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My Daughters Quotes

My daughter's the greatest thing that's happened to me in my life and she turned me into a more responsible man, as opposed to just someone who's a perpetual teenager, thinking you're a man when you're not.
- Adam Ant

I've brought my daughters all over the world-they travel with me. I drag them out of school just to keep the relationship. When I'm home I'm a big-time daddy.
- Armand Assante

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.
- Saint Teresa Of Avila

I am the parent of teenagers, my daughters are 13 and 15, so the issue of Internet safety has been an important issue. I have been visiting middle schools to talk about some of the challenges that they face.
- Melissa Bean

I'm very traditional, believe it or not. My daughters are not allowed to date until they're at least 16 and I'm going to make it 18 for the next one.
- Anna Benson

I'm a filmmaker who decided to go to culinary school. All I picked up was the fact if I didn't understand what was going on with every single ingredient, I could be qualifying for, like, the lunch food job at my daughter's school.
- Alton Brown

The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too.
- Louise Brown

My daughter's dabbling in showbiz, and she's done a few commercials. She's auditioned for some movies and shows, so I'm letting her pursue that. I'm OK with it.
- Candace Cameron Bure

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.
- Tucker Carlson

I don't really understand that process called reincarnation but if there is such a thing I'd like to come back as my daughter's dog.
- Leonard Cohen

I invest in funds myself even though I run my own fund for my daughters.
- Jim Cramer

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

I closed my eyes and willed my breath to slow, my conscious mind to fold itself inward. I could feel heat pulsing from my daughter's head, her frantic thoughts whirling like broken glass. I loosened my hold on my body and dropped into that whirlpool.
- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

To me, my husband was my son's murderer. He was also my daughter's molester. A parasite nibbling on the Holy Book, he was Lucifer, holding me by the throat and driving me to sin every night. He was Bhai's destroyer, Amma Sain's tormentor, Ma's humbler and the people's exploiter. He was the rapist of orphans and the fiend that fed on the weak. But over and above all this, he was known to be the man closest to Allah, the one who could reach Him and save us.
- Tehmina Durrani

I'm very jealous of my daughter's education. She's been inspired by her teachers, and nobody inspired me as a teenager.
- Jenny Eclair

There are so few people given us to love. I want to tell my daughters this, that each time you fall in love it is important, even at nineteen. Especially at nineteen. And if you can, at nineteen, count the people you love on one hand, you will not, at forty, have run out of fingers on the other. There are so few people given us to love and they all stick.
- Anne Enright

If, as I suspect, my body survives by uttering itself over and over again, then I have some questions. If [I] am one word, so are my daughters, so are all of us in strings and loops. Each life is one short word slowly uttered.
- Louise Erdrich

Last week I was in London at an awards show, then I flew home and was in an RV park with my wife and kids in our motorhome, this week I'm in NY doing a charity event, and tomorrow I'll be coaching my daughters soccer practice. I guess the range of roles I play on film stem from the range of roles I play in real life.
- Peter Facinelli

When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.' I tell my daughters, 'Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.'
- Thomas Friedman

Once, I was my mother's daughter. Now I am my daughter's mother.
- Lisa Gardner

My daughter's mother and I are no longer dating, and the people I'm most likely to date are those around me, who are athletes.
- Tyson Gay

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.
- Philippa Gregory

One of my daughters is a competitive jumper, we live with horses, we have stables on our property. But I don't ride. I observe, and I worry.
- Steven Spielberg

Even when I'm tired, when I come home and think about catching up on my sleep, I'd rather stay up and hold my daughters.
- Charlie Haas

There are 10,000 books in my library, and it will keep growing until I die. This has exasperated my daughters, amused my friends and baffled my accountant. If I had not picked up this habit in the library long ago, I would have more money in the bank today; I would not be richer.
- Pete Hamill

It breaks my heart that I don't see my daughters every day, don't get to hug them and brush their hair.
- Angie Harmon

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

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

...of the things I want my daughters to know the greatest of these is love.
- Elin Hilderbrand

My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter's life, and she deserved two parents, which is part of the rationale behind us staying married for 30 years.
- Samuel L Jackson

I'd like to know more about this undercover agent who posed as my daughter's date. The ubiquitous Tall, Dark, and Smoldering.'
Nick put on his best meet-the-parent smile. 'I generally prefer to go by Nick.
- Julie James

When I got on the airplane in Indonesia coming to Japan, my intentions was to turn myself in to the military for the simple reason I would like to put my daughters with their mother, one thing. Another thing, I'd like to clear my conscience.
- Robert Jenkins

I'm still not a great reader, but my wife is and my daughters are, and I envy them. I think I got into a bad habit of trying to do something all the time, instead of trying to sit down and take my time a little bit.
- Mike Krzyzewski

I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness but I can't speak on their behalf.
- Annie Lennox

