"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

我看到一個小個子男人，雙手長滿了老繭，每天工作十五六個小時。我曾經(jīng)見到，按照字面意思理解，鮮血從他的腳底流出，這個男人來到這里，沒有受過教育，孤零零一個人，不會說英語，就是這個男人，單單以他的言行教會了我所需要知道的一切，關(guān)于信念，關(guān)于辛苦勞作。-- 馬里奧-庫莫

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

父親希望兒子上大學(xué)無外乎兩個理由：(1)自己上過大學(xué);(2)自己沒有上過大學(xué)。

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

1個爸爸比100個校長還頂用。-- 英國諺語

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

我曾經(jīng)向父親傾訴說我無法像其他人一樣做事。爸爸的回答是：孩子，別當(dāng)綿羊，人不喜歡羊，他們吃羊。

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

爸爸是什么樣的人并不重要，重要的是我心目的爸爸是什么樣的人。-- 安妮-賽克頓

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

這就是父親在家中費力不討好的地方 -- 既要養(yǎng)活全家，又受全家敵視。

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

一個男人發(fā)現(xiàn)他在變老，因為他開始像他的父親。-- 加布里埃爾.加西亞.馬爾克斯

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

一個認識到自己不稱職的國王，可以委托授權(quán)或干脆放棄。一個父親卻被無選擇。-- 瑪蓮娜-迪特里希

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry. -- 猶太諺語

當(dāng)爸爸向兒子付出時，兩人都在笑;當(dāng)兒子向爸爸付出時，兩人都在哭。

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

兒子：老爸，結(jié)婚的成本到底多大?爸爸：不知道，兒子。我還在付錢呢。