Top 100 Quotes About A Daughter
#1. I'd rather have a daughter in a whorehouse than a son in the police force,' Esther used to rage to anyone who would listen.
John Waters
#2. When a daughter loses a mother, the intervals between grief responses lengthen over time, but her longing never disappears. It always hovers at the edge of her awareness, prepared to surface at any time, in any place, in the least expected ways.
Hope Edelman
#3. She was like a mother to me ... and I betrayed as a daughter will betray her mother and yet, never stop loving her.
Philippa Gregory
#4. My dad had once told me, crimson-red deep in "the talk," that with sons, all he had to worry about was one penis, but with a daughter, he had to worry about everyone else's.
Nicole Williams
#5. Women have a mother-nature and a daughter-nature; there are no women with a wife-nature. The quality of wife is an acquired character; it is a combination of mother and daughter.
Lu Xun
#6. I'm raising a daughter. I want to be able to say to her, "You can be anything you want. You can be the President of the United States." I'd love that.
Ainsley Earhardt
#7. You're a pure, holy angel of goodness, and I'm Satan's evil whore of a daughter. So yeah, we can't work. Thanks for pointing that out, Captain Obvious. But we can fuck.
Larissa Ione
#8. Do whatever you gotta do. Go fuck that girl six ways from Sunday."
Danny laughed, trying to keep his hand steady as he glanced up. "I hope you have a daughter one day."
Jake's face dropped. "Dude, fuck you, that's not even funny.
Priscilla Glenn
#9. Each of you is a daughter of God. Reflect on all the wondrous meaning of that one paramount fact.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#10. If I've learned anything as a mom with a daughter who's three, I've learned that you cannot judge the way another person is raising their kid. Everybody is just doing the best they can. It's hard to be a mom.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
#11. A daughter grows older and draws nearer to her mother, until she gradually overlaps her like a sewing pattern. But a son becomes some irreparably separate thing.
Brit Bennett
#12. Jack, I'm just telling you, if it turns out. . .I want you to shoot me."
"Dee - "
"I'm not kidding, not exaggerating, just telling you that I do not have it in me to handle that."
"You have a daughter, too. You don't have the luxury not to handle shit.
Blake Crouch
#13. Each woman brings her own separate, unique strengths to the family and the Church. Being a daughter of God means that if you seek it, you can find your true identity.
James E. Faust
#14. In those long-ago days I saw a daughter with a disability. Now I see a beautiful, engaging person with a different ability, one that has blessed her with extra gifts and special perceptions.
Lee Woodruff
#15. My Spanish is a daughter's Spanish. I write, but my Spanish really is very limited.
Sandra Cisneros
#16. - How does it feel to have a daughter?
- At times it's like holding a warm egg in my hand.
Clarice Lispector
#17. I'm a daughter of the middle class with a strong sense of social mobility and individualism, like the waves of immigrants, like my Spanish grandparents, who made Argentina.
Cristina Kirchner
#18. I have twin boys, 12, and a daughter, 17.
Lee Majors
#19. For me it's just so exciting to have a daughter because I do think she will have even more opportunities than I had, and I had more opportunities than certainly my grandmother had. It's the arc of history, always bending toward justice and opportunity, and she will be part of that.
Chelsea Clinton
#20. I would not wish to bring either a son or a daughter into this world as this world is. And also you take all the love I have to give
Ernest Hemingway,
#21. Cancer affects all of us, whether you're a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, patient.
Jennifer Aniston
#22. Maybe it's just a daughter's job to piss off her mother.
Chuck Palahniuk
#23. Given the lack of sexual activity in your apartment and your refusal to take even one peek at my knickers, I'm curious if you've ever had sex before. I mean, I know you have a daughter but you hear about these virgin births all the time.
Karina Halle
#24. It's important to see your parents as individuals. As a son or as a daughter you don't stop and think that your parents might have their own expectations, dreams or disappointments.
Seth Rogen
#25. When a mother quarrels with a daughter, she has a double dose of unhappiness hers from the conflict, and empathy with her daughter's from the conflict with her. Throughout her life a mother retains this special need to maintain a good relationship with her daughter.
