Daughter Quotes - Page 33

• In my private circle I am a mother, grandmother, wife, friend, daughter... the success means nothing to my small tribe.

  Isabel Allende

  Mother, Mean, Circles

  Interview with Marisel Mendoza, www.ventanalatina.co.uk. April 10, 2013.

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• I've retroactively made all that wasted time rotting my brain into research. It makes me a hypocrite when I try to tell my own daughter, "I don't know, I think we've played a little too much Mario."

  Ernest Cline

  Hypocrite, Thinking, Brain

  "Author Ernie Cline Was Told Video Games Would Rot His Brain, But Who Holds the High Score Now?". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. July 10, 2015.

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• In my house, neither my wife nor my daughter are impressed that I'm on television, and they remind me of that frequently.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Wife, House, Television

  "Anthony Bourdain The ‘Parts Unknown’ Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. January 9, 2015.

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• When I pick a role, one of the things that I aspire to is that somebody's parent will come up to me after the film has come out and say, "My daughter idealizes that character. You're her hero." That's what I aim for. We're in the business of making heroes.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Hero, Character, Parent

  Source: collider.com

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• Well into the 19th century there were pronouncements from just about every branch of science and medicine that reading, writing, and thinking were dangerous for women. Articles in the Lancet declared that women's brains would burst and their uteruses atrophy if they engaged in any form of rigorous thinking. The famous physician J.D. Kellogg insisted that novel reading was the greatest cause of uterine disease among young women and urged parents to protect their daughters from the dreaded consequences of print.

  Dale Spender

  Reading, Writing, Thinking

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• a daughter's love for a kind father ... is mixed with the careless happiness of childhood, which can never come again. Into the father's grave the daughter, sometimes a gray-haired woman, lays away forever the little pet names and memories which to all the rest of the world are but foolishness.

  Constance Fenimore Woolson

  Memories, Father, Names

  Constance Fenimore Woolson (2012). “Anne: A Novel”, p.129, The Floating Press

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• the mother's first job is to raise a daughter strong enough to outlast her.

  Gail Caldwell

  Mother, Strong, Jobs

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• I wasn't very good about the pain. I started screaming for painkillers after the third contraction and didn't stop until my daughter was eating solid food.

  Linda Sunshine

  Pain, Eating, Very Good

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• It is important to note that research has shown that men who have abusive mothers do not tend to develop especially negative attitudes toward females, but men who have abusive fathers do; the disrespect that abusive men show their female partners and their daughters is often absorbed by their sons.
  So while a small number of abusive men do hate women, the great majority exhibit a more subtle-though often quite pervasive-sense of superiority or contempt toward females, and some don't show any obvious signs of problems with women at all until they are in a serious relationship.

  Lundy Bancroft

  Mother, Attitude, Father

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• My life is absolutely meaningless. When I consider the different periods into which it falls, it seems like the word Schnur in the dictionary, which means in the first place a string, in the second, a daughter-in-law. The only thing lacking is that the word Schnur should mean in the third place a camel, in the fourth, a dust-brush.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Fall, Mean, Dust

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Either/ Or”

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• My 13-year-old daughter leaves the house at 7:15 every morning and takes a smelly city bus to school way uptown. It's like 8 degrees out, and it's dark and she's got this morning face and I send her out there to take a bus. Meanwhile, my driver is sitting in a toasty Mercedes that's going to take me to work once both kids are gone. I could send her in the Mercedes and then have it come back to get me, but I can't have my kid doing that. I can't do that to her. Me? I earned that f—ing Mercedes. You better f—ing believe it.

  Louis C. K.

  Morning, Believe, School

  "Louis C.K.'s Crabby, Epic Love Letter to NYC: 'Everyone's Dealing with the Same S - ... Elbow to Elbow'" by Louis C.K., as told to Lacey Rose, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 8, 2015.

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• In life, you either watch TV or you do TV. I told my daughters that the only way you're going to make it in this business is to get in the game. That's the biggest advice I can give them.

  David Hasselhoff

  Games, Giving, Advice

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com. May 17, 2012.

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• Being honest, if I had a daughter I wouldn't want her listening to a Nicki Minaj CD until she was a certain age. Even when I meet my fans and they tell me they are 12, I cringe a little. I always say, 'Listen. I don't want you saying the bad words, put school first.'

  Nicki Minaj

  School, Cds, Listening

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• I am the daughter of Mr. Neo-realism: I should gravitate towards narrative simply told, character, the truth. And I do love those movies.

  Isabella Rossellini

  Character, Narrative, Should

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• When my husband won the Palme d'Or in 2002, I wore the same dress two days in a row. My daughter said, 'Mom! Did you sleep in your dress?' But I think it's cool to wear the same thing. I have to feel comfortable.

  Emmanuelle Seigner

  Mom, Husband, Sleep

  Interview with Alexandra Marshall, www.harpersbazaar.com. November 15, 2010.

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• When I need a break from the boys, I go with my girlfriend to buy pretty little dresses for her daughter.

  Kim Raver

  Girlfriend, Boys, Littles

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• Daughter of Time, the hypocrite Days,
  Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,
  And marching single in an endless file,
  Bring diadems and fagots in their hands;
  To each they offer gifts after his will,
  Bread, kingdom, stars, and sky that holds them all;
  I, in my pleached garden watched the pomp
  Forgot my morning wishes, hastily
  Took a few herbs and apples, and the Day
  Turned and departed silent. I too late
  Under her solemn fillet saw the scorn.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Morning, Stars, Hypocrite

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Days”

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• Thou hast her, France; let her be thine, for we
  Have no such daughter, nor shall ever see
  That face of hers again. Therefore be gone
  Without our grace, our love, our benison.

  William Shakespeare

  Childhood, Grace, Gone

  William Shakespeare (2009). “King Lear”, p.36, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Words are daughters of earth but ideas are sons of heaven.

  Samuel Johnson

  Son, Ideas, Heaven

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• If the mother had not beene in the oven, shee had never sought her daughter there.

  George Herbert

  Mother, Ovens, Ifs

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.350

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• Marry your daughters betimes, lest they marry themselves.

  George Herbert

  Your Daughter, Our Daughter

  George Herbert (1861). “The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir”, p.279

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• Marry your sonne when you will; your daughter when you can.
  [Marry your son when you will, your daughter when you can.]

  George Herbert

  Son, Your Son, Your Daughter

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• Soon, I'm going to meet somebody around my own age, and she's going to be smart and beautiful, and I'm going to date her daughter.

  Bob Saget

  Beautiful, Smart, Age

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

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• Barack Obama's daughters are very smart. They told him they will take the same responsibility for the dog that he is taking for the economy. That way, if the dog leaves a mess in the White House, it'll be cleaned up by future generations.

  Jay Leno

  Dog, Smart, Responsibility

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• I always had the sense that nothing was never good enough - striving for perfection. My mother and I had a sort of typical mother-daughter relationship.

  Dorothy Hamill

  Mother, Perfection, Typical

  "Dorothy Hamill: Life wasn't 'cake' after gold" by Mike Celzic, www.today.com. October 03, 2007.

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