Daughter Quotes - page 4

The man who is fortunate in his choice of son-in-law gains a son; the man unfortunate in his choice loses his daughter also. (Democritus)
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. View quote
Sandra Cisneros
My daughter wanted a new pair of trainers. I told her "You're eleven, make your own!" View quote
Jeremy Hardy
Stern Daughter of the Voice of God. View quote
William Wordsworth
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. View quote
Ayelet Waldman
Under the plan of heaven, the husband and the wife walk side by side as companions, neither one ahead of the other, but a daughter of God and a son of God walking side by side. Let your families be families of love and peace and happiness. Gather your children around you and have your family home evenings, teach your children the ways of the Lord, read to them from the scriptures, and let them come to know the great truths of the eternal gospel as set forth in these words of the Almighty. View quote
Gordon B. Hinckley
I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be an absolute catastrophe. I would certainly be interested in deserving it, but to receive it would be terrible. It would just complicate even more the problems of fame. The only thing I really regret in life is not having a daughter. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness-she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over the heads of men to trap us all. She entangles one man, now another. View quote
Homer
There's little of the melancholy element in her, my lord. She is never sad but when she sleeps, and not ever sad then for I have heard my daughter say she hath often dreamt of unhappiness and waked herself with laughing. View quote
William Shakespeare
Hi. I'm Rachel Trachtenburg. I'm the daughter and the drummer for the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players. View quote
Rachel Trachtenburg
A large portion of Christ's miracles of love were wrought at the urgent request of parents for their suffering children. Is that ear gone deaf to-day? Will He not do for our children's souls what He did for the bodies of the ruler's daughter, and the dead youth at Nain? (Theodore L. Cuyler)
Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farmworkers can become the president of a great nation. It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another. View quote
Nelson Mandela
I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing? View quote
Larry Wall
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. View quote
Peggy Orenstein
Wisdom's daughter walks alone, The mark of Athena burns through Rome. View quote
Rick Riordan
Wisdom's daughter walks alone. That didn't just mean without other people, Annabeth realized. It meant without any special powers. View quote
Rick Riordan
I don't know if it's better to be close with your daughter or make sure that she has a better life than you do. View quote
Stephen Chbosky
My daughter is my passion and my life. View quote
Tamara Mellon
Tell my daughter Elizabeth -- no! Tell all my daughters, everywhere, in all the ages yet to come. Tell them how I died, and why. And tell them to remember this: the future is unwritten. Know your rights. View quote
Philippa Gregory
When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that's happened that day just melts away. View quote
Hugh Jackman
The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French. (Charlotte Gainsbourg)
As expected: she, the daughter of the Fall, recipient of its heaviest radiation, loved atomically. View quote
Junot Diaz
It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues. View quote
Barry Gibb
I will give you three days to seek your shadow. Return to me in the course of that time with a well-fitted shadow, and you shall receive a hearty welcome; otherwise, on the fourth day - remember, on the fourth day - my daughter becomes the wife of another. View quote
Adelbert von Chamisso
On the day my daughter was born, I started writing a book for her. The plan was that, over the course of her life, I'd fill it with advice on how to be a strong woman. But along the way, I got caught up in the stories of Amelia Earhart, Sally Ride, and so many others. So how do you pick the best heroes for your kids? View quote
Brad Meltzer