Daughter Quotes - Page 27

• Ah, Aphrodite, if I sing no moreTo thee, God's daughter, powerful as God,It is that thou hast made my life too sweetTo hold the added sweetness of a song.There is a quiet at the heart of love,And I have pierced the pain and come to peace.

  Sara Teasdale

  Song, Pain, Powerful

  Sara Teasdale (1911). “Helen of Troy, and Other Poems”

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• Both men and women are conceived as merely capable of response to a situation that their society has already defined for them as sexual, and so the Arapesh feel that it is necessary to chaperon betrothed couples who are too young... with their definition of sex as a response to an external situation rather than as spontaneous desire, both men and women are regarded as helpless in the face of seduction. Parents warn their sons even more than they warn their daughters against permitting themselves to get into situations in which someone can make love to them.

  Margaret Mead

  Sex, Couple, Son

  "Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies". Book by Margaret Mead, 1935.

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• Lysander, when Dionysius sent him two gowns, and bade him choose which he would carry to his daughter, said, "She can choose best," and so took both away with him.

  Plutarch

  Two, Gowns, Said

  Plutarch, William Watson Goodwin (1870). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.425, Boston : Little, Brown

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• Women themselves condition their daughters to serve the system of male primacy. If a daughter challenges it, the mother will generally defend the system rather than her daughter. These mothers, victims themselves, have unwittingly become wounded wounders. Women need to attack culture's oppression of women, for there truly is a godlike socializing power that induces women to "buy in" or collude, but we also need to confront our own part in accepting male dominance and take responsibility where appropriate.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Mother, Women, Responsibility

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• And so my child and I came to this place to meet him eye to eye and face to face. He made my daughter laugh, then we embraced. We never knew what friends we had, until we came to Leningrad.

  Billy Joel

  Children, Eye, Laughing

  Song: Leningrad, Album: Storm Front, 1989

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• I think it jumps generations. You get a screwball in one, and then the next one is straight, then you get a screwball. My grandmother was goofy, my mother was straight.

  Grace Slick

  Mother, Thinking, Generations

  "The Joan Rivers Show", 1990.

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• A large portion of Christ's miracles of love were wrought at the urgent request of parents for their suffering children. Is that ear gone deaf to-day? Will He not do for our children's souls what He did for the bodies of the ruler's daughter, and the dead youth at Nain?

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Children, Parent, Miracle

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 66, 1895.

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• As a child, I saw this beautiful film, Dracula's Daughter, and it was with Gloria Holden and was a sequel to the original Dracula. It was all about this beautiful daughter of Dracula who was an artist in London, and she felt drinking blood was a curse. It had beautiful, sensitive scenes in it, and that film mesmerized me. It established to me what vampires were—these elegant, tragic, sensitive people. I was really just going with that feeling when writing Interview With the Vampire. I didn't do a lot of research.

  Anne Rice

  Beautiful, Children, Drinking

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• Why should the sons and daughters of God be reluctant to pray, when prayer is the key in the hand of faith to unlock heaven's storehouse, where are treasured the boundless resources of Omnipotence.

  Ellen G. White

  Prayer, Son, Keys

  Ellen G. White (2013). “Ellen G. White Review and Herald Articles - Book IV of IV”, p.37, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Just as the Depression left a generation of dads feeling they never had enough money, so father deprivation is leaving a generation of sons and daughters with different psychic wounds.

  Warren Farrell

  Dad, Father, Son

  "Father and Child Reunion". Book by Warren Farrell, 2001.

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• The deeper purpose of a more positive attitude toward men is a better life for the children who are parented by the men who are their dads and stepdads; less shame for our sons who will become men; and, for our daughters, a deeper understanding of men's desire to please that leaves them feeling their willingness to please is not unrequited but returned - allowing our daughters to feel less lonely and more loved. If we earn more and love less, we pay for a home in which we do not live.

  Warren Farrell

  Lonely, Children, Attitude

  "Why Men Earn More". Book by Warren Farrell, 2005.

