Father's Day...it's close

Ah, it's that time again in the UK calendar when all us mum's have to organise our little and sometimes not so little ones to make, buy or "do" something for Daddy, Dad, Father, 'Im indoors!

So to help those of you who actually make the effort to create a handmade little something for your dad, here are some quotes you may find useful.

I found these on the Scrapbook-crazy.com site:

• My dad can beat up your dad!
• For many people, God is just Dad with a mask on.
• The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother
• Every boy's father should be his hero When a father gives to his son, both laugh;
• When a daughter first meets her father, she makes room in her heart for the first significant man in her life; she becomes Daddy’s little girl. - From the book “Daddies & daughters” by Carmen Renee Berry
• You don't raise heroes; you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in your own eyes. - Walter Schirra Sr.
• We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. - Will Rogers
• The great man is he who does not lose his childs heart - Mencius
• I'm so lucky as can be, the world's greatest Dad belongs to me. - unknown
• Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
  - Lyndia M. Child
• A man finds out what is meant by a spitting image when he tries to feed cereal to his infant. - Imogene Fey
• A father is someone you look up to, no matter how tall you are. - unknown
• A day with dad - priceless!!
• A father is a banker provided by nature. - French proverb
• A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child. - unknown
• My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived and let me watch him do it. - Clarence Budington Kelland
• Nothing is as strong as gentleness, Nothing is as gentle as real strength
• A legend in his own mind.
• A father - the most important man in a child's life
• Dad knows best, but no one listens
• My fingers may be small... but I can still wrap my dad around them
• The wisdom of a father
• Life doesn't come with an instruction book - that's why we have fathers.
• Like father, like son
• A fathers love is not a duty, to him it's a privilege
• Anyone can be a Daddy, but it takes someone reallyspecial to be a father. - Unknown
• My dad, My hero
• Dad - a sons first hero, a daughters first love
• A father's love is like a rainbow - you can never find it's end.
• By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong. - Charles Wadsworth
• A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.
• Anyone can be a father, it takes someone special to be a dad.
• Dad's the boss, mom said so.
• Father's day is when the whole family takes time out to remember the forgotten man