A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future.
To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
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.
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.
Our daughters are the most precious of our treasures, the dearest possessions of our homes and the objects of our most watchful love.
If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.
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.
A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.
Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.
When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that's happened that day just melts away.
Being sectioned was the best thing that ever happened to me.
Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me.
I was given such a great gift. It's a miracle that never stops amazing me and reminding me to give thanks, every day. Having a wife and daughter gives me a lot more purpose. I was much more selfish before, but now I think about what kind of role model I'll be. I just want to be a better man.
Knots Landing is the best thing that ever happened to me.
Any astronomer can predict with absolute accuracy just where every star in the universe will be at 11.30 tonight. He can make no such prediction about his teenage daughter.
One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter.
As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.
When I say that I love you, I don't say it out of habit or to make conversation. I say it to remind you that you're the best thing that's ever happened to me.
wisdom is like a bottomless pond. You throw stones in and they sink into darkness and dissolve. Her eyes looking back do not reflect anything. I think this to myself even though I love my daughter. She and I have shared the same body. There is a part of her mind that is a part of mine. But when she was born she sprang from me like a slippery fish, and has been swimming away ever since. All her life, I have watched her as though from another shore.
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