Terri Apter
#26. A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones.
Kristin Hannah
#27. I've been able to look at the world differently from three continents practically. I've always lived between India and the U.S. When I married Mahmood I became a daughter-in-law of Africa. That really changed my worldview. I can see it from so many perspectives.
Mira Nair
#28. Garp didn't want a daughter because of men. Because of bad men, certainly; but even, he thought, because of men like me.
John Irving
#29. I do wonder, sometimes, if I had had a daughter, how I would have brought her up. How - when it's taken me so long to unlearn the things I believe are most damaging to the cause of women's liberation and equality - would I have raised my daughter to disobey?
Mona Eltahawy
#30. A son is a son 'til he gets a wife, but a daughter is a daughter all her life.
Emily Giffin
#31. Not all sons were like their fathers. A son chose the man he would be.
Not all daughters were like their fathers. A daughter monster chose the monster she would be.
Kristin Cashore
#32. He also feels, like most men, that a father should not trust to a daughter's judgement on a decision as important as the selection of her husband.
Cayla Kluver
#33. I want everybody to think I'm a hard worker as an aunt, a sister, a friend, a daughter, a niece, everything. I want to be great at every role, because every role in my life is as important as being Jessie J.
Jessie J.
#34. The mother's first job is to raise a daughter strong enough to outlast her.
Gail Caldwell
#35. The books we love, they love us back. And just as we mark our places in the pages, those pages leave their marks on us. I can see it in you, sure as I see it in me. You're a daughter of the words. A girl with a story to tell.
Jay Kristoff
#36. It is a known fact that every man's heart is set on having a daughter.
Francoise Sagan
#37. You feel other people's pain deeply." "Well don't know bout all that but I know what it's like ta lose a daughter. They gonna be in a haze for a long time ta come. It'll be all they think bout." "Does it get easier over time?" "No, it don't. But you learn ta function anyway.
Victor Methos
#38. I have a daughter, and fairies meant a lot to her growing up.
Michael Sheen
#39. 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
#40. My mother used to say that a son is a son until he gets married - then he's a husband - but a daughter is a daughter for life.
Sylvia Day
#41. Now that I have a daughter, I've been thinking about how I'll define beauty to her. I watched a video of Kendall when she was three, and she was putting on makeup. I don't know how I feel about that. But my daughter already watches me do it. When do you let them start wearing it? I don't know yet.
Kourtney Kardashian
#42. Our logo for Lanvin is a mother and a daughter. I've always said, 'It's not a lion, and it's not a horse. It's a mother and a daughter.' I find the logo very emotional.
Alber Elbaz
#44. I'm a daughter from a strong man and beautiful mommy, and I'm so proud to be I am.
Jodi Picoult
#46. Sons, they have their own plans, but a daughter or granddaughter, they will love you forever and take care of you in your old age.
Craig Johnson
#47. Over time, we would learn each other and I would learn to love her like a mother loves a daughter, imperfectly and without roots.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
#48. There are a multitude of mothers in the world who have a daughter who is stolen, or who are stolen daughters themselves.
Tina Brown
#49. I think it's important for kids to express themselves with bad fashion. I struggle a little bit now because I have a daughter and I feel with fashion, like they're sexualizing the kids so young. Little kids in high heels and that kind of thing is really difficult for me to wrap my head around.
Busy Philipps
#50. The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [ ... ] the stronger the daughter.
Anita Diamant
#51. I'm proud of being a mother, a wife, a daughter, and a sister, and a lover and a friend We're all God's children.
Whitney Houston
#52. I have two children. I have a daughter 29, and a daughter four. They are 25 years apart, so you speak about generations and I must tell you, I have a philosophy and that is every 25 years I'm going to sire another child.
Burt Ward
#53. Oh, I have this feud going with the L.A. Unified School District, because I keep getting these phone calls saying my daughter keeps missing classes, I mean, at all hours of the night, I had like, two calls this morning and I keep calling saying I haven't got a daughter!
