My Daughter Quotes - Page 8

• ~[My daughter is] very artistic, but she's also a perfectionist. I feel a little bad: That's the part I see in her that's like me - and you don't want them to have that at age 5.~

  Courteney Cox

  Daughter, Parenting, Age

  5 Copy quote

• My daughter, who goes to Stuyvesant High School only blocks from the World Trade Center, thinks we should fly an American flag out our window. Definitely not, I say: The flag stands for jingoism and vengeance and war.

  Katha Pollitt

  Daughter, Block, War

  Katha Pollitt (2007). “Virginity or Death!: And Other Social and Political Issues of Our Time”, p.46, Random House

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I look at my daughter, who's 24, she is much more confident than I ever was and her expectations are higher. But I worry that there is a backlash brewing against progress on equality.

  Frances O'Grady

  Daughter, Mother, Expectations

  4 Copy quote

• There was a Young Person in pink, Who called out for something to drink; But they said, 'O my daughter, there's nothing but water!' Which vexed that Young Person in pink.

  Edward Lear

  Daughter, Water, Drink

  Edward Lear (1994). “Complete Nonsense”, p.98, Wordsworth Editions

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Since my daughter is only half-Jewish, could she go in the water up to her knees?

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Daughter, Humor

  5 Copy quote

• Many folks have asked me, 'How do you do it and why have you sacrificed so much to do this work?' The answer comes easy. I look at my daughter and find hope in that she is living in a world of struggle, of social and political movement. She and the other five-year-olds will grow up in a more just, more equitable world. She motivates me.

  Lateefah Simon

  Daughter, Growing Up, Struggle

  7 Copy quote

• I think back to the day I drove Michelle and a newborn Malia home from the hospital nearly 11 years ago - crawling along, miles under the speed limit, feeling the weight of my daughter's future resting in my hands. I think about the pledge I made to her that day: that I would give her what I never had - that if I could be anything in life, I would be a good father. I knew that day that my own life wouldn't count for much unless she had every opportunity in hers.

  Barack Obama

  Daughter, Fathers Day, Dad

  "Obama: 'I have been an imperfect father'" by Barack Obama, www.today.com. May 27, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm probably the most uncool guy that [my daughters] know-as far as they are concerned anyway-'cause I'm Dad. I mean dads just aren't cool-especially when I dance! They don't want me to dance.

  Tim McGraw

  Fathers Day, Daughter, Dad

  4 Copy quote

• I don't really understand that process called reincarnation but if there is such a thing I'd like to come back as my daughter's dog.

  Leonard Cohen

  Daughter, Mother, Dog

  "Leonard Cohen: 'All I've got to put in a song is my own experience'" by Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2012.

  88 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't think these women are stupid. I think they're selling a personality that's very marketable: Wouldn't it be fun if we were all gorgeous and didn't have a care? But creating a cultural icon out of someone who goes, I'm stupid, isn't it cute? makes me want to throw daggers at them! I want to say to them, My grandma did not fight for what she fought for, and my mother did not fight for what she fought for, so you can start telling women it's fun to be stupid. Saying that to young women, little girls, my daughter? It's not OK.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Cute, Girl, Daughter

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• Angelina is my daughter and I am always wishing her the best.

  Jon Voight

  Daughter, Mother, Wish

  7 Copy quote

• Motherhood was the beginning of my own journey asking the question, 'Why am I here?' I had to stop and think: What am I doing to teach my daughter? What do I believe in?

  Madonna Ciccone

  Daughter, Believe, Motherhood

  7 Copy quote

• He says, he loves my daughter;
  I think so too; for never gaz'd the moon
  Upon the water, as he'll stand and read,
  As 'twere, my daughter's eyes: and, to be plain,
  I think, there is not half a kiss to choose,
  Who loves another best.

  William Shakespeare

  Daughter, Best Love, Love You

  William Shakespeare, William Harness, William Gilmore Simms (1842). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare”, p.290

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I want a different world. One where I don't wake up thinking I'm so lucky to be able to feed my daughter, and able to give people a clean drink of water. I don't want images of starving babies at the breast in my mind. I want that to change. And if I want that, I had better do something about it.

  Emma Thompson

  Daughter, Baby, Helping Others

  54 Copy quote

• My daughter comes with me everywhere. I don't leave her behind. But it is hard. I mean, I think any working mother will tell you that what kind of falls by the wayside, you know, are the hours of sleep that you wish you had, and all that. I feel incredibly lucky and blessed, but I do sometimes feel like that exorcist lady!

  Kate Beckinsale

  Daughter, Mother, Blessed

  8 Copy quote

• I don't want my daughter to be educated. I think women should just be decorative.

  Richard Brautigan

  Daughter, Mother, Thinking

  7 Copy quote

• I said this to my daughter, if you don't practice the guitar, when you get older you wouldn't be able to play it. It's that simple. If you want to play the guitar, you put a half hour in everyday, but you have to do it.

  Woody Allen

  Daughter, Fun, Simple

  "Woody Allen Interview – Vicky Cristina Barcelona". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 15, 2008.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Your kids need your love and attention, and being able to devote myself to them is very fulfilling. As I get older, spending time with my daughters makes things much easier. You learn to put your ego aside.

  Bruce Willis

  Daughter, Dad, Kids

  "Bruce Willis On Aging And Fatherhood The Second Time Around". Interview with Richard Aldhous, www.everythingzoomer.com. June 24, 2013.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Every time I think about changing a diaper, I run a little bit harder and a little bit faster to make sure I can afford a nanny until my daughter's old enough to take care of that herself.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Daughter, Running

  13 Copy quote

• I don't want to feel like a failure to my daughter. She's the best thing I've ever done. Buffy - pretty great and all, but Charlotte's way better.

  Sarah Michelle Gellar

  Daughter, Mother, Done

  "'Ringer's' Sarah Michelle Gellar Laughs About Playing Twins" by Lindsay Powers, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 13, 2011.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't want to live in a world where I could say to my daughter, 'There used to be turtles that swam in the ocean.'

  Angela Kinsey

  Daughter, Mother, Ocean

  "The Office ‘s Angela Kinsey Gets Serious About Sea Turtles" by Tamar Abrams, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 16, 2010.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have a great career, and I have my daughter. Sio what I don't have is not as important to as what I do have.

  Padma Lakshmi

  Mom, Daughter, Careers

  4 Copy quote

• At some point it's very important to me that my daughter is able to experience life and run through the sprinklers and have slumber parties and trust and live and do all the things that any child should be able to do.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Daughter, Running, Children

  "Beyonce wants slumber parties, normal childhood for baby Blue Ivy". www.today.com. February 12, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• After filming I like to go home and lie down with my daughter and have a glass of wine so I don't really socialize with the other actors.

  Izabella Scorupco

  Daughter, Mother, Lying

  4 Copy quote

• All I know is that once you have children, you put them before anything you're feeling or going through. Today, my daughter walked into the room and I said, 'I love you, baby,' and she said, 'Well, I don't like you,' and I said to my wife, 'The meaner she is to me, the more I love her.'

  Jeremy Sisto

  Daughter, Mother, Baby

  4 Copy quote