Top 100 Only Daughter Sayings

#1. You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care - to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel?

Oscar Wilde

Only Daughter Sayings #184472
#2. Truth was the only daughter of Time.

Leonardo Da Vinci

Only Daughter Sayings #293811
#3. I always say it was great for God to send his only son, but I'm waiting for him to send his only daughter. Then things will really be great.

Candace Pert

Only Daughter Sayings #753439
#4. Katherine Sedley was the only daughter and heiress to the libertine poet Sir Charles Sedley, and grew into a thoroughly scandalous lady in her own right.

Susan Holloway Scott

Only Daughter Sayings #1067579
#5. You know, I have had a terrible life. I married two men I really didn't like. My only daughter was killed in a car accident. My brother committed suicide. Has my life been a life for anyone to envy?

Clare Boothe Luce

Only Daughter Sayings #1180766
#6. Tack studied him. Then quietly, he stated, "She's my only daughter, man."
"And she's the only woman I've ever loved, Tack," Shy shot back instantly.

Kristen Ashley

Only Daughter Sayings #1371106
#7. We [ with Italo Calvino] had a great relationship. I don't think it's a coincidence that his only daughter's name is Giovanna. I loved his book dedications to me: "To Giovanna Cau, another book that won't be turned into a movie."

Giovanna Cau

Only Daughter Sayings #1391661
#8. Donald is not sure what the universe was trying to tell him by taking away his only daughter, but here is what he learned: no one can put a price on losing everything. And another thing: all your future histories can be destroyed in a single moment.

Nicola Yoon

Only Daughter Sayings #1591481
#9. There's a kind of intimacy that happens between a mother and an only child. Which only gets more intimate when it's between a mother and only daughter.

Leigh Newman

Only Daughter Sayings #1629049
#10. Me, sir! What has it to do with me? You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care - to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel? Good morning, Mr. Worthing!

Oscar Wilde

Only Daughter Sayings #1674847
#11. Well, I think it's because I'm an only daughter. I have four brothers, a bunch of guy cousins, and so it's like I was raised amongst men. So I've always gotten along really well with men.

Alicia Machado

Only Daughter Sayings #1716868
#12. The mother I'm completely over but the daughter I love to death. The mother I'd like to love to death." "Heh." "Don't do me any favors; only laugh if it's funny." "It is!

Ned Vizzini

Only Daughter Sayings #22041
#13. A good dad will fulfill his daughter's request - but only if it's the right gift, at the right time. Sometimes he may give the gracious gift of saying no. But always - always - he cares about his child's request.

Stephanie Rische

Only Daughter Sayings #35323
#14. And despite being seventeen - Hattori Mariko knew her place in life. She would marry Minamoto Raiden. Her parents would have the prestige of a daughter in the Heian Castle. And Mariko would be the only one to know the stain on that honor.

Renee Ahdieh

Only Daughter Sayings #39846
#15. My daughter is a preschooler but I have only known her for a while. She is adopted.

Nia Vardalos

Only Daughter Sayings #48478
#16. I think that's when I understood that you only ruined my life because my life needed ruining. Because the life you rejected demanded that I spend all my time telling my daughter to be less and my son to be more.

Courtney Milan

Only Daughter Sayings #72800
#17. Fhairshon had a son, Who married Noah's daughter, And nearly spoiled to Flood, By trinking up ta water: Which he would have done, I at least believe it, Had the mixture peen Only half Glenlivet.

William Edmondstoune Aytoun

Only Daughter Sayings #73075
#18. He leaned toward her, his face only a breath away. His intense look captured her fully. His words rumbled from his chest. If you love me, kiss me.

Melanie Dickerson

Only Daughter Sayings #74679
#19. Daughter of Bast, she replied, with a little bow. Cats liked to be reminded that they had once been worshiped. They pretended that they didn't, that they were above flattery, but of course, that only meant that they were all the more susceptible to it.

Anonymous

Only Daughter Sayings #99722
#20. I've always loved the music ... My favorite kind of music is Christmas music and the only thing I love better music is my wife and daughters. So, hanging out with my wife and daughters and cuddling them will be pretty cool.

Keith Getty

Only Daughter Sayings #100966
#21. The way I listen to music goes in waves depending on a lot of things. How busy I am, if I'm in between composition projects, if I'm starting a new project. So, the only time I listen to the radio for music is with my daughter's when I'm driving them to school, or driving them somewhere.

