Daughter Quotes - Page 36

• You're getting old when you see a girl who looks like someone you used to know, and it turns out to be her daughter.

  Mike Connolly

  Girl, Modern Life, Looks

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• Most parents don't worry about a daughter until she fails to show up for breakfast.

  Kin Hubbard

  Worry, Parent, Modern Life

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• You anticipate what I would say, though you cannot know how earnestly I say it, how earnestly I feel it, without knowing my secret heart, and the hopes and fears and anxieties with which it has long been laden. Dear Doctor Manette, I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disinterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, I love her.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Heart, Doctors

  charles dickens (1868). “a tale of two cities”, p.122

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• It was a dagger in the haughty father's heart, an arrow in his brain, to see how the flesh and blood he could not disown clung to this obscure stranger, and he sitting by. Not that he cared to whom his daughter turned, or from whom turned away. The swift sharp agony struck through him, as he thought of what his son might do.

  Charles Dickens

  Father, Heart, Character

  Charles Dickens (1858). “Dombey and Son ... With frontispiece by H. K. Browne”, p.52

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• It is not in the bright, happy day, but only in the solemn night, that other worlds are to be seen shining in their long, long distances. And it is in sorrow - the night of the soul - that we see farthest, and know ourselves natives of infinity, and sons and daughters of the Most High.

  William Mountford

  Distance, Son, Night

  William Mountford (1858). “Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life”, p.379

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• I don't know so much about my boys, but my girls, they all work with me. They know how to work. My daughters know it's not done till it's done, even if it's three or four in the morning. I don't want them to grow up with entitlement.

  Marie Osmond

  Girl, Morning, Growing Up

  "Marie Osmond will never get over son's suicide, cried when daughter said she was gay". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.foxnews.com. April 4, 2013.

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• I was so honored when Diane Sawyer named me "Person of the Week," and like I told her, "Diane, I love my daughter." I cried when I found out when she told me she was gay when she was 17 because of the judgment.

  Marie Osmond

  Gay, Judgment, Week

  "Marie Osmond will never get over son's suicide, cried when daughter said she was gay". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.foxnews.com. April 4, 2013.

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• My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.

  Rose Kennedy

  Father, Conservative, Innovators

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• Besides, I'd heard too many Karen Carpenter tales at Gladstone PTA meetings, and they often took the form of boasts. The prestigious diagnosis of anorexia seemed much coveted not only by the students but by their mothers, who would compete over whose daughter ate less. No wonder the poor girls were a mess.

  Lionel Shriver

  Girl, Mother, Anorexia

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.301, Counterpoint Press

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• Gargantua, at the age of four hundred four score and forty- four years begat his son Pantagruel, from his wife, named Badebec, daughter of the King of the Amaurotes in Utopia, who died in child-birth: because he was marvelously huge and so heavy that he could not come to light without suffocating his mother.

  Francois Rabelais

  Death, Mother, Kings

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• My library is my kingdom, and here I try to make my rule absolute-shutting off this single nook from wife, daughter and society. Elsewhere I have only a verbal authority, and vague. Unhappy is the man, in my opinion, who has no spot at home where he can be at home to himself-to court himself and hide away.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Home, Men, Self

  Michel de Montaigne (1956). “Autobiography: Comprising the Life of the Wisest Man of His Times ...”

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• Don't send your kids to Baylor. And don't send your kids to [Texas] A&M... Texas A&M used to be a conservative university. It's lost all of its conservatism.... My daughter went there. You know, she had horrible experiences with coed dorms and guys who spent the weekends in the rooms with girls.

  Tom DeLay

  Girl, Kids, Weekend

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• Woman is the daughter of falsehood, a sentinel of hell, the enemy of peace.

  John of Damascus

  Scary, Enemy, Hell

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• One of my daughters told me the other day, "Kevin Hart is funnier than you, Daddy." I told her, "Does Kevin Hart make you pancakes?"

  Chris Rock

  Daddy, Doe, Kevin

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• You need to try to find a way to humanize your villains. Genuine villains, in real life, still have mothers and daughters and sisters, and they fall in love. They don't walk around with a big sign saying, "Bad guy," on their head. They think they're good guys. If you can play that, I think it makes it more interesting.

  Mark Strong

  Mother, Falling In Love, Real

  Source: collider.com

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• My daughter is a fan of mine but she doesn't want to be too obvious about it because I'm her mum and it's not cool.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Fans, Want, Obvious

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I think that my life changed at 50. Many things happened. Menopause, the end of youth and my daughter died that year after being a whole year in a coma. So I think that I changed and I became an elder at 50.

  Isabel Allende

  Life Changing, Thinking, Years

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• As long as we have all these conflicts, it is the women who will continue to suffer, so that is one reason why I guess as women we should really work for peace, because we know how painful wars can be to us and our daughters.

  Wangari Maathai

  War, Long, Suffering

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I told [my daughter Amy] at an early age that she had a good ear. But I didn't influence her music much. She's pretty much developed her style on her own, and she's a talented songwriter.

  Mose Allison

  Style, Age, Ears

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. April 2, 2010.

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• I sort of have a dark, twisted, offbeat way of writing, which I see coming up in my kids. It's funny, on Halloween, one of my daughters said, "Halloween isn't supposed to be happy, dad, it's supposed to be dark. " No smiling pumpkins at the Sixx household!

  Nikki Sixx

  Dad, Halloween, Kids

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, music.avclub.com. November 8, 2007.

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• Praise is the daughter of present power.

  Jonathan Swift

  Praise

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.897, Delphi Classics

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• I will have no Parsons around me but such as drink deep, ride to Hounds and caress the Wives and Daughters of their Parishioners.A Virtuous Parson does nothing to test or exercise the Faith of his Flock.

  Aldous Huxley

  Faith, Exercise, Wife

  Aldous Huxley (1983). “After Many a Summer Dies the Swan”, Harpercollins

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• The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, and so are you.

  Elie Wiesel

  Mother, Teacher, Father

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• It is the essence of poetry to spring, like the rainbow daughter of Wonder, from the invisible, to abolish the past, and refuse all history.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spring, Past, Essence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1624, Delphi Classics

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• It's a dangerous thing to be married right up to the hilt, like my daughter's husband. The man is at home all day, like a damned soul in hell.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Marriage, Husband, Home

  George Bernard Shaw (2004). “Heartbreak House”, p.162, 1st World Publishing

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