Top 100 Quotes About Daughter
#1. It was a year ago today your daughter went missing.' Bagg had closed his eyes, feeling the death going on inside.
Cole Alpaugh
#2. They love a brown rice stir-fry, but they also love their 'Coke of the week ... My daughter gravitates toward fresh fruit and raw nuts but will inhale a bag of hot Cheetos at the airport. It's all about balance.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#4. Believe me, daughter, there is nothing worse than having your own family member out for revenge.
Amy Tan
#5. I'm more selective now I've got a family. I don't want to work all the time. My daughter's 12; I don't want to miss out on her life. Soon she'll be a teenager; she won't want me around.
Julie Walters
#6. Giacomina had taught her daughter that you must dig constantly for meaning in the sorrow of this life, and that this sorrow must galvanize you, not define you.
Adriana Trigiani
#7. Then those silver eyes dimmed, like the sun vanishing behind a cloud, and he crumpled to the ground
- Iron Daughter
Julie Kagawa
#8. We shall me much less miserable together.' -Emma Darwin to husband Charles upon grief for loss of daughter Annie
Deborah Heiligman
#9. ... said them for my benefit as much as hers [daughter]. "Honey, it's okay to want things we don't have, but we also need to remember what we do have. If we are going to compare ourselves to those who have more, we must also compare ourselves to those who have less.
Kristen Welch
#10. I can only do something that my sister or my daughter, if I have one, could watch and feel positive about.
Romola Garai
#11. It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.
Barry Gibb
#12. Shouldn't he want to know about something that has happened to his mother, that will happen to his wife, his sisters, his daughter and, I went on morosely, if ever he has an affair, even to his mistress?
Azar Nafisi
#13. I was working in, being a single parent with a grieving child of five years old. It was horrendous. I couldn't go out much, because I had my daughter to look after. So people used to come round, and Tony Harrington from The Wire came round.
David Toop
#14. I used to tell women graduate students, half-seriously, that the role of slightly rebellious daughter was one of the better roles for women living in patriarchy.
Carol Gilligan
#15. When I was 15, what I wanted in a boyfriend was just that confidence and swagger. I wanted someone who knew what he was doing, because I was just faking it. What I want for my daughter is the exact opposite.
Ayelet Waldman
#16. 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
#17. I have loved your daughter from the first time I saw her. We were young. I had no clue what love was, but over the years she has never left my heart. I know with all that I am, I can make her happy."
The lord chuckled, "I believe so too, son. Now all you have to do is convince my daughter.
Julia Mills
#18. What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
Erica Jong
#19. I understand what it's like to come with your family, and to uproot yourself and come to another culture. You need a lot of support. People say, 'She's got her daughter; she's got her husband.' Yeah, but she hasn't got anyone else.
Emma Thompson
#20. If you were Satan's daughter, he'd be very proud but not proud enough since every evil deed you do fails.
Valenciya Lyons
#21. I've found that in places where women have not really been afforded full rights yet - for instance, in the Middle East - even very conservative politicians in the region will say, 'You know, my daughter would really like to meet you,' or, 'Would you send a note to my granddaughter?'
Condoleezza Rice
#22. My daughter wants to throw a stone at a bad man. I stop her from throwing, shaking my head and giving her a little slap. My disapproval is complete. You think: 'That's right, she shouldn't throw a stone even at a villain.' Then I hand her a brick to throw.
W.C. Fields
#23. Jace shrugged and looked at the floor. He wanted to leave. He couldn't do this with her mother in the house, especially not after the woman had told him to keep his dick in his pants. The sole reason he was here was to put his dick in her daughter. Repeatedly and in excess.
Olivia Cunning
#24. Lepida, has anyone ever told you that you're a cruel spiteful selfish slut? ... You're vicious. You're unprincipled. You mistreat your slaves and abuse your daughter. And furthermore you're the worst, most neglectful, most criminal wife in Rome. I think we can go now.
Kate Quinn
#25. 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
#26. Your daughter is adorable. I've never seen such an alien duck in my entire life.
Holly Smale
#27. On daughter Apple's accent: She says Mummy instead of Mommy, I don't mind that. I will if she starts saying basil and pasta the English way, as that really drives me nuts.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#28. I don't say "oh, I'm a grandmother; I can't wear this anymore." Everything I can't wear I've already given to my daughter.
Carine Roitfeld
#29. When your daughter asks you to be a fairy for her 5th birthday party ... you better be a damned fairy.
Tony Hawk
#30. I meditate in the morning, and my daughter will do it with me, looking like the most perfect little Buddha. I'll do ten minutes of yoga, then two to ten minutes of meditation. She'll sit there quietly half the time.
Alysia Reiner
#31. On winning Literature Nobel Prize: I was actually in the street. Yes, I was in the street. It was my daughter who notified me.
Patrick Modiano
#32. 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
#33. If her daughter's ship had been disintegrated in space there would never be evidence of it, never an answer to what had happened to her.
If she stopped to ponder the implications she might break. And Admiral Miriam Solovy did not break.
