Chinese children’s song 只要我長大 Zhi yao wo zhang da As long as I grow up or 哥哥爸爸真偉大 ge ge ba ba zhen wei da Older brother and father are really great: lyrics, pinyin, English translation, Father’s day quotes, and Dance With My Father – Luther Vandross and Celine Dion

只要我長大
Zhi yao wo zhang da
As long as I grow up

or

哥哥爸爸真偉大
ge ge ba ba zhen wei da
Older brother and father are really great

lyrics:

哥哥爸爸真偉大　
ge1 ge5 ba4 ba5 zhen1 wei3 da4
Elder brother and father are really great

名譽照我家
ming2 yu4 zhao4 wo3 jia1
Reputation shines on my family

為國去打仗
wei4 guo2 qu4 da3 zhang4
Go to war for the country
　
當兵笑哈哈
dang1 bing1 xiao4 ha1 ha1
Serving as a soldier laugh out loud

走吧走吧哥哥爸爸
zou3 ba5 zou3 ba5, ge1 ge5 ba4 ba5
Go OK? Go ok? Elder brother and father
　
家事不用你牽掛
jia1 shi4 bu2 yong4 ni3 qian1 gua4
You don’t need to worry about family matters

只要我長大
zhi3 yao4 wo3 zhang3 da4
AS long as I grow up
　
只要我長大
zhi3 yao4 wo3 zhang3 da4
As long as I grow up

Translated by Shu

Father’s day quotes

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

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, “You’re tearing up the grass.” “We’re not raising grass,” Dad would reply. “We’re raising boys.” ~Harmon Killebrew

One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby

Father! – to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth

Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him into that predicament. But a child does owe his father a debt, if Dad, having gotten him into this peck of trouble, takes off his coat and buckles down to the job of showing his son how best to crash through it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland

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

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

It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller

A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. ~Author unknown, commonly attributed to Mark Twain but no evidence has yet been found for this (Thanks, Garson O’Toole!)

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

Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor

There’s something like a line of gold thread running through a man’s words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself. ~John Gregory Brown, Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery, 1994

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge. ~Phyllis Diller

Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

The greatest gift I ever had
Came from God; I call him Dad!
~Author Unknown

Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~Elizabeth Stone

Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons

I don’t care how poor a man is; if he has family, he’s rich. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter

Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown

There’s one sad truth in life I’ve found
While journeying east and west –
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

These quotes come from: http://www.quotegarden.com/dad-day.html

Dance With My Father – Luther Vandross (Lyrics)

Celine Dion – Dance With My Father