Daughter Quotes - Page 19

• Atheism is an effect of that knowledge [a poll showed atheists knew more about religion than anyone else], not a lack of knowledge. I gave a bible to my daughter. That is how you make atheists.

  David Silverman

  Atheist, Religion, Atheism

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• When you decide to become an opera singer, it's a commitment that allows nothing else to interfere. Even your family - and I have a young daughter - has to take second place.

  Lucy Lawless

  Commitment, Opera, Singers

  "Television Q&A". St. Petersburg Times, April 11, 1998.

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• A few nights later, I secretly hope that I might be a genius. Why else can no amount of sleeping pills fell my brain? But in the morning my daughter asks me what a cloud is and I cannot say.

  Jenny Offill

  Morning, Sleep, Night

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• I want to set the example my mother set for me: a strong female role model who faces challenges takes risks and conquers fears. I want my children to know that as women they can do whatever they dream as long as they believe in themselves. More than anything it is my responsibility to instill in my daughters the knowledge that they can have a family and everything else too.

  Mireya Mayor

  Mother, Dream, Strong

  Mireya Mayor (2011). “Pink Boots and a Machete: My Journey From NFL Cheerleader to National Geographic Explorer”, p.299, National Geographic Books

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• This is all for Naieya (daughter), man. I will be a champion one day, I promised that to her.....And now that I have this opportunity I can't let her down.

  Deontay Wilder

  Opportunity, Men, Champion

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• I would turn the question around to people, especially those reporters who wrote some of those articles. Are you advocating our daughters shouldn't learn self-defense? Because that's what was taught at that rally.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Self, People

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• "Children, don't speak so coarsely," said Mr Webster, who had a vague notion that some supervision should be exercised over his daughters' speech, and that a line should be drawn, but never knew quite when to draw it. He had allowed his daughters to use his library without restraint, and nothing is more fatal to maidenly delicacy of speech than the run of a good library.

  Robertson Davies

  Running, Children, Library

  "Tempest-Tost" by Robertson Davies, (Part 1), 1951.

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• There was an Old Man of Messina, Whose daughter was named Opsibeena; She wore a small wig, and rode out on a pig, To the perfect delight of Messina.

  Edward Lear

  Men, Pigs, Perfect

  Edward Lear (2012). “Nonsense Poems”, p.16, Courier Corporation

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• I shall clasp my hands together and bow to the corners of the world. May your villages remain ignorant of tax collectors, and may your sons be many and ugly and strong and willing workers, and may your daughters be few and beautiful and excellent providers of love gifts from eminent families that live very far away, and may your lives be blessed by the beauty that has touched mine. Farewell.

  Barry Hughart

  Love, Beautiful, Strong

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• Daughter of Jove, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour The bad affright, afflict the best!

  Thomas Gray

  Power, Iron, Hours

  Thomas Gray, John Mitford (1816). “The poems, with critical notes; a life of the author; and an essay on his poetry; by the Rev. John Mitford”, p.20

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• From the first moment a woman dared to speak that hope - dared to believe that the American Dream was meant for her too - ordinary women have taken on extraordinary odds to give their daughters the chance for something else; for a life more equal, more free, and filled with more opportunity than they ever had. In so many ways we have succeeded, but in so many areas we have much work left to do.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Freedom, Taken

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• Sinning persons are just like this boy who fell into the drain. Now, high or low, upgraded or degraded, all are equal. All are equal for Him because heaven is His creation, hell is His creation. If we say the Supreme is only in heaven, it will not be a correct utterance, because He is in hell also. His sons, His daughters, are never alone, He is with you even in hell.

  Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar

  Son, Boys, Heaven

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• If you always meditate on sin, "I am a sinner, I am a sinner," actually you will become a sinner. The psychological approach is, you should forget it - even if you are a sinner, you should think, "I am the son of a Great Father, I am the daughter of a Great Father." Thus you are meditating on the Great Father, and a day is sure to come when you will become one with your Great Father.

  Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar

  Father, Son, Thinking

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• To think, "I am a sinner, oh Father, save me," is a defective approach! You should say, "I am your son, I am your daughter, oh Father, take me on your lap, I am your child." This will be the approach. You should forget what you do not want.

  Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar

  Children, Father, Son

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• Husbands, love your wives well! Your children are noticing how you treat her. You are teaching your sons how they should treat women, and you are teaching your daughters what they should expect from men.

  Dave Willis

  Children, Husband, Love You

  Dave Willis (2013). “iVow: Secrets to a Stronger Marriage”, p.62, BookBaby

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• Her kitsch was the image of home, all peace, quiet, and harmony, and ruled by a loving mother and a wise father. It was an image that took shape in her after the death of her parents. The less her life resembled the sweetest of dreams, the more sensitive she was to its magic, and more than once she shed tears when the ungrateful daughter in a sentimental film embraced the neglected father as the windows of the happy family's house shone out into the dying day.

  Milan Kundera

  Wise, Mother, Dream

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• It was a bold, wild life for a faerie - most never even left their forests - but she was a bold, wild lass, and so were her daughter and granddaughter after her, and their place in the world was everywhere and nowhere, like gypsies on wing. No home had they but their caravans and campfires, and no family but the one they'd cobbled together of crows, creatures and kindred souls they'd met on their endless journey round and round the world.

  Laini Taylor

  Home, Journey, Wild Life

  Laini Taylor (2009). “Blackbringer”, p.14, Penguin

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• I wonder how, among the Fremont, mothers and daughters shared their world. Did they walk side by side along the lake edge? What stories did they tell while weaving strips of bulrush into baskets? How did daughters bury their mothers and exercise their grief? What were the secret rituals of women? I feel certain they must have been tied to birds.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Mother, Grief, Exercise

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, p.184, Vintage

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• [Please let my daughter] not have to wear high heels.

  Tina Fey

  High Heels, Please, My Daughter

  "It’s OK To Hate Wearing High Heels (Just Take It From These Famous Women)" by Ellie Krupnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 12, 2014.

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• To me, my husband was my son's murderer. He was also my daughter's molester. A parasite nibbling on the Holy Book, he was Lucifer, holding me by the throat and driving me to sin every night. He was Bhai's destroyer, Amma Sain's tormentor, Ma's humbler and the people's exploiter. He was the rapist of orphans and the fiend that fed on the weak. But over and above all this, he was known to be the man closest to Allah, the one who could reach Him and save us.

  Tehmina Durrani

  Husband, Book, Son

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• I found out from my own experience that the best way to involve my daughter, Joanna, in sports is to participate with her. Recently, a mother asked me how I got my children to swim laps. The truth is, I've never asked my children to do laps. They see me do laps and want to do it with me. Parental participation is one way.

  Donna de Varona

  Leadership, Sports, Mother

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• Make sure your daughter's goal is her goal, not your goal.

  Tracy Austin

  Leadership, Sports, Goal

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• A bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don't bury our dead. When you think it's out of your system, your daughter sees it on television and says, My father is an idiot.

  Billy Wilder

  Father, Thinking, Play

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

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• Virtue is the strength and power of daughters of God. ... If all humanity really understood the importance of the statement ‘We are daughters of our Heavenly Father,’ how would women be regarded and treated?

  Elaine S. Dalton

  Father, Humanity, Virtue

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• School of Rock. The best music school anywhere. This whole idea of getting kids not just taking lessons and learning notes and chords, but learning songs and playing with other young musicians, and getting out on stage... I was so impressed that my daughter Cheyenne goes to School of Rock on Long Island.

  Dee Snider

  Song, School, Kids

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