G.S. Jennsen
#34. I'm from a family of teachers. My father would drown me in the bathtub if my daughter didn't graduate from college. I don't care who she is or what she does. Just get the diploma.
P.C. Cast
#35. My daughter has impressions that she does of me.
Kevin Hart
#36. When faith did come, it came, I think, by way of my little paralyzed daughter. Her lifeless hands led me; I think her tiny feet still know beautiful paths.
Joyce Kilmer
#37. 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
#38. They looked more like sisters than mother and daughter, and I wondered if believing in Jesus kept you younger-looking. But then I thought, if that were really true, Linda would be the biggest Jesus freak going, because she'd drown a baby in a bathtub if it would make her look ten years younger.
Matthew Quick
#40. 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
#41. There is an admiration which is the daughter of knowledge.
Joseph Joubert
#42. I knew 'Mars Needs Moms! ' would be a movie seconds after the title came to mind. Similarly, I also knew that my daughter would be calling me a dork as a default term of endearment eventually.
Berkeley Breathed
#43. It is better for a girl to marry in such a time when she would begin menstruation at her husband's house rather than her father's home. Any father marrying his daughter so young will have a permanent place in heaven.
Ruhollah Khomeini
#44. If you can't send your daughter to school when you know it will help her, you feel a sense of failure, and you feel that failure deeply.
Ann Cotton
#45. He was from a different class, too poor, and they would never approve if their daughter became serious with someone like him.
Nicholas Sparks
#46. 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
#47. Virtue is the daughter of Religion; Repentance, her adopted child,
a poor orphan who, without the asylum which she offers, would not know where to hide her sole treasure, her tears!
Sophie Swetchine
#48. I want to be a positive role-model for my daughter. The last thing I want to put out there is that it's acceptable to be too thin or have an eating disorder because you're in Hollywood.
Tori Spelling
#49. When I need a break from the boys, I go with my girlfriend to buy pretty little dresses for her daughter.
Kim Raver
#50. Beauty is startling. She wears a gold shawl in the summer and sells seven kinds of honey at the flea market. She is young and old at once, my daughter and my grandmother. In school she excelled in mathematics and poetry ... Beauty will dance with anyone who is brave enough to ask her.
J. Ruth Gendler
#51. Maybe once he wished I was his daughter, because it was plain that my news was hard for him to hear.
Ann Patchett
#52. The Prince had fallen in love. She was only a farmer's daughter, but she was was beautiful, and also smart, as the daughters of farmers need to be, for farms are complicated businesses.
Patrick Ness
#53. 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
#54. As the daughter of two teachers with first-class degrees, I'd always seen myself as a duffer by comparison.
Mary Quant
#55. We are warriors." "And yet a moment ago, you were women." "Mother, I swear it, I am doing all I can." "And I am sorry, daughter, but you are going to have to do more.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#56. I love to direct my daughter, and act with her, and we both want to work with Jane again.
Peter Fonda
#57. I would say what makes me vulnerable is when I allow my mind to spiral. You know? When I start not being in the present moment and I start skipping ahead and picturing my daughter driving on the freeway on a late saturday night.
Lauren Bowles
#58. Subduing and subdued, the petty strife, Which clouds the colour of domestic life; The sober comfort, all the peace which springs From the large aggregate of little things; On these small cares of daughter, wife or friend, The almost sacred joys of home depend.
Hannah More
#59. He planned for his son or daughter to have three or four toys, minimal sports equipment, and a thousand books. He didn't care for the rhymed nonsense of Dr. Seuss, but preferred anything that instilled basic knowledge sets. He could abide a talking animal, but not an inanimate object that spoke.
John Brandon
#60. What matters is that my daughter is surrounded by love. I believe in the right to go down the path that feels best for you.
Monica Cruz
#61. I hope that by modeling feminism in my own life, work and relationships that it will haut become an organic part of my daughter's life. But I'm also fully prepared for her to become a Republican as a way to rebel as a teenager - that would be just my luck!
Jessica Valenti
#62. 'Beauty Queen' is the weirdest, strangest, and most perfect play to do before 'Hedda Gabler', because there are so many similar issues for Maureen and Hedda. I had played leading ladies before but couldn't really hook into them. After 'An American Daughter' and 'Beauty Queen', I had all the ballast.
Kate Burton
#63. I have had someone wonderful things happen to me during my career and lifetime. Of course, personally, the birth of my daughter is the highlight of my life.
Olivia Newton-John
#64. No daughter and mother ever live apart, no matter what the distance between them.
Christie Watson
#65. I have made all my films for my children with the exception of my first film because my oldest daughter wasn't born when I was making the film about the Brooklyn Bridge.
Ken Burns
#66. Oh God," I said. "I'm Zmey's daughter. Zmey junior. Zmeyette, even.
Richelle Mead
#67. In my experience the most forceful and aggressive mothers are always the least inspired, the most unmusical of souls, all of them profoundly unsuccessful women who wear their daughter's image on their breast like a medal, like a bright deflection from their own unshining selves.
