For My Daughter Quotes

My mother has never been involved in my professional life. I am very close to my mother but we keep it on a mother-daughter basis and not a work-related basis.

At the age of 15 months my daughter was diagnosed with very bad asthma, and essentially I put my career on hold for a good eight years.

My son lives in Nicaragua. My daughters live in the United States.

My mom has always said that if I get a big head, she'll take me out of this business as quickly as I got into it.

I did not clip the wings of my daughter to fly.

If Courtezans and Strumpets were to be prosecuted with as much Rigour as some silly People would have it, what Locks or Bars would be sufficient to preserve the Honour of our Wives and Daughters?

Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, and joined in thy innocent glee.

When you grow up as the daughters of George and Laura Bush, you develop a special appreciation for how blessed we are to live in this great country.

My son's taking drum lessons, and my daughter's taking piano lessons. One day they're going to start a band.

Your daughter is doing well here. I've been overseeing her training." Since when does "overseeing" include throwing knives at me and scolding me at every opportunity?

One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.

I was up late last night yapping about the elections on CNN and up early this morning doing the same thing in my daughter's kindergarten class.

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

I want to do something where I play Judi Dench's younger sister or daughter.

My daughter got me a 'World's Best Dad' mug. So we know she's sarcastic.

My daughters have grown up knowing all about my kidnapping and the case and what happened.

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?

If I should ever by chance grow richI'll buy Codham, Cockridden, and Childerditch,Roses, Pyrgo, and Lapwater,And let them all to my eldest daughter.

Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.

I am a vicar's daughter and still a practising member of the Church of England.

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.

Having a [teenage] daughter is like riding a young horse over an unknown steeplechase course. You don't know when to pull up the reins, when to let the horse have its head - or what.

I cannot forget my mother, She is my bridge.

Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half - especially if he has a teenage daughter.

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

My daughter, unfortunately, is ill, because drug addiction is an illness. She's been fighting it for years.

Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, There's no place like home.

My daughter is my biggest achievement. She is a little star and my life has changed so much for the better since she came along.

Truth is the daughter of time.

God intended motherhood to be a relay race. Each generation would pass the baton on to the next.

Angelica. My beloved daughter, the one true good thing I have done in this life.

Daughters hate their mothers; I think it's the law of nature. But you know what? Then they come back.

For I am my mother's daughter, and the drums of Africa still beat in my heart.

To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.

A son is a son 'til he gets a wife, but a daughter is a daughter all her life.

Religion brought forth Prosperity, and the daughter destroyed the mother.

... the physical and domestic education of daughters should occupy the principal attention of mothers, in childhood: and the stimulation of the intellect should be very much reduced.

Art is the daughter of freedom.

Having two daughters changed my perspective on a lot of things, and I definitely have a newfound respect for women. And I think I finally became a good and real man when I had a daughter.

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.

By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.

She became a very famous, very popular young girl. Before that, she was my daughter, but now I'm her father.

Next time you're about to call your daughter bossy, take a deep breath and say, 'My daughter has executive leadership skills.'

Identity is not found, the way Pharaoh's daughter found Moses in the bulrushes. Identity is built.

I've had a lot of unhappiness in my life — and a lot of happiness. Who doesn't? Maybe I've learned enough to be able to guide my daughters.

No mother in the world wants her daughter to have fewer rights than she did...

If you can keep your son off the pipe and your daughter off the pole, you're ahead of the game.

Time flies when you are having fun.

Someone once told me that when you give birth to a daughter, you've just met the person whose hand you'll be holding the day you die.

On his daughter Malala Yousafzai: She was very articulate, more than me. She could say things in a very few words that I take a long time to communicate.