1.
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
不是血肉，而是真心，让我们成为父与子。
--Johann Schiller
2.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!
一个男人听到柔柔地声音唤他父亲是多么有福气啊！
-- 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.
在我还是十四岁男孩时，我总觉得父亲太过无知以至于不想再看到这个老男人在身旁出现。但当我快二十一岁时，我吃惊的发现短短七年他竟然“学”会这么多东西。
--Mark Twain, "Old Times on the Mississippi" Atlantic Monthly, 1874
4.
Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.
她虽已不再年轻，有时却仍思念她的爸爸。
--Gloria Naylor
5.
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
看着他们长大让你像杀了你一般。 但我想如果他们不长，你会死得更快。
--Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
6.
Are we not like two volumes of one book?
我们不正像是一本书的上下册吗？
--Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
7.
I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich.
我不介意一个男人有多穷。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.
一个男人发现他在变老，因为他开始像他的父亲。
--Gabriel Garcia Marquez
9.
Don't make a baby if you can't be a father.
如果你当不了一位好父亲就不要生孩子。
--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.
一个男人对儿子的期望通常除了希望将他复制成自己，让他以这种非凡的模式避免在俗世中失去自我，别无其他。
--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.
当一个男人有了一个总认为他错误的儿子时，他才会意识到或许他的父亲是对的。
--Charles Wadworth
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