1.

Any fool can be a Father, but it takes a real man to be a Daddy!

任何蠢货都能成为父亲，但只有真正的男人才能成为爸爸！

--Philip Whitmore

2.

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

一位父亲能为他的孩子们做的最重要的事就是爱他们的母亲。

3.

Fathers are angels¹ sent from heaven.

父亲们是天国来的天使。

4.

Fathers, be good to your daughters. You are the god and the weight of her world.

父亲们，对你的女儿们好些。你是她们的上帝和世界。

--John Mayor²

5.

Father, I will always be that same boy who stood by the sea and watched you tower over me.

父亲，我永远都会是那个站在海边，看着你像塔一样高过我的那个男孩。

Now I'm older I wanna be the same as you。

现在，我长大了，我会变得和你一样。

--Yellowcard

6.

A father is someone that

父亲是那位——

holds your hand at the fair

在游乐园牵着你的手

makes sure you do what your mother says

确保你做到妈妈的要求

holds back your hair when you are sick

在你虚弱时帮你将发丝别至耳后

brushes that hair when it is tangled³ because mother is too busy

在你发丝打结而妈妈又恰巧很忙时帮你梳开

lets you eat ice cream for breakfast

让你早餐吃冰淇淋

but only when mother is away

但只有在妈妈不在时

he walks you down the aisle⁴

他会带你到走廊上

and tells you everythings gonna be ok.

告诉你一切都会好起来的。

7.

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

我父亲给我了最棒的礼物，这份礼物任何人都可以送给其他人——他相信我。

--Jim Valvano

8.

I've had a hard life, but my hardships⁵ are nothing against the hardships that my father went through in order to get me to where I started.

我有过一段艰难的岁月，但是这段岁月之于我父亲为了引导我站起来重新开始所经历的困难来说，什么都不算。

--Bartrand Hubbard

9.

He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

他并未告诉我怎样生活。他如常生活，然后让我从旁看他，如何去做。

--Clarence Budington Kelland

10.

One father is more than a hundred Schoolmasters.

一父胜过百师。

George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs⁶, 1640

11.

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

父亲总是把他的女孩看作一个小女人。而当她真正成为女人时，在他心中她还是那个小小的女孩。