Daughters Quotations | Page 3

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.

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.

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.'

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,

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.

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

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.

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.

I've known him since eighth grade. He went to school on our campus and my two daughters went there and they'd see Glen walking down the hall every day, and they'd say, 'Please go play for my daddy.' So, I'd sic them on him.