1.When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born, too of course, but at least for her it's a gradual process. Body and soul, she has nine months to get used to what's happening. She becomes what's happening. But for even the best-prepared father, it happens all at once. On the other side of a plate-glass window, a nurse is holding up something roughly the size of a loaf of bread for him to see for the first time.

當(dāng)一個孩子出生時，一位父親隨之誕生。當(dāng)然一位母親亦隨之誕生，但這對于她來說只是一個漸進的過程。無論身體還是心靈，她都有九個月的時間去習(xí)慣。然后順其自然。但對于一名就算做了萬全準備的父親來說，這也只是一瞬的事情。他站在窗子的另一端，一位護士抱著某個面包大小的東西給他瞧。

--Frederick Buechner, 'Whistling in the Dark'

2.My father was a statesman, I'm a political woman.

我父親是一名政治家，我是一名從政的女人。

My father was a saint. I'm not.

我父親是一個圣人。我不是。

--Indira Gandhi

3. 4 years: My Daddy can do anything!

在我四歲時，我爸爸是萬能的!

7 years: My Dad knows a lot…a whole lot.

在我七歲時，我爸懂很多的……很多很多。

8 years: My father does not know quite everything.

在我八歲時，我父親并非了解所有事情。

12 years: Oh well, naturally Father does not know that either.

在我十二歲時，好吧，我父親也不知道那件事很正常。

14 years: Oh, Father? He is hopelessly old-fashioned.

在我十四歲時，哦，我父親?他已經(jīng)過時的沒救了。

21 years: Oh, that man-he is out of date!

在我二十一歲時，那男人已經(jīng)土的沒邊了!

25 years: He knows a little bit about it, but not much.

在我二十五歲時，他其實懂一些，但不是很多。

30 years: I must find out what Dad thinks about it.

在我三十歲時，我必須問問我爸的看法。

35 years: Before we decide, we will get Dad's idea first.

在我三十五歲時，我們拍板前得征求一下爸的意見。

50 years: What would Dad have thought about that?

在我五十歲時，這事我爸會怎么看呢?

60 years: My Dad knew literally everything!

在我六十歲時，我爸幾乎懂得一切!

65 years: I wish I could talk it over with Dad once more.

在我六十五歲時，我多希望還能跟爸好好談一次。

4. My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

我父親總在說：“當(dāng)你死時，如果你已擁有五個真正的朋友，那么你才算擁有很棒的人生?！?/p>

--Lee Iacocca

5.It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

“父親擁有孩子”比“孩子得到一位真正的父親”簡單的多。

--Pope John XXIII

6.Father, whom I murdered every night but one,

父親，除了某次我每次做夢都想滅掉的人，

That one, when your death murdered me.

那次，你的死訊幾乎讓我覆滅。

--Howard Moss, Elegy for My Father (l. 1-2)

7.Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children.

如果做不到讓孩子喜歡，還是不要做男人為好。

--Richard Henry Dana

8.One night a father overheard his son pray: Dear God, Make me the kind of man my Daddy is.

某晚一位父親聽到自己的兒子祈禱：“上帝啊，讓我變成我爸爸那樣的男人吧?！?/p>

Later that night, the Father prayed, Dear God, Make me the kind of man my son wants me to be.

隨后，那位父親祈禱： “上帝啊，讓我變成我兒所期望成為的男人吧?！?/p>

9.If a son is uneducated, his dad is to blame.

子不教，父之過。

--Chinese proverb

10.When I was a kid, my father told me every day, 'You're the most wonderful boy in the world, and you can do anything you want to.'

在我小時候，我父親每天都對我說：“你是這世上最棒的男孩，你能做任何你想做的事?！?/p>

--Jan Hutchins

11.I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.

我講啊講啊講，用了五十年也沒有教會人們那些我父親通過舉例僅用一周教會我的東西。

--Mario Cuomo

12.My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard.

我父親以前總帶著我和弟弟在院子里玩。

Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass."

媽媽總會出來訓(xùn)道：“草都被你們踩壞了?！?/p>

"We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys."

“我們沒在種草，”爸爸會回答：“我們在養(yǎng)孩子。”

--Harmon Killebrew