“A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns herback again.”

　　—Enid Bagnold

　　“It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I havefound several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.”

　　—Alice Walker

　　“None of you can ever be proud enough of being the child of such a father who has not his equalin this world—so great, so good, so faultless. Try, all of you, to follow in his footsteps¹ and don’tbe discouraged, for to be really in everything like him none of you, I am sure, will ever be. Try,therefore, to be like him in some points, and you will have acquired a great deal.”—Victoria,Queen of England

　　“That is the thankless position of the father in the family—the provider for all, and the enemy ofall.”

　　—J. August Strindberg

　　“It is a wise father that knows his own child.”

　　—William Shakespeare

　　“It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.”???—Anne Sexton“One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.”

　　—English Proverb

　　“To be a successful father...?there’s one absolute² rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for thefirst two years.”??????—Ernest Hemingway“A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.”

　　“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.”??

　　?????????????????????????—Sigmund Freud

　　“I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day. Isaw him once literally³ 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 bythe simple eloquence⁴ of his example.”?

　　??????????????????????????—Mario Cuomo

　　“If the new American father feels bewildered⁵ and even defeated, let him take comfort from thefact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.”???

　　???—Bill Cosby

　　“Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!”????????—Lydia M.

　　Child

　　“父亲总是把他的女儿塑造成一个小女人。当她成了一个真正的女人时，他又不断地指引她前进。”

　　——巴格诺尔德

　　“我不厌其烦地不断寻找父亲的影子。最后，我终于深深地享受并懂得了他的用心良苦。”

　　——爱丽斯·沃克

　　“你可能从来没有因为世界上有这样一位伟大的、完美的父亲而自豪。努力吧，跟随他的脚步，不要气馁，因为你们都还没有达到像他那样的程度。我相信，将来你们会的，至少某一方面有点像他，而且你可以完全做到。”??????——英格兰王后维多利亚“父亲在家里是个吃力不讨好的角色——既要养活全家，又受全家敌视。”????——斯特林堡

　　“聪明的父亲都应该了解他们自己的孩子。”

　　——威廉·莎士比亚

　　“父亲是什么样的人并不重要，重要的是我心目中的父亲是什么样的人。”????——安妮·塞克斯顿

　　“一个父亲比一百个校长还顶用。”——英国谚语“作为一个成功的父亲……有一个绝对遵守的原则：当你有了小孩的时候，在头两年里不要给他们太大的压力。”?????????——海明威

　　“我们知道，当一个人慢慢长大成人的时候，他们开始慢慢变得像他的父亲。”

　　“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。?”??????——弗洛伊德“我看到一个小个子的男人，用他长满老茧的双手，每天工作十五六个小时。我曾经看到，红红的鲜血从他的脚底下流出来。这个男人来到这里，没有受过教育，孤零零一个人，不懂当地语言。就是这个男人，单单以他的言行，教会了我需知道的一切，关于坚强的信念，关于辛苦劳作。”?????

　　——马里奥·库莫

　　“如果一个美国新爸爸感到有所困惑，甚至是被击败，那么，让他欣慰的是，他所做的任何孕育下一代的努力，有50％的概率是正确的。”

　　——比尔·考斯比

　　“幸福，事实上就是一个男人听到许多温柔的声音叫他爸爸！”??????????????——莉迪亚

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