Daughter Quotes - Page 34

• Constancy, far from being a virtue, seems often to be the besetting sin of the human race, daughter of laziness and self-sufficiency, sister of sleep, the cause of most wars and practically all persecutions.

  Freya Stark

  War, Sleep, Race

  Freya Stark (2013). “Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel”, p.113, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• I once dressed up, very badly timed as Steve Irwin's daughter. And I didn't realize he had passed because I hadn't been following the news. I love Bindi Irwin, just the timing was in poor taste.

  Alysia Reiner

  News, Taste, Timing

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• For me, even if I'm not a fan of the band in general or maybe it's not the style of music I want to put on for my daughter and me when we're waking up in the morning, there's always something that I can learn from it. And I think those are the things that are surprising.

  Jon Foreman

  Morning, Thinking, Style

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• My daughter, Lila, is my style critic. She'll say, "No, Mummy, you can't wear that." She's very good. I do trust her instinct.

  Kate Moss

  Style, Instinct, Mummy

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• It's important to see your parents as individuals. As a son or as a daughter you don't stop and think that your parents might have their own expectations, dreams or disappointments.

  Seth Rogen

  Dream, Disappointment, Son

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• When my daughter looks at me, she sees a small old lady. That is because she sees only with her outside eyes. She has no chuming, no inside knowing of things. If she had chuming she would see a tiger lady. And she would have careful fear.

  Amy Tan

  Eye, Knowing, Looks

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club: A Novel”, p.190, Penguin

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• I love my daughter. She and I have shared my body. There is a part of her mind that is a part of mine. But when she was born, she sprang from me like a slippery fish, and has been swimming away ever since.

  Amy Tan

  Swimming, Mind, Body

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.242, Penguin

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• I was raised the Chinese way: I was taught to desire nothing, to swallow other people's misery, to eat my own bitterness. And even though I taught my daughter the opposite, still she came out the same way! Maybe it is because she was born to me and she was born a girl. And I was born to my mother and I was born a girl. All of us are like stairs, one step after another, going up and down, but all going the same way.

  Amy Tan

  Girl, Mother, Opposites

  "Fictional character: An-Mei". "The Joy Luck Club", www.imdb.com. 1993.

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• all daughters, even when most aggravated by their mothers, have a secret respect for them. They believe perhaps that they can do everything better than their mothers can, and many things they can do better, but they have not yet lived long enough to be sure how successfully they will meet the major emergencies of life, which lie, sometimes quite creditably, behind their mothers.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Mother, Lying, Believe

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• I stopped dropping acid for a while after my daughter was born. It's hard to keep an eye on the kid while you're hallucinating.

  Grace Slick

  Kids, Eye, Dropping Acid

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• It is my intention to make no provision herein for my son Christopher or my daughter Christina for reasons which are well known to them.

  Joan Crawford

  Son, Well Known, Intention

  "Fictional character: Joan Crawford". "Mommie Dearest", 1981.

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• Fortune helps the intrepid and abandons the cowards. I am the daughter of a man who did not know of fear. Whatever may come, I am resolved to follow that course until death.

  Caterina Sforza

  Men, Coward, May

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• It is a notable circumstance that mothers who are themselves open to severe comments as to their, moral character, are generally most solicitous as to the virtuous behavior of their daughters.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Mother, Character, Morality

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• The young man who wants to marry happily should pick out a good mother and marry one of her daughters - any one will do.

  J. Ogden Armour

  Marriage, Mother, Men

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• Without religion, man is an atheist, woman is a monster. As daughter, sister, wife and mother, she holds in her hands, under God, the destinies of humanity. In the hours of gloom and sorrow we look to her for sympathy and comfort. Where shall she find strength for trial, comfort for sorrow, save in that gospel which has given a new meaning to the name of "mother," since it rested on the lips of the child Jesus?

  Henry Benjamin Whipple

  Mother, Atheist, Jesus

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 618, 1895.

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• As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.
  As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons.

  Solomon

  Love, Son, Apples

  King Solomon, “The Song Of Songs”

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• Having a [teenage] daughter is like riding a young horse over an unknown steeplechase course. You don't know when to pull up the reins, when to let the horse have its head - or what.

  Grace Kelly

  Horse, Teenage, Riding

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• Daughter of Jove, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour The bad affright, afflict the best!

  Thomas Gray

  Power, Iron, Hours

  Thomas Gray, John Mitford (1816). “The poems, with critical notes; a life of the author; and an essay on his poetry; by the Rev. John Mitford”, p.20

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• Generally if you're a daughter in a Mexican family, no one wants to tell you anything; they tell you the healthy lies about your family.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Lying, Mexican, Healthy

  "PBS NewsHour" with Ray Suarez, www.pbs.org. October 14, 2002.

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• Mothers ... would do anything to steer their daughter the right way. It is frustrating beyond measure for them when a daughter screams, 'You don't understand, and you'll never understand!' The mother stamps her foot in aggravation, but in this case the daughter is right: the mother doesn't understand. She merely remembers, and memory is separate from experience.

  Caitlin Flanagan

  Mother, Memories, Feet

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• [On her troubled relationships with her daughters:] You can acquire enemies. Why give birth to them?

  Joan Fontaine

  Children, Giving, Troubled Relationship

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• There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said Truth is the daughter of Time.
  [Lat., Alius quidam veterum poetarum cuius nomen mihi nunc memoriae non est veritatem temporis filiam esse dixit.]

  Aulus Gellius

  Truth, Names, Remember

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• Our mythology tells us so much about fathers and sons. ... What do we know about mothers and daughters? ... Our power is so oblique, so hidden, so ethereal a matter, that we rarely struggle with our daughters over actual kingdoms or corporate shares. On the other hand, our attractiveness dries as theirs blooms, our journey shortens just as theirs begins. We too must be afraid and awed and amazed that we cannot live forever and that our replacements are eager for their turn, indifferent to our wishes, ready to leave us behind.

  Anne Roiphe

  Mother, Father, Struggle

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• I grew up with an extremely abusive father. As a mother, I wanted to protect my own children from exposure to violence. When I found out one of my daughters was in an abusive relationship, it broke my heart. Finally, she left him ?- but only after his abuse started spreading to the children.

  Ginny Brown-Waite

  Mother, Children, Father

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• I listen to my daughter. I listen to Paula, but I make the decisions. The decision to say goodbye to Cruise was mine.

  Sumner Redstone

  Goodbye, Decision, Listening

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