Chris Colfer
#54. And the girl gets married?
I have a bunch of stray cats
in my yard
I wouldn't have a daughter
Jack Kerouac
#55. Cherish like a son, a daughter, each irreplaceable moment.
Marty Rubin
#56. I'm a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister. I'm a real person operating in the world. For me to discuss the most private thing feels wrong. It feels like I'm betraying myself and my children.
Nicole Kidman
#57. My mother won't admit it, but I've always been a disappointment to her. Deep down inside, she'll never forgive herself for giving birth to a daughter who refuses to launder aluminium foil and use it over again.
Erma Bombeck
#58. Being married to a daughter of India is a natural complement of my being in this country for 30 years. My roots are very much in this country, even though I remain a Westerner.
Francois Gautier
#59. can you be a daughter.
if you have no
mother language."
- african american iii
Nayyirah Waheed
#60. Meg gagged. "I hate bugs."
That made sense for a daughter of the agriculture goddess, but to me the dead ant didn't seem any grosser than the piles of garbage in which we often swam.
Rick Riordan
#61. But I've discovered being a writer is an ongoing apprenticeship, just like everything else in life that matters to me-being a mother, a wife, a daughter, or simply a woman alive in the world, content to be myself. Today at thirty-two, I am glad to wake up each day and begin.
Sue Monk Kidd
#62. I'm blessed and I couldn't be more grateful. Do you want to know why? Because I'm a mother, but that's only half of it. I'm blessed because, when I need to, I can still just be a daughter. I get the feeling that there is nothing more precious than to have both of these roles, simultaneously.
Adrianna Stepiano
#63. I never expected, when I had a daughter, that one of my most important jobs would be to protect her childhood from becoming a marketers' land grab.
Peggy Orenstein
#64. The sons of Dior and Nimloth were Elured and Elurin; and a daughter also was born to them, and she was named Elwing, which is Star-spray, for she was born on a night of stars, whose light glittered in the spray of the waterfall of Lanthir Lamath beside her father's house.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#65. Being honest, if I had a daughter I wouldn't want her listening to a Nicki Minaj CD until she was a certain age. Even when I meet my fans and they tell me they are 12, I cringe a little. I always say, 'Listen. I don't want you saying the bad words, put school first.'
Nicki Minaj
#66. She told herself a story about a daughter in a family so hungry for a daughter that it would have eaten her alive if she hadn't run away.
Jonathan Franzen
#67. I'm no longer a daughter.
No longer a granddaughter.
No longer a girl with dreams. With hope.
I'm a weapon, now.
C.J. Redwine
#68. Everybody doesn't have to have a daughter who's a goodie-two-shoes.
Brian De Palma
#69. Lila Wingo would take the raw material of a daughter and shape her into a poet and a psychotic.
Pat Conroy
#70. If someone should ask, "how should an Opposition function?" the best answer would be, "in the manner of a traditional mother-in-law who watches the performance of household work by a daughter-in-law and follows her about with her comments.
R.K. Narayan
#71. There is no true Latter-day Saint who would not rather bury a son or a daughter than to have him or her lose his or her chastity - realizing that chastity is of more value than anything else in all the world.
Heber J. Grant
#72. He looks down at me with sincere eyes. 'If I were human, I would have been the first in line for you ... ' He looks away. 'But I'm not. I'm an archangel, and my people are in trouble. I have no choice but to try to set things straight. I can't get distracted by a Daughter of Man.
Susan Ee
#73. My mom has always wished me a daughter just like me.
Pink
#74. I'd love to adopt, but having a daughter, Daisy, who's in the middle of her teens, I'm now thinking: Is this a time to start all over again or is this a time to realise those child-rearing years are over?
Joely Richardson
#75. We shared a daughter? I'd not thought about it that way before. If we shared a daughter, and something happened to Claire, then I would not have to hare Esther with her anymore. I would have Esther to myself.
Ben Marcus
#76. The soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father; but coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.
