Our Daughter Quotes - Page 7

• Do not allow your daughters to be taught letters by a man, though he be a St. Paul or St. Francis of Assissium. The saints are in Heaven.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Daughter, Teaching, Men

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• I don't think women can have it all. I just don't think so...My husband and I have been married for 34 years, and we have two daughters. And every day you have to make a decision about whether you are going to be a wife or a mother. In fact, many times during the day you have to make those decisions...We co-opted our families to help us. We plan our lives meticulously so we can be decent parents. But if you ask our daughters, I'm not sure they will say that I've been a good mom.

  Indra Nooyi

  Family, Leadership, Mom

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• If my sons are to become the kind of men our daughters would be pleased to live among, attention to domestic details is critical.The hostilities that arise over housework...are crushing the daughters of my generation....Change takes time, but men's continued obliviousness to home responsibilities is causing women everywhere to expire of trivialities.

  Mary Blakely

  Crush, Daughter, Home

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• [Addressing a group of military officers:] Are you a feminist? Oh ... wrong question. I should have asked, 'Are you a father?' When your daughter loses her job to a clearly less-qualified man, you will discover you are a feminist.

  Estelle Ramey

  Daughter, Jobs, Father

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• When President Clinton starts talking about what is moral, as he did when recommending a national law banning human cloning, it's time for us to lock up our daughters.

  Cal Thomas

  Daughter, Talking, Law

  Cal Thomas, Wayne Stayskal (2001). “The Wit & Wisdom of Cal Thomas”

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• Both of our daughters, Debbie and Bonnie, are also cancer survivors.

  David Wilkerson

  Daughter, Mother, Cancer

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• Women without children are also the best of mothers,often, with the patience,interest, and saving grace that the constant relationship with children cannot always sustain. I come to crave our talk and our daughters gain precious aunts. Women who are not mothering their own children have the clarity and focus to see deeply into the character of children webbed by family. A child is fortuante who feels witnessed as a peron,outside relationships with parents by another adult.

  Louise Erdrich

  Daughter, Mother, Children

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• You should have called us. Desmond would have picked you up.' 'No I wouldn't,' Valkyrie's dad said, stepping into earshot. 'Sorry, Fletcher, but I had important fatherly duties to take care of, which included eating breakfast, showering, and finding my trousers. Of those three, I only managed two. Without looking down, can you guess which one I missed?'... Fletcher smiled back. 'I just want to borrow Stephanie for a moment.' 'Take our daughter,' Valkryie's dad said, waving a hand airily. 'We have another one now.

  Derek Landy

  Daughter, Sorry, Dad

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• ....called to give you the good news. I asked our daughter to marry me and she accepted. Congratulations, I will officially your son-in-law. Now, do you want me to call you zmum straightaway, or wait until after the wedding?" I lew through the ir in a dive tht finally tackled him, wrenching the phone away. Bones was laughing so hard he had to breathe to get it all out. "Mom? Are you there? Mom.....?" "You might want to give her a moment, Kitten. I believe she fainted.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Mom, Daughter, Congratulations

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• … our sons must become men – such men as we hope our daughters, born and unborn, will be pleased to live among. Our sons will not grow into women. Their way is more difficult than that of our daughters, for they must move away from us, without us. Hopefully ours have what they have learned from us, and a howness to forge into their own image.

  Audre Lorde

  Daughter, Moving, Son

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.73, Crossing Press

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• Now if you're not „hot”, you are expected to work on it until you are. It's like when you renovate a house and you're legally required to leave just one of the original walls standing. If you don't have a good body you have down to a neutral shape, then bolt on some breast implants, replace your teeth, dye you hair, and call yourself the Playmate of the Year. How do we survive this? How do we teach our daughters and our gay sons that they are good enough the way they are? We have to lead by example.

  Tina Fey

  Daughter, Wall, Son

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• One of the greatest things about daughters is how they adored you when they were little; how they rushed into your arms with electric delight and demanded that you watch everything they do and listen to everything they say. Those memories will help you through less joyous times when their adoration is replaced by embarrassment or annoyance and they don't want you to see what they are doing or hear what they are saying. And yet, you will adore your daughter every day of her life, hoping to be valued again, but realizing how fortunate you were even if you only get what you already got.

  Michael Josephson

  Daughter, Memories, Dad

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• Fatherhood is telling your daughter that Michael Jackson loves all his fans, but has special feelings for the ones who eat broccoli.

  Bill Cosby

  Daughter, Vegetables, Feelings

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• How do you build a relationship when you've hardly shared a word but suddenly share a child? How do you love a daughter you don't see for nearly two years? When does she become your daughter? How does she become your daughter?

  Boris Becker

  Sports, Daughter, Mother

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• I have money, fame, a happy wife, our daughter Nell.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Daughter, Mother, Wife

  "Zen and the art of Robert Pirsig". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2006.

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• I like to look at scenarios and see how people interact with each other. That's why I'm an actor because I try to recreate that. Since our daughter joined us the spectrum has widened.

  Colin Hanks

  Mother, Daughter, People

  "Colin Hanks gets "Lucky" with killer film, TV show". Interview with Zorianna Kit, www.reuters.com. July 15, 2011.

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• Books can be possessive, can't they? You're walking around in a bookstore and a certain one will jump out at you, like it had moved there on its own, just to get your attention. Sometimes what's inside will change your life, but sometimes you don't even have to read it. Sometimes it's a comfort just to have a book around. Many of these books haven't even had their spines cracked. 'Why do you buy books you don't even read?' our daughter asks us. That's like asking someone who lives alone why they bought a cat. For company, of course.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Daughter, Book, Cat

  Sarah Addison Allen (2008). “The Sugar Queen”, p.180, Bantam

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• I believe our legacy will be defined by the accomplishments and fearless nature by which our daughters and sons take on the global challenges we face. I also wonder if perhaps the most lasting expression of one's humility lies in our ability to foster and mentor our children.

  Naveen Jain

  Daughter, Mother, Children

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• Our daughter was born in Chicago, and she's already showing it. The temperature has to be approaching zero for her to wear a hat.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Daughter, Mother, Zero

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• Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.

  Stokely Carmichael

  Beautiful, Daughter, Home

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• Just imagine what would happen if your daughter was standing there. What would you do, how would you fight? So you have to join hands, you have to take each child as your daughter. Soon you will feel their sorrow and then you will feel the strength that comes out of you to protect them.

  Anuradha Koirala

  Strength, Daughter, Children

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• What will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than our Saxon fathers?

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Daughter, Father, Men

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• I would ask every man and every woman who's had the blessing of having children, 'Would you deny your son or your daughter the ecstasy of finding someone to love?' To love someone takes a lot of courage. So how much more is one challenged when the love is of the same sex and the laws say, 'I forbid you from loving this person'?

  Maya Angelou

  Daughter, Sex, Children

  "Maya Angelou Called On New York State Senators To Back Gay Marriage In 2009" by Curtis M. Wong, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2014.

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• Would you deny your son or your daughter the ecstasy of finding someone to love?

  Maya Angelou

  Daughter, Son, Finding Someone

  "Maya Angelou Called On New York State Senators To Back Gay Marriage In 2009" by Curtis M. Wong, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2014.

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• The future must not belong to those who bully women. It must be shaped by girls who go to school and those who stand for a world where our daughters can live their dreams just like our sons.

  Barack Obama

  Girl, Daughter, Dream

  Obama’s Speech to the United Nations General Assembly, www.nytimes.com. September 25, 2012.

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