Daughter Quotes - Page 14

• DELUSION, n. The father of a most respectable family, comprising Enthusiasm, Affection, Self-denial, Faith, Hope, Charity and many other goodly sons and daughters.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Family, Faith, Father

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.43, 谷月社

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• I love my snaggle fangs. They give me character and character is sexy. People comment, but the only person who ever told me to fix them was my mom ... I just went my own way, like daughters do.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Mom, Sexy, Character

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• Because mothers make us, because they map our emotional terrain before we even know we are capable of having an emotional terrain, they know just where to stick the dynamite. With a few small power plays - a skeptical comment, the withholding of approval or praise - a mother can devastate a daughter. Decades of subtle undermining can stunt a daughter, or so monopolize her energy that she in effect stunts herself. Muted, fearful, riddled with self-doubt, she can remain trapped in daughterhood forever, the one place she feels confident she knows the rules.

  Rebecca Walker

  Mother, Emotional, Self

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• History is the daughter of time.

  Lucien Febvre

  History

  Lucien Febvre (1982). “The Problem of Unbelief in the Sixteenth Century: The Religion of Rabelais”, p.2, Harvard University Press

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• The other day my daughter said, ‘Daddy, guess who my favorite Stroke is?’ And I thought she was going to say me because, oh man, she loves me so much, and she said: ‘Julian! Because he’s the singer

  Nick Valensi

  Men, Daddy, Singers

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• I think there’s a lot of threshold weeping. Like, am I doing this? Am I really wearing this out in the world? My daughter is very much like that. She will put clothes on and her clothes just make her beside herself. They make her so sad sometimes. And you do realize you feel betrayed sometimes by your own clothing. You put something on that usually protects you and makes you OK, and sometimes you’re just not fit for the world and even your best pants can’t overcome that feeling for you.

  Heidi Julavits

  Thinking, Clothes, Feelings

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• I’ve always had this idea that if you’re going to try something, if you’re going to expend that first big block of effort and energy to participate - whether it’s riding the Tour de France or applying for a new job or coaching your daughter’s soccer team - you might as well go ahead and give whatever else it takes to win, I mean, I’m going to be there no matter what, right? Why not go ahead and get the victory?

  Johan Bruyneel

  Soccer, Jobs, Team

  Johan Bruyneel, Bill Strickland (2009). “We Might As Well Win: On the Road to Success with the Mastermind Behind Eight Tour de FranceVictories”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Treat your date with the respect and purity you hope your future spouse will have. Keep in mind how you will expect a young man to treat your daughter one day. By listening to your conscience in this way, you'll have a good idea of where to draw the line.

  Jason Evert

  Men, Ideas, Listening

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• Daughters could survive a powerful mother, but boys found it almost impossible. Such boys were often severely damaged and spent the rest of their lives running away from their mothers, or from anybody who remotely reminded them of their mothers; either that, or they became their mothers, in a desperate, misguided act of psychological self defence.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Mother, Running, Powerful

  FaceBook post by Alexander McCall Smith from Dec 12, 2016

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• Them Jews aren't going to let (Obama) talk to me. I told my baby daughter, that he'll talk to me in five years when he's a lame duck, or in eight years when he's out of office. ...They will not let him talk to somebody who calls a spade what it is.

  Jeremiah Wright

  Baby, Eight, Years

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• By the margin of fair Zurich's waters Dwelt a youth, whose fond heart, night and day, For the fairest of fair Zurich's daughters In a dream of love melted away.

  Charles Dance

  Dream, Heart, Night

  Charles Dance (1833). “The Beulah spa: a burletta in two acts”, p.35

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• India's sex ratio is 1000 boys for 940 girls. Who creates this disparity? It isn't God. Don't fill your coffers by sacrificing the mother's womb. People feel that sons will take care of them when they are old. But I have seen aged parents in old-age homes. I have seen families where one daughter serves parents more than five sons.

  Narendra Modi

  Girl, Mother, Sex

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• My youngest daughter sings. She's going to be very good. She's graduated from Music School and she's been working down around and getting her feet wet, you know. I had her out with me for a year just showing her the ropes a little bit, but she's going to be all right.

  Billy Eckstine

  Mother, School, Feet

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• What's really fun is seeing mothers bringing their daughters to the shows. And the best part is the mothers know they don't have to worry about sexual innuendo in the songs. The shows are family shows.

  Peter Noone

  Mother, Song, Fun

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• There is a point when you aren't as much mom and daughter as you are adults and friends.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Friendship, Family, Mom

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• One of the best things about being [joyfully] retired is the freedom to travel when I want. When my son and daughter-in-law asked me to stay at their house for a week to house-sit while they were away on vacation, I had the freedom to do it.

  Helen A. Rosburg

  Travel, Son, Vacation

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• The depressed don't simply need to feel better. They need a Redeemer who says, "Take heart, my son, my daughter; what you really need has been supplied. Life no longer need be about your goodness, success, righteousness, or failure. I've given you something infinitely more valuable than good feelings: your sins are forgiven."

  Elyse Fitzpatrick

  Depression, Heart, Son

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• Mothers are only human, you turn it over to God and then you just wing it.

  Jo-Ann Mapson

  Mother, Wings, Turns

  Jo-Ann Mapson (2010). “Solomon's Oak”, p.262, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• As far as this citizen is concerned, the decision to commit men and women, who are also sons and daughters, to combat is an extraordinarily important one, and not to be done to just feel good; to be done to absolutely accomplish a mission.

  Richard Armitage

  Mother, Son, Men

  9/11 Commission Hearings, www.washingtonpost.com. March 24, 2004.

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• I had to live and breathe Margaret Thatcher for a few months. I totally engulfed myself in her life. I read her autobiography and a biography, 'The Grocer's Daughter.'

  Alexandra Roach

  Mother, Biographies, Months

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• We all need each other. Sons of god need daughters of god, daughters of god need sons of god.

  Carole M. Stephens

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Son

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• The intimate and the infinite are tangled together in this incandescent book, lit by Aristotle’s bright spark of a daughter. Lucid even in nightmare, The Sweet Girl slips sideways around the philosopher to examine the lives of girls and women when we were not yet human.

  Marina Endicott

  Girl, Sweet, Book

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• Man's highest joy is in victory: to conquer one's enemies; to pursue them; to deprive them of their possessions; to make their beloved weep; to ride on their horses; and to embrace their wives and daughters.

  Genghis Khan

  Horse, Men, Wife

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• Fervor is a fire that makes things boil and grow hot, just as fire causes water to boil. It is, properly speaking, charity on fire, and that is what you should have because a Daughter without Charity is like a body without a soul.

  St. Vincent

  Fire, Should Have, Water

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• It reassures parents that we are aware of the employment difficulty and that we are doing as much as we can to provide information to their sons and daughters, and to help them deal with the post-graduate reality.

  Michael Parkinson

  Son, Reality, Parent

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