Quotes About A Daughter Growing Up

#1. It's not always easy being her daughter.'
I think,' she said, 'sometimes it's hard no matter whose daughter you are.

Sarah Dessen

#2. I would compare it to an actor. I drive myself into the character that later on is in the ring.

Wladimir Klitschko

#3. It's great for my daughter to see Beyonce and Taylor Swift, women that are in charge of their own careers, writing songs from their own perspective and taking people to task. That's very different from when I was growing up - it was all like, 'Stand by your man.'

Corin Tucker

#4. Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.

Natasha Trethewey

#5. So this judge in Virginia rules that a lesbian wasn't fit to raise her own daughter because she might grow up to be a lesbian, and gives custody to the lesbian's mother. And I'm thinking, "She's already raised one lesbian."

Chris Cannon

#6. When we look at that jingoism and the sexism and the racism and the homophobia, that's not who we are, and that's not the country that I want my daughter to grow up in.

Chelsea Clinton

#7. 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

#8. Atticus's wisdom; he was growing old and he wanted to die safe in the knowledge that his daughter could fend for herself.

Harper Lee

#9. 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

#10. You can only be connected to others if you are connected to yourself and the truth inside.

Elie Tahari

#11. Whatever you do don't let anybody talk you into doing something about the way you look ever.

John Casablancas

#12. I hope that you will be asked to participate in a trial at some stage in your disease

Ben Goldacre

#13. I just wanted my daughter to grow up, get married, have children and get divorced like everyone else.

Cher

#14. To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.

Euripides

#15. When I was 16, I definitely burned a couple of bridges by saying, 'I won't do this!' I was not diplomatic about it. I came to a fitting and was like, 'I don't wear fur; cancel this show!'

Cameron Russell

#16. If there is anything in the world that can really be called a mans property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#17. Some folks of cider make a rout
And cider's well enough no doubt
When better liquors fail;
But wine, that's richer, better still,
Ev'n wine itself (deny't who will)
Must yield to nappy ale

John Gay

#18. When I was growing up in the 50s it wasn't quite the same. Fathers were more protective and now they see all of the possibilities for their daughters.

Nancy Pelosi

#19. When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.

Jaclyn Smith

#20. Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious.

William Shatner

#21. Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.

Thomas Aquinas

#22. I have a daughter, and fairies meant a lot to her growing up.

Michael Sheen

#23. Who can describe the transports of a beam truly parental on beholding a daughter shoot up like some fair and modest flower, and acquire, day after day, fresh beauty and growing sweetness, so as to fill every eye with pleasure and every heart with admiration?

George Fordyce

#24. I would never suggest anyone to stay at a company more than six or seven years. We grow as individuals and the world is moving so fast. Typically, I'll always sell a piece of each of my companies along the way.

J. Christopher Burch

#25. Some people turn from God because they cannot understand how a good God can permit evil in the world.

Walter Lang

#26. As the daughter of immigrants, growing up in New York City, you are either at the table or on the menu.

Grace Meng

#27. Hello, my sister, Libby, also your daughter, is snogging a potato in my bed. What are you going to do about it?' Dad started yelling uncontrollably. I wonder if he is having the male menopause? If he starts growing breasts, I will definitely be running away with the circus.

Louise Rennison

#28. I'm grateful for my health, glad I'm making people laugh, glad my wife still likes me after a lotta years, grateful my daughter is growing, glad I don't take myself too seriously, glad L.A. has Astro Burger, grateful to be coming home to Harlem soon. It's a gratitude list. It works.

David Alan Basche

#29. The problem with being a modern woman, I thought, as the front door swung wide, is that you have to pretend to be stronger than you are.

Darcey Steinke

#30. I was very protected growing up. My dad was very strict with me. I was the oldest of four kids, and there are three girls. So I kind of paved the way of what it was like to raise a teenage daughter.

Dominik Garcia-Lorido

#31. We are often sad and suffer a lot when things change, but change and impermanence have a positive side. Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible. Life itself is possible ... If your daughter is not impermanent, she cannot grow up to become a woman. Then your grandchildren would never manifest.

Nhat Hanh