My Daughter Quotes - Page 26

• I have done for my country and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God - my daughter to my country.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Daughter, Country, Soul

  B. L. Rayner, Thomas Jefferson (1834). “Life of Thomas Jefferson: with selections from the most valuable portions of his voluminious and unrivalled private correspondence : with portrait”, p.429

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• My daughter is just as obsessed with playing in my makeup as everyone's daughter is. She paints our walls and herself and clothes and me. So I have to do makeup in 30 seconds or my whole house is covered in my makeup, because she'll just take it and run.

  Blake Lively

  Daughter, Running, Wall

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• You have to let kids live their own lives and make their mistakes, but it is difficult now because there are so many things in their lives which weren't in mine - I never had Facebook. And some of the things I see now I'm appalled by. So I'm as nosey about my daughter's life as I can be. I tell her, 'I'm all over you, whether you like it or not.'

  Dawn French

  Daughter, Mistake, Kids

  "Dawn French opens her heart on the death of her mum and the challenges her family faced" by Alison Phillips, www.mirror.co.uk. October 30, 2012.

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• My wife, my daughters, even my grandchildren are funny. You've got to keep a sense of humor because anger destroys you.

  Michael Caine

  Daughter, Grandchildren, Wife

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• My daughter wants to throw a stone at a bad man. I stop her from throwing, shaking my head and giving her a little slap. My disapproval is complete. You think: 'That's right, she shouldn't throw a stone even at a villain.' Then I hand her a brick to throw.

  W. C. Fields

  Daughter, Men, Thinking

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• Having my daughter, I screamed for twenty-three hours straight. And that was just during conception.

  Joan Rivers

  Daughter, Twenties, Three

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

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• I love my daughter, but there's a certain feeling, a certain emotion when you got a granddaughter, you know?

  Bernie Mac

  Daughter, Feelings, Emotion

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• My daughter was a beautiful child.

  Bernie Mac

  Beautiful, Daughter, Children

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• Though my wife thinks I'm mad, I know I'll drop my daughter to the parties she's invited to. I'll want her friends to say, "Wow what a handsome father you have!" When she's with her boyfriend in the backseat of our car, I'll be at the wheel, driving her around.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Daughter, Father, Party

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• In the early days of the military Arpanet, my daughter was studying in Nicaragua. Because the U.S. was essentially at war with them, contact was difficult. I managed to use MIT's Arpanet connection, and she found one, so we could communicate thanks to the Pentagon!

  Noam Chomsky

  Daughter, Military, War

  "Peace netter". Interviewed with Hamish Mackintosh, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2002.

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• When my daughter was a senior in high school, I remember noticing, almost in passing, that her friends were very cute. Which made me realize her friends' fathers probably found Molly very cute.

  Gene Weingarten

  Cute, Senior, Daughter

  "Tuesdays with Moron: Chatological Humor update". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. December 8, 2015.

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• Now is the time to keep the promise of equal pay for an equal day's work, because I want my daughters to have exactly the same opportunities as your sons.

  Barack Obama

  Daughter, Son, Opportunity

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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• I feel that instead of putting myself out in that light, I'd rather be on this side of the camera just to make sure that the movie, from my perspective as far as police procedures, is done properly. I got my daughters in it, that's good enough for me. Scott's got a way of talking me into things, and I told him I don't like the way he can talk me into stuff.

  Ralph Sarchie

  Daughter, Light, Talking

  Source: collider.com

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• I told my daughter that terrorists would love to attack Washington, but we, unlike the French, are an ocean away from Syria, that lots of smart people are working very hard to stop the terrorists, and that these terrorists are not very sophisticated.

  Dana Milbank

  Daughter, Smart, Ocean

  "How to talk to your child about the Islamic State". www.washingtonpost.com. November 19, 2015.

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• I used my daughter's crayons for each main character. One end of the wallpaper was the beginning of the story, and the other end was the end, and then there was all that middle part, which was the middle.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Daughter, Character, Stories

  Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). “Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five”, p.6, Infobase Publishing

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• I learned, viscerally, something that I knew intellectually: that I cannot protect my daughter from the difficulties as she may encounter in her search for her own identity, and that she will be OK. She has a sisterhood to share the experience with, in addition to her family.

  Linda Goldstein Knowlton

  Daughter, Sisterhood, Identity

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• My daughter, Asia, has been in many of my movies. I love working with her. In the beginning, I was not supportive of her being an actress, but now I think she is fantastic.

  Dario Argento

  Daughter, Thinking, Supportive

  "Dario Argento, Master of Horror, Unleashes Dracula 3-D Trailer" by Xaque Gruber, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 30, 2012.

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• The strongest lesson I can teach my son is the same lesson I teach my daughter: how to be who he wishes to be for himself.

  Audre Lorde

  Daughter, Son, Wish

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.77, Crossing Press

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• I love Renée Zellweger, she can do no wrong in my eyes. I relate to every character she embodies, because she has no pretense. I also love Amy Adams: She's so kind and talented, and whenever I watch her I think, I want to be her friend-I've seen Enchanted many times with my daughter. Meryl Streep, of course. And I love what Cate Blanchett brings to every movie she does.

  Katie Holmes

  Daughter, Character, Eye

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• It's funny, it never occurred to me that a movie star would play me. But now that she [Reese Witherspoon] is playing me, it's like, of course, it couldn't be anyone else! I don't know if you've seen pictures of Reese and me and Reese and my daughter Bobbi, who's named after my mother, and also plays me. There's a kind of resemblance.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Daughter, Mother, Stars

  "'Wild’s' Cheryl Strayed Becomes One With Reese Witherspoon". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. November 2014.

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• I couldn't stand the fact that anybody else was dressing like me. It was supposed to be for me and my friends, not my daughter and her friends!

  Donna Karan

  Daughter, Facts, Dressings

  Interview with Calvin Klein, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 27, 2009.

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• My wife's father said if you marry my daughter I'll give you three acres and a cow. I'm still waiting for the three acres.

  Max Miller

  Daughter, Father, Wife

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• I don't think you're entitled to read my mail between my daughters and me.

  George W. Bush

  Daughter, Thinking, Mail

  "More Than 10,000 Fugitives Apprehended in Nation-wide Law Enforcement Operation; Kidnapping for Ransome Growing in Iraq; Defense Department Wants More UAVs; Tax Deadline Approaches". "CNN Wolf Blitzer Reports", edition.cnn.com. April 14, 2005.

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• My daughter sent me on a mission to get as many autographs as possible.

  Billy Joel

  Daughter, Missions, Autographs

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• I just wanted my daughter to grow up, get married, have children and get divorced like everyone else.

  Cher

  Daughter, Children, Growing Up

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