Wife And Daughter Quotes

A man with wife and daughters has no place losing his temper.

David Gemmell

Daughter, Men, Wife

David Gemmell (2011). “Legend”, p.56, Hachette UK

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I was given such a great gift. It's a miracle that never stops amazing me and reminding me to give thanks, every day. Having a wife and daughter gives me a lot more purpose. I was much more selfish before, but now I think about what kind of role model I'll be. I just want to be a better man.

Jake Owen

Daughter, Mother, Selfish

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The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

Theodore Hesburgh

Love, Inspirational, Funny

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If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Thomas Fuller

Daughter, Honesty, Father

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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.

Joseph Addison

Birthday, Mother Daughter, Fathers Day

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One danger of a man succeeding is that it teaches his wife and daughter not to worry about success.

Warren Farrell

Daughter, Men, Wife

"Why Men Are the Way They Are". Book by Warren Farrell, 1986.

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What am I grateful for? Aside from my own great life, you mean? I'm just grateful that my wife, and daughter, and dogs are all healthy.

Richard Belzer

Thanksgiving, Daughter, Dog

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Every time I look into the mirror, I want to see a man whose mother, sister, wife and daughter are proud to call their own.

Farhan Akhtar

Daughter, Mother, Men

FaceBook post by Farhan Akhtar from Mar 30, 2013

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My wife and daughter have accused me of being too silent at breakfast but I don't want to talk when I don't have much to say.

Phillip Lopate

Daughter, Wife, Breakfast

Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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There used to be a huge hole in my life that I wrote many albums about. I didn't realise it was a wife-and-daughter-shaped hole. They've plugged that gap. Everything I do, I do for them now. When daddy goes to work, it's daddy going to work, not Rob going to work. I feel like there's a purpose to everything.

Robbie Williams

Daughter, Daddy, Wife

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When husbands and fathers leave, their wives and daughters tend to value themselves less as a result.

Emma Thompson

Daughter, Mother, Husband

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Every mother hopes that her daughter will marry a better man than she did, and is convinced that her son will never find a wife as good as his father did.

Martin Andersen Nexø

Mother Daughter, Honesty, Father

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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

Oscar Wilde

Funny, Mothers Day, Mom

The Importance of Being Earnest act 1 (1895). The same lines appear, as a dialogue between Lord Illingworth and Mrs. Allonby, in A Woman of No Importance, act 2 (1893).

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Happiness lies in conquering one's enemies, in driving them in front of oneself, in taking their property, in savoring their despair, in outraging their wives and daughters.

Genghis Khan

Daughter, Lying, Wife

Quoted inWitold Rodzinski, TheWalled Kingdom: A History of China (1979)

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Not watching TV gets me in a lot of trouble in my household because my wife and daughter have a lot of shows they like to watch.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

Daughter, Wife, Watching Tv

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I have no problem living in Liverpool, but I think my wife and daughters deserve to enjoy every day to the full and live their lives - but they have to be at home all day. My wife doesn't speak a word of English, so she depends 100% on me. I live here with them. That's my world, that's my life.

Javier Mascherano

Daughter, Home, Thinking

"Unsettled Javier Mascherano hints at move away from Liverpool" by Tom Bryant, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2010.

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The interesting thing about 'True Blood' is that its appeal is not contained to teenage girls. I get stopped in the street and questioned by 70-year-old men whose wives and daughters are making Bloody Marys and throwing 'True Blood' parties.

Stephen Moyer

Girl, Mother, Daughter

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I hate shaving. It's much easier to just do a little stubble, but my wife and daughter like it when I'm clean-shaven. If you see me with a clean face, then you know I'm in the kissing mode!

Patrick Dempsey

Daughter, Mother, Hate

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A man's greatest moment in life is when his enemy lays vanquished, his village aflame, his herds driven before you and his weeping wives and daughters are clasped to your breast.

Genghis Khan

Daughter, Military, Men

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I guess the worst day I have had was when I had to stand up in rehab in front of my wife and daughter and say 'Hi, my name is Sam and I am an addict.'

Samuel L. Jackson

Daughter, Recovery, Names

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If the whole world is evil, then the tragedy that befell you is justified," she went on. "That would make it easier for you to accept the deaths of your wife and daughters. But if good people do exist, then, however much you deny it, your life will be unbearable; because fate set a trap for you, and you know you didn't deserve it. It isn't the light you want to recover, it's the certainty that there is only darkness.

Paulo Coelho

Daughter, Fate, Light

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On 3 things in his bucket list: On my bucket list... Uhm, the question is totally catching me by surprise. Some more travel, spending quality time with my family and just getting the most I can out of my wife and daughter.

Gabriel Macht

Daughter, Mother, Wife

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I've always loved the music... My favorite kind of music is Christmas music and the only thing I love better music is my wife and daughters. So, hanging out with my wife and daughters and cuddling them will be pretty cool.

Keith Getty

Daughter, Love Is, Cuddling

"Composer/performer Keith Getty is celebrating an Irish Christmas at venues across the USA". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. December 5, 2014.

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If Courtezans and Strumpets were to be prosecuted with as much Rigour as some silly People would have it, what Locks or Bars would be sufficient to preserve the Honour of our Wives and Daughters?

Bernard de Mandeville

Daughter, Silly, Wife

Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.48, Jazzybee Verlag

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The Greatest Happiness is to scatter your enemy and drive him before you. To see his cities reduced to ashes. To see those who love him shrouded and in tears. And to gather to your bosom his wives and daughters.

Genghis Khan

Happiness, Daughter, Cities

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