Quotation Explorer - 'Daughter'

She was mined for the childrenin her, one daughter, then another, a short seam, quick to clay, and not a single son to save them. - Robert Wrigley
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property, and if it were a question of poetry we would likely find that she is the daughter of love. - Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
You must be more gentle, dear, more sedate,' Ellen told her daughter. 'You must not interrupt gentlemen when they are speaking, even if you do think you know more about matters than they do. Gentlemen do not like forward girls. - Margaret Mitchell
She's my daughter. She's my sister. - Robert Towne
Every woman is a gift when she becomes a daughter, Every woman is beautiful when she becomes a lover, Every woman is special when she becomes a wife, Every woman is a god when she becomes a Mother - Vivek Thangaswamy
Don't ever feel sad about who you are. Don't wish to be a daughter or son to a wealthy home, just because you think you're poor. Look! Everybody's poor, i discovered it when i realized that its not everything that President Barrack Obama has. - Michael Bassey Johnson
A daughter will follow in her mom’s footsteps so make sure to set a good example. - Elizabeth George
Identity the greatest thing that ever happened to all humanity on earth. Identity the source of knowing who you are and where you come from. Identity the source of understanding yourself and makes you proud to be the person who you are, the daughter, the son of the Most High God. - Euginia Herlihy
It is not what you say, but how you say it. "Pick that pencil up! -would you mind picking up the pencil? - would you please pick up the pencil?" The way things are said, makes a huge difference in what people think of you. I told my daughter this many times. - Linda B D
How could I persuade the in-laws I was the right one for their daughter when, instead of focusing on small talk, all I could think about was not to kill them? I could only imagine what I'd say to the prospective in-laws, "Hello, it's a pleasure to eat, I mean, meet you. - Jayde Scott
Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be. - Clementine Paddleford
Why doesn't anyone tell you we all wind up married to Henry the VIII?......My dear Anne Boleyn,...the only way a woman can avoid waking up next to Henry is to model herself after his daughter Elizabeth and sleep next to no one at all. - Judith Claire Mitchell
My daughter asked if the boogie man was scary. I said, "Not as scary as the boogie woman. - Randy Kagan
Wow! It's like magic! she exclaimed.Simon shook his head. "It's God's love. That's stronger than any magic." - The Demon Trapper's Daughter - Jana Oliver
Fortune helps the intrepid and abandons the cowards. I am the daughter of a man who did not know of fear. Whatever may come, I am resolved to follow that course until death. - Caterina Sforza
Love cannot be hidden. It even shines in the darkest places." ~ , The Shadow Catcher's Daughter - Carla Olson Gade
A woman is a mother, daughter, and sister of every man; how she could be wrong? - Debasish Mridha
My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally. - Evelyn Waugh
Success is the daughter of perseverance. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Someone had given my daughter a doctor's kit. Carefully, she takes her own temperature, places the pressure cuff around her arm. Then she takes the cuff off and examines it. "Would you like to be a doctor when you grow up?" I ask her. She looks at me oddly. "I'm already a doctor," she says. - Jenny Offill
If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. - Bruce Barton
Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of battle. O beloved daughter of Hope and Memory, be with me for a while. - W.B. Yeats
In Antiochus and his daughter you have heard of monstrous lust the due and just reward; In Pericles, his queen, and daughter, seen, Although assailed with fortune fierce and keen, Virtue preserved from fell destruction's blast, Led on by heaven, and crowned with joy at last. - William Shakespeare
I never married, but if I had done so, I'm sure I'd have divorced the sod a long time ago. Life is simply too short to hang around with annoying people. That may be why I have so few friends. I'm sure my daughter concurs. - Pansy Schneider-Horst
Oh! You are a woman! You are the pure reflection of my mother, sister, and daughter. I can never hurt you. - Debasish Mridha
My daughter, dad where do homeless people come from? My answer, everywhere. - Ray Price Billy
I, the ordinary restless child, the plain adolescent, the commoner who had been a nun twice, would prove to be a Daughter of Heaven. - Shan Sa
Sometimes daughter who is loved by her father very much and loving her father very much, she is getting hurt by her lover very much. - Glad Munaiseche
Treat your woman with respect, because one day someone will do the same to your daughter. - Moosa Rahat
My daughter and two sons are the flowers in my heart and garden. - Ana Monnar
The earth had two childrenA son named Adamand a daughter - Karan Patade