My wife is the boss at home, and my daughters are the bosses. I am just the worker. We are a very warm family and very happy.
- Jet Li

Are you planning on asking my daughter's permission to ravish me as I deserve? If so, please take heed when she informs you that I am lonely and need a woman in my life. She's been nagging me for the last five years to find one."
"In your dreams, bat boy.
- Katie Macalister

That said, my kids are at home right now with my husband and I'm missing something important at my daughter's school which makes me feel sick inside. It's a lot of balance and a lot of really hard decision making.
- Reese Witherspoon

My youngest son, who is now the drummer in my band, lives in Brooklyn. My oldest son is about to move out to California, and my daughters are both out of town.
- Herbie Mann

I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves.
- Joyce Maynard

I want to set the example my mother set for me: a strong female role model who faces challenges takes risks and conquers fears. I want my children to know that as women they can do whatever they dream as long as they believe in themselves. More than anything it is my responsibility to instill in my daughters the knowledge that they can have a family and everything else too.
- Mireya Mayor

I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can.
- Tim Mcgraw

Here in Raine, I can walk with the sunlight on my face. I can speak to anyone who speaks to me. I can learn my daughter's language. I can be called the name I was given when I was born.
Here I am no longer my own secret.
Will you let me stay?
- Patricia A Mckillip

My daughter's name is Neesyn Dacey but everyone calls her Dacey. Her mom chose Neesyn and I chose Dacey after she was born. The mother is a good friend of mine who I was seeing a while ago. We are no longer together.
- Bode Miller

I think of myself as a funny guy but nobody thinks I'm funnier than my daughters.
- Jerry Oconnell

You see, at the end of the day, my most important title is still 'mom-in-chief.' My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
- Michelle Obama

My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.
- Michelle Obama

My daughters are the heart of my heart and the center of my world
- Michelle Obama

I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, maybe in my daughter's generation, where their salaries will be similar to men's. But we're still starting off, like, where the NBA was back in the 1950s.
- Candace Parker

Right now, my daughter's just rolling her eyes at everything I do; I'm just an embarrassment.
- Elizabeth Perkins

The Witch's knife like nails drummed the crystal of the windowsill, chipping and scoring it. They sounded like death beatles clicking in the walls.'Taste it,' the pearl was telling her, 'That I may know my daughter's heart.' Almost without a thought, Ariel touched a few grains of the Witch's dust to her tongue, and a sharp sensation went through her like a pinprick. It was the bitterest thing she has ever known. it tasted like despair.
- Meredith Ann Pierce

You know, you know, obviously, if my daughter's happy, you know, then I don't have any problem.
- Priscilla Presley

I will use this sharp pain to penetrate my daughter's tough skin and cut her tiger spirit loose. She will fight me, because this is the nature of two tigers. But I will win and give her my spirit, because this is the way a mother loves her daughter.
- Amy Tan

I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
- Rachel Roy

One unforeseen advantage of having a child was that it gave me the excuse to talk to myself to my heart's content and pretend it was for my daughters benefit.
- Catherine Sanderson

That for me was the big turning point in my artistic life, when my wife and I had our kids. The world got infused with morality again. Every person in the world should theoretically be loved as much as I love my daughters.
- George Saunders

I was recruited by my wife the day after the Presidential election. My daughters were visually upset at the results and asked, 'What are we going to do?' I told my wife Christie that they were right. I had to do something. It was my time to step up and serve.
- Bobby Schilling

I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence.
- Brooke Shields

I can only hope that neither of my daughters was scarred by their upbringing.
- Georg Solti

I looked at my daughter's face and thought, it's lovely to be beautiful but better to be healthy.
- Koo Stark

We must work together to save and strengthen Social Security not just for my father's generation but also for my daughters' generation.
- John Thune

The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.
- Gene Tierney

Hey, do you wanna go out for..." His words melted with a sigh when he noticed Tod, but then he rallied with a smile. "Hi, Tod, I didn't realise you were here. In my daughter's bedroom. With the door closed."
"Happy to be here," Tod said, and I groaned out loud.
- Rachel Vincent

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

I am lucky to have three daughters who are completely different. I look at my daughters and I have different relationships with all three and there are parts of each personality that are very special.
- Vanessa Williams

I have to be a teacher to my daughters.
- Carnie Wilson

I don't want to be ignorant in my daughter's eyes.
- Gretchen Wilson

That mirror, that's one I hate to let go, he said. That was my daughter's the whole time she was growing up. It probably seen her more than me--everything from a baby up to twenty years old. Sometimes I wonder if all that might still be inside it. Got to make an impression on a thing, reflecting the same person every day.
- David Wroblewski

When I saw the embryo, I suddenly realized there was such a small difference between it and my daughters. I thought, we can't keep destroying embryos for our research. There must be another way.
- Shinya Yamanaka

If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.
- Brigham Young

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