Daughter Quotes - Page 35

• I think that freedom means freedom for everyone. As many of you know, one of my daughters is gay and it is something we have lived with for a long time in our family. I think people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish. Any kind of arrangement they wish.

  Dick Cheney

  Mean, Gay, Thinking

  "Cheney Offers Support For Gay Marriage" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 02, 2009.

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• I'm a guy who should not have a lot of free time. But when it comes to vacation, I like to pull the plug completely. It's all about my daughter - I'm no longer the star of my own movie.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Stars, Vacation, Guy

  "Q& A with Anthony Bourdain on food porn, Libya and his move to CNN". Interview with Zinta Lundborg, www.delcotimes.com. May 20, 2013.

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• I think the best thing to try to do is allow your daughter or your son to know that they can come to you for anything. If you can break down that wall so they don't feel embarrassed by telling you things, that's half the battle.

  Channing Tatum

  Wall, Son, Thinking

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• I know that I won't succeed at everything, every day. Some days have to be solely about my daughter. Some days I really try to be a good wife. Other days, I can take a few hours for myself and just do nothing but really focus on work.

  Drew Barrymore

  Wife, Focus, Trying

  "Drew Barrymore on her new gig, motherhood, and Adam Sandler". Interview with Lindzi Scharf, www.cnn.com. January 9, 2014.

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• I was incredibly depressed and I found myself avoiding doing interviews where my [20-something daughters] could hear me - or leaving books on the coffee table they could see.

  John H Richardson

  Coffee, Book, Leaving

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I don't have time to put up with the politics. Who's a Democrat? Who's a Republican? Who's liberal? Who's conservative? Man, can my daughter just go to a school and not get killed? Can these people get a good job? That's what I'm concerned about.

  Charles Barkley

  Jobs, School, Men

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• My daughter's birth was like a rebirth for me.

  Madonna Ciccone

  My Daughter, Birth, Rebirth

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• I wasn't remembering the gift that God had given me. I had totally put all that aside. And my daughter was growing up before my eyes, and I just wanted to grab hold of that. It goes by so fast. I wanted to watch her. I wanted to be that parent - because at that point in time, I was a single parent. Watch her go to school, and when she got home, be there. I wanted that moment.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Growing Up, Home, School

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• My daughter got me a 'World's Best Dad' mug. So we know she's sarcastic.

  Bob Odenkirk

  Sarcastic, Dad, Funny Fathers Day

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• My daughter introduced me to myself.

  Beyonce Knowles

  My Daughter

  "Beyoncé: Baby Blue Ivy ‘Introduced Me To Myself’". www.huffingtonpost.com. February 26, 2013.

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• I became a feminist because I wanted to help my daughters, other women and myself aspire to something more than a place behind a good man.

  Faith Ringgold

  Men, Feminist, Good Man

  Faith Ringgold, New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York, N.Y.), Akron Art Museum (1998). “Dancing at the Louvre: Faith Ringgold's French Collection and Other Story Quilts”, p.61, Univ of California Press

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• As the daughter of immigrants, growing up in New York City, you are either at the table or on the menu.

  Grace Meng

  New York, Growing Up, Cities

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• Not watching TV gets me in a lot of trouble in my household because my wife and daughter have a lot of shows they like to watch.

  John Jeremiah Sullivan

  Wife, Watching Tv, Watches

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• My daughter is a real migraine sufferer; the minute she has a handful of Haribo sweets, she gets a headache. Theres a connection between what the liver cant break down with what goes on to trigger a headache. You just have to be aware.

  Sheherazade Goldsmith

  Sweet, Real, Goes On

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• My daughter took Latin for three years; she still cant speak it.

  Trey Gowdy

  Latin, Years, Three

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• I hope my daughter, and one day my granddaughters, will be at Dodgers Opening Day.

  Mark Walter

  One Day, Opening Day, Dodgers

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• A lawyer from Africa wants to marry Malia Obama in exchange for goats, sheep, and cows. In response, President Obama said, 'Don't be ridiculous. My daughter isn't marrying a lawyer.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Sheep, President, Goats

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• My wife Shanti and I are blessed with two wonderful daughters. Nothing is more important to us than protecting their future and the future of every Arkansas child.

  Bill Halter

  Children, Blessed, Two

  "Bill Halter Running For Arkansas Senate: Progressive Democrat To Challenge Blanche Lincoln" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 30, 2010.

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• I wonder whether being a scientists daughter makes you so conflicted about free will and fate.

  Lucy Hawking

  Fate, Wonder, Free Will

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• Four of my children are daughters, and Ive watched them devote themselves to reading books about how little girls learn to become women - how they learn to deal with boys and men, and the different hurdles females have to go over.

  Robert K. Massie

  Girl, Children, Book

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• After Memory Keepers Daughter, it took me a few months to shut out the world. I really had to turn off the Internet and sort of cloister myself away from the world again and sink into that psychic space to write again.

  Kim Edwards

  Memories, Writing, Psychics

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• Katherine Sedley was the only daughter and heiress to the libertine poet Sir Charles Sedley, and grew into a thoroughly scandalous lady in her own right.

  Susan Holloway Scott

  Poet, Heiress, Grew

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• Love, your own witch-daughter, Queen of the Mirror and the Highest Protector of Irony

  Jostein Gaarder

  Queens, Love You, Mirrors

  Jostein Gaarder (2010). “Sophie's World”, p.421, Hachette UK

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• Rosanne Daryl Thomas's tale of her enchantment by bees is a delight to read. It also contains close observations of the natural world, tales of failure and triumph with the hives, and a stellar cast of characters that includes her daughter, their cats, the hapless Farmer Tom, Pete the crossing guard, and, most important, the Bee Master. Every word tastes sweet as honey.

  Janet Lembke

  Sweet, Character, Cat

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• The greatest power God has given to His sons cannot be exercised without the companionship of one of His daughters.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Son, Companionship, Given

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