Tod Machover

Only Daughter Sayings #106490
#22. I find myself getting so upset because I was never able to be a good mother for my daughter or a good grandmother for my granddaughter because I was always so sick. I only hope that I can live long enough to see my granddaughter graduate.

Dorothy Moore

Only Daughter Sayings #115833
#23. But when he looked her in the eye and spoke quietly to her and only her, it filled an empty place inside her, and even made her eyes misty. It made her believe that she was just as worthy as a wealthy daughter of a nobleman. Or

Melanie Dickerson

Only Daughter Sayings #153586
#24. When I was pregnant, I had the romantic idea that after the baby was born I would not only take up reading in earnest again, but also write a novel while my daughter slept in her Moses basket. Of course, I barely had time to keep up with my magazines until she started sleeping properly.

Kate Beckinsale

Only Daughter Sayings #177643
#25. I am my mother's daughter, ... I am her only novel.

Marge Piercy

Only Daughter Sayings #183771
#26. Romans marveled that in Egypt female children were not left to die; a Roman was obligated to raise only his first-born daughter.

Stacy Schiff

Only Daughter Sayings #203986
#27. On her daughter Melissa: The only time she really cried is when I sat her down and told her that she was not adopted.

Joan Rivers

Only Daughter Sayings #223843
#28. Our sons and daughters are only passing through ... If we are lucky, they always will consider our home their harbor, but they are headed out to the open sea, almost from the first.

Jacquelyn Mitchard

Only Daughter Sayings #231777
#29. How many of the people I know - sons and daughters - have intricate abstract expressionist paintings of their mothers, created out of their own emotions, attitudes, hands. And how many have only Polaroid pictures of their fathers.

Ellen Goodman

Only Daughter Sayings #234359
#30. Looking back, I'm so proud to have gone to five Olympics - I believe only three other Americans have achieved that. My true gold medal, though, is my daughter, Karsen, who is 18 months old. And I have a wonderful husband, Mike.

Gail Devers

Only Daughter Sayings #243469
#31. Morality measured in centimeters: all mothers believe that only their daughters dance decently.

Jose Bergamin

Only Daughter Sayings #243864
#32. Derek cuddled his daughter against his shoulder and spoke in a mixture of baby words and cockney, a language only she seemed to understand.

Lisa Kleypas

Only Daughter Sayings #274070
#33. My relationship with my daughter is gonna affect her relationship with men for the rest of her life ... Sometimes I'm walking with my daughter. I'm pushing her in the stroller, and sometimes I just pick her up and stare at her, and I realize, my only job in life is to keep her off the pole.

Chris Rock

Only Daughter Sayings #281667
#34. The Lord spoke to her of his love for her-that she was his daughter, that he cared for her, that he had died for her. He said that he would have died if she had been the only one. He would have suffered at Calvary for her sins, if hers had been the only ones.

Carlfred Broderick

Only Daughter Sayings #282548
#35. There is no death, daughter.
People die only when we forget them.

Isabel Allende

Only Daughter Sayings #287925
#36. Knowing the only way out is education, even if you don't have parents that are extraordinarily wealthy. I understand that I have to be an active participant in [my daughter's] education in order for her to thrive in the world.

Viola Davis

Only Daughter Sayings #298934
#37. Since my daughter is only half-Jewish, could she go in the water up to her knees?

Groucho Marx

Only Daughter Sayings #309511
#38. Women not only get violated, but then we take on the struggle to end it too ... As a man, how could the destruction of women be anything to you but devastating? Think about the fact that the women being hurt are your mothers, daughters, sisters.

Eve Ensler

Only Daughter Sayings #319773
#39. Generation after generation of women have pledged to raise their daughters differently, only to find that their daughters grow up and fervently pledge the same thing.

Elizabeth Debold

Only Daughter Sayings #343562
#40. Alone, there is only the person inside. I've grown to like her better than the stuck-up husk of me. Alone, there is no perfect daughter, no gifted high school junior, no Kristina Georgia Snow. There is only Bree. (Ellen Hopkins)

Ellen Hopkins

Only Daughter Sayings #367646
#41. It is the lesbian in us who is creative, for the dutiful daughter of the fathers in us is only a hack.

