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Quotes About Daughter

To be the rocket, she had to be with her sisters, and she had to set her daughter free.
~ Ann Napolitano
Walter Parmenter sometimes seemed to his daughter a restless subterranean force held together by rituals.
~ Anne Rivers Siddons
There once was a miller with a daughter as lovely as a grape. He told the king that she could spin gold out of common straw. The king summoned the girl and locked her in a room full of straw and told her to spin it into gold or she would die like a criminal. Poor grape with no one to pick. Luscious and round and sleek. Poor thing. To die and never see Brooklyn. (Rumpelstiltskin)
~ Anne Sexton
Everyone has the right to live her own life, NO parent can destroy the youth and joy of their child. They use all kinds of excuses to try and cover their selfishness but if the daughter or son do take the bit in their teeth and LIVE the mother always gets on allright.
~ Annejet van der Zijl
I really like sitting down with my daughter to watch programmes like 'Call the Midwife,' '24 hours in A&E,' 'One Born Every Minute' and 'Our Girl.' It's just the two of us, which is really nice.
~ Fiona Bruce
I'm in the middle of my own 'Project Runway' challenge given to me by my daughter's preschool. All the parents have to make an outfit for their kids, for school pictures, made entirely out of recycled objects. I can not believe I have homework.
~ Busy Philipps
I'd promised my older daughter Rhianna I was going to get a medal for her, and in my mind I was thinking, 'I can't let her down.'
~ Mo Farah
I'll be so excited to take my daughter to her first fashion show, but I think, for her, it's best to wait until she's old enough to appreciate it. Or, at least, until she can pronounce the designer's names!
~ Julia Restoin Roitfeld
I obviously want to give a healthy body image to my own daughter. I think having good examples, eating properly, that's all one can do - and just be really loving around her. I've tried to give her confidence in who she is. I think she's all right in the confidence department.
~ Geri Halliwell
Having a daughter has reawakened my sense of feminism. I want to protect her.
~ Abi Morgan
I like all the angels around because they protect me and my daughter. I mean, her Dad's an angel.
~ Courtney Love
You must understand, that for a daughter to protect her father's image is natural; Freud built a whole career around it.
~ Arnon Goldfinger
Well, I don't have a father, so there's no daddy being protective of the daughter.
~ Maria Brink
I am blessed to be a proud father of a daughter.
~ Adnan Sami
There is nothing that anybody could do to make me any prouder of my daughter than what she's accomplishing at Harvard.
~ Cris Collinsworth
To an old father, nothing is more sweet than a daughter. Boys are more spirited, but their ways are not so tender.
~ Euripides
A mile from the sea, where pines give way to dusty poplars, is an isolated railroad stop, whence one June morning in 1925 a victoria brought a woman and her daughter down to Gausse's Hotel. The mother's face was of a fading prettiness that
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
The present was the thing--work to do and someone to love. But not to love too much, for he knew the injury that a father can do to a daughter or a mother to a son by attaching them too closely: afterward, out in the world, the child would seek in the marriage partner the same blind tenderness and, failing probably to find it, turn against love and life
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
My daughter was five when I was writing 'Minari,' very much close to the age of David. And I was about to turn 40, which was the age my dad was when he decided he was going to start this farm in Arkansas.
~ Lee Isaac Chung
My morning ritual is to get up and feed the dogs, take my daughter to school, and come home.
~ Richard Dean Anderson
My daughter criticizes me constructively. She gives me good and honest feedback.
~ Arvind Swami
I had my daughter in 2013, we moved to L.A. and there's just lots of things that were happening that were feeding into the desire to tell a story that's more personal and to talk about what it's like to be a father.
~ Lee Isaac Chung
I covered Kennedy when she was three years old and the darling daughter of President Kennedy who doted on her and whose mother did everything to protect her from the prying press.
~ Helen Thomas
My first drag role was the character Widow Simone in the ballet 'La Fille Mal Gardee.' She's a crazy social climbing woman trying to marry off her daughter to the wealthy town idiot. And in the middle of the show, she gets to perform a clog dance. I loved it.
~ Jinkx Monsoon