Daughters Quotations

'Harry Potter' made it cool to read children's fiction, and 'Twilight' did the same for a slightly older age group. What I'm seeing is mothers and daughters who love to read the same books.

My parents wanted their daughters to reach their full potential. I joke that they said, 'We left our homeland so you could pursue your dreams - as long as you're a lawyer, a doctor, or an engineer.'

Thanks to the heroic sons and daughters of this country, who have paid sacrifices, we have been able to score a number of victories which are encouraging the nation-building process we are engaged in.

With few exceptions, the leading women in philanthropy, notably Melinda Gates, are the wives or daughters of rich and powerful men.

I've been blessed with a wonderful husband, two caring daughters and sons-in-law, and four really special grandchildren. They have each enhanced my life.

Mothers, stay close to your daughters. Earn and deserve their love and respect. Be united with their father in the rearing of your children. Do nothing in your life to cause your daughters to stumble because of your example.

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.'

Being a mother and grandmother is the best of the best in my life. My grandchildren multiply the joy my daughters bring me.

I'm half-Armenian. Even though my grandparents did not discuss the genocide, and my father - like many sons and daughters of immigrants - wanted to be as 'American' as possible, I was always aware of it. How could I not be?

Boys used to call me Soda in school days. Soda means 'serving officers daughters association.' I miss those days when I had a very protected life: one could get close and bond with other army people that they gradually would become your extended family.

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.

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.

Body-shaming is something I feel really strongly about. I think about my niece, I think about my friends who have daughters being on the Internet and reading these things, and it just makes me furious. It makes me so angry.

It's important my daughters learn from the hard work my wife and I put into this company. Who better to look out for your best interests than family?

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.

I am a futurist, projecting trends in science into the next decades and century, but ironically my two daughters - one is a neuroscientist and the other is a pastry chef - tell me that my taste in music is positively prehistoric.

It has been tough being a mother of two daughters without a co-parent because I think I was a child myself, as my mother was.

Words, especially when yelled in anger, can be very damaging to a child's self-confidence. The child probably already feels bad enough just from seeing the consequences of his or her behavior. Our sons and daughters don't need more guilt and self-doubt heaped upon their already wounded egos.

Under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, a company is not allowed to provide a personal benefit to a decision maker in return for business. But hiring the sons and daughters of powerful executives and politicians is hardly just the province of banks doing business in China: it has been a time-tested practice here in the United States.

I was taught by my father. He was head of the primary school so I went to his school until I was 11 - I was the youngest of four daughters and we had all been taught by him. But I didn't really enjoy my secondary education that much, probably because I am a very physical person and don't enjoy sitting at a desk all day.

Grateful daughters of God guard their bodies carefully, for they know they are the wellsprings of life, and they reverence life. They don't uncover their bodies to find favor with the world. They walk in modesty to be in favor with their Father In Heaven. They know he loves them dearly.

Good supporters who have single daughters say, 'Hey, you need to take my daughter out.' And it's awkward.

I cohabited for 20 years with my longtime husband and father of my two now-teen daughters in a stable family household.

When you have girl children, they torture you! If at any moment of the day I ever think I'm remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I have two daughters who make sure that never happens. They say, 'Mom, you didn't really wear that?' And I say, 'Yes, and pretty much everyone saw it.'

I know this is a weird niche, but a lot of my female friends have these strange stories where there their dads have seen the small successes of their daughters and have decided that they are creative as well.

Where much is given, much is required. Our Heavenly Father asks His daughters to walk in virtue, to live in righteousness so that we can fulfill our life's mission and His purposes. He wants us to be successful, and He will help us as we seek His help.

I want education for the sons and the daughters of all the extremists, especially the Taliban.

An oligarchy of race, where the Saxon rules the African, might be endured; but this oligarchy of sex which makes father, brothers, husband, sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters of every household... carries discord and rebellion into every home of the nation.

I'm teaching my daughters to be ladies by showing them how to dress appropriately when they leave the house, and how to be thoughtful and polite.

One of our daughters is now a physician; another is a vice president of a major entertainment company; and the third is a clinical therapist. They place no limits on their ambitions, but for them, those ambitions also have had to fit within the context of having children.

Generations of gun owners have taught their sons and daughters that it takes as much patience and skill to be a good shot as it does to be a good steward of a powerful weapon.

Gays and lesbians began to gain civil rights when Americans realized that their brothers, cousins, daughters were gay.

It's hard to think of yourself as a brand, especially when I have four daughters who kick my butt early in the morning every day before I go to work.