Adrienne Rich

Only Daughter Sayings #377797
#42. I lend my daughter beauty products, but only as a treat. If she's going to a party, I'll let her borrow a mascara or moisturizer.

Kate Winslet

Only Daughter Sayings #382267
#43. Because you are afraid that only the sight of your daughter's pain can bring you sadness over Janie's death.

Sarah M. Cradit

Only Daughter Sayings #385714
#44. I only have two rules for my newly born daughter: she will dress well and never have sex.

John Malkovich

Only Daughter Sayings #390278
#45. More worryingly, my baby fangs were out, which usually happened only when I was perilously close to tipping over into Mr. Hyde territory. I quickly drew them back in. It didn't help much. I still looked like Dracula's daughter. Which was completely unfair, since he'd only been an uncle.

Karen Chance

Only Daughter Sayings #393151
#46. It is not in the bright, happy day, but only in the solemn night, that other worlds are to be seen shining in their long, long distances. And it is in sorrow - the night of the soul - that we see farthest, and know ourselves natives of infinity, and sons and daughters of the Most High.

William Mountford

Only Daughter Sayings #439592
#47. What right did my father have to the details of my life? He squandered his chance to be the protective father. You can't come rushing to the rescue six months later. I wasn't a person to be saved only when it was a convenient time to swoop in.

Tayari Jones

Only Daughter Sayings #449702
#48. Our rages, daughters of despair, creep and squirm like worms. Prayer is the only form of revolt which remains upright.

Georges Bernanos

Only Daughter Sayings #452537
#49. If he had another brother he would call him. But for a brother he has only Jerry and Jerry has only him. For a daughter he has only Merry. For a father she has only him. There is no way around any of this.

Philip Roth

Only Daughter Sayings #468016
#50. Normally I give permission to take my daughter for a walk after only the building of a wall and a stone pathway.' He smiled. 'For future reference.'
'But, Pan, I knew after the first week that a walk was not the only thing I would request,' the Pigeon said, smiling, 'and winter will be here soon.

Brigid Pasulka

Only Daughter Sayings #503440
#51. I knew that a man was not only himself but also who he wished to be.

Stephanie Dray

Only Daughter Sayings #504209
#52. Being a daughter is only half the equation; bearing one is the other.

Erica Jong

Only Daughter Sayings #516443
#53. When my daughter looks at me, she sees a small old lady. That is because she sees only with her outside eyes. She has no chuming , no inside knowing of things. If she had chuming, she would see a tiger lady. And she would have careful fear.

Amy Tan

Only Daughter Sayings #592939
#54. Children make the best measurements of time. It is only when I see the son or daughter of a friend or relative over periods of time, do I realize how much time has passed based on how much they've grown.

Suzy Kassem

Only Daughter Sayings #594864
#55. Ruth had come so far and lived so lonely only to learn that she was the daughter of a rapist and a murderer. She was half-sister to a smug fool who would probably have used Phoebe as ill as his father, had he been given the chance.

Anita Diamant

Only Daughter Sayings #599581
#56. The greatest power God has given to His sons cannot be exercised without the companionship of one of his daughters, because only to his daughters has God given the power to be a creator of bodies so that God's design and the great plan might meet fruition.

Dallin H. Oaks

Only Daughter Sayings #604471
#57. I only had access to him when we were together in the library, and I loved them both -the library and my father- equally and without question.

Alice Hoffman

Only Daughter Sayings #612858
#58. 'Landfill' by Daughter has calming, rich tones that are only improved upon by the gorgeous voice of Daughter.

Ben Lovett

Only Daughter Sayings #619216
#59. I have to tell you, my seven-year-old granddaughter said to my daughter, her mother, 'So what's the big deal about Grandma Maddy having been Secretary of State? Only girls are Secretaries of State.' Most of her lifetime, it's true. But at the time it really was a big deal.

Madeleine Albright

Only Daughter Sayings #624453
#60. Why doesn't anyone tell you we all wind up married to Henry the VIII?...
...My dear Anne Boleyn,...the only way a woman can avoid waking up next to Henry is to model herself after his daughter Elizabeth and sleep next to no one at all.

Judith Claire Mitchell

Only Daughter Sayings #665887
#61. I can only imagine how that went. Oh, hello. Your daughter is a Silver now, and she's going to marry a prince. You'll never see her again, but we'll send you some money to help out. Even trade, don't you think?