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• One danger of a man succeeding is that it teaches his wife and daughter not to worry about success.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Wife, Worry

  "Why Men Are the Way They Are". Book by Warren Farrell, 1986.

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• I think I would say to my daughters if they were to ask me this question... it [their virginity] is the greatest gift that you can give someone, the ultimate gift of giving and don't give it to someone lightly, that's what I would say.

  Tony Abbott

  Thinking, Giving, Ask Me

  "The Monk might make sense" by Katharine Murphy, www.theage.com.au. January 28, 2010.

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• Look at your [English] ladies of quality are they not forever parting with their husbands - forfeiting their reputations - and is their life aught but dissipation? In common genteel life, indeed, you may now and then meet with very fine girls - who have politeness, sense and conversation - but these are few - and then look at your trademen's daughters - what are they? poor creatures indeed! all pertness, imitation and folly.

  Fanny Burney

  Girl, Husband, Forever

  "The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney". Vol. 1, p. 47, journal entry, November 17, 1768.

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• Revolution is like the daughters of Pelias: it cuts humanity to pieces in order to rejuvenate it.

  Georg Buchner

  Cutting, Order, Humanity

  "Danton's Death". Play by Georg Büchner, Act II, 1835.

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• Politics seems much less important today. When you see your young daughter smiling as she was, and moving around, it's a superb feeling.

  Gordon Brown

  Moving, Feelings, Important

  "'This will be a big change in my life .. politics is now less important' says new dad Gordon Brown" by Colin Wills, Sunday Mirror, December 30, 2001.

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• Whether it's that moment in acting when everything is suspended and you're not yourself, or breaking through the veil of a very long run or swim, or hearing my daughter laugh they are all pathways to what I think God must be.

  Jennifer Beals

  Running, Thinking, Laughing

  More Magazine Interview, December 2010.

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• I am proud that my daughter believes, as I do, that hungry children should be fed whether they are Black Panthers or White Republicans.

  Tommy Douglas

  Children, Believe, White

  Ottawa Journal, October 5, 1969.

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• I am a woman and a woman of Africa. I am a daughter of Nigeria and if she is in shame, I shall stayand mourn with her in shame.

  Buchi Emecheta

  Shame, Mourn, Ifs

  1982 Destination Biafra.

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• A man with wife and daughters has no place losing his temper.

  David Gemmell

  Men, Wife, Losing

  David Gemmell (2011). “Legend”, p.56, Hachette UK

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• Then to deliver the message to the audience is our mission. I tried to imagine, if they killed my family, daughters, I would do anything to protect my family. It's insane but that's the situation everybody was in.

  Miyavi

  Insane, Messages, Imagine

  Source: collider.com

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• To be serious, the things you really want to relive are things like bedtime with your daughter when she becomes incredibly entertaining 'cause she doesn't want to go to sleep. They're at their most enchanting 'cause they just want to put it off, so they do a cabaret for you. You sit there thinking, "Please don't let this end."

  Bill Nighy

  Sleep, Thinking, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• A great need a mother has to know that her daughters will find somebody or will be okay in life. That's very primal as they get older. You know, you should get married, you should have children.

  Christine Baranski

  Mother, Children, Should Have

  "Meryl Streep, Tracey Ullman, Christine Baranski, Marc Platt and John DeLuca Talk INTO THE WOODS, The Singing, The Cow, Working with Rob Marshall and More". Interview with Perri Nemiroff, collider.com. December 29, 2014.

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• Success is a lot of things. In my personal life it is to have my own family with me, to give all my best to let my daughter have a better life than me, better choices.

  Ali Suliman

  Giving, Choices, Better Life

  "Charisma Personified: Meeting Ali Suliman at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival". Interview with E. Nina Rothe, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 15, 2014.

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• So my biggest fun has been watching my daughters grow up. Now, unfortunately they're hitting the age where they still love me, but they think I'm completely boring. And so they'll come in, pat me on the head, talk to me for 10 minutes, and then they're gone all weekend. Right? They break my heart! So now I've got to start thinking, Well what's going to replace that fun?

  Barack Obama

  Growing Up, Fun, Heart

  Source: www.slate.com

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