A bad father has never a good son.

坏父亲永远不会有好儿子。

A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad.

一个戏剧性的事情，你第一次站起来反抗你的父亲。

A father is a banker provided by nature.

父亲是天生的银行家。

A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be, A father is someone who carries pictures where his money used to be.

父亲是这样的人，他希望他的儿子能像他想要的那样成为一个好男人。

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

父亲总是把他的孩子变成一个小女人。当她长大成人，他又把她转回来。

A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool.

父亲的失望可能是一个非常有力的工具。

A greedy father has thieves for children.

贪心的父亲有偷孩子的贼。

A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.

一个认识到自己无能的国王，可以委托别人代劳，也可以退位。一个父亲什么都不能做。如果只有儿子能看到这种矛盾，他们就会理解这种困境。

A lot of people don't know that my father is black.

很多人不知道我的父亲是黑人。

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

一个男人知道他什么时候变老，因为他开始看起来像他的父亲。

A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.

刚当上父亲的人很快就会发现，他的孩子总是在他上厕所的准确时间来上厕所，好像他需要有人陪着一样。对这位父亲来说，确保浴室隐私的唯一方法就是在加油站刮胡子。

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

一个真正的自然资源保护主义者知道这个世界不是他父亲给的，而是从他的孩子那里借来的。

Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.

埃涅阿斯背着年迈的父亲从特洛伊废墟中走出来，我们也一样，不管我们喜不喜欢，也许即使我们从未见过他们。

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

我父亲付钱让我学的东西，一头是桦树，另一头是字母表。

Along the beach I never collected shells from my father's shore.

在海滩上，我从不从我父亲的海岸收集贝壳。