Daughter Quotes - Page 31

• There is an admiration which is the daughter of knowledge.

  Joseph Joubert

  Admiration

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.

  Idries Shah

  Independence, Conceit, Premature

  Idries Shah (1978). “Learning how to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way”, p.109, Octagon Press Ltd

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• Constancy, far from being a virtue, seems often to be the besetting sin of the human race, daughter of laziness and self-sufficiency, sister of sleep, the cause of most wars and practically all persecutions.

  Freya Stark

  War, Sleep, Race

  Freya Stark (2013). “Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel”, p.113, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• Having three daughters, it is important for me to set a good example and teach them to make decisions that are healthy for your heart no matter what age you are.

  Martina McBride

  Heart, Decision, Healthy

  Source: www.usmagazine.com

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• I always tell my three daughters, it's not about the number on the scale, it's how you feel. You know you are going to feel better if you eat healthier.

  Martina McBride

  Feel Better, Numbers, Three

  Source: www.usmagazine.com

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• I once dressed up, very badly timed as Steve Irwin's daughter. And I didn't realize he had passed because I hadn't been following the news. I love Bindi Irwin, just the timing was in poor taste.

  Alysia Reiner

  News, Taste, Timing

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• For me, even if I'm not a fan of the band in general or maybe it's not the style of music I want to put on for my daughter and me when we're waking up in the morning, there's always something that I can learn from it. And I think those are the things that are surprising.

  Jon Foreman

  Morning, Thinking, Style

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• I don't want my kids to be like me, I don't want my daughter to date a guy like me. You know, for a guy like me success is to take care of my children to take care of their life and make 'em cushioned. I don't want them to be around people like me. You know, success for me would be that they never have the opportunity of being in the presence of someone like me.

  Mike Tyson

  Children, Kids, Opportunity

  "Mike Tyson Teaches Earl Sweatshirt a Thing or Two About the Glory of The Notebook". Interview with Alex Beggs, www.vanityfair.com. December 17, 2014.

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• My daughter, Lila, is my style critic. She'll say, "No, Mummy, you can't wear that." She's very good. I do trust her instinct.

  Kate Moss

  Style, Instinct, Mummy

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• It's important to see your parents as individuals. As a son or as a daughter you don't stop and think that your parents might have their own expectations, dreams or disappointments.

  Seth Rogen

  Dream, Disappointment, Son

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Women not only get violated, but then we take on the struggle to end it too... As a man, how could the destruction of women be anything to you but devastating? Think about the fact that the women being hurt are your mothers, daughters, sisters.

  Eve Ensler

  Mother, Hurt, Struggle

  Interview with Kevin Powell, bknation.org. May 1, 2014.

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• When my daughter looks at me, she sees a small old lady. That is because she sees only with her outside eyes. She has no chuming, no inside knowing of things. If she had chuming she would see a tiger lady. And she would have careful fear.

  Amy Tan

  Eye, Knowing, Looks

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club: A Novel”, p.190, Penguin

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• I love my daughter. She and I have shared my body. There is a part of her mind that is a part of mine. But when she was born, she sprang from me like a slippery fish, and has been swimming away ever since.

  Amy Tan

  Swimming, Mind, Body

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.242, Penguin

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• I was raised the Chinese way: I was taught to desire nothing, to swallow other people's misery, to eat my own bitterness. And even though I taught my daughter the opposite, still she came out the same way! Maybe it is because she was born to me and she was born a girl. And I was born to my mother and I was born a girl. All of us are like stairs, one step after another, going up and down, but all going the same way.

  Amy Tan

  Girl, Mother, Opposites

  "Fictional character: An-Mei". "The Joy Luck Club", www.imdb.com. 1993.

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• all daughters, even when most aggravated by their mothers, have a secret respect for them. They believe perhaps that they can do everything better than their mothers can, and many things they can do better, but they have not yet lived long enough to be sure how successfully they will meet the major emergencies of life, which lie, sometimes quite creditably, behind their mothers.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Mother, Lying, Believe

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• She [a mother] never outgrows the burden of love, and to the end she carries the weight of hope for those she bore. Oddly, very oddly, she is forever surprised and even faintly wronged that her sons and daughters are just people, for many mothers hope and half expect that their new-born child will make the world better, will somehow be a redeemer. Perhaps they are right, and they can believe that the rare quality they glimpsed in the child is active in the burdened adult.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Mother, Children, Believe

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• I stopped dropping acid for a while after my daughter was born. It's hard to keep an eye on the kid while you're hallucinating.

  Grace Slick

  Kids, Eye, Dropping Acid

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• It is my intention to make no provision herein for my son Christopher or my daughter Christina for reasons which are well known to them.

  Joan Crawford

  Son, Well Known, Intention

  "Fictional character: Joan Crawford". "Mommie Dearest", 1981.

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• The trouble with being an activist is you end up like Eve and you get kicked out of the Garden of Eden. You know, Eve was the first person who thought for herself. And she still gets a bad rap. I named my daughter after her.

  Susan Sarandon

  Wisdom, Rap, Garden

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• Wouldn't it be kinder to say that a lie is a short work of fiction? 'A story' as my daughter says?

  Helen McCloy

  Lying, Fiction, Stories

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• It is a notable circumstance that mothers who are themselves open to severe comments as to their, moral character, are generally most solicitous as to the virtuous behavior of their daughters.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Mother, Character, Morality

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• in the comparatively short time between my childhood and my daughter's, the business society has ceased urging people to produce and is now exerting its very considerable influence to get them to consume.

  Margaret Halsey

  People, Childhood, Influence

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

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• The young man who wants to marry happily should pick out a good mother and marry one of her daughters - any one will do.

  J. Ogden Armour

  Marriage, Mother, Men

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• Without religion, man is an atheist, woman is a monster. As daughter, sister, wife and mother, she holds in her hands, under God, the destinies of humanity. In the hours of gloom and sorrow we look to her for sympathy and comfort. Where shall she find strength for trial, comfort for sorrow, save in that gospel which has given a new meaning to the name of "mother," since it rested on the lips of the child Jesus?

  Henry Benjamin Whipple

  Mother, Atheist, Jesus

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 618, 1895.

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• What is happening to the daughters of the yam? Seem like they just don't know how to draw up the powers from the deep like before. Not full sunned and sweet anymore.

  Toni Cade Bambara

  Sweet, Yams, Draws

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