Victoria Aveyard

Only Daughter Sayings #706875
#62. Have you totally lost your mind? I'm not going to tell your daughter you're dying!" "It's the only way she'll come." Sam Paris held Luke's gaze and refused to back down. He ran a hand over his red and silver whiskers, took a long drink of bourbon, then set the empty glass down on the kitchen table.

Debby Conrad

Only Daughter Sayings #713737
#63. How could I persuade the in-laws I was the right one for their daughter when, instead of focusing on small talk, all I could think about was not to kill them? I could only imagine what I'd say to the prospective in-laws, Hello, it's a pleasure to eat, I mean, meet you.

Jayde Scott

Only Daughter Sayings #715100
#64. I must not linger on details, daughter, because if we dally, this account may be left unfinished, and no one wants to read hundreds of quartos only to find that the story has no clear ending.

Isabel Allende

Only Daughter Sayings #719110
#65. People say it takes a village to raise a child. People ask me how my daughter is doing. She's only doing good if your daughter's doing good. We're all one family.

Kanye West

Only Daughter Sayings #727131
#66. My daughter, the Butterfly Girl, is 21 years old. She is not married. That third verse, in Butterfly Kisses, where I marry her off is only an "artists projection" to when she's 85 and out of the convent!

Bob Carlisle

Only Daughter Sayings #734894
#67. I'd never trade my old girl for all the money in the world. I'd never trade my daughter Toya for all the money in the world. I'd never trade my only boy for all the money in the world. I put my last name first!

Rick Ross

Only Daughter Sayings #742661
#68. He smiled at me and I felt the tenderness only a daughter could feel.

Nancy B. Brewer

Only Daughter Sayings #752230
#69. Female education ... has occupied my attention so far only as the education of my own daughters ... I thought it essential to give them a solid education which might enable them, when become mothers, to educate their own daughters, and even to direct the course for sons, should their fathers be ...

Thomas Jefferson

Only Daughter Sayings #768467
#70. The mother is only really the mistress of her daughter upon the condition of continually representing herself to her as a model of wisdom and type of perfection

Alexandre Dumas

Only Daughter Sayings #783618
#71. How old was More when Richard succeeded?
He was five.
When that dramatic council scene had taken place at the Tower, Thomas More had been five years old. He had been only eight when Richard died at Bosworth.
Everything in that history had been hearsay.

Josephine Tey

Only Daughter Sayings #788113
#72. Pa? You never said. What'm I gonna be? Good or bad?
He kisses the top of my head. Whispers in my ear, so's only him and me can hear. You, my darlin daughter, are gonna be somethin else entirely.

Moira Young

Only Daughter Sayings #798327
#73. We've tried to keep her connected to her Chinese background and we've always felt really good about that, but what if, instead of building her Chinese identity, it's only served to make her feel separate from us and not 100 percent our daughter?

Lisa See

Only Daughter Sayings #836607
#74. i'm sorry
if i
wasn't
the daughter
you had
in mind
-i only ever wanted to make you proud-

Amanda Lovelace

Only Daughter Sayings #840242
#75. I think we're different, but we are very similar in a lot of ways, and we really complement each other in real life and on screen. Cameron [Diaz], for me, is like the teacher. And Kate's [Uptone] like my daughter. She's only five years older than my daughter, and so, I always wanted to protect her.

Leslie Mann

Only Daughter Sayings #844411
#76. There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher's daughter.

George Orwell

Only Daughter Sayings #860095
#77. They both began to giggle and then they fell into a side splitting round of laughter, the cleansing, complete sort of laughter only a mother and daughter can share.

Karen Kingsbury

Only Daughter Sayings #864362
#78. The only reason my daughter has not come home is because someone is keeping her." Keeping her.

Karin Slaughter

Only Daughter Sayings #872676
#79. Who among us is free? Only those who see their chains know what freedom means.-pg. 123 Welland Hevington, A Memoir The Demon's Daughter

Emma Holly

Only Daughter Sayings #918876
#80. I find relief from the questions only when I concede that I am not obliged to know everything. I remind myself it is sufficient to know what I know, and that what I know, may not always be true.

Maya Angelou

Only Daughter Sayings #920240
#81. Ungrace causes cracks to fissure open between mother and daughter, father and son, brother and sister, between scientists, and prisoners, and tribes, and races. Left alone, cracks widen, and for the resulting chasms of ungrace there is only one remedy: the frail rope-bridge of forgiveness.

