My Daughter Quotes - Page 23

• 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

  Daughter, Mother, Doors

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• Sometimes I want to just pull the off switch, but you can't because if you go outside, you have to give people your all. You can't say, 'Oh, you know what? I'm not feeling good today.' No. No one's trying to hear that. When a woman comes up to you and says, 'Hey, my daughter's your biggest fan. Can we have a picture?' You can't say no.

  Nicki Minaj

  Daughter, Mother, People

  "Nicki Minaj: 6 Surprising Revelations, Including Her Thoughts on Lady Gaga" by Lauren Effron, Erin Brady, abcnews.go.com. April 9, 2012.

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• Success for me is that if my son chooses to be a stay-at-home parent, he is cheered on for that decision. And if my daughter chooses to work outside the home and is successful, she is cheered on and supported.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Daughter, Mother, Home

  "Moms Lean In... Or Not". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. March 12, 2013.

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• That industry expects you to prove yourself over and over again. Do I stay doing this, or do I raise my daughter and live surrounded by people who love me? Wasn't even really a choice.

  Lisa Bonet

  Daughter, Mother, Love Yourself

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The best anti-aging advice I've ever received? Drink a lot of water and have a plant-based diet. I also do mindful meditation with my daughter every day. It takes ten minutes. I think reducing stress plays a big part in anti-aging.

  Carolyn Murphy

  Daughter, Mother, Stress

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• The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46.

  Alvin Toffler

  Daughter, Mother, Loss

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• The death of my daughter is a subject I talk about briefly because there is nothing more tragic.

  Ben Vereen

  Daughter, Mother, Tragic

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• The first Superman film took up a huge chunk of our lives, but it was a wonderful time for us. We were young, my daughter was little, we were filming in London for a year, so we became like a close family.

  Margot Kidder

  Daughter, Mother, Years

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• I was up late last night yapping about the elections on CNN and up early this morning doing the same thing in my daughter's kindergarten class.

  Tucker Carlson

  Daughter, Mother, Morning

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• I would like to see people more aware of where their food comes from. I would like to see small farmers empowered. I feed my daughter almost exclusively organic food.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Daughter, People, Organic Food

  "The Omnivore’s Agenda". Interview with Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. November, 2010.

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• I wouldn't want my daughters to date a guy like me. I was dangerous around women in my twenties. I'm terrified that they might end up with someone like me.

  Antonio Banderas

  Daughter, Mother, Guy

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• I hate being clean-shaven. My daughter gets very upset if I shave and says, 'Bring back the spikes, Dad.'

  Eric Bana

  Daughter, Mother, Dad

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• Look, I've got incredible pride for my family. I've absolutely fallen into that cliche of a dad who could just happily talk about my daughter endlessly.

  Christian Bale

  Mother, Daughter, Dad

  "Christian Bale May Kill Someone Yet". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. November 15, 2010.

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• I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.

  Tori Amos

  Daughter, Nursing, Whales

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• I had such a hard time finding great organic and non-toxic items for my daughter.

  Soleil Moon Frye

  Daughter, Mother, Hard Times

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• That for me was the big turning point in my artistic life, when my wife and I had our kids. The world got infused with morality again. Every person in the world should theoretically be loved as much as I love my daughters.

  George Saunders

  Daughter, Mother, Kids

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• I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.

  Rachel Roy

  Mother, Daughter, Taken

  "Fashion Spotlight: Rachel Roy" by Anne Slowey, www.elle.com. July 28, 2009.

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• I'll be a nun, raise my daughter, and make albums.

  Brandy Norwood

  Daughter, Mother, Albums

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

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• I'm a middle-class former housewife who goes to my daughter's softball games.

  Charlaine Harris

  Inspirational, Softball, Daughter

  "Charlaine Harris's Vampire Empire". Interview with Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg, www.wsj.com. May 5, 2009.

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• The songwriting was almost like something I did while I was waiting for my daughter to come back.

  Joni Mitchell

  Daughter, Mother, Waiting

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• I'm from a family of teachers. My father would drown me in the bathtub if my daughter didn't graduate from college. I don't care who she is or what she does. Just get the diploma.

  P. C. Cast

  Daughter, Mother, Teacher

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• I'm in the middle of my own 'Project Runway' challenge given to me by my daughter's preschool. All the parents have to make an outfit for their kids, for school pictures, made entirely out of recycled objects. I can not believe I have homework.

  Busy Philipps

  Mother, Daughter, Believe

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm more selective now I've got a family. I don't want to work all the time. My daughter's 12; I don't want to miss out on her life. Soon she'll be a teenager; she won't want me around.

  Julie Walters

  Mother, Daughter, Teenager

  "Julie Walters: An actress in her prime". Interview with James Mottram, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2001.

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• I'm not thinking about me that much anymore. Every time I look, I'm looking for my daughter, you know? If I'm in a store, I'm looking at baby clothes. It's so much cuter to find things for her than to find things for me.

  Alessandra Ambrosio

  Mother, Daughter, Baby

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm old-school. I want to be there to drop off my daughter at school and pick her up.

  Lisa Loeb

  Mother, Daughter, School

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