1.It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.

不是血肉，而是真心，讓我們成為父與子。

--Johann Schiller

2.Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!

一個男人聽到柔柔地聲音喚他父親是多么有福氣啊!

-- Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836

3.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.

在我還是十四歲男孩時，我總覺得父親太過無知以至于不想再看到這個老男人在身旁出現(xiàn)。但當我快二十一歲時，我吃驚的發(fā)現(xiàn)短短七年他竟然“學”會這么多東西。

--Mark Twain, "Old Times on the Mississippi" Atlantic Monthly, 1874

4.Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.

她雖已不再年輕，有時卻仍思念她的爸爸。

--Gloria Naylor

5.It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.

看著他們長大讓你像殺了你一般。 但我想如果他們不長，你會死得更快。

--Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

6.Are we not like two volumes of one book?

我們不正像是一本書的上下冊嗎?

--Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

7.I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich.

我不介意一個男人有多窮。只要他有家，他就是富有的。

--Colonel Potter

8.A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

一個男人發(fā)現(xiàn)他在變老，因為他開始像他的父親。

--Gabriel Garcia Marquez

9.Don't make a baby if you can't be a father.

如果你當不了一位好父親就不要生孩子。

--National Urban League Slogan

10.A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.

一個男人對兒子的期望通常除了希望將他復制成自己，讓他以這種非凡的模式避免在俗世中失去自我，別無其他。

--Helen Rowland

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

當一個男人有了一個總認為他錯誤的兒子時，他才會意識到或許他的父親是對的。

--Charles Wadworth