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Quotes About Daughters

We're your daughters, mister. We're your girlfriends, we're your sisters, we're your precious baby girls. Goddammit, listen.
~ Colleen Curran
Discriminating and broad-minded criticism is what the South needs,--needs it for the sake of own white sons and so daughters, and for the insurance of robust, healthy mental and moral development.
~ W E B Du Bois
Gnostic manuscripts lead people to an understanding of themselves as sons and daughters of God, sharing God's Divinity.
~ Laurence Galian
What the mud had been doing with itself, or where it came from, who could say? But it seemed to collect in a moment, as a crowd will, and in five minutes to have splashed all the sons and daughters of Adam.
~ Charles Dickens
Fabled by the daughters of memory. And yet it was in some way if not as memory fabled it. A phrase, then, of impatience, thud of Blake's wings of excess. I hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppling masonry, and time one livid final flame. What's left of us then?
~ James Joyce
My journey started with the understanding that poor parents share the universal desire for education for their children. No family in our experience has ever turned down educational support for their daughter.
~ Ann Cotton
As a result of Title IX, and a new generation of parents who want their daughters to have the opportunities they never had, women's sports have arrived.
~ Sheryl Swoopes
The best way for us to cultivate fearlessness in our daughters and other young women is by example.
~ Gloria Steinem
I grew up in a makeup chair, to see! the women around me getting ready was so aspirational, It is about mothers and daughters, a girl watching her mom at a vanity table.
~ Drew Barrymore
And people in America are very practical people across the political spectrum. Very conservative women want their kids, their daughters taking birth control.
~ Howard Dean
I have two daughters, it really means a lot to me to have two women standing now and being the PM.
~ Iain Duncan Smith
I love women. I actually prefer girls, as a parent, because they disappoint at a different age. They go through that, "Dad's an idiot," which lasted a little longer than I'd like.
~ Tim Allen
It is a mother's duty to teach her daughters about the uses of blood, particularly a magical daughter.
~ Zen Cho, Sorcerer to the Crown
We are all daughters of God in various stages of construction.
~ Shannon L. Alder
She was mined for the childrenin her, one daughter, then another, a short seam, quick to clay, and not a single son to save them.
~ Robert Wrigley
I look forward to the day that I can go with my daughters to the polling station for them to cast their first vote.
~ Sadiq Khan
Her religious beliefs went first, for all she could ask of a god, or of immortality, was the gift of a place where daughters love their mothers; the other attributes of Heaven you could have for a song.
~ Thornton Wilder
You, too, women, cast away all the cowards from your embraces; they will give you only cowards for children, and you who are the daughters of the land of beauty must bear children who are noble and brave.
~ Giuseppe Garibaldi
We pour water upon the child and name it. Not to fix it in our hearts but in our clutches. The daughters of men sit in half darkened closets inscribing messages upon their arms with razorblades and sleep is no part of their life.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Women accept [man-made] conventions, repeat them, enforce them upon their daughters; but they originate with men.
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
For the truth is we can teach our daughters and take them to Sunday school and a healthy church—all important things—but spiritual growth happens through our example and what goes on in our homes on a day-to-day basis in the
~ Cheri Fuller
We've begun to raise daughters more like sons, but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
~ Gloria Steinem
And I tell you, having girls has made me a much better man. I have friends who are fathers, but they only have boys, and they have the same attitude toward women they always had, you know? And I don't play that… My girls, you mess with them? I will bury you underground.
~ Mark Wahlberg
I am a man who refuses to be a hypocrite and I like and must be just, fair and honest; women for me are more important than oxygen because they are our mothers, sisters, wives and daughters. Women are our companions, our beloved soul mates and the sisters of men
~ Hal Lindsey