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Quotes About Daughter

Is that a nice thing to say to your mother? Oh, how true it is that it is sharper than a serpent's tooth to have a thankless child." "Is that a nice thing to say to your daughter?" said unrepentant Valancy.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Hurry up and get changed, and don't call my daughter a bitch again.' 'No promises,' Lois said. 'You know what she's doing as well as I do, Gene. She doesn't give a damn about Sonny, she just wants to hurt us and get a little attention while she's doing it. What is that but bitchery?
~ Larry McMurtry
If this sadness is something she has passed on, she wants to take it back, take all of it back and bear the burden herself. Make different choices, be braver, do just about anything so her daughter thinks she is worthy of getting everything that she needs as opposed to trying to figure out how to be better at giving it away.
~ Laura Dave
I'd grown up, and I was finally my father's daughter. Some choices you make with your heart, some with your head, but when in doubt choose head over heart—it will keep you alive.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
A mother teaches her daughter to perpetuate the tedious rituals of her own imperfect life. And by instilling in her child the virtues of order, she shows her how to keep the chaos at bay.
~ Lauren Fox
I'm not an etiquette expert, but I can't help feeling that knocking our hostess's daughter over a stone balcony might not be considered the most appropriate way to celebrate the first full day of our summer course.
~ Lauren Henderson
Every father wants a daughter to meet the right God, and the right man. Perhaps her father had failed with both.
~ Kathy Hepinstall, Blue Asylum
You daughter is prudish?" There was a gleam of triumph in Helena Winter's face. Fee grimaced. Prudish? No, not that she could claim. Far too mild a word for what she felt.
~ Mary Brock Jones, Torn
You may think I'm brave. But in the eyes of many people back in my country I am a coward. They think, this man gave so much freedom to his daughter, he broke all the traditions of our society.
~ Ziauddin Yousafzai
Yes, he had the heart to sacrifice his daughter, to bless the war that avenge the loss of a woman.
~ Aeschylus
Rumpelstiltskin's daughter was taken at once to the grand chamber where the king sat on his golden throne. He didn't waste time on idle pleasantries. "Where did you get this? " he asked, showing her the gold. "Uh...," said Rumpelstiltskin's daughter. "I thought so," said the king. "Guards, take her to the tower and see what she can do with all that straw.
~ Diane Stanley
Do they suit me? asked the king as he tried them on. "Absolutely," said Rumpelstiltskin's daughter. The guards just stood there, gnashing their teeth, clutching their swords, and peering about with shifty eyes. "Don't you think it's time you got rid of them?" she suggested. "And the walls and the moat and the crocodiles, too. You don't need them anymore--your people love you now.
~ Diane Stanley
Oh, my son's my son till he gets him a wife,But my daughter's my daughter all her life.
~ Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
mother of the bride had been determined that her daughter would have a church wedding, and women who successfully name their infant daughters Tiffany do tend to get their own way, so an evening wedding it was.
~ Donald E. Westlake
Angelica. My beloved daughter, the one true good thing I have done in this life.
~ Blackbeard
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
The birth of my daughter, gave me life.
~ Johnny Depp
I'm very jealous of my daughter's education. She's been inspired by her teachers, and nobody inspired me as a teenager.
~ Jenny Eclair
How is it possible that my sane and reasonable DNA created such a crazy daughter?
~ Jenny Han
He's giving me that look - sympathetic but also exasperated and mystified, like How is it possible that my sane and reasonable DNA created such a crazy daughter?
~ Jenny Han
We found out early that we were having a girl, and I was thrilled. My wish had come true. When I was pregnant with Maxwell, every sad thing in my life was forgotten or put into a healthy perspective. I know that was so much to put on her, but I couldn't help it. She saved me from all the worries, all the overthinking, all the dwelling on the past.
~ Jessica Simpson
It must be very nice to have a daughter. You cannot know how nice it is. It is like a second wife. My wife knows now all I think, all I say, all I believe, all I can do, all that I cannot do and cannot be. But now there is always someone you do not know, who does not know you, who loves you in ignorance and is strange to you both. Some one very attractive that is yours and not yours...
~ Ernest Hemingway
Proceed to reveal," the Gran Maestro said. "I proceed to reveal," the Colonel said. "Listen carefully, Daughter. This is the Supreme Secret. Listen. 'Love is love and fun is fun. But it is always so
~ Ernest Hemingway
for all her faults, they knew that at heart she was a loving and loyal sister and daughter.
~ Andrew Morton