1. It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

父亲是什么样的人并不重要，重要的是我心目的父亲是什么样的人。

2. I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

我想象不出还有什么比父亲的保护让一个孩子渴求得更强烈。

3. 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.

我曾有过艰难的生活，但是我的艰辛与我父亲努力让我重头再来所经历的艰辛比起来算不了什么。

4. That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all.

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。

5. Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.

有时最贫穷的父亲能留给他的孩子最富有的遗产。

6. Those who trust us educate us.

师者，信其生方可育其人。

7. When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

14岁的时候，我觉得父亲极其无知，我几乎不能忍受和他在一起。但是，等我长到21岁的时候，我惊讶地发现，在过去7年里，他已经学到了那么多东西。

8. By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.

当一个男人意识到他的父亲或许正确的时候，他通常已经有了一个经常认为他错误的儿子。

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

作为一名父亲，他常常将他的小宝贝变成一名小妇人。而当她真正成为一位妇人时，他又将她变回成小宝贝。

10. It is a wise father that knows his own child.

再聪明的父亲也未必了解自己的孩子。