My Daughter Quotes - Page 15

• I was working in, being a single parent with a grieving child of five years old. It was horrendous. I couldn't go out much, because I had my daughter to look after. So people used to come round, and Tony Harrington from The Wire came round.

  David Toop

  Daughter, Children, Grieving

  "The Strange World Of... David Toop". Interview with Karen Shook, thequietus.com. June 28, 2016.

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• Instead of hitting the treadmill six days a week, I try to spend as much time with my daughter and fit in a bit of cardio during the week. Although, running and playing around with my three-year-old keeps me pretty active as it is.

  Christina Applegate

  Running, Daughter, Years

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• Hearing my daughter laugh is the best way to lift my spirit.

  Christina Applegate

  Daughter, Laughing, Way

  "Christina Applegate Life Will Surely Manifest Where You Put Your Attention". Interview to Origin Magazine, www.awaken.com. January 6, 2014.

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• I don't play anymore because I can't play anymore and I retired when I was playing for Chelsea because the doctor had to cut my leg in two parts so this is why I retired. I started going to the gym recently and my knee started to hurt again, so you can imagine what it would be like if I tried to play! I play football on the beach with my daughters and my friends but that's it.

  Emmanuel Petit

  Daughter, Football, Beach

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

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• Being a coach means giving your job 200% all the time and you're family is left on the side so I don't want to risk my family anymore just because I love football. I don't feel this ambition, I'm involved in many businesses and I want to live my own life, to see my daughters grow and want to see my family happy.

  Emmanuel Petit

  Daughter, Football, Jobs

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• Ultimately, my daughter is not going to learn from what I do, not from what I say. For better or for worse. I see that everyday.

  Marianne Williamson

  Daughter, Everyday

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• If I say to my daughter, "Go say `hi' to Aunt Gertrude," there is a reason there. I'm teaching her manners. I think the idea that she'll say `hi' to Aunt Gertrude only if she wants to is the biggest crock of silliness I've ever heard. Yet I meet people everyday who were clearly brought up to think that if they didn't want to say "hi" to Aunt Gertrude, that was fine.

  Marianne Williamson

  Daughter, Teaching, Thinking

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I have seen so much obstructed potential among people who lack personal discipline, who just slough it off, whatever it is, and who think that nothing matters very much. I want my daughter to have what I think of as a capacity for self-discipline. Not the sort of self-discipline that diminishes her own wild passions, but that makes it safer for her to own those wild passions.

  Marianne Williamson

  Daughter, Passion, Thinking

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• The fact that the commercial success of my books has allowed me to buy a house for myself and my daughter I think is a lovely thing. I don't think there is anything wrong with that.

  Marianne Williamson

  Daughter, Book, Thinking

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Whatever backlash I was going to get, whatever consequence there was for stating my opinion, I was OK with. Because I look at my son's eyes, I look at the eyes of my daughter, and I would be a bad dad if my No. 1 goal wasn't always to put them in the best situation as possible.

  Andrew Hawkins

  Daughter, Dad, Eye

  "'People Told Me to Shut Up and Play Football'". "Hang Up and Listen" with Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca, www.slate.com. July 18, 2016.

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• I'm a '70s mom, and my daughter is a '90s mom. I know a lot of women my age who are real computer freaks.

  Florence Henderson

  Mom, Mother, Daughter

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• I am lucky to have three daughters who are completely different. I look at my daughters and I have different relationships with all three and there are parts of each personality that are very special.

  Vanessa L. Williams

  Daughter, Mother, Personality

  "Vanessa Williams reflects on motherhood, struggle and stardom". Interview with Ashley Strickland, www.cnn.com. May 9, 2012.

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• I don't want to live in a world where I could say to my daughter, 'There used to be turtles that swam in the ocean.'

  Angela Kinsey

  Daughter, Mother, Ocean

  "The Office ‘s Angela Kinsey Gets Serious About Sea Turtles" by Tamar Abrams, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 16, 2010.

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• I envy my daughter's childhood.

  Rene Russo

  Daughter, Mother, Envy

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• I recall an August afternoon in Chicago in 1973 when I took my daughter, then seven, to see what Georgia O’Keeffe had done with where she had been. One of the vast O’Keeffe ‘Sky Above Clouds’ canvases floated over the back stairs in the Chicago Art Institute that day, dominating what seemed to be several stories of empty light, and my daughter looked at it once, ran to the landing, and kept on looking. "Who drew it," she whispered after a while. I told her. "I need to talk to her," she said finally.

  Joan Didion

  Daughter, Art, Light

  Joan Didion (2013). “The White Album”, p.84, Zola Books

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• I feel like I'm a stay-at-home mom, which I was for the five years before this. She's absolutely been my focus. That's the choice I made. Desperate Housewives is perfect for me. I get to go back to work and still be able to take my daughter to school and pick her up.

  Teri Hatcher

  Mom, Daughter, Mother

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• I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they won't be complete women. I don't think my daughters' generation has that feeling.

  A. S. Byatt

  Daughter, Mother, Book

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• I had a really scary pregnancy and a very difficult delivery. My daughter and I are lucky to be alive.

  Linda Cardellini

  Daughter, Mother, Pregnancy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Wait just a minute," Ares growled. He pointed at Thalia and me. "These two are dangerous. It'd be much safer, while we've got them here—" "Ares," Poseidon interrupted, "they are worthy heroes. We will not blast my son to bits." "Nor my daughter," Zeus grumbled. "She has done well.

  Rick Riordan

  Daughter, Hero, Son

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• You nickednamed my daughter after the Loch Ness Monster?

  Stephenie Meyer

  Daughter, Humorous, Monsters

  The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2, www.imdb.com. 2012.

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• If, for example, I saw my grandparents or my daughter for an instant, would I recognize them? Probably not, because in looking so hard for a way to keep them alive, remembering them in the most minimal details, I have been changing them, adorning them with qualities they may not have had. I have given them a destiny much more complex than the ones they lived.

  Isabel Allende

  Daughter, Destiny, Grandparent

  Isabel Allende (2003). “My invented country: a memoir”, HarperPerennial

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• Now let me teach you another thing about my daughter. I love her very much but she has the ability to hide as expertly as a sock in a washing machine. No one knows where it goes, just as no one knows where she goes, but at least when she decides to come back, we're all here, waiting for her.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Daughter, Waiting, Machines

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• That mirror, that's one I hate to let go, he said. That was my daughter's the whole time she was growing up. It probably seen her more than me--everything from a baby up to twenty years old. Sometimes I wonder if all that might still be inside it. Got to make an impression on a thing, reflecting the same person every day.

  David Wroblewski

  Letting Go, Daughter, Baby

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• There are so few people given us to love. I want to tell my daughters this, that each time you fall in love it is important, even at nineteen. Especially at nineteen. And if you can, at nineteen, count the people you love on one hand, you will not, at forty, have run out of fingers on the other. There are so few people given us to love and they all stick.

  Anne Enright

  Daughter, Running, Falling In Love

  Anne Enright (2010). “The Gathering”, p.15, Random House

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• So this is what I will do. I will gather together my past and look. I will see a thing that has already happened. the pain that cut my spirit loose. I will hold that pain in my hand until it becomes hard and shiny, more clear. And then my fierceness can come back, my golden side, my black side. I will use this sharp pain to penetrate my daughter's tough skin and cut her tiger spirit loose. She will fight me, because this is the nature of two tigers. But I will win and giver her my spirit, because this is the way a mother loves her daughter.

  Amy Tan

  Mother, Daughter, Pain

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.252, Penguin

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