Top 100 Quotes About Daughters Fathers
#1. I like human stories. I like stories about situations we can relate to. I like movies like 'Ordinary People' or 'Terms of Endearment.' Mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, boyfriends, girlfriends. The stories to me that are worth telling are almost simple ones, but very relatable.
Chris Evans
#2. Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you. I have come to separate people. I didn't come to bring peace. I came to bring a sword. I have come to turn "'Sons against their fathers. Daughters
Roger Quy
#3. the harsh truth of every relationship, even between those who love each other, like fathers and sons and daughters, or husbands and wives, is that the love is always unequal.
Karl Taro Greenfeld
#4. Because death is the only thing that could have ever kept him from you.
Ally Carter
#5. Antonia! This is your father speaking. Unless you've swooned onto the floor, I expect you to get yourself out here immediately.
Jane Carter Barrett
#6. The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, and so are you.
Elie Wiesel
#7. I can be anything I want to be. Just wait and you will see. Only time will tell what I will be.
Jason J. Greenaway
#8. It's necessary to readjust and then try again. And then readjust and try again. Fathers have to do that with sons and mothers have to do that with daughters. The level of readjustment isn't quite so much when fathers are dealing with daughters and mothers are dealing with sons.
James Spader
#9. We must speed up the time table for fathers, brothers and sons to provide their mothers, daughters and sisters with the same opportunities that they give themselves.
Madeleine M. Kunin
#10. The people whom the sons and daughters find it hardest to understand are the fathers and mothers, but young people can get on very well with the grandfathers and grandmothers.
Simeon Strunsky
#11. Families embraced more than had been the habit; fathers who expected to be beaten to death stroked the hair of pretty daughters who expected to be raped.
Louis De Bernieres
#12. It is a known fact that every man's heart is set on having a daughter.
Francoise Sagan
#13. One encounters very capable fathers abashed by their piano-playing daughters. Three measures of Schumann make them red with embarrassment.
Alfred Doblin
#14. He wanted me to go with him, and had cast his line, hoping to snag his most elusive catch - me.
Amber Lynn Natusch
#15. 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
#16. The truth now.He was disappointed in human beings.He had seen too many betrayals,too many pitiful weaknesses,too much greed for money and fame.The falseness between lovers,husbands and wifes,fathers,sons,mothers,daughters
Mario Puzo
#17. My dad's contentment is all that matters to me. When he's laughing, I'm laughing. When he's happy, I'm happy. I would give up my soul for him. To me, nothing else but his happiness matters.
Rebecah McManus
#18. What I really want to tell him is to pick up that baby of his and hold her tight, to set the moon on the edge of her crib and to hang her name up in the stars.
Jodi Picoult
#19. 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
#20. Time heals nothing. Wounds fester and ooze. Life drags you by a rope over rocks and stones and one day you look up, look back, and see you've been used to cut a path, mark a trail.
Bob Thurber
#21. For someone so intuitive," he said, shaking his head, "sometimes you only see what you expect to see.
M.A. George
#22. When I see daughters with their fathers I wonder what that would be like, although not in a way that immobilises me.
Cate Blanchett
#23. When Enebeli Okwara sent his girl out in the world, he did not know what the world did to daughters. He did not know how quickly it would wick the dew off her, how she would be returned to him hollowed out, relieved of her better parts.
Lesley Nneka Arimah
#24. We are people, individuals comprising a variety of sexes, races, shifting sexualities and all the rest of it. Every convention that tries to reinforce this difference is a step back. Notions of gender pointlessly separate men from women, but also mothers from daughters and fathers from sons.
Robert Webb
#25. A father's tears and fears are unseen, his love is unexpressed, but his care and protection remains as a pillar of strength throughout our lives.
Ama H. Vanniarachchy
#26. [W]hen I told my dad why I was calling, he just said, 'Honey, you're so beautiful it doesn't matter what you wear.' I wondered how many dads in America were, at that very moment, giving their daughters the same useless advice mine was giving me.
Melissa Kantor
#27. It's a fathers job to spoil his daughters shamelessly, it's their husbands job to tame them. Prince Zehava-The Dragon Prince
Melanie Rawn
#28. When I was twenty-something, I asked my father, "When did you start feeling like a grownup?" His response: "Never.
Shannon Celebi
#29. What happens to the mind after bereavement makes no sense until later... what the mind does after losing one's father isn't just to pick new fathers from the world, but pick new selves to love them with.
Helen Macdonald
#30. Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
Simone De Beauvoir
#31. In New Bedford, fathers, they say, give whales for dowers to their daughters, and portion off their nieces with a few porpoises a-piece.
Herman Melville
#32. Fathers be good to your daughters. Daughters will love like you do. Girls become lovers who turn in mothers. So, mothers be good to your daughters too.
John Mayer
#33. Today, Arizona's sons and daughters, mothers and fathers are proudly serving their country.
