"It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found 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 equal in this world-so great, so good, so faultless. Try, all of you, to follow in his footsteps and don’t be 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 of all." -- 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 absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years." -- Ernest Hemingway
"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. I saw him once literally 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
"If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact 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
"Be kind to thy father, for when thou wert young,
Who loved thee so fondly as he?
He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue,
And joined in thy innocent glee."
-- Margaret Courtney
编者按：爱你的父亲吧，因为他是那么毫无保留地爱着你。
相关单词：footsteps
footsteps解释：n.脚步（声），一步的距离，足迹；脚步（声）( footstep的名词复数 )；一步的距离；足迹
footsteps例句：
the sound of footsteps on the stairs 楼梯上的脚步声
Their footsteps echoed in the silence. 他们的脚步声在一片寂静中回荡着。
相关单词：absolute
absolute解释：adj.十足的；绝对的；不受任何限制的
absolute例句：
The first year of the course was an absolute doddle.第一年的课程简单极了。
I look upon this as an absolute necessity.我认为这是绝对必要。
相关单词：literally
literally解释：adv.照字面意义，逐字地；确实
literally例句：
He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候，她不走到真正要昏厥了，决不肯坐下来。
相关单词：eloquence
eloquence解释：n.雄辩；口才，修辞
eloquence例句：
I am afraid my eloquence did not avail against the facts.恐怕我的雄辩也无补于事实了。
The people were charmed by his eloquence.人们被他的口才迷住了。
相关单词：bewildered
bewildered解释：a.困惑的
bewildered例句：
She was totally bewildered by his sudden change of mood. 他的情绪突变搞得她全然不知所措。
The big city bewildered the old woman from the countryside. 大城市把乡下来的老奶奶弄糊涂了。
相关单词：innocent
innocent解释：adj.无罪的，清白的；无害的；天真的，单纯的
innocent例句：
I'm not quite so innocent as to believe that.我还不至于简单到相信那种事的地步。
I was very young,and very innocent.我那时非常年轻，幼稚无知。
