Daughter Quotes - Page 26

• Subduing and subdued, the petty strife, Which clouds the colour of domestic life; The sober comfort, all the peace which springs From the large aggregate of little things; On these small cares of daughter, wife or friend, The almost sacred joys of home depend.

  Hannah More

  Spring, Women, Home

  Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.205

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• Being Henry Fonda's daughter got me started. But it didn't keep me working.

  Jane Fonda

  "Jane Would Have Been a Star Even as a Smith". "The Daytona Beach News-Journal" Newspaper, June 30, 1963.

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• No daughter and mother ever live apart, no matter what the distance between them.

  Christie Watson

  Mother, Distance, Matter

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• Foras Road has a sordid reputation (…) Old crones sat in doorways, while their daughters were pushed out to earn money. It is intriguing that a society which is very covert with sexuality should be so straightforward about prostitution.

  Tahir Shah

  Doorways, Reputation, Intriguing

  FaceBook post by Tahir Shah from Apr 18, 2013

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• Washing the Dead is an illuminating and intricately layered novel about the complicated legacies that pass from mother to daughter, and about the ways that understanding our own history helps make us who we are. Michelle Brafman is an insightful writer who never falters or flinches in her quest to uncover the hearts of her characters.

  Carolyn Parkhurst

  Mother, Heart, Character

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• Who would have believed that the daughters of that mighty city would one day be wandering as servants and slaves on the shores of Egypt and Africa, or that Bethlehem would daily receive noble Romans, distinguished ladies, brought up in wealth and now reduced to beggary? I cannot help them all, but I grieve and weep with them, and am completely absorbed in the duties which charity imposes on me. I have put aside my commentary on Ezekiel and almost all study. For today we must translate the precepts of the Scriptures into deeds; instead of speaking saintly words, we must act them.

  St. Jerome

  Grieving, Egypt, Cities

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• I want everybody to think I'm a hard worker as an aunt, a sister, a friend, a daughter, a niece, everything. I want to be great at every role, because every role in my life is as important as being Jessie J.

  Jessie J

  Niece, Hard Work, Aunt

  "Jessie J: 'I'm a hard worker. I want to be great at everything I do'" by Kate Mossman, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2013.

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• My daughter had carried within her a story that kept hurting her: Her dad abandoned her. She started telling herself a new story. Her dad had done the best he could. He wasn't capable of giving more. It had nothing to do with her. She could no longer take it personally.

  Regina Brett

  Hurt, Dad, Giving

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• Daughters are supposed to be friends to their mothers in their old age.

  Paullina Simons

  Mother, Age, Supposed To Be

  Paullina Simons (2004). “Lily”

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• It has been hard, I know, my daughters, but one word alone wipes out all of the hardships: love.

  Sophocles

  Love, Hardship, Wipe

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• My daughter's tricycle said "Some Assembly Required." It came in a jar.

  Ray Romano

  Jars, Assembly, Said

  Ray Romano (1999). “Everything and a Kite”

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• Honor thy Father and thy Mother was once said, but then someone said: What if I don't know your Father? A still voice said: Does that makes him the devil? He is still someone's Father, his name has been changed, but his story is the same. Why hate when we should Celebrate. In this world of two's, you got the Mourning Son, and the Daughter of the Night. They both equal light once you make it through the night. Now, wake the funk up!

  Bootsy Collins

  Mother, Father, Hate

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• Everyone I know thinks television is the most important part of my life. I did it for the money! I was able to send my daughter to college.

  Jack Germond

  College, Thinking, Important

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• I am pained to listen that my daughters, grand daughters and great grand daughters are no longer safe.

  Fauja Singh

  My Daughter, Safe, Grand Daughter

  "Fauja Singh runs for women's rights and security" by Sarabjit Pandher, www.thehindu.com. January 16, 2013.

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• I am in total opposition to any institutional power. I favor a world of neighborhoods in which all social organization is voluntary and the ways of life are established in small, consenting groups. These groups could cooperate with other groups as they saw fit. But all cooperation would be on a voluntary basis. As the French anarchist Proudhon said. “Liberty [is] not the daughter but the Mother of Order.

  Karl Hess

  Mother, Order, Organization

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• Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. It speaks of what seems fantastic and unreal to those who have lost the simple intuitions which are the test of reality; and, as it is often found at war with its age, so it makes no account of history, which is fabled by the daughters of memory.

  James Joyce

  Memories, War, Simple

  James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.2218, Delphi Classics

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• You know, I have had a terrible life. I married two men I really didn't like. My only daughter was killed in a car accident. My brother committed suicide. Has my life been a life for anyone to envy?

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Suicide, Brother, Men

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• When you grow up as the daughters of George and Laura Bush, you develop a special appreciation for how blessed we are to live in this great country.

  Jenna Bush

  Country, Appreciation, Growing Up

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• When my daughter wanted a toy and I had to check the price of it before buying it - that was one of the worst feelings.

  Tablo

  Feelings, Buying, Toys

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• Who knows not Circe, The daughter of the Sun , whose charmed cup Whoever tasted, lost his upright shape, And downward fell into a groveling swine?

  John Milton

  Shapes, Cups, Sun

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1826). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors”, p.258

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• Whatever expenditure is sanctioned - even when it is sanctioned against the ministry's wish - the ministry must find the money. Accordingly, they have the strongest motive to oppose extra outlay. The ministry is (so to speak) the breadwinner of the political family, and has to meet the cost of philanthropy and glory; just as the head of a family has to pay for the charities of his wife and the toilette of his daughters.

  Walter Bagehot

  Wife, Political, Wish

  "The English Constitution". Book by Walter Bagehot, Seventh edition. Chapter 5: "The House of Commons", p. 137, en.wikisource.org. 1894.

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• Every virtuous woman desires a husband to whom she can look for guidance and protection through this world. God has placed this desire in woman's nature. It should be respected by the stronger sex. Any man who takes advantage of this, and humbles a daughter of Eve to rob her of her virtue, and cast her off dishonored and defiled, is her destroyer, and is responsible to God for the deed.

  Brigham Young

  Sex, Husband, Men

  Brigham Young (1867). “Journal of Discourses”, p.268

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• Like all truly pure souls she [Chantal] quickly resigned herself to past faults, thought only of how to repair whatever harm they had done. "Of all my daughters, you are certainly the least bothered by scruples of conscience," Abbé Chevance used to say.... Even sin, once the will is detached and no longer nourishes it, withers and dies sterile. It is in the secret of intentions, like in a decomposing humus, in the dark forest of future sins, unpardoned sins, half dead, half living, that new poisons are distilled.

  Georges Bernanos

  Dark, Past, Soul

  "Joy". Book by Georges Bernanos, 1929.

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• She [then nine-year-old daughter Emily] grew up with 'The Rhythm is Gonna Get You,' Well . . . It got her!

  Gloria Estefan

  Years, Nine, Grew Up

  Comment to concert audience in Washington, D.C., September 8, 2004.

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• Daughters of the attitude that produced them, certain women will not appeal to us without the double bed in which we find peace by their side, while others, to be caressed with a more secret intention, require leaves blown by the wind, water rippling in the dark, things as light and fleeting as they are.

  Marcel Proust

  Attitude, Women, Dark

  Marcel Proust (2003). “In Search of Lost Time Volume III The Guermantes Way”, Modern Library

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