Daughter Quotes

• I told my daughter that terrorists would love to attack Washington, but we, unlike the French, are an ocean away from Syria, that lots of smart people are working very hard to stop the terrorists, and that these terrorists are not very sophisticated.

  

  Dana Milbank
  • People
  • Smart
  • Ocean

• When I was 15, a cabdriver asked me if I was Paul McCartney's daughter.

  

  Sean Lennon
  • Daughter

• We moved to Los Angeles because our daughter wanted to go to Pepperdine.

  

  Glen Campbell
  • Daughter

• My mom thinks my new daughter is exceptionally bright, because now she will lie on the floor and talk to the ceiling fan. I said, 'Mom, Uncle Harold does that and y'all call him an alcoholic.'

  

  Jeff Foxworthy
  • She
  • Mom
  • Uncle

• Having a daughter has reawakened my sense of feminism. I want to protect her.

  

  Abi Morgan
  • Daughter

• The best anti-aging advice I've ever received? Drink a lot of water and have a plant-based diet. I also do mindful meditation with my daughter every day. It takes ten minutes. I think reducing stress plays a big part in anti-aging.

  

  Carolyn Murphy
  • Thinking
  • Mother
  • Water

• To my second-oldest daughter, Megan, for her strength of spirit, her leadership ability and her constancy. Meg, you’re a light to everyone who knows you, someone capable of great things because at twelve years old you’ve already learned the power of self-discipline. I can always depend on you to choose the right and stay the course, and that has been an incredible blessing. If you forget everything else I’ve ever taught you, remember this: my love is everlasting.

  

  Brenda Novak
  • Remember
  • Spirit
  • Leadership

• I had just had a daughter, who was three or three-and-half years old, and I had been watching nothing but cartoons. That's really it. There was no YouTube. You're in France and you're raising a kid, so you break out the Tex Avery.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Daughter
  • YouTube
  • Cartoons

• There where hundreds of graves. There where hundreds of women. There were hundreds of daughters. There were hundreds of sons. And hundreds upon hundreds upon thousands of candles. The whole graveyard was one swarm of candleshine as if a population of fireflies had heard of a Grand Conglomeration and had flown here to settle in and flame upon the stones and light the brown faces and the dark eyes and the black hair.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Black
  • Dark
  • Son

• The current leadership of the Labor party react to the idea that working-class students might study the subjects they studied with the same horror that the Earl of Grantham showed when a chauffeur wanted to marry his daughter.

  

  Michael Gove
  • Mother
  • Party
  • Study

• I don't think my father noticed that he had daughters. I think, you know, part of the damage of the childhood was, I simply don't think they were acknowledged as human beings at all. Or - you know, one of the reasons I became a cook later on in my life was, I was not allowed to cook an egg.

  

  Terry Gross
  • Thinking
  • Father
  • Reason

• My mother was the daughter of a poor schoolteacher - well, that's a tautology - a country schoolteacher.

  

  Peter Carey
  • Country
  • Mother
  • Daughter

• In the hospital, I read a book about American Indians and saw in it the name of Nike. It was written incorrectly, as I later learned. But I called my daughter Nike.

  

  Ornella Muti
  • Book
  • Learned
  • American Indian

• The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.

  

  Anita Diamant
  • Mother
  • Daughter
  • Details

• The late Queen Victoria once paid a royal visit to a renowned library. At one point, the head librarian asked, "Your Majesty, might I please introduce my daughter to you?" The queen replied, "I have come here to view the library."

  

  Elizabeth Pakenham, Countess of Longford
  • Library
  • Visit
  • Queen Victoria

• Teacher: "If your daughter knew her spelling words as well as her Bible stories she'd get into Harvard." Me: "I'll settle for Heaven."

  

  Mark Hart Crowded House
  • Heaven
  • Teacher
  • Settling

• I shall clasp my hands together and bow to the corners of the world. May your villages remain ignorant of tax collectors, and may your sons be many and ugly and strong and willing workers, and may your daughters be few and beautiful and excellent providers of love gifts from eminent families that live very far away, and may your lives be blessed by the beauty that has touched mine. Farewell.

  

  Barry Hughart
  • Love
  • Beautiful
  • Strong

• Look, I've got incredible pride for my family. I've absolutely fallen into that cliche of a dad who could just happily talk about my daughter endlessly.

  

  Christian Bale
  • Family
  • Dad
  • Pride

• I'm not comparing myself with Donald Trump or anybody else - but the people are fed up with the politicians ignoring the problem. The people are fed up by if they say something about the influx of the mass immigration from mostly Islamic countries, what they really feel is the threat for the safety of their daughters who go to school or their parents who walk in the park or themselves going shopping on a Thursday evening in Holland - they are being called racist if they make a remark about, 'hey this is not our country anymore.'

  

  Geert Wilders
  • People
  • Country
  • School

• It's weird to say, but every time I look at my daughter and I see this little living breathing thing that came from me, that represents all of the hopes and dreams that I would want for her, I see a miracle.

  

  Josh Gad
  • Mother
  • Dream
  • Miracle

• I have a beautiful daughter, beautiful wife.They look like me, we all happy and I don't have no trouble. And I ain't that much in love with no woman to go through that hell – ain't no one woman that good.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Happy
  • Beautiful
  • Wife

• There is no true Latter-day Saint who would not rather bury a son or a daughter than to have him or her lose his or her chastity - realizing that chastity is of more value than anything else in all the world.

  

  Heber J. Grant
  • Son
  • Chastity
  • Latter-day Saint

• I had gone through several crazy headache bouts, and I realized that part of the reason I was having them was because I wasn't smoking marijuana. When my daughter gave me a vape pen, I realized that I could relegate it to where I needed it to be. And I would talk to my older grandkids in their 20s, and they'd say they use weed to stop cramps. That's when I really started to investigate and asked the question, "Is anybody doing this?" And they gave me that horrifying answer: "niche market".

  

  Whoopi Goldberg
  • Crazy
  • Daughter
  • Weed

• Stern daughter of the voice of God! O Duty! if that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring and reprove.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Art
  • Duty
  • Checks

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