Eleanor Catton
#68. Besides, as much as she loved Bruckner's symphonies, he just couldn't touch a man who had painted his bedroom walls with views of the sea to please her, who gave his precious smiles to her alone, who wept when he watched his daughter sleep.
Lynn Kurland
#69. At least have the decency in you / To leave me alone, when you freaks see me out / In the streets when I'm eating or feeding my daughter
Eminem
#70. 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
#71. Shylock repointed his twitching, accusatory digit at his daughter. "You do not say such things in my house. You - you - you - you - " "Run along, love, it appears that Papa's been stricken with an apoplexy of the second person.
Christopher Moore
#72. And when she [her daughter] one day turns on me and calls me a
Bitch in front of Hollister,
Give me the strength, Lord, to yank her directly into a
cab in front of her friends,
For I will not have that Shit. I will not have it.
Tina Fey
#73. He had long since stopped trying to figure out our daughter, who as an adult had quietly removed his superhero cape and in return offered him a cape of indifference.
Suzanne Kelman
#74. 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
#75. Oh, my daughter,
at times you have to fight,
but preferably
not with your fists.
Thanhha Lai
#76. We [work] really hard to make sure we accomplish everything we want in life, but we don't think about being the president's daughter; we don't think about that, really.
Jenna Bush
#77. Little tape recorders, that's what kids are, Cat thought. If you want to find out what your husband is saying behind your back, play Barbie with your daughter.
Jan Strnad
#79. He had only ever seen one episode of it - the one where Coach's daughter comes to the bar - although he had seen that several times. Shadow had noticed that you only ever catch one episode of shows you don't watch, over and over, years apart; he thought it must be some kind of cosmic
Neil Gaiman
#80. I want to bear witness: my daughter died from Chernobyl. And they want us to forget about it. Nikolai Fomich Kalugin, father
Svetlana Alexievich
#81. She is too intelligent to be a good daughter-in-law
Chetan Bhagat
#82. My daughter likes Korean drama more than I do.
Peng Liyuan
#83. All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst.
Mark Twain
#84. She had never been able to stand her husband, though not for one minute in their married life had she permitted this to make her unhappy. Only people who are fond of somebody can ever be unhappy, she had told her daughter before her wedding.
Anna Seghers
#85. You must understand, that for a daughter to protect her father's image is natural; Freud built a whole career around it.
Arnon Goldfinger
#86. 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
#87. Readers often tell me after they've read the books, they find it difficult to sum up the plot in a simple way. My response is, "It's a story about the love a father shares for his daughter. All the rest is just filler."
- MJ Mancini, on his best-selling trilogy, "Revelation".
M.J. Mancini
#88. The gentleman had also a young daughter, of rare goodness and sweetness of temper, which she took from her mother, who was the best creature in the world.
Charles Perrault
#89. On his daughter, Ava: She is a relief from all the stress in my life; everyday she does something new and it is so amazing.
Ryan Phillippe
#90. Fifteen years, and all he had to show were an amount of self-pity and a busted marriage with an innocent daughter hanging between them. It was more disgusting than sad.
Ian Rankin
#91. I didn't do it. Which, in my professional opinion, wouldn't be a bad defense . . . if her mouth and chin weren't completely covered with thick, blazing pink, like she's Ronald McDonald's illegitimate daughter.
Emma Chase
#92. If anyone's under a spell, Justina, it's me. Your daughter put one on me five years ago, and I haven't broken free of it yet. Oh, and you'll be delighted to know, we've decided to resume our relationship. Don't bother with congratulations - trust me, your expression is congratulations enough.
Jeaniene Frost
#93. Eluned had to work very hard not to stare impolitely, for Princess Celestine was reputedly the daughter of a dragon, and thus naturally the most interesting person who could possibly interrupt afternoon tea.
Andrea K. Host
#94. 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
#95. When he asked my grandmother if she would mind being poor, she said she would be happy just to have her daughter and himself: 'If you have love, even plain water is sweet.
Jung Chang
#96. I always thought that courageous people were those who were not afraid. Meeting Franciszka and her daughter, I realize that courageous people are afraid like everyone else. They just act despite the fear.
J.L. Witterick
#97. It made him feel indispensable and needed - even if the fact that Jocelyn didn't appear to care wheather he slept in her daughter's bed or not did underscore that Clary's mother apparently regarded him as about sexually threatening as a goldfish.
Cassandra Clare
#98. For Shama and her sisters and women like them, ambition, if the word could be used, was a series of negatives; not to be unmaried, not to be childless, not to be an undutiful daughter, sister, wife, mother, widow.
V.S. Naipaul
#99. Perhaps, Mathilde thought, watching flakes fall into dark and the empty street, I've been wrong. Perhaps the mother had watched her daughter fail and fail and didn't move to help out of something unfathomable, something Mathilde struggled to understand, a thing that was like an immense kind of love.
Lauren Groff
#100. On the morning the last Lisbon daughter took her turn at suicide - it was Mary this time, and sleeping pills, like Therese - the two paramedics arrived at the house knowing exactly where the knife drawer was, and the gas oven, and the beam in the basement from which it was possible to tie a rope.
Jeffrey Eugenides
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