Daughter Quotes - Page 8

• For our daughters and our granddaughters now, the sky is the limit.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Sky, Limits, Sky Is The Limit

  "Pelosi: 'Let us work together'", www.cnn.com. January 4, 2007.

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• There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher's daughter.

  George Orwell

  Writing, Way, Making Money

  George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.268, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity that ever were written.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Kings, Honesty, Educational

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.234, Cambridge University Press

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• Everyone is a son or daughter of god.

  David Icke

  Son, Reality, Daughter Of God

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• I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence.

  Brooke Shields

  Inspiring, Mother, Thinking

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• God intended motherhood to be a relay race. Each generation would pass the baton on to the next.

  Mary Pride

  Mother, Race, Generations

  Mary Pride (1985). “The Way Home: Beyond Feminism, Back to Reality”, Good News Pub

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• Knots Landing is the best thing that ever happened to me.

  Ted Shackelford

  I Love You, Romantic, Short Love

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• Being sectioned was the best thing that ever happened to me.

  Frank Bruno

  I Love You, Romantic, Break Up

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• Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me.

  Marilyn French

  I Love You, Romantic, Short Love

  Marilyn French (2013). “A Season in Hell: A Memoir”, p.245, Open Road Media

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• Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Love, Family, Mom

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

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• God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Mothers Day, God, Christian

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• In the past I've always been the type of person to try and fit a square peg in a round hole. I can be very tenacious like that. But since I've had my daughter, I've found that I like the way life unfolds when I give the universe some space to guide me. It took me until my forties to realize that.

  Natasha Gregson Wagner

  Past, Giving, Trying

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Of course mothers and daughters with strong personalities might see the world from very different points of view.

  Katherine Howe

  Relationship, Mother Daughter, Strong

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• A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.

  Gaspard Mermillod

  Relationship, Mothers Day, Mom

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• Dear Lord, forgive me for all of the times I've compared myself to others. I know that You have hand-picked all of my qualities. Help me to see these things as beautiful reminders of Your great love in creating me as Your daughter. In Jesus' Name, Amen.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Beautiful, Jesus, Hands

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Mar 05, 2016

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• My daughters, your daughters, our daughters deserve safety, protection, and the freedom to make their own choices about their personal lives and their physical selves.

  Carre Otis

  Mother, Self, Safety

  "Sisterhood Now: The Political, the Personal, and the Just" by Carre Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 27, 2012.

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• Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Father, Expectations, Want

  Simone de Beauvoir (1969). “The Woman Destroyed”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• To her, the name of father was another name for love.

  Fanny Fern

  Fathers Day, Dad, Father Son

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• I can't say I really see much difference between my son and daughters except that my girls will occasionally make me a sandwich and my son won't.

  Kevin Costner

  Girl, Mother, Son

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When you do talk about yourself, or to yourself... try to picture you talking to your own daughter, or your younger sister. Because you would tell your younger sister or your daughter that she is beautiful, and you wouldn't be lying. Because she is. And so are you.

  Amy Poehler

  Beautiful, Lying, Talking

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• My true inspirations are my kids and my husband. I'm also inspired by stories of my extended family, friends, and even strangers who cause me to look at my life and behavior and encourage me to be the best person, mother, daughter, and friend that I can be.

  Trista Sutter

  Mother, Husband, Inspiration

  "Trista Sutter from The Bachelorette: Spreading the Gift of Gratitude". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I love being on the beach - it's my favourite place. I can chill out, read, listen to music, play with my daughter.

  Geri Halliwell

  Mother, Beach, Play

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• Advice, then, young yeoman: When referring to the king's middle daughter, state that she is fair, speculate that she is pious, but unless you'd like to spend your watch looking for the box where your head is kept, resist the urge to wax ignorant on her naughty bits." -Pocket I don't know what that means, sir." -Yeoman Speak not of Regan's shaggacity, son" [...] -Pocket

  Christopher Moore

  Kings, Mean, Son

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Fool: A Novel”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• To an old father, nothing is more sweet than a daughter. Boys are more spirited, but their ways are not so tender.

  Euripides

  Sweet, Father, Boys

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides II: Andromache, Hecuba, The Suppliant Women, Electra”, p.180, University of Chicago Press

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• Everybody who flashed the signs of loyalty he took to be loyal. Everybody who flashed the signs of intelligence he took to be intelligent. And so he had failed to see into his daughter, failed to see into his wife, failed to see into his one and only mistress—probably had never even begun to see into himself

  Philip Roth

  Loyalty, Intelligent, Wife

  Philip Roth (1997). “American Pastoral”, p.417, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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