Plotinus
#77. How do you build a relationship when you've hardly shared a word but suddenly share a child? How do you love a daughter you don't see for nearly two years? When does she become your daughter? How does she become your daughter?
Boris Becker
#78. And what about you? You must be some kind of beardless dwarf?"
"I'm not a dwarf! I'm a girl. And actually I'm tallest in my class."
"You mean to say, that you're a daughter of Eve?"
"Well my mum's name is Helen ... "
"Y-yes, but, you are in fact ... human?
C.S. Lewis
#79. There is a Beatrice who exists beyond the obligations of a daughter, outside the object of man's affections.
Lisa Mantchev
#80. The intimate and the infinite are tangled together in this incandescent book, lit by Aristotle's bright spark of a daughter. Lucid even in nightmare, The Sweet Girl slips sideways around the philosopher to examine the lives of girls and women when we were not yet human.
Marina Endicott
#81. Mother says she doesn't need the medication anymore, that the only cure for cancer is having a daughter who won't cut her hair and wears dresses too high above the knee even on a Sunday, because how knows what tackiness I'd do to myself if she died.
Kathryn Stockett
#82. A son is a son until he takes him a wife; a daughter is a daughter for all of her life.
Liane Moriarty
#83. Half of them loved her like a daughter, and other half wanted to spread her legs, but either sort would die for her.
George R R Martin
#84. You must understand, that for a daughter to protect her father's image is natural; Freud built a whole career around it.
Arnon Goldfinger
#85. When a mother dies, a daughter grieves. And then her life moves on. She does, thankfully, feel happiness again. But the missing her, the wanting her, the wishing she were still here - I will not lie to you, although you probably already know. That part never ends.
Hope Edelman
#86. Years rolled on again, and Wendy had a daughter. This ought not to be written in ink but in a golden splash.
J.M. Barrie
#87. If I had a daughter, and some guy came home with her, I'd be on him like a hawk. When I meet people's parents, I know my place. It's not that hard.
Zac Efron
#88. Yes," I said. "Before ... it's all possibility. It might be a son, or a daughter. A plain child, a bonny one. And then it's born, and all the things it might have been are gone, because now it is." She
Diana Gabaldon
#89. know how to lead. I was a twin who was on her own. I was a daughter with missing parents. I had a half dozen suitors and wasn't sure how to be in love. The
Kiera Cass
#90. Father-daughter relationship, is something that I think is so unique and it can't really be explained unless you have a daughter.
Michael B. Jordan
#91. Not only are Puerto Ricans citizens by birth, but one would be hard-pressed to find a Puerto Rican without a sister in New York or a son in Chicago, a cousin in Orlando or a daughter in Honolulu or Oklahoma City.
Luis A. Ferre
#92. I, the ordinary restless child, the plain adolescent, the commoner who had been a nun twice, would prove to be a Daughter of Heaven.
Shan Sa
#93. I don't care about being Fetty Wap. Like, this doesn't mean anything to me. My plan was to make sure that my son would be good, and I have a daughter now, so now she's included into the equation, and the work I do as Fetty Wap made me care.
Fetty Wap
#94. Generally if you're a daughter in a Mexican family, no one wants to tell you anything; they tell you the healthy lies about your family.
Sandra Cisneros
#95. I am a daughter, a son of God's, part of God's royal family. In the perspective of eternity, many things of this world are petty, beneath me: Vulgarity, stinginess, greed, grudges.
Ken Untener
#96. I was stolen from my family by Navajo raiders when I was fourteen, and taken in by a Navajo family who had lost a daughter of their own." Josefina
Kathleen Ernst
#97. I told them," he said in a clear, carrying voice, "that they should not give someone as old and powerful as I a daughter to love. That it would end badly.
Patricia Briggs
#98. I'm a mother and I have a daughter. I'm lucky to be in a position where I'm able to teach her things like self love and acceptance.
Denise Bidot
#99. I'm not only my father's daughter, but also a daughter of the nation he founded. And protecting both is what I've always done.
Laura Kamoie
#100. When I have a daughter I have a lot of good advice for her,
Paris Hilton
