Your Daughter Quotes

I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.(IAGO,ActI,SceneI)

William Shakespeare

Daughter, Two, Beast

'Othello' (1602-4) act 1, sc. 1, l. [117]

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A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.

Gaspard Mermillod

Relationship, Mothers Day, Mom

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Every mother hopes that her daughter will marry a better man than she did, and is convinced that her son will never find a wife as good as his father did.

Martin Andersen Nexø

Mother Daughter, Honesty, Father

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If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Thomas Fuller

Daughter, Honesty, Father

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The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.

Anita Diament

Daughter, Mother, Stronger

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Our daughters are the most precious of our treasures, the dearest possessions of our homes and the objects of our most watchful love.

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

Birthday, Thank You, Mother Daughter

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The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.

Garrison Keillor

Daughter, Fathers Day, Running

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To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.

Euripides

Mother Daughter, Fathers Day, Dad

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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.

Joseph Addison

Birthday, Mother Daughter, Fathers Day

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A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future.

Bruce Barton

Mom, Mother Daughter, Memories

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There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself.

John Gregory Brown

Running, Mother Daughter, Fathers Day

John Gregory Brown (2001). “Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery”, p.68, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

Sophia Loren

Motivational, Family, Mothers Day

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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter.

Joseph Addison

Thank You, Daughter, Children

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My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.

Jodi Picoult

Love, Mothers Day, Beautiful

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Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.

Clementine Paddleford

Inspirational, Strength, Encouraging

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If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?

Milton Berle

Funny, Mothers Day, Hilarious

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If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

Relationship, Birthday, Daughter

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A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

Agatha Christie

Love, Birthday, Family

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A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's.

Princess Diana

Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

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Time flies when you are having fun.

Albert Einstein

Happy Birthday, Daughter, Fun

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A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

Sophia Loren

Mom, Mother, Children

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.

Washington Irving

Best Friend, Family, Mothers Day

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The best place to cry is on a mother's arms.

Jodi Picoult

Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

Victor Hugo

Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (Fantine)”, p.160, Wildside Press LLC

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There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.

Jill Churchill

Inspirational, Leadership, Mothers Day

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