1. it is a wise father that knows his own child. - william shakespeare
再聰明的父親也未必了解自己的孩子。
2. 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——既要養活全家，又受全家敵視。
3. sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance. - ruth e. renkel
有時最貧窮的父親能留給他的孩子最富有的遺產。
4. those who trust us educate us. - t. s. eliot
師者，信其生方可育其人。
5. it doesn"t matter who my father was; it matters who i remember he was. - anne sexton
父親是什麼樣的人並不重要，重要的是我心目的父親是什麼樣的人。
6. when i was a boy of14, my father was so ignorant i could hardly stand to have the old man around. but when i got to be21, i was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. - mark twain
14歲的時候，我覺得父親極其無知，我幾乎不能忍受和他在一起。但是，等我長到21歲的時候，我驚訝地發現，在過去7年裡，他已經學到了那么多東西。
7. i"ve had a hard life, but my hardships are nothing against the hardships that my father went through in order to get me to where i started. - bartrand hubbard
我曾有過艱難的生活，但是我的艱辛與我父親努力讓我重頭再來所經歷的艱辛比起來算不了什麼。
8. by the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he"s wrong. - charles wadsworth
當一個男人意識到他的父親或許正確的時候，他通常已經有了一個經常認為他錯誤的兒子。
9. a father is always making his baby into a little woman. and when she is a woman he turns her back again. - enid bagnold
作為一名父親，他常常將他的小寶貝變成一名小婦人。而當她真正成為一位婦人時，他又將她變回成小寶貝。
10. i cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father"s protection. - sigmund freud
我想像不出還有什麼比父親的保護讓一個孩子渴求得更強烈。
11、so is the will of a living daughter curb’d by the will of a dead father. (a merchant of venice 2)一個活生生的女人的意願，卻被過世的父親的遺囑所限。——《威尼斯商人》
12、i don’t know who my grandfather was：i am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.我不知道我的祖父是誰，我更加關心的是他的孫子將成為什麼樣的人。
13、it is wise father that knows his own child.了解自己孩子的父親是睿智的父親。