Sonora Dodd, of Washington, first had the idea of a "father's day." She thought of the idea for Father's Day while listening to a Mother's Day sermon in 1909.

Sonora wanted a special day to honor her father, William Smart. Smart, who was a Civil War veteran, was widowed when his wife died while giving birth to their sixth child. Mr. Smart was left to raise the newborn and his other five children by himself on a rural farm in eastern Washington state.

After Sonora became an adult she realized the selflessness her father had shown in raising his children as a single parent. It was her father that made all the parental sacrifices and was, in the eyes of his daughter, a courageous, selfless, and loving man. Sonora's father was born in June, so she chose to hold the first Father's Day celebration in Spokane, Washington on the 19th of June, 1910.

President Calvin Coolidge, in 1924, supported the idea of a national Father's Day. Then in 1966 President Lyndon Johnson signed a presidential proclamation declaring the 3rd Sunday of June as Father's Day. President Richard Nixon signed the law which finally made it permanent in 1972. 

  QUOTES ABOUT DAD

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

"None of you can ever be proud enough of being the child of SUCH a Father who has not his equal in this world-so great, so good, so faultless. Try, all of you, to follow in his footsteps and don't be discouraged, for to be really in everything like him none of you, I am sure, will ever be. Try, therefore, to be like him in some points, and you will have acquired a great deal." -- Victoria, Queen of England

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

"It is a wise father that knows his own child." -- William Shakespeare

"One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters." -- english Proverb

"To be a successful father . . . there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years." -- Ernest Hemingway

"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection." -- Sigmund Freud

中文:

索诺拉多德，在华盛顿，首先的想法是“父亲节” 。她认为这个构思的父亲天一边听着母亲的一天讲道，在1909年。 

索诺拉通缉一个特殊的日子，以荣誉，她的父亲，威廉聪明的。聪明的，谁是公务员，退伍军人，是丧偶的时，他的妻子死亡，而生下他们的第六届儿童。聪明先生遗留下来的，以提高新生儿和他的其他五个孩子由他本人对农村农场在东区华盛顿州。

后索诺拉成为一个成人，她实现了无私的，她的父亲表明，在提高他的子女作为一个单亲。这是她的父亲，令所有家长的牺牲和是，在眼中，他的女儿，一个勇敢，无私，爱的人。索诺拉的父亲是出生在6月，所以她选择了举行第一次的父亲节庆祝活动在斯波坎，华盛顿对1910年6月19日。 

总统卡尔文柯立芝，在1924年，支持的思想，一个国家的父亲节。然后在1966年总统约翰逊签署了一项总统文告，宣布第三周日的6月，作为父亲节。尼克松总统签署的法律终于有了永久在1972年。 

  报价约爸爸

“父亲是始终使他的孩子成为一个小女子，并当她是女人，他把她再次回到” 。 -e nid拜格诺

“没有您可以在任何时候都感到自豪，够了被儿童这样一个父亲谁已经不是他的平等在这个世界那么大，那么好，因此，无可挑剔。尝试，所有的你，跟随在他的脚步和不气馁，要真正在一切像他一样，没有你，我肯定会。尝试，因此，要像他一样在一些点，并且您将获得了大量“ 。 -维多利亚，英国女王

“这是不讨好的立场，父亲在家庭中-提供所有，和敌人的所有” 。 -j .八月s trindberg 

“这是一个明智的父亲说，他知道自己的孩子” 。 -威廉莎士比亚

“一个父亲是一百多校长” 。 -英语谚语

“成为一名成功的父亲。 。 。还有一个绝对的规则：当你有一个孩子，不要看它的头两年” 。 -海明威

“我不能认为有需要在童年强劲，需要有一个父亲的保护” 。 -弗洛伊德