I had a baby at 19 and was a grandmother by 39. Now, my children lend me their children to take them off to Brittany. It's divine. I'm quite exceptionally lucky. I've never had a week without having all three of my daughters on the telephone.

If we want our daughters to honor their bodies, they need to hear us honor ours, no matter what size or shape we are, no matter what scars or sags we see in that mirror.

I hear my own daughters talking about big companies polluting the environment, and then I realise they are talking about companies of which one I am running. But when I tell them to read the things we are doing, then they realise we are doing good things. But millennials are really a great lot.

Is it true that the American people are war-weary? Absolutely. We are tired of sending our sons and daughters to distant lands year after year after year, to give their lives trying to transform foreign nations.

Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, and daughters sometimes run off with the butler

My story is so boring: Long Island Jewish parents take their daughters to Broadway.

Our daughters were coming of age during a rising consciousness about gender equality. Throughout their school years - from kindergarten through graduate school, 1972 to 1992 - women were starting to take their places in areas traditionally reserved mostly for men.

We bring our younger teenage daughters with us to help on Monday when they have the day off from school. They look forward to it every year as much as we do.

When I left school, I never wondered whether my apartment in New York was vulnerable to storm surges, but my three daughters have to consider the realities of extreme weather and how it may destabilize communities around the globe.

Man, I always felt like high school football was where I needed to be. Having three boys helps that decision. Here at Calvary, I know I can have them in school with me and coach them when they're older. It's one of the reasons I came to Calvary. Stan is the same way. He's got daughters there.

Making a movie where the central character is a horse was a challenge. Because I'm scared of riding. I was thrown as a kid. 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.

Life has its ups and downs, you can fall down, but you can also get up. I have friends, my daughters and a very great spirit of struggle which is comforting in finding another opportunity. My family has helped me a lot along this road; now I wake up every morning and have the same ambitions that I had a while back.

Los Angeles is my home - I have my wife and two daughters growing up there.

Last year we had 55 teams, and we're on pace to break 60 teams this year. We have fathers bringing in their sons and daughters to fish. Some of the teams are coming from as far away as Indiana and Missouri.

Scottie is someone that we'd all like for our daughters to bring home, but out on the court he'll go for the jugular. I don't know what precipitated it, but I know that you have complete faith and trust in him and know that he's not going to lose his cool.

She volunteers all the time. Even sports her daughters are not involved in, she's the first to help.

She told me that she would like to meet with her family as soon as possible. She wants us to make efforts so that she can meet with her husband and daughters in Japan,

One of my daughters was trying to dance and impress me, but I didn't even notice her.

Mothers and daughters read the same book once a month. We get together in each other's homes, and while we are talking about the book, we also end up talking about life issues.

Nelson Mandela is a hero to all people who value freedom and dignity and justice. President Mandela's principled opposition to tyranny and injustice inspires us today and will inspire our sons and daughters for generations to come.

One always tries to help those that are grieving understand the importance of what their sons and daughters have been doing.

One of my teenage daughters has set a goal to read the great classics. I wish I'd done that at her age.

My daughters used to hear the story around the fire at camp.

My daughters think I'm getting married. It's very cute.

My daughters related to something in the Spice Girls that made them feel better about being female. They truly started to believe girls could do anything. They could be fat, thin, anything they wanted to be.

My daughters have ponies. But they're busy with other things - dance and gymnastics. It's great that they're involved with something that's really important to them.

My appearance on 'Public School' garnered a smattering of fan mail from girls, which was good, and letters from mothers saying I was the sort of boy they'd like their daughters to go out with - which was not quite as good.

My advice for raising daughters is to spend time with them doing things you both enjoy.

Obviously, nobody probably would have said one word otherwise, if he had stayed with his wife and daughters one more day. But he wanted to come back and play, and he did, and obviously contributed in a very very big way.

My two daughters are now engaged in a scribbling rivalry.

One of the daughters was married to a handsome young mulatto, who was present, and sang us some pretty songs, accompanying himself on the guitar.

I grew up playing video games, and I continue to play them. My wife doesn't play that often, but my daughters do. Playing games has become more acceptable and I think that is only going to continue.

I brought my daughters actually to Staples Center to watch me live in the ring - to watch their mother compete in the ring. It was a very proud moment for me.

I am shamed to realize that in my marriage, my daughters never heard their father and me fight, which also meant, perhaps, that we didn't truly communicate.

