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Quotes About Daughter

He put his hand out to his daughter, pulled her up easily over the edge. And then bent to gather the shoes and toys, swinging the canvas straps of the two toy machine guns over his shoulder (surprised to find that some mistaken memory had caused him—momentarily—to be surprised to find they had no weight). Jacob
~ Alice McDermott
In therapy Katya realized how much her relationship with her son had been burdened by the shadows of her childhood, and memories of her mother came back to her more and more clearly, memories of the way she had refused to relate to her eldest daughter. Katya was now able to feel her infant needs and express them in a diary, from which her friend sent me an excerpt after Katya's death:
~ Alice Miller
Please don't let Daddy die Susie, he whispered. I need him.
~ Alice Sebold
Let that be a lesson to you," her mother had said, wagging her finger at her daughter. "Those who use magic to find what they seek may not always like what they find.
~ Ami McKay
addition, it's often hard for fathers to understand how deeply a daughter's perception of her own appearance influences her perception of her own worthiness, health, or morality.
~ Joe Kelly
She needs you, Dad," Julia says. "She has unfinished business in this world." "What is the matter with you?" Charlie asks his daughter. "Any sane person would have told me to go to the doctor. I'm seeing a headless apparition every day. Maybe my medications are conflicting. You should see the list of side effects on this stuff.
~ Joey Comeau
It's not for Zeus's daughter to be A prey to common fears, I never feel Chill fingered panic's touch. But the horrors Creeping out of Old Night's womb Since the first beginnings of all things, 8940 With shapes as many as the fiery vapors Billowing from a crater's fiery mouth, Make even heroes' hearts turn faint. When
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I am my father's daughter. It was not up to me growing up. I was his hunting and fishing buddy, so I've been shooting my whole life.
~ Amber Heard
I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story.
~ Patti Smith
Death is my son-in-law. Death is my heir. My daughter he hath wedded. I will die, And leave him all. Life, living, all is Death's.
~ William Shakespeare
I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
~ Candice Bergen
To entrust to an editor a story over which you have labored and to which your name and reputation are attached can be like sending your daughter off for an evening with Ted Bundy.
~ Edna Buchanan
Beauty's sister is vanity, and its daughter lust.
~ Anonymous
A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future.
~ Anonymous
A daughter is a gift of love.
~ Anonymous
Mother, may I go out to swim?Yes, my darling daughter:Hang your clothes on a hickory limbAnd don't go near the water.
~ Anonymous
A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of her self.
~ Anonymous
Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.Favor is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.
~ Anonymous
To Noroway, to Noroway,To Noroway o'er the faem;The king's daughter o' Noroway,'Tis thou must bring her hame.
~ Anonymous: Ballads
Little Polly FlindersSat among the cinders,Warming her pretty little toes.Her mother came and caught her,And whipped her little daughterFor spoiling her nice new clothes.
~ Anonymous: Nursery Rhymes
I had a little nut tree, nothing would it bearBut a silver nutmeg and a golden pear;The king of Spain's daughter came to visit me,And all for the sake of my little nut tree.
~ Anonymous: Nursery Rhymes
I acted like a pro when it came to football... Then you also add the priority and responsibility of having a daughter and having a wife that you are not only the provider for, but obviously, I want to be a good husband and father.
~ Will Grier
I spent 19 years as a local government official; I spent two years in the Iowa Senate; my daughter is a public school teacher. We're all counting on IPERS. The public servants are counting on the system they were promised when entering public service.
~ Kim Reynolds
Between my two girls, Alia showed a natural flair for acting.
~ Soni Razdan