My Daughter Quotes - Page 24

• I'm raising my daughter with her grandparents in the picture, and that feels good.

  Paula Cole

  Mother, Daughter, Grandparent

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• I'm so lucky to be in a situation that I can always have my daughter with me.

  Izabella Scorupco

  Mother, Daughter, Lucky

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• I worry that by losing my temper so much and being so harsh and yelling so much that, by example, I will have taught my daughters to be that way, and I'm now constantly telling them not to do that.

  Amy Chua

  Daughter, Mother, Yelling

  "Amy Chua: 'I'm going to take all your stuffed animals and burn them!'". Interview with Heather Hodson, www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2011.

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• I've raced on all seven continents at least twice. I've probably run thousands of races. But the single race that I'm most proud is a 10K. Yes, a 10K. I ran it with my daughter on her 10th birthday.

  Dean Karnazes

  Daughter, Mother, Running

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• My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Family, Daughter, Mother

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• I remember when my daughter, Marina, was born. The second I laid eyes on her, I was in love, and I had never felt that way before. I couldn't believe it.

  Matt LeBlanc

  Mother, Daughter, Believe

  "Matt LeBlanc on fatherhood 'I'd love my daughter even if she crashed my Ferrari'". Interview with Julie McCaffrey, www.mirror.co.uk. February 5, 2016.

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• You see, at the end of the day, my most important title is still 'mom-in-chief.' My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.

  Michelle Obama

  Mom, Daughter, Mother

  "Early Start with John Berman And Zoraida Sambolin", www.cnn.com. September 5, 2012.

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• I want manned spaceflight, not just back to the Moon, but beyond that. And I want my daughters and my son to have their own July 20, 1969, to remember. Apollo 11 didn't give us wings; it only showed us how far the wings we had would take us.

  David Weber

  Mother, Daughter, Son

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• My son is trying to be a sports writer, and my daughter is a college student. She wants to be a comedy writer, and she's at film school. I discouraged both of them early on from getting involved in Starbucks. I didn't think it would be fair; plus, they didn't have any interest anyway.

  Howard Schultz

  Sports, Daughter, School

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• I want my daughter to be proud of me and look up to me. I think early on in my pregnancy I realized that to be the mom I want to be, I had to change my life, and that's what I'm doing.

  Holly Madison

  Mom, Mother, Daughter

  "Holly Madison Reveals How Pregnancy Has Changed Her (For The Better!)". Interview with Elena Donovan Mauer, www.thebump.com. January 15, 2013.

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• I want to teach my daughter the importance of exercising and eating healthy as she grows up.

  Ellen Pompeo

  Mother, Daughter, Growing Up

  "Ellen Pompeo: No Junk Food for Stella!" by Paul Chi, celebritybabies.people.com. May 6, 2010.

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• I was shocked the first time the paps got me in America - when a video camera is put in your face and you're asked questions and 15 people are walking backwards taking your picture. I was coming out of a pizza shop and had my daughter with me.

  Stephen Moyer

  Daughter, Mother, America

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• I work, and then whenever I have any other time, I'm with my daughter, and then I go to sleep. I think you basically have to abandon the dreams of having any other adult activities in your life. You have to go to sleep whenever your child goes to sleep. That's basically how we're doing it.

  Tina Fey

  Daughter, Mother, Dream

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

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• I hope that my daughter grows up empowered and doesn't define herself by the way she looks but by qualities that make her a intelligent, strong and responsible woman.

  Isaiah Mustafa

  Daughter, Mother, Strong

  "5 Questions with Isaiah Mustafa, Apologizes for 'Good Hair' Comments". Interview with Abiola Abrams, www.essence.com. October 3, 2011.

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• I worked before I had my daughter, enough for three actresses.

  Helen Hunt

  Mother, Daughter, Actresses

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• I love to read about healthy eating and preach to my husband, who doesn't listen. Now I'm trying to teach it to my daughters.

  Martina McBride

  Daughter, Mother, Husband

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• My daughter has a problem picking things up in her room. So if you leave your clothes on the floor, so if you leave your clothes on the floor, they're gone when you come home.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Daughter, Mother, Clothes

  "Madonna: 'I'm a Disciplinarian'", www.foxnews.com. October 14, 2005.

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• My wife is the boss at home, and my daughters are the bosses. I am just the worker. We are a very warm family and very happy.

  Jet Li

  Daughter, Mother, Home

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• It breaks my heart that I don't see my daughters every day, don't get to hug them and brush their hair.

  Angie Harmon

  Mother, Daughter, Heart

  "Angie Harmon: Heart and Soul". Interview with Monica Corcoran Harel, www.goodhousekeeping.com. June 8, 2011.

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• It hurts because I can't go out there and play football, but it hurts more because I have to be a father and explain what happened to my daughter.

  Ray Rice

  Mother, Daughter, Football

  "Ray Rice Apologizes Again, Says 'Wife Can Do No Wrong'" by Rheana Murray, abcnews.go.com. July 31, 2014.

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• It is true that I am a writer, and I was married to a composer, and I have lived in a small village in New England, but my children are not named Heracles and Persephone, and my daughter doesn't disappear underground every six months and emerge in the spring.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Daughter, Mother, Children

  "'Our Sassy Black Friend' Jamaica Kincaid". Interview with Hannah Levintova, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2013.

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• It was so satisfying for me - a great reward, just to see it done well. And it was beautifully directed by my daughter Susan Riskin. Imagine, a play about my mother directed by my daughter?!

  Fay Wray

  Mother Daughter, Play, Rewards

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• It's weird to say, but every time I look at my daughter and I see this little living breathing thing that came from me, that represents all of the hopes and dreams that I would want for her, I see a miracle.

  Josh Gad

  Daughter, Mother, Dream

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• I haven't lived my life through my daughters. Some parents devote everything to their children, which must be so hard, and it's very beautiful. But I'm a working parent, so I've always kept my own life.

  Annie Lennox

  Beautiful, Daughter, Children

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• Ladies and babies, and mortgages, for that matter, can all wait. Acting has done a strange thing to me, though. I often sit there, thinking, 'I love this, but I wouldn't put my daughter on the stage.'

  Eddie Redmayne

  Daughter, Mother, Baby

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