Only Daughter Quotes

• You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care - to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel?

  Oscar Wilde

  Girl, Daughter, Dream

  Oscar Wilde (1899). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.39

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• If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

  Bruce Barton

  Relationship, Birthday, Daughter

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• Well, I think it's because I'm an only daughter. I have four brothers, a bunch of guy cousins, and so it's like I was raised amongst men. So I've always gotten along really well with men.

  Alicia Machado

  Daughter, Mother, Cousin

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• Truth was the only daughter of Time.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Daughter, Time, Science

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.246, OUP Oxford

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• There's a kind of intimacy that happens between a mother and an only child. Which only gets more intimate when it's between a mother and only daughter.

  Leigh Newman

  Daughter, Mother, Children

  Source: therumpus.net

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• No one wanted that marriage, no one. Even Mahatma Gandhi wasn't happy about it. As for my father...it's not true that he opposed it, as people say, but he wasn't eager for it. I suppose because the fathers of only daughters would prefer to see them get married as late as possible.

  Indira Gandhi

  Daughter, Father, People

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• Nina Simone was a gifted and prolific singer, songwriter and pianist who became a powerful presence in the civil rights movement and paid a professional price for it. Behind the scenes, she struggled in a fractious, sometimes violent relationship with her husband and manager and with mental health issues that strained other relationships, including with her only daughter.

  Michel Martin

  Daughter, Powerful, Husband

  "Nina Simone's Daughter Says This Film Gets Her Mom's Story Straight". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. February 14, 2016.

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• I always say it was great for God to send his only son, but I'm waiting for him to send his only daughter. Then things will really be great.

  Candace Pert

  Daughter, Women, Son

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• You know, I have had a terrible life. I married two men I really didn't like. My only daughter was killed in a car accident. My brother committed suicide. Has my life been a life for anyone to envy?

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Daughter, Suicide, Brother

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• When I consider all the circumstances detailed above respecting the Pans, I cannot help believing that, under the mythos, a doctrine or history of a sect is concealed. Cunti, the wife of Pandu (du or God, Pan), wife of the generative power, mother of the Pandavas or devas, daughter of Sura or Syra the Sun Pandæa only daughter of Cristna or the Sun Pandion, who had by Medea a son called Medus, the king of the Medes, who had a cousin, the famous Perseus surely all this is very mythological an historical parable!

  Godfrey Higgins

  Daughter, Mother, Cousin

  Godfrey Higgins (1836). “Anacalypsis: An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic Isis : Or, An Inquiry Into the Origin of Languages, Nations, and Religions”, p.439

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• Katherine Sedley was the only daughter and heiress to the libertine poet Sir Charles Sedley, and grew into a thoroughly scandalous lady in her own right.

  Susan Holloway Scott

  Daughter, Poet, Heiress

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• The story of Terisa and Geraden began very much like a fable. She was a princess in a high tower. He was a hero come to rescue her. She was the only daughter of wealth and power. He was the seventh son of the lord of the seventh Care. She was beautiful from the auburn hair that crowned her head to the tips of her white toes. He was handsome and courageous. She was held prisoner by enchantment. He was a fearless breaker of enchantments. As in all the fables, they were made for each other.

  Stephen R. Donaldson

  Beautiful, Daughter, Princess

  Stephen R. Donaldson (2013). “The Mirror of Her Dreams”, p.6, Del Rey

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• We [ with Italo Calvino] had a great relationship. I don't think it's a coincidence that his only daughter's name is Giovanna. I loved his book dedications to me: "To Giovanna Cau, another book that won't be turned into a movie."

  Giovanna Cau

  Daughter, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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