Daughter Quotes - Page 6

• A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

  Enid Bagnold

  Mother Daughter, Fathers Day, Baby

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• Fame is rot; daughters are the thing.

  James M. Barrie

  Mother, Honesty, Father

  James M. Barrie (2013). “My Best Plays (Annotated Edition)”, p.392, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King's daughter, I would have gone nevertheless.

  Joan of Arc

  Mothers Day, Kings, Father

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• I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth.

  Ace Frehley

  Music, Mother, Dad

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• Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

  Thomas Fuller

  Beauty, God, Mother

  'The Holy State and the Profane State' (1642) bk. 3 'Of Building'

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• I don't want my daughter to be educated. I think women should just be decorative.

  Richard Brautigan

  Mother, Thinking, Want

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• I have done everything I can to make sure my daughter knows her father because you form your own identity by rebelling against your parents - but first you have to know them.

  Greta Scacchi

  Mother, Father, Pregnancy

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• My dear father; my dear friend; the best and wisest man I ever knew, who taught me many lessons and showed me many things as we went together along the country by-ways.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Fathers Day, Country, Men

  Sarah Orne Jewett (2005). “The Country of the Pointed Firs: And Selected Short Fiction”, Barnes & Noble

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• Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.

  Clementine Paddleford

  Inspirational, Strength, Encouraging

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• My eleven year old daughter mopes around the house all day waiting for her breasts to grow.

  Bill Cosby

  Honesty, Years, House

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• A father... knows exactly what those boys at the mall have in their depraved little minds because he once owned such a depraved little mind himself. In fact, if he thinks enough about the plans that he used to have for young girls, the father not only will support his wife in keeping their daughter home but he might even run over to the mall and have a few of those boys arrested.

  Bill Cosby

  Girl, Running, Honesty

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• When I say that I love you, I don't say it out of habit or to make conversation. I say it to remind you that you're the best thing that's ever happened to me.

  Kaitlyn

  Best Friend, Love You, Mother Daughter

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• My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.

  Erica Jong

  Mother, Wings, Giving

  Erica Jong (1995). “How to Save Your Own Life”, N A L Trade

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  Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Religious, Nature, Atheist

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.196, University of Georgia Press

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• The only truly anonymous donor is the guy who knocks up your daughter.

  Lenny Bruce

  Mother, Guy, Donors

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

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• If my daughter wants to get into this business, I would support that decision. She's going to have a hard time not being in it. She loves food and she's around it all the time.

  Bobby Flay

  Mother, Hard Times, Support

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• A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Funny, Family, Mothers Day

  Her Son's Wife ch. 37 (1926)

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• My priorities had been changing before I had Addie but after she was born they changed completely. I don't count - my daughter sort of owns me.

  Kim Basinger

  Mother, Priorities, Born

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• We mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters' lengthening flight.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Mom, Mother, Flight

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1983). “Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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  Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.

  Saint Augustine

  Life, Change, Beautiful

  "Spirituality and Liberation: Overcoming the Great Fallacy". Book by Robert McAfee Brown, p. 136, 1988.

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• A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's.

  Princess Diana

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

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• When a mother, as fond mothers will; vows that she knows every thought in her daughter's heart, I think she pretends to know a great deal too much.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Mother, Heart, Thinking

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1872). “The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family”, p.197

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• It's obvious that they're going to want Ali's daughter and Frazier's daughter to fight it out.

  Robert Goulet

  Mother, Fighting, Want

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• So, am I friendly with my daughter and her friends? Yes. Am I their friend? No. Does she shut the door? Yes, and I very much support the shut door.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Mother, Doors, Support

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• There's a special place in heaven for caregivers.

  Maureen Reagan

  Dad, Father, Heaven

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