Daughter Quotes - Page 25

• 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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• 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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• 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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• I will tell you that I had a mother last night come up to me here in Tampa, Florida, after the debate. She told me that her little daughter took that vaccine, that injection, and she suffered from mental retardation thereafter.

  Michele Bachmann

  Mother, Stupid, Night

  "Matt Lauer Urges Bachmann to Bash Perry; NBC Debate Coverage Promotes GOP Infighting". Transcript of the Interview with Matt Lauer, www.mrc.org. September 13, 2011.

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• With a little hoard of maxims preaching down a daughter's heart.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Heart, Littles, Preaching

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.118, Cambridge University Press

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• If I wanted to lie, or if we wanted to lie, if we wanted to exaggerate, I wouldn't use my daughter to do so. I could easily buy other people to do it.

  Saud Nasser Al-Saud Al-Sabah

  Lying, People, Use

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• Fury is an entirely appropriate response to a system that sends young people to kill other young people in a war that never should have been waged. Yet the American Right is forever trying to pathologise anger as something menacing and abnormal, dismissing war opponents as hateful and, in the latest slur, "wild-eyed". This is much harder to do when victims of wars begin to speak for themselves: no one questions the wildness in the eyes of a mother or father who has just lost a son or daughter, or the fury of a soldier who knows that he is being asked to kill, and to die, needlessly.

  Naomi Klein

  Mother, Father, War

  "The grieving parents who might yet bring Bush down". www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2004.

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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 daughters are here, and that makes me feel good. And with the spirit of Nick Ashford, I think I'll make it through. I have no choice.

  Valerie Simpson

  Mother, Thinking, Choices

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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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• . . . this oligarchy of sex, which makes fathers, brothers, husbands and sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters of every household - which ordains all men sovereigns, all women subjects, carries dissension, discord, and rebellion into every house of the nation.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Mother, Brother, Sex

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• An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Marriage, Mom, Wife

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.40, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Under patriarchy, no woman is safe to live her life, or to love, or to mother children. Under patriarchy, every woman is a victim, past, present, and future. Under patriarchy, every woman's daughter is a victim, past, present, and future. Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Mother, Children, Son

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• Oh, high is the price of parenthood, and daughters may cost you double. You dare not forget, as you thought you could, that youth is a plague and a trouble.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Mom, Cost, May

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• I have transmitted genetic material, all I have to do between my daughters' birth and my death is to decorate my life.

  Peter Greenaway

  My Daughter, Birth, Materials

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• I can't just sit on my daughter's bed and just say 'n---' all night and then put her to sleep. I just ain't gonna do that... I told the girls that these boys are racists, and they're not nice boys. But I think we can still enjoy the stories about the fishin' and the tradin'.

  Louis C. K.

  Girl, Nice, Sleep

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• What I talked about in it was the idea of celebrity, and celebrities being treated like blacks were in the '60s, having no rights, and the fact that people can slander your name. I said that in the toast. And I had to say this in a position where I, from the art world, am marrying Kim. And how we're going to fight to raise the respect level for celebrities so that my daughter can live a more normal life. She didn't choose to be a celebrity. But she is. So I'm going to fight to make sure she has a better life.

  Kanye West

  Art, Crazy, Fighting

  "Kanye West Weighs In On 45-Minute Wedding Toast, Marrying Kim and Being a Blowfish". abcnews.go.com. July 21, 2014.

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• I would tell him that shoot me but first listen to me. And I would tell him that education is my right and education is the right of your daughter and son a well. And I'm speaking up for them. I'm speaking up for peace.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Son, Speaking Up, Firsts

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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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• I have daughters and I have sons./When one of them lays a hand/On my shoulder, shining fish/Turn suddenly in the deep sea.

  Robert Bly

  Son, Hands, Sea

  "I have daughters and I have sons". Poem by Robert Bly, www.newyorker.com. April 19, 2010.

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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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• Mother's Day is coming up soon. If you're lucky enough to still have your mother, tell her you're grateful to her [...] at some point, we must forgive each other for being flawed human beings. Many of us have trouble putting love or gratitude into words, but keep in mind that out actions always reveal our feelings. Always.

  Cassandra King

  Mother, Gratitude, Grateful

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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 began telling stories as a volunteer in my daughters' school. But I grew up hearing stories from Cuban and Southern storytellers, and I learned a great deal by just being quiet and listening.

  Carmen Agra Deedy

  Mother, School, Volunteer

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