Daughter Quotes - Page 24

• There came to port last Sunday night The queerest little craft, Without an inch of rigging on; I looked and looked--and laughed. It seemed so curious that she Should cross the unknown water, And moor herself within my room-- My daughter! O my daughter!

  George Washington

  Sunday, Night, Water

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• The farmer's daughter hath soft brown hair And I met with a ballad, I can't say where, That wholly consisted of lines like these.

  Charles Stuart Calverley

  Hair, Lines, Brown

  Charles Stuart Calverley, “The Auld Wife”

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• One day, a daughter of Aristotle, Pythias by name, was asked what color pleased her most. She replied, "The color with which modesty suffuses the face of simple, inoffensive men.

  Joseph Joubert

  Simple, Men, Color

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• Our rages, daughters of despair, creep and squirm like worms. Prayer is the only form of revolt which remains upright.

  Georges Bernanos

  Prayer, Despair, Rage

  Georges Bernanos (1938). “A diary of my times”

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• The daughter of debate That still discord doth sow.

  Elizabeth I

  Argument, Debate, Discord

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• Cheerfulness is the daughter of employment; and I have known a man come home in high spirits from a funeral, merely because he has had the management of it.

  William Cornelius Van Horne

  Home, Men, Funeral

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• I called my son Jett and I wanted to call my daughter Qantas, but my wife wouldn't let me.

  John Travolta

  Son, Wife, Let Me

  "'Hi honey, I'm home'". Interview with Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2004.

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• One of my daughters was a bit flat-chested, so she had implants and she's got a lovely pair now. I see nothing wrong with it.

  Rod Stewart

  Lovely, Pairs, Flats

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• I know that I could really kill for my daughter. I know because I'm living for her, so I'm fierce when it comes down to it. And I feel the same about my husband and my family. I'm just fiercely protective. It's like, that's my lair and nobody messes with my lair.

  Whitney Houston

  Husband, Fierce, Killing

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

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• I want to thank my daughter, who told me, 'If you don't win, Dad, you're still good,' ... who taught me how to act.

  Jamie Foxx

  Dad, Winning, Thankfulness

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• Maternity leave is over for Tina Fey of Saturday Night Live. She'll be back behind the Weekend Update anchor desk for this week's episode, her first show since giving birth to daughter Alice on Sept. 10. I had to get back to work, .. NBC has me under contract; the baby and I have only a verbal agreement.

  Tina Fey

  Baby, Weekend, Night

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• Up rose the wild old winter-king, And shook his beard of snow; "I hear the first young hard-bell ring, 'Tis time for me to go! Northward o'er the icy rocks, Northward o'er the sea, My daughter comes with sunny locks: This land's too warm for me!

  Charles Godfrey Leland

  Kings, Winter, Rocks

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• If an appointed daughter by accident dies without ,leaving a son, the husband of the appointed daughter may, without hesitation, take that estate.

  Guru Nanak

  Husband, Son, Leaving

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• Neither ancients nor moderns who were good men have done such ,a deed that, after promising ,a daughter to one man, they have her to another, Nor, indeed, have we heard, even in former creations, of such ,a thing as the covert sale of a daughter for a fixed price, called a nuptial fee.

  Guru Nanak

  Men, Good Man, Done

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• When the purpose of the appointment to ,cohabit with the widow bas been attained in accordance with the law, those two shall behave towards each other like a father and a daughter in law.

  Guru Nanak

  Father, Law, Two

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• It's a frightening thing. To go to France, the elder daughter of the church, it's always called, and you get the feeling the church has gone away.

  John Wilkins

  Gone Away, Feelings, Church

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• My family are really happy here at Liverpool and I am prepared to have my daughter with a Scouse accent, even though it is sometimes a problem for me.

  Rafael Benitez

  Problem, Sometimes, My Family

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• My two daughters are now engaged in a scribbling rivalry.

  Annie Duke

  Rivalry

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• By the shores of Gitchee Gumee,
  By the shining Big-Sea-Water,
  Stood the wigwam of Nokomis,
  Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis,
  Dark behind it rose the forest,
  Rose the black and gloomy pine-trees,
  Rose the firs with cones upon them;
  Bright before it beat the water,
  Beat the clear and sunny water,
  Beat the shining Big-Sea-Water.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Dark, Moon, Sea

  'The Song of Hiawatha' (1855) 'Hiawatha's Childhood'

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• We believe we are entitled to the gift of the Holy Ghost in extent according to the discretion and wisdom of God and our faithfulness; which gift brings all things to our remembrance, past, present, and to come, that are necessary for us to know, and as far as our minds are prepared to receive the knowledge of God revealed by that all-wise Agent. The Holy Ghost is God's minister, and is delegated to visit the sons and daughters of men. All intelligent beings pertaining to this earth are instructed from the same source.

  Brigham Young

  Wise, Believe, Son

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• My daughter told me she wasn't afraid of spider but that she was afraid of my smoking. She said that she was afraid of my dying.

  Robert Clark

  Smoking, Dying, Spiders

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• Lord, here am I, send me, I will redeem every son and daughter of Adam and Eve that lives on the earth, or that ever goes on the earth.

  Brigham Young

  Son, Goes On, Earth

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• Do not complain then of your poverty, my daughter, - we only complain of that which is unwelcome, and if poverty is unwelcome to you, you are no longer poor in spirit.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Complaining, Poverty, Spirit

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.234, Catholic Way Publishing

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• It feels good when it helps to get a good seat for a football game. But it never helped me make a good film or a good shot in a polo game, or command the obedience of my daughter. It doesn

  Walt Disney

  Football, Games, Feel Good

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• My little boy loves mambo, and my daughter, besides Justin Bieber, likes bachata - in our house, we're always singing.

  Thalia

  Boys, House, Singing

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