Daughter Quotes
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"Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable."
"He wipes tears off my face and then snot. He uses his hands. He loves me that much."
"If he could not restore her to the status of a respectable woman, then Sohrab would make her into something else entirely, something hitherto unknown in their entire extended family, an educated woman, a professional woman."
"A mother gives you a life, a mother-in-law gives you her life."
"Nobility is a lie. A pretence that high standing comes from anything more than money or martial prowess. Any dolt can play the noble, and as you'll discover in time, daughter, it's mostly dolts who do."
"Mama said it's probably because of Suzanne, and that you are never the same after a child dies. That made me wonder what she was like before Clover died, because I don't think I really knew my own mother until I had children, and if she was different before, I don't remember."
Nancy E. Turner, These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901
"Parents expect only two things from their children, obedience in their childhood and respect in their adulthood."
"Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon."
"I cannot imagine how much I must’ve suffered in my previous lives to be fortunate enough to have parents like you in this life."
"Seed becomes tree, son becomes stranger."
"Angelina said, "Mom. I don't want you to die. That's the whole thing. You took from me the ability to care for you in your old age, and I wanted to be with you when you died, when you die. Mom. I wanted that."
"Her laughter was my favorite symphony."
"Love is when you have not been home for three months and call up home and your daughter picks up the phone and says "Papa, I love you!"
"Back in the day, it was either both a mother and her daughter had pubic hair, or the daughter didn’t. Today, in many a case, the mother is the one who doesn’t."
"The primary goal of a righteous parent who has a daughter is to minimize the number of boys and men for whom their daughter will have willingly opened her legs come her wedding day; the closer to zero, the more righteous they will seem."
"Viktor was swinging a leather duffle and wearing a black Adidas tracksuit and his favorite brown UGG slippers with a hole in the toe."Worn and old, just like Viv," he'd say when Frankie made fun of them, and then his wife would swat him on the arm. But Frankie knew he was just joking, because Viveka was the type of woman you wished was in a magazine just so you could stare at her violet-colored eyes and shiny black hair without being called a stalker or a freak."
"Mia: I was sixteen when I first realized my mom was more concerned about my appearance than I was… I’ll be talking to my mom and realize she hasn’t heard a word because she’s studying my face to see if the foundation I’m using is a good match for my skin tone."
"The best music I have ever heard is the sound of my daughter’s giggling."
"My wife divorced me because she could not trust me anymore.I never want a divorce because I love and care about our daughter."
"... He spoke in the deep tenderness of one about to leave his treasure amid perils and foes, where his remembered words would be the only aid he could bequeath to guide her."
"To the loyal and to the blood-lovers, in the good families and in the fiery dynasties, life is family and family is life. It is the same people who give advice and their vices to live well who turn out to be the ones who give resource and reason to live long."
"When I was your age, I would go to plays all the time, just sit in the darkness and try to take it all in inside me. Contain everything in some corner of my heart so that when I had my shot, it could all come pouring out - all the lights and moments and colour."
"If you want to fight hell and the power of darkness that seek to destroy the hearts of our daughters, I know a type of spiritual warfare that creates value in a daughter's spirit. It is called "Taking your Daughter out for tea" or "Going to Her Soccer Game", and it works in direct opposition to the agenda of hell and darkness that wants to destroy their lives."
Jim Anderson, Unmasked: Exposing the Cultural Sexual Assault
"My daughter and two sons are the flowers in my heart and garden."
"Maybe it's just a daughter's job to piss off her mother."
"I guess she was a life line Sewing our family fabric togetherFrom me to dad to herGave me a sense of continuity Especially when my daughter was bornAs she was slipping away"
"Fathers and daughters have a special bond. She is always daddy's little girl."
"The open forgiveness in her eyes, the uncensored love, terrified me."
"Nothing you could do would make me send you away. Nothing."
"A Mother & Daughter's Love Is Never Separated"
"Mom hadn't met Ramon; her advocacy was more arm's length - petitions, the website, letter writing, meetings with politicians. Her friend Hanna had formed a close friendship with Ramon though, visiting him as often as she could. Hanna told me that Ramon's greatest regret was that he wouldn't get to see his daughter grow up.And Jeremy's dad, who had that opportunity, was just throwing it away.It made me furious, and I couldn't let it go."
"Your daughter's coming of age, you ought to let her see the world a little."
"A daughter is a rainbow - a curve of light through scattered mist that lifts the spirit with her prismatic presence. Is a shadow - a reminder of something brilliant ducking out of sight, too easily drawn away. She is an aria, swelling within the concern chamber, an echo reverberating across a miniature sea. She is a secret, whispered, a hint of what we cannot know until it finds us. She is a sliver of her father, a shard of her mother. A daughter is a promise, kept."
"That night, when the creature sleeps, when he sleeps, the mother escapes into her daughters’ room. She tells her daughter that the creature’s afraid of her having too much love, too much heart. She takes a tube of lipstick and drags it across her finger like a knife, marking it across her daughter’s cheeks, red, blood, war paint."
"I never really grew up until I had kids."
"Do not expect too much from your child and she will grow in your love... But if you push her too much, you will push her away. A child is not yours to own but to raise. She may not be what you will have her to be, but she will be what she has to be. Remember what they say, that 'Wood may remain twenty years in the water, but it is still not a fish."
"Part of me shall dwell in my daughter to call upon in times of need of course."
"I was the problem and the solution."
"If you remember yourself, you will remember me. I am always a part of you. I am your mother."
"She's a people-mechanic and always knows when I'm malfunctioning."
"I felt like a trophy child, someone he had around to show off. It felt like it was more important that his daughter was perfect—but, I was his daughter and I was neither of those things. I worked hard to get my grades, and I tried so hard to meet his expectations, but I failed. Over and over again, I fell short. I didn't measure up. That feeling never faded."
"Are you going to spank me, daddy? I'm a very bad girl! (bending over naked)"Oh yeah daddy - spank my ass harder!!!"
"Be a hard worker. Work and happiness are like mother and daughter. Work brings forth happiness. Hard work brings great happiness. Enjoy life."
"Work and happiness are like mother and daughter; work brings forth happiness, but hard work brings forth great happiness!"
"On this Mother's Day and every day before and after, I thank you God for the precious gift of my three children. I love them unconditionally."
"It is not that you give birth to a child that matters most. Rather, it is what you birth into them."
"I love Alice more than life itself, but I can't keep her hidden forever."
"Exactly what are you wanting to teach your children? -How to love and care for themselves, or how to neglect and abandon themselves? Self-sarifice is NOT setting a good example."
Miya Yamanouchi, Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
"Every child gets a good mother, but not every mother gets a good child."
"Judith Rey watches the young woman. Once upon a time, I had a baby daughter. I dressed her in frilly frocks, enrolled her for ballet classes, and sent her to horse-riding camp five summers in a row. But look at her. She turned into Lester anyway. She kisses Luisa’s forehead. Luisa frowns, suspiciously, like a teenager. “What?"
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