"I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example." -- Mario Cuomo

我看到一个小个子男人，双手长满了老茧，每天工作十五六个小时。我曾经见到，按照字面意思理解，鲜血从他的脚底流出，这个男人来到这里，没有受过教育，孤零零一个人，不会说英语，就是这个男人，单单以他的言行教会了我所需要知道的一切，关于信念，关于辛苦劳作。-- 马里奥-库莫

Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn’t. -- L. L. Henderson

父亲希望儿子上大学无外乎两个理由：(1)自己上过大学;(2)自己没有上过大学。

"One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters." -- English Proverb

1个爸爸比100个校长还顶用。-- 英国谚语

I once complained to my father that I didn’t seem to be able to do things the same way other people did. Dad’s advice? ’Margo, don’t be a sheep. People hate sheep. They eat sheep.’ -- Margo Kaufman

我曾经向父亲倾诉说我无法像其他人一样做事。爸爸的回答是：孩子，别当绵羊，人不喜欢羊，他们吃羊。

"It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was." -- Anne Sexton

爸爸是什么样的人并不重要，重要的是我心目的爸爸是什么样的人。-- 安妮-赛克顿

"That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all." -- J. August Strindberg

这就是父亲在家中费力不讨好的地方 -- 既要养活全家，又受全家敌视。

“A man knows when he is growing old,because he begins to look like his father.” -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

一个男人发现他在变老，因为他开始像他的父亲。-- 加布里埃尔.加西亚.马尔克斯

"A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. -Marlene Dietrich

一个认识到自己不称职的国王，可以委托授权或干脆放弃。一个父亲却被无选择。-- 玛莲娜-迪特里希

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry. -- 犹太谚语

当爸爸向儿子付出时，两人都在笑;当儿子向爸爸付出时，两人都在哭。

Son: How much does it cost to get married, Dad? Father: I don’t know son, I’m still paying for it”

儿子：老爸，结婚的成本到底多大?爸爸：不知道，儿子。我还在付钱呢。