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance. - Thomas Fuller
A case in point of the difference between Like and Love is that a daughter often likes her Mother but loves her Father. - Anuj Somany
Fly free, my daughter. Be what I could never be and leave the cage forever. - Nalini Singh, Archangel's Enigma
A woman is a loving mother, a gorgeous daughter, and beautiful angel of imagination. - Debasish Mridha
Back in the day, it was either both a mother and her daughter had pubic hair, or the daughter didn’t. Today, in many a case, the mother is the one who doesn’t. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I am willing to make people uncomfortable so that my daughter doesn't have to! - Kelly Sue DeConnick
Control Master Theory suggests that our psychological problems come about in much the same way: our decision to make ourselves unhappy because one or both of our parents were unhappy is just as altruistic as our friend's decision to run through flames to save his daughter. - Lewis Engel
A woman is a blissful mother, a wonderful sister, a gorgeous daughter, and a friend with a kind heart who really cares. Wishing you a wonderful International Women’s Day - Debasish Mridha
Guys, close your eyes.Imagine you have a daughter. Imagine she is dating a guy like you. Did you smile? No?Then change. - chocolate socrates
Empowered Women 101: Empowered women never live the life they wouldn't want for their daughter. They teach them what self respect looks like. - Shannon L. Alder
She knew now that no one could be neutral - not anymore - and as afraid as she was of risking Sophie's life, she was suddenly more afraid of letting her daughter grow up in a world where good people did nothing to stop evil, where a good woman could turn her back on a friend in need. - Kristin Hannah
She sewed as she read. For the Vicar considered that sewing was an occupation and that reading was not. He was silent as long as his daughter sewed and when she read he talked. - May Sinclair
He felt a furious sense of powerlessness, because he played no part in Alice's life, but by god she did in his, like a daughter whose name he hadn't been able to choose. - Paolo Giordano
I have heard many times that atheists know more about religion than religious people. Atheism is an effect of that knowledge, not a lack of knowledge. I gave a Bible to my daughter. That's how you make atheists. - David Silverman
A daughter of God knows that insecurity is not an excuse for doing evil to others, nor will God rest until caring for everyone is a lesson you learn. - Shannon L. Alder
Truth is the daughter of time. - Aulus Gellius
Empowered Women 101: If he has to destroy other people to raise your self esteem and level of trust then he is not a son of God and guess what your not a daughter of God for letting him do it. - Shannon L. Alder
No man wants his daughter to be the kind of girl whom he liked in high school. - J. Richard Singleton
In some way, everyone is your son or daughter, so without judging them, love everyone. - Debasish Mridha
A great woman has three identities: a lovely daughter, a passionate lover, and a kind mother. - Debasish Mridha
Temporis filia veritas; cui me obstetricari non pudet.Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife. - Johannes Kepler
I wonder if my first breath was as soul-stirring to my mother as her last breath was to me. From 14 Days: A Mother, A Daughter, A Two-Week Goodbye - Lisa Goich
Woman! She's mother, she's daughter, she's sister; she's a unique creation of God; her womb is also root cause of mankind; her shadow provides gallantry; her affection heals life into the languid body; love her, worship her, you'll find paradise. - Tanmaya Guru
Generations of parents have upheld this line if thinking. When a daughter showed a promise of talent, they saw it as a curse and worried that she would die young. Eventually, the very lack of talent became a sure sign of virtue for women. - He Zhen
Readers often tell me after they've read the books, they find it difficult to sum up the plot in a simple way. My response is, "It's a story about the love a father shares for his daughter. All the rest is just filler."- MJ Mancini, on his best-selling trilogy, "Revelation". - M.J. Mancini
Love every one as you love your little daughter and son, because everybody is somebody's daughter and son. - Debasish Mridha
Wisdom is the daughter of experience - Leonardo da Vinci
No, I`m putting it away, trying to buy a house for my family. The goal is to use the money to move into a big house, so my daughter can have a garden. - Ewan McGregor
It was a year ago today your daughter went missing.’ Bagg had closed his eyes, feeling the death going on inside. - Cole Alpaugh
Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence. - Vittorio Alfieri
Daughter follows mother in actions and habits and some times also follows her granny. - Tayyab Nawaz Sulehri
Like a father with his daughter, the writist plays peek-a-boo with the world. His aim is to evoke that sweet smile, the one that says "i remember you. I am glad you are here again". - D.A. Botta
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