Your Daughter Quotes

I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.(IAGO,ActI,SceneI)

William Shakespeare

Daughter, Two, Beast

'Othello' (1602-4) act 1, sc. 1, l. [117]

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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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To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.

Euripides

Mother Daughter, Fathers Day, Dad

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A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.

Gaspard Mermillod

Relationship, Mothers Day, Mom

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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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Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.

Clementine Paddleford

Inspirational, Strength, Encouraging

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A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future.

Bruce Barton

Mom, Mother Daughter, Memories

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There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself.

John Gregory Brown

Running, Mother Daughter, Fathers Day

John Gregory Brown (2001). “Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery”, p.68, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.

Garrison Keillor

Daughter, Fathers Day, Running

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When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

Sophia Loren

Motivational, Family, Mothers Day

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Our daughters are the most precious of our treasures, the dearest possessions of our homes and the objects of our most watchful love.

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

Birthday, Thank You, Mother Daughter

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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter.

Joseph Addison

Thank You, Daughter, Children

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The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.

Anita Diament

Daughter, Mother, Stronger

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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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I try to be a good daughter, as I believe in karma and feel that how you are with your parents is directly proportionate to what you receive in your life. I am a big oneness follower, and our gurus have told us that if you want to achieve external happiness, you need to be happy internally. And your inner circle is your family.

Shilpa Shetty

Karma, Daughter, Believe

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If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?

Milton Berle

Funny, Mothers Day, Hilarious

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Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.

Jim Bishop

Daughter, Dad, Being Single

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My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.

Jodi Picoult

Love, Mothers Day, Beautiful

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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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A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

Agatha Christie

Love, Birthday, Family

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A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's.

Princess Diana

Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

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My daughter is the biggest gift; I've said it so many times and it sounds like a cliche, but the thing about being a parent is when you think you've cracked it, and you're on top of your game, they change again and you have to catch up and adjust. I feel such a responsibility to instill good values in her, to be polite, to have discipline.

Geri Halliwell

Daughter, Mother, Responsibility

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One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter.

Ace Frehley

Daughter, Mother, Greatest Gifts

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I have the most beautiful daughter in the world and I'm grateful for her.

Bethenny Frankel

Beautiful, Daughter, Mother

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A mother is the truest friend we have when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity.

Washington Irving

Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

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