Daughter Quotes - Page 2

• Anything I've done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.

  Johnny Depp

  Done, May, Birth

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• Who can describe the transports of a beam truly parental on beholding a daughter shoot up like some fair and modest flower, and acquire, day after day, fresh beauty and growing sweetness, so as to fill every eye with pleasure and every heart with admiration?

  George Fordyce

  Flower, Heart, Eye

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• As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine a life without her.

  Kristin Hannah

  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

  Kristin Hannah (2013). “Kristin Hannah's Coming Home 4-Book Bundle: On Mystic Lake, Summer Island, Distant Shores, Home Again”, p.609, Ballantine Books

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  My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

  Jim Valvano

  Inspirational, Basketball, Fathers Day

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• The essential thing about mothers is that one needs to know that they are there, particularly at that age when, paradoxically, one is trying so hard to break away from parental influence.

  Margot Fonteyn

  Mother, Age, Trying

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• I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.

  Julie Walters

  Mother, Hell, Bloody

  "Still Walters" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2002.

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• The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex.

  Wynonna Judd

  Mother, Honesty, Father

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• My daughter is one of the associate producers on two shows for Disney. I am really proud of her.

  Mary Ann Mobley

  Mother, Two, Proud

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• My daughter, dad where do homeless people come from? My answer, everywhere.

  Ray Price

  Dad, People, Answers

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• The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman, my mother.

  Sharon Olds

  Birthday, Mom, Mother

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  As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

  Solomon Ibn Gabirol

  Honesty, Lilies, Thorns

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• I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

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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, Children, Father

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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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• A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones.

  Kristin Hannah

  Mom, Mother, Loss

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• My wife has brought great beauty into my life. And my daughter has brought me nothing but joy. Those qualities were greatly lacking.

  Christopher Meloni

  Mother, Wife, Joy

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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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• My daughter is here in town doing a play, and her dog is staying with us. We live up in the hills, so he has access to thousands of acres of wilderness.

  Rene Auberjonois

  Mother, Dog, Stay Strong

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

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• I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Fathers Day, Dad, Men

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die. For after the rain when with never a stain The pavilion of Heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams Build up the blue dome of air, I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the caverns of rain, Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Change, Mother, Children

  'The Cloud' (1819)

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• No man complains of his neighbor for ill management of his affairs, for an error in sowing his land, or marrying his daughter, for consuming his substance in taverns ... in all these he has liberty; but if he does not frequent the church, or then conform in ceremonies, there is an immediate uproar.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Land, Errors

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• Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.

  Jim Bishop

  Dad, Being Single, Funny Relationship

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• My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.

  Michelle Obama

  Mother, Integrity, Compassion

  Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 25 August 2008, INVESCO Field at Mile High Stadium, Denver, Colorado

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• Being married to a daughter of India is a natural complement of my being in this country for 30 years. My roots are very much in this country, even though I remain a Westerner.

  Francois Gautier

  Country, Mother, Years

  "'There Is an Unconscious Militant Dislike of the Christian World Towards Hindu India'". Interview with Rajeev Srinivasan, www.rediff.com. February 12, 1999.

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• I still hear you humming, Mama. The colour of your song calls me home. The colour of your words saying, Let her be. She got a right to be different. She gonna stumble on herself one of these days. Just let the child be. And I be, Mama.

  Sonia Sanchez

  Mother, Song, Children

  Sonia Sanchez (2012). “Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems”, p.58, Beacon Press

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