Jane D. Hull
#34. Yes, we are our fathers' sons and daughters, but we are not their choices. For despite their absences we are still here. Still alive, still breathing,
with the power to change this world, one little boy and girl at a time.
Daniel Beaty
#35. He had accessorized his life with everything but paternal instinct.
Noorilhuda
#36. This oligarchy of sex, which makes fathers, brothers, husbands and sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters of every household - which ordains all men sovereigns, all women subjects, carries dissension, discord, and rebellion into every house of the nation.
Susan B. Anthony
#37. Dad!" I said, trying to get his attention. "It is so official you are a bad father. Good fathers do not shoot their daughters!"
I crossed my arms and brought out the big guns. "I am so telling Mom when I die.
Darynda Jones
#38. The sons shaped their feet with the shoes of their fathers. To the plight of their mothers, the daughters surrendered their dreams." - "THE RIVER," LARRY D. THOMAS
James Hollis
#39. i can't tell if my mother is
terrified or in love with
my father it all
looks the same
i flinch when you touch me
i fear it is him
Rupi Kaur
#40. Balt Van Tassel was an easy indulgent soul; he loved his daughter better even than his pipe, and, like a reasonable man and an excellent father, let her have her way in everything.
Washington Irving
#41. At the bottom, all wars are the same because they involve death and maiming and wounding, and grieving mothers, fathers, sons and daughters.
Tim O'Brien
#42. But he was sixty-two when I was, born, and the novelty of daughters had worn away long before.
Jane Smiley
#43. Do you know how lucky you are to have a daughter who loves you so much?
Ingrid Ricks
#44. Fathers and daughters have a special bond.
She is always daddy's little girl.
Richard L. Ratliff
#45. We are born with our father's names. We are not responsible for their failures. We are responsible for what they made us believe in. That is our only obligation. And it is even then a choice which we may sometimes be wise to ignore.
Warren Eyster
#46. There has been no major revolution in modern history without intellectuals; conversely there has been no major counterrevolutionary movement without intellectuals. Intellectuals have been the fathers and mothers of movements, and of course sons and daughters, even nephews and nieces.
Edward W. Said
#48. Daughters aren't trash you can toss away, Dad. I had to deal with the mess you left.
Katherine McIntyre
#49. I want to check the record books and see how many fathers and daughters have won Grammys together.
Norah Jones
#50. Fathers are men who give daughters away to other men who aren't nearly good enough ... so they can have grandchildren who are smarter than anybody's.
Paul Harvey
#51. They glanced over at Catherine, who was dancing with Billy, as only fathers and daughters can dance. No matter how old the daughter may be, the father is dancing, in joy unparalleled, with his child when she was little.
Mark Helprin
#52. Your mother said that Fraser sent her back to me, knowing that I would protect her
and you ... And like him, perhaps I send you back, knowing
as he knew of me
that he will protect you with his life. I love you forever, Brianna. I know whose child you truly are. With all my love, Dad.
Diana Gabaldon
#53. I was a boy that age once, and I know that 97.7 percent of their bodies are semen and the 2.8 percent is an incendiary device for spraying it.
Mat Johnson
#54. Like any other people, like fathers, mothers, sons and daughters in every land, when the issue of peace or war has been put squarely to the American people, they have registered for peace.
Paul Robeson
#55. He carries what he feels for people deep inside. Even as a kid he was that way," Aunt Margaret said. "Your momma knows that." But I had wondered then as I did now what good love was that couldn't be expressed.
Ron Rash
#56. It paid barely a living wage, but he stayed with it - gradually and in the end gratefully arriving at the point in life when you understand there are no great changes ahead.
Ann Packer
#57. All her young life she has tried to please her father, never quite realizing that, as a girl, she never could.
Alice Walker
#58. Incidentally, I have also learned a bit about the importance of avoiding feminine embarrassment ('Daddy,' wrote Sophia when she enrolled at the New School where I teach, 'people will ask "why is old Christopher Hitchens kissing that girl?"') and shall now cease and desist.
Christopher Hitchens
#59. But fathers always thought their youngest daughters were rather special
Rona Jaffe
#60. 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.
Jasmin Darznik
#61. Daughters are never of so much consequence to a father.
Jane Austen
#62. Millions of fathers in rain
Millions of mothers in pain
Millions of brothers in woe
Millions of sisters nowhere to go
Millions of daughters walk in the mud
Millions of children wash in the flood
A million girls vomit and groan
Millions of families hopeless alone
Allen Ginsberg
#63. A wedding is for daughters and fathers. The mothers all dress up, trying to look like young women. But a wedding is for a father and daughter. They stop being married to each other on that day.
Sarah Ruhl
#64. Their raspy kisses brand our jam tart necks, their treacherous miasma clasps our herbal thighs. Motherlessly we surrender, too many fathers we have, we, your daughters of joy.
