Daughter Quotes

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.

The second wife [Trudi Bernstein] - the best part of that union, our two daughters, and that lasted about five years.

I want people to think about the connection between mothers and daughters. I like the idea of continuity of life and generations.

According to my daughters, my most irritating habit is asking for cups of tea.

Greece is the mother of democracy and South Africa is its youngest daughter

He was from a different class, too poor, and they would never approve if their daughter became serious with someone like him.

It's taken me 40-something years, but I embrace the curl. My littlest daughter has the same hair. She likes it when my hair is curly, so I wear it for her.

I didn't think it was fair to my music to label me as the daughter of somebody - I didn't think it described me very well and I didn't think it had anything to do with my music.

I want to check the record books and see how many fathers and daughters have won Grammys together.

When I have a daughter I have a lot of good advice for her.

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.

You know, my daughters have been through their entire lives and knowing about my case.

Daughters are supposed to be friends to their mothers in their old age.

No daughter is ever her mother's darling. That spot is always reserved for the son.

I'm watching my own daughter grow up. I see this overt sexual culture coming at her like a Mack truck. She's in seventh grade.

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.

She was like a mother to me...and I betrayed as a daughter will betray her mother and yet, never stop loving her.

Oh, high is the price of parenthood, and daughters may cost you double. You dare not forget, as you thought you could, that youth is a plague and a trouble.

These are my daughters, I suppose. But where in the world did the children vanish?

On her daughter: And she's going through all these changes. You know, it's just crazy times.

Lysander, when Dionysius sent him two gowns, and bade him choose which he would carry to his daughter, said, "She can choose best," and so took both away with him.

I'm the daughter of a sister whose the mother of a brother who's the brother of another.

I never had children, never even thought I would have children. Now I have 152 daughters; expecting 75 more next year. That is some type of gestation period.

I'll buy myself some plastic water, I should have married Lennon's daughter.

... while I am Death's daughter and walk in His dark shadow, surely the darkness can give way to light sometimes.

I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.

The message of Vietnam is not that Americans will not take casualties; it is that the American people do not want the lives of their sons and daughters wasted.

I have four daughters and eight grandchildren. My soul lives on in them. That's immortality. That's the only immortality I care about.

I would have started writing a lot earlier if I hadn't been [Arthur Miller's daughter].

That is not a crack house. It is a house with a family with a father and a mother and three sons and a daughter.

Hold on ... Say your son or daughter has just gotten killed in a car accident and you're plastered out of your mind at 3 a.m. Are you going to be able to handle that?

Ali's daughter is fighting and Joe Frazier's daughter is fighting as well.

Love without hope, as when the young bird-catcher Swept off his tall hat to the Squire's own daughter, So let the imprisoned larks escape and fly Singing about her head, as she rode by.

Having daughters tends to help a guy get in touch with his inner social conservative.

Rob Lowe, I've known him for a long time because I have three daughters, ya know. He's been cruising those three girls for a long time.

One of my daughters was a bit flat-chested, so she had implants and she's got a lovely pair now. I see nothing wrong with it.

No, my step-daughter just opened a theatre school for children, I have another daughter who works in the record industry and another who is going back to collage and I have two little ones at home.

I have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians.

My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.

I have a three-year-old daughter, which makes me more environmentally conscious. For me, it's about the future.

I love to cook for my husband and daughter. I enjoy going to the market for fresh vegetables.

I remember being very influenced by 'Taxi Driver', and also Tommy Lee Jones in 'Coal Miner's Daughter' a little bit.

My Spanish is a daughter's Spanish. I write, but my Spanish really is very limited.

There was a certain power beautiful mothers held over their less beautiful daughters.

This is what daughters did. They left, and came home later with lives of their own.

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

I was actually kind of a hot mess in high school. I did a lot of things in high school I'm not proud of. I wasn't a good student and I wasn't particularly a good daughter. I wasn't very engaged.

A lot of times [in the movie industry], women are relegated to playing the wife or girlfriend or daughter.

When I was 15, a cabdriver asked me if I was Paul McCartney's daughter.

On played the Mayor's daughters in Horton Hears a Who: I had never done animation, so I thought it would be cool to try something different.