(Bush) said we wont stop until victory, but what does victory look like and how many sons and daughters are going to have to die and lose limbs?

I have an amazing wife and three daughters that always keep me motivated.

From what I see, about 50 per cent of the time daughters come in with their mothers. It's a lot more common than it used to be.

From what I hear, there are already some folks quite anxious to enter their daughters in this new event.

He was a real family man. Every Sunday he would cook up this big feast over at his house, and my wife and I would come over for dinner. His daughters were taking dance lessons, and he used to go to all the recitals. He was the type of guy who would make you feel good about yourself. You always got the sense that he was on your side.

He is not a flight risk. Where is he going? I'm his wife. We have two beautiful daughters and two grandsons. His pastor, his bishop, his friends have been here all his life. Where is he going? Every time this comes up it becomes even more ridiculous. This man is not a flight risk,

What do I remember the very most? Trying to find my wife and daughters in the melee on the field after the game, and how great it was when I did find them.

Good grammar develops over time, so relax and put down the red pen. Kids need to make mistakes in writing to move toward correctness. They freeze up if they think you'll pounce on every error. You want your daughters to keep writing, since this is the best way for them to develop strong usage skills.

He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field: and he shall make a fort against thee, and cast a mount against thee, and lift up the buckler against thee.

Historically, (Chinese) families prefer a son. The son is the one who carries the family name, does the physical labor and takes care of the parents. Daughters take care of their in-laws.

He wasn't a violent guy. He didn't even talk tough or macho. I've never known him to own any weapons. He was more like a family guy. He would take his daughters to dance lessons or go shopping and have parties for friends.

Kings' daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.

I would see her and her daughters on the front porch and in the back yard. I was shocked. I was just talking to her. We had gone to the Hometown Flea Market and when we got back everyone was saying your neighbor's dead. It was like being hit by a hammer.

I think the impact on our local citizens is they're finding that their sons and daughters that they send off to college now have an opportunity to come back here and work,

I was born in the U.S., my wife was born in Mexico and emigrated here when she was in college, and my daughters were born in New York City. That makes them passport-carrying, natural-born, eligible-to-run-for-president Americans. But they're also Mexicans and they like that just fine.

It is like a family atmosphere. You have your mom, you have your dad. It does trickle down to all of us because we are like their daughters in some little way.

Like most people, I would sing in the privacy of my home. I'd also sing for my daughters or at a guest at somebody's function. I loved doing it.

(Resigning) has nothing to do with boys basketball. It is for a personal reason. I have three daughters and it was becoming a conflict to be with them as a dad and then be the boys coach.

Part of the reason (motherly advice) bugs us as daughters is because our mothers are so powerful in our lives. They loom like giants. The reason mothers keep at it is because they're so powerless. They cannot get you to do what is so obvious to them you should do.

Our opinion is that it's a good broadcast and that it honors the troops, ... We have a lot of people in South Carolina and North Carolina that have sons and daughters that are fighting over there. It's a good program and they deserve to see it.

O Prophet! say to your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers that they let down upon them their over-garments; this will be more proper, that they may be known, and thus they will not be given trouble; and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.

Suddenly, my friend's daughters are becoming my best friends. I have so many 12-year-old girlfriends.

My mother was very interested in giving her daughters the advantage of music and dance, if we had an interest in it. My father was not.

My wife and I stay up late at night trying to figure out how we'll send our daughters to college,

My wife worked at Children's Hospital, ... They took her and my two daughters in, but they told me I was on my own. I don't know where they are and I don't know when I'll find them. I don't even know whether they're alive or dead.

My wife, my granddaughters and my daughters - they really didn't like the idea of me going down there. But you've got to do what you've got to do.

My wife Melissa and daughters Deaven and Halen are the things I enjoy most, but I have some great friends and partners that are like blood as well.

I suppose the first big shift in my life was when, at the age of 8, my father left my mother, leaving her alone with two daughters to bring up. That taught me the importance of women being financially independent. You never know what might happen.

The Army is America. We are America's sons and daughters. America's sons and daughters are getting tattoos. That means that American soldiers are getting tattoos.

The army has won it has defeated its own sons and daughters successfully. Personally, I will remain steadfast in my determination not to rest until Sharon is removed from government so that this trauma is never repeated.

I would not bring my two sons to Capitol Hill between now and the election. So I'm not going to put other peoples' sons and daughters at a risk that I'm not there to share myself.

Middle class families are struggling to send their sons and daughters to school. For many Americans, a college education is essential to future success.

while you are learning, my daughters will suffer.