My Daughter Quotes - Page 39

• Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.

  Toni Morrison

  Mom, Daughter, Literature

  "Beloved". Book by Toni Morrison, September 1987.

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• I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day. I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young [sons] become men.

  Magic Johnson

  Basketball, Mother, Daughter

  "Magic Johnson pushes HIV awareness". Interview with Dr. Sanjay Gupta, www.cnn.com. November 24, 2004.

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• My own mother fought to make herself more than a possession; she lived her life as a mother who chose when she would have children, and a wife who could earn a living if she so chose. I want my daughters to enjoy that same choice.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Daughter, Mother, Children

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• In my daughter's eyes, I am a hero, I am strong and wise, and I know no fear, but the truth is plain to see, she was sent to rescue me, I see who I want to be, in my daughter's eyes.

  Martina McBride

  Family, Wise, Daughter

  Song: In My Daughter's Eyes, Album: Martina, 2003

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• I do eat well. I try to love my body. That is what I tell my daughter. I say, 'Love every bite of food. Love your body. We're all going to be dead soon.' Actually I don't say that last thing to her.

  Helen Hunt

  Daughter, Mother, Love You

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• I'm a filmmaker who decided to go to culinary school. All I picked up was the fact if I didn't understand what was going on with every single ingredient, I could be qualifying for, like, the lunch food job at my daughter's school.

  Alton Brown

  Mother, Daughter, Jobs

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• My daughter is in love with Adele. She listens to her every day. To see someone with that much passion and soul move a 9-year-old is amazing and it's magical.

  Brandy Norwood

  Daughter, Mother, Moving

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• My daughter is my biggest achievement. She is a little star and my life has changed so much for the better since she came along.

  Denise Van Outen

  Daughter, Mother, Stars

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• My daughter teases me once in a while saying, Remember when you used to be my mother and you had black hair?

  Loni Anderson

  Daughter, Mother, Hair

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• My daughter, unfortunately, is ill, because drug addiction is an illness. She's been fighting it for years.

  Columba Bush

  Daughter, Mother, Fighting

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• The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too.

  Louise Brown

  Mother, Daughter, Clever

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• Make two homes for thyself, my daughter. One actual home . . . and the other a spiritual home which thou are to carry with thee always.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Faith, Daughter, Spiritual

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• I don't want my daughter to think she has to deprive herself to be pretty...It's all about balance and I can teach that best by living it.

  Cindy Crawford

  Daughter, Thinking, Balance

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• My father always would say, "My daughter will go into politics? My daughter will become prime minister", but it's not what I wanted to do. I would say, "No, Papa, I will never go into politics." As I've said before, this is not the life I chose; it chose me ... But I accepted the responsibility and I've never wavered in my commitment.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Life, Daughter, Father

  "Destiny’s daughter". Interview with Ginny Dougary, www.thetimes.co.uk. April 28, 2007.

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• And my daughter said, 'Why are you yelling at us?' and I said, 'I'm trying to discipline you!' And then she looked up at me with her tear-stained eyes and said, 'This is how you teach children, by making them cry.' And it was such a clenching reminder - she won not only the argument, but she won life with that statement. I just burst out laughing, and I think they were so surprised that I burst out laughing, that they did too.

  Stephen Colbert

  Daughter, Children, Eye

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• I've had a lot of unhappiness in my life — and a lot of happiness. Who doesn't? Maybe I've learned enough to be able to guide my daughters.

  Rita Hayworth

  Daughter, Able, I've Learned

  AP report, November 01, 1963.

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• My relationship with my daughter is gonna affect her relationship with men for the rest of her life... Sometimes I'm walking with my daughter. I'm pushing her in the stroller, and sometimes I just pick her up and stare at her, and I realize, my only job in life is to keep her off the pole.

  Chris Rock

  Daughter, Jobs, Men

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• Next time you're about to call your daughter bossy, take a deep breath and say, 'My daughter has executive leadership skills.'

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Daughter, Skills, Next

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• It looks like the kind of thing my daughter would bring back from school art lessons.

  Prince Philip

  Daughter, Art, School

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• For those that say I endanger my child: it's more likely that you will fall while walking on the sidewalk than I will while skating with my daughter.

  Tony Hawk

  Daughter, Children, Fall

  FaceBook post by Tony Hawk from Dec 17, 2012

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• Once you become a mother, your heart is no longer yours...My daughter is the greatest thing I'll ever do in my life.

  Kim Basinger

  Daughter, Mother, Heart

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• To girls and women everywhere, I issue a simple invitation.
  My sisters, my daughters, my friends; find your voice

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

  Girl, Daughter, Simple

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• What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.

  Erica Jong

  Daughter, Freedom, Giving

  Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.49, Penguin

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• I was living as a young single mom. I was 19 when I was divorced, and my daughter was a year old, and I waited tables here three to four nights a week for several years while I was trying to support myself and my daughter and the day I got that acceptance at Harvard Law School was an unforgettable day.

  Wendy Davis

  Mom, Daughter, School

  "ABC’s Jeff Zeleny Conducts Puffy, Shoe-Focused Interview With Wendy Davis". Interview with Paul Bremmer, www.newsbusters.org. July 4, 2013.

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• My daughter, I see more Pharisees among Christians than there were around Pilate.

  Margaret of Cortona

  Faith, Christian, Daughter

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