrated in 1910 in the United States. It was founded on the third Sunday of June, at Spokane, Washington YMCA on June 19, 1910, by Sonora Smart Dodd.  Sonora was aware of how Anna Jarvis founded Mother’s Day in honour of her mother and that’s when she suggested the pastor of her Church about a similar day to honor fathers too. 

Her father was a Civil War veteran William Jackson Smart who took care of six children in Arkansas as a single parent. She wanted to celebrate the day on her father’s birthday ie June 5, but due to the Church’s time constraints, the celebration were deferred to the third Sunday of June. 

Since then, the day has been celebrated every year in as many as 111 countries. In some countries like Australia and New Zealand, however, it is said that Father’s Day is celebrated on the first Sunday in the month of September. 

Honour Your Main Man With These Heartwarming Quotes

“Fathers, be good to your daughters. You are the god and the weight of her world.” —John Mayer

“When my father didn’t have my hand, he had my back.” —Linda Poindexter

“No music is so pleasant to my ears as that word―father.” —Lydia Maria Child

“To her, the name of father was another name for love.” —Fanny Fern

“A father’s smile has been known to light up a child’s entire day.” —Susan Gale

“One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.” —George Herbert

“It is a wise father that knows his own child.” —William Shakespeare

“She did not stand alone, but what stood behind her, the most potent moral force in her life, was the love of her father.” —Harper Lee

“A father is neither an anchor to hold us back, nor a sail to take us there, but a guiding light whose love shows us the way.” —Unknown

Thanks for becoming a kid, a friend, and a parent at times when I needed the perfect person beside me! You are the best man I have known! - Unknown