Daughter Quotes
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He thought about the story his daughter was living and the role she was playing inside that story. He realized he hadn't provided a better role for his daughter. He hadn't mapped out a story for his family. And so his daughter had chosen another story, a story in which she was wanted, even if she was only being used. In the absence of a family story, she'd chosen a story in which there was risk and adventure, rebellion and independence.
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I am the daughter of a Chicana and anglo. I think most days I am an embarrassment to both groups. I sometimes hate the white in me so viciously that I long to forget the commitment my skin has imposed upon my life.
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Times change. The farmer's daughter now tells jokes about the traveling salesman.
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To an old father, nothing is more sweet than a daughter. Boys are more spirited, but their ways are not so tender.
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I have four boys and one girl. My daughter is my only little girl and I just love her to death. I can't even fix my mouth to tell her 'no' for anything.
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I had five children in six years. The day I brought my fifth baby home, that week, my daughter turned 6.
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'Beauty Queen' is the weirdest, strangest, and most perfect play to do before 'Hedda Gabler', because there are so many similar issues for Maureen and Hedda. I had played leading ladies before but couldn't really hook into them. After 'An American Daughter' and 'Beauty Queen', I had all the ballast.
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They wouldn't let me into Germany from 1998-2000 because I bumped into the chancellor's daughter on my skateboard.
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I've played [Scrabble] tournaments for about 20 years. My daughter, Erin, who lives with me, also travels to tournaments. While I'm not a top division player, I've won a number of tournaments.
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My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.
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I've never looked forward to a birthday like I'm looking forward to my new daughter's birthday, because two days after that is when I can apply for reinstatement.
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Everyone I know thinks television is the most important part of my life. I did it for the money! I was able to send my daughter to college.
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I'm a country girl. I have to be in nature, so my daughter is exposed to it a lot.
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I have a daughter and a family.
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The happiest moment of my life was probably when my daughter was born.
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I wake up around seven, and I give my daughter breakfast. I spend the first hour or two of her day with her.
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I like to cook. We always sit down together, my daughter and I, and have dinner - baked chicken breast or a piece of fish with green beans, rice or potatoes. And I love pasta.
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A locked-room problem lies at the heart of my new novel, 'In The Morning I'll Be Gone,' in which an RUC detective has to find out whether a publican's daughter who fell off a table in a bar that was locked from the inside was in fact murdered.
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I've forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I'm too young.
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My youngest daughter sings. She's going to be very good. She's graduated from Music School and she's been working down around and getting her feet wet, you know. I had her out with me for a year just showing her the ropes a little bit, but she's going to be all right.
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Religion brought forth Prosperity, and the daughter destroyed the mother.
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I've raced on all seven continents at least twice. I've probably run thousands of races. But the single race that I'm most proud is a 10K. Yes, a 10K. I ran it with my daughter on her 10th birthday.
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My daughter is full energy, like my wife and I, and strong-minded and has an opinion, like we do. And my boys, one's a bit more calm and chill, and the other is much more sensitive to things. You see this right away, when they're first born. One cried, one didn't, with the boys.
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One day my 3-year-old daughter said 'Your very handsome, Poppy.' That was the best compliment ever.
