My Daughter Quotes - Page 38

• My daughter and I are very close, we speak every single day and I call her every day and I say the same thing, "pick up, I know you're there."

  Joan Rivers

  Daughter, Memorable, Speak

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• Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever.

  Amy Tan

  Daughter, Laughing, Forever

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.213, Penguin

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• My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.

  Michelle Obama

  Daughter, Mother, Integrity

  Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 25 August 2008, INVESCO Field at Mile High Stadium, Denver, Colorado

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• Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well, every time my daughter says, 'Let's make a wish on a star,' there's one thing I wish for: wisdom.

  Rene Russo

  Birthday, Daughter, Mother

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• My daughter...why do you not tell me about everything that concerns you, even the smallest details? Tell Me about everything, and know that this will give Me great joy. I answered, But You know about everything, Lord." And Jesus replied to me, "Yes I do know; but you should not excuse yourself with the fact that I know, but with childlike simplicity talk to Me about everything, for my ears and heart are inclined towards you, and your words are dear to Me.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Daughter, Jesus, Prayer

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• Although I have felt compelled to write things down since I was five years old, I doubt that my daughter ever will, for she is a singularly blessed and accepting child, delighted with life exactly as life presents itself to her, unafraid to go to sleep and unafraid to wake up. Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss.

  Joan Didion

  Notebook, Daughter, Lonely

  Joan Didion (2013). “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, p.98, Zola Books

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• The happiest moment of my life was probably when my daughter was born.

  David Duchovny

  Mother, Daughter, Moments

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• I want my daughter to see a strong woman who goes after what she wants.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Daughter, Strong Women, Want

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• If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.

  Brigham Young

  Education, Daughter, Mother

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• My daughter, I see more Pharisees among Christians than there were around Pilate.

  Margaret of Cortona

  Faith, Christian, Daughter

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• Anything I've done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.

  Johnny Depp

  Daughter, Done, May

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• I do eat well. I try to love my body. That is what I tell my daughter. I say, 'Love every bite of food. Love your body. We're all going to be dead soon.' Actually I don't say that last thing to her.

  Helen Hunt

  Daughter, Mother, Love You

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• What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.

  Erica Jong

  Daughter, Freedom, Giving

  Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.49, Penguin

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• I don't want my daughter to think she has to deprive herself to be pretty...It's all about balance and I can teach that best by living it.

  Cindy Crawford

  Daughter, Thinking, Balance

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• I'm not going to have a better day, a more magical moment than the first time I heard my daughter giggle.

  Sean Penn

  Daughter, Parenting, Firsts

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• When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that's happened that day just melts away.

  Hugh Jackman

  Daughter, Mother, Running

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

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• My daughter, unfortunately, is ill, because drug addiction is an illness. She's been fighting it for years.

  Columba Bush

  Daughter, Mother, Fighting

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• Make two homes for thyself, my daughter. One actual home . . . and the other a spiritual home which thou are to carry with thee always.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Faith, Daughter, Spiritual

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• Feeling good about yourself and your life is very important. I'm a happy woman, happy with my husband, my daughters, my grandchildren. We all get along quite well, and that keeps me centered.

  Carolina Herrera

  Daughter, Mother, Husband

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• There are 10,000 books in my library, and it will keep growing until I die. This has exasperated my daughters, amused my friends and baffled my accountant. If I had not picked up this habit in the library long ago, I would have more money in the bank today; I would not be richer.

  Pete Hamill

  Daughter, Book, Long Ago

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• Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.

  Isabel Allende

  Daughter, Mother, Children

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• My daughter teases me once in a while saying, Remember when you used to be my mother and you had black hair?

  Loni Anderson

  Daughter, Mother, Hair

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• My daughter is my biggest achievement. She is a little star and my life has changed so much for the better since she came along.

  Denise Van Outen

  Daughter, Mother, Stars

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• My father always would say, "My daughter will go into politics? My daughter will become prime minister", but it's not what I wanted to do. I would say, "No, Papa, I will never go into politics." As I've said before, this is not the life I chose; it chose me ... But I accepted the responsibility and I've never wavered in my commitment.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Life, Daughter, Father

  "Destiny’s daughter". Interview with Ginny Dougary, www.thetimes.co.uk. April 28, 2007.

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• I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day. I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young [sons] become men.

  Magic Johnson

  Basketball, Mother, Daughter

  "Magic Johnson pushes HIV awareness". Interview with Dr. Sanjay Gupta, www.cnn.com. November 24, 2004.

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