Laura Gentile
#65. I'd like to form a club just for fathers. Specifically, fathers of daughters. There would be lots of overstuffed leather chairs, wood paneling, dim lights. The works.
Steve Schirripa
#66. 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
#67. It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we'd read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could understand.
Aimee Bender
#68. I say to all fathers - be as good as you can be- because your sons and daughters will follow in your footsteps.
Duane Chapman
#69. She remembered how she had felt cleaning out her father's clothes, wanting at once to hold on to every dirty handkerchief and musty page of sheet much, and yet wishing she were anywhere else on earth, free of it all.
J. Courtney Sullivan
#70. We see and hear about Israelis and Palestinians only when they are defined by the global media as 'occupiers,' 'terrorists,' and 'victims.' But we forget that they are fathers and mothers and sons and daughters and neighbors and doctors and shop-owners and farmers and students.
Jason Alexander
#71. I love exploring the relationship between fathers and daughters. I think that's a special thing, especially with daughters who are dealing with being adults.
Tim Daly
#72. It's rare to see a man step up and say "I can be a great father and learn about gymnastics with my daughter and take her to dance lessons because I love her." I can make time to blow bubbles on the back porch. It doesn't cause your man card to be revoked.
Dan Alatorre
#73. The illusions of paternal love are perhaps no less poignant than those of the other kind; many daughters regard their fathers merely as the old men who leave their fortunes to them.
Marcel Proust
#74. I wanted to eat her pain, take it into me and make it my own.
Ann Patchett
#75. Though all the daughters eventually succeeded in escaping from their families, they felt, even at this time of the interview (while in their 20s and 30s) that they would never be safe with their fathers, and that they would have to defend themselves as long as their fathers lived.
Judith Lewis Herman
#76. He taught me that there is no shame in breaking something, only in not being able to fix it.
Hope Jahren
#77. For a flicker of a moment I imagined a world completely different from the one I'd always known, a world in which I was treated with fairness, even kindness
a world in which fathers didn't sell their daughters.
Arthur Golden
#78. If you can't do what you really want to do, then do the next best thing!
Stacey Culpepper
#79. Daddy," I whispered, feeling my own breath hitch in my throat. "I love you."
Just when I was sure he was asleep, the one corner of his mouth lifted in a smile. "I knew that," he murmured. "Always knew that.
Morgan Matson
#80. Her laughter was my favorite symphony.
Avijeet Das
#82. What will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than our Saxon fathers?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#83. 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
#84. Men were often far different in their roles as fathers than they were as suitors, the memories of which kept them, out of necessity, both vigilant and violent, and even in tender moments, to their daughters.
James Anderson
#85. I feel about lending a book the way most fathers feel about their daughters living with a man out of wedlock.
Anatole Broyard
#86. Marianne had sharp, cold eyes and she was spiteful but her father loved her.
Angela Carter
#87. Irish fathers still have certain responsibilities, and by the time my two daughters turned seven, they could swim, ride a bike, sing at least one part of a Woody Guthrie song, and recite all of W. B. Yeats's 'The Song of Wandering Aengus.'
Adrian McKinty
#88. Football is multigenerational. It used to be about fathers taking their sons. Now we're taking our daughters, too.
Steve Tisch
#89. She'll find you. Her need to know you will eventually consume her.
Stephen Douglass
#90. When husbands and fathers leave, their wives and daughters tend to value themselves less as a result.
Emma Thompson
#91. The Bible says that the sins of the fathers are visited upon the sons to the seventh generation. But I believe it's the daughters who bear the brunt of most family sins. At least that's so in my family.
Sherri Wood Emmons
#92. But fathers are soft on daughters. Look how Dad favors Angela. He gave her ten times more. Because she reminded him of Mae West. He was always smiling at her boobs. He wasn't aware of it. Mother and I saw it.
Saul Bellow
#94. These two Joes - the nasty bully and the starry-eyed dreamer - were my father. Growing up, the difficulty was knowing just which Joe would rise with the sun that day.
Pythia Peay
#95. Once I said to my father, 'Why do you want me?'
I still think that's the bravest thing I've ever done.
China Mieville
#96. My dad's life was magnificent, but only if I let myself see and remember more than his years of decline.
Lisa J. Shultz
#97. I know that throughout my life I have struggled to forgive my father. Now, as I get older, I wish most of all that he had been able to find a way to forgive himself.
Madeleine Thien
#98. It is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning the youngest, and I had long ago become accustomed to being called 'Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
Alan Bradley
#99. A man's daughter is his heart. Just with feet, walking out in the world.
Mat Johnson
#100. every time you tell your daughter you yell at her out of love you teach her to confuse anger with kindness which seems like a good idea till she grows up to trust men who hurt her cause they look so much like you - to fathers with daughters
Rupi Kaur