Philip Yancey

Only Daughter Sayings #937312
#82. Would make me blind to the needs of my country, while you and these others, having only love for country and none for my daughter, must be considered neutral?

Cameron Dokey

Only Daughter Sayings #955046
#83. But Phoebe loved her mother best as she was now, wistful, out-of-step, her laugh tinged always with sadness, as if things were only funny in spite of themselves.

Jennifer Egan

Only Daughter Sayings #975232
#84. Although I am nine months pregnant, although I have had plenty of time to dream, I have not really considered the specifics of this child. I have thought of this daughter only in terms of what she will be able to do for the daughter I already have.

Jodi Picoult

Only Daughter Sayings #992143
#85. So please try to keep in mind that, when I plague you, I do so because you're the only person I can plague.

Kellyn Roth

Only Daughter Sayings #1005188
#86. For Courtney's whole life, seeing the world had only been a dream, but now, as Adrian Diamond's daughter, it could be a reality.

Michelle Madow

Only Daughter Sayings #1021464
#87. Well, sir, embrace me once, as you would embrace your daughter, and I swear to you that that kiss, the only chaste kiss I have ever had, will make me strong against my love, and that within a week your son will be once more at your side, perhaps unhappy for a time, but cured forever.

Alexandre Dumas-fils

Only Daughter Sayings #1026128
#88. Obviously, my daughter keeps me motivated, but I've got a really great support system. Having my husband and my mother and my family really support me, so that I can not only provide for my daughter, but I can set up a future that creates a better life for her.

Jamie Lynn Spears

Only Daughter Sayings #1073651
#89. In 'Laurence Anyways,' Nathalie Baye is Laurence's mother, and she is quite an awful mother. Still, she is the only one in the end who truly accepts her daughter.

Xavier Dolan

Only Daughter Sayings #1076431
#90. My heart broke not only for the daughter who already was forced to become her mother's alarmingly narrow ideal, but also for the middle daughter who knew that her in mother's mind she had already failed.

Alexandra Robbins

Only Daughter Sayings #1096766
#91. A mother comforts, a mother cleans. A mother gives when any reasonable person would deny. Life might affix any number of labels to Vera- Russian, pensioner, widow, daughter- but when she looked to her washed-out reflection in the bathroom mirror, she saw only Lydia's mother.

Anthony Marra

Only Daughter Sayings #1111851
#92. It is true that the movie is perhaps my most politically-charged. The story is thrust into motion by the idea of what do you do when your 13 year old daughter comes home pregnant. And not only is she pregnant, but she wants to keep the baby.

Todd Solondz

Only Daughter Sayings #1123075
#93. It was an oddly satisfying idea to feel bereft as I left my mother this time. We only feel bereft when we're deprived of something meaningful.

Laura Anderson Kurk

Only Daughter Sayings #1125746
#94. 35While He was still speaking, some came from the ruler of the synagogue's house who said, "Your daughter is dead. Why trouble the Teacher any further?" 36As soon as Jesus heard the word that was spoken, He said to the ruler of the synagogue, "Do not be afraid; only believe.

Anonymous

Only Daughter Sayings #1145532
#95. Your scars only make you dearer to me, reminding me of what a hero you are. My eyes behold the most handsome man in the world.

Melanie Dickerson

Only Daughter Sayings #1193543
#96. In the meantime, Mary's mother continued to stock her daughter's 'bottom drawer' which she started when Mary was only five years old. When we got engaged the 'drawer' was already well stocked but by the time we got married it was more like a well-endowed wardrobe.

John L. Fear

Only Daughter Sayings #1205298
#97. From the day I was born I have always loved action more than words. But now only words are left.

Sattareh Farman Farmaian

Only Daughter Sayings #1240781
#98. In a corner of her heart she imagined her compassion as kindling that could ignite not only her tender and guarded feelings for her mother, but also jump across the void and ignite her mother's feelings for her.

Sonja Yoerg

Only Daughter Sayings #1257027
#99. But Dad and I are the only father-and-daughter acts who have both had No. 1 songs in England.

Lily Allen

Only Daughter Sayings #1302393
#100. I've only just arrived, Kate. It may surprise you to learn that you were my top priority.

Trenton Lee Stewart

Only Daughter Sayings #1308295

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