Daughters Quotes

583 Daughters quotes by 470 unique authors

In beauty of face no maiden ever equaled her. It was the radiance of an opium-dream - an airy and spirit-lifting vision more wildly divine… — Edgar Allan Poe
There are 10,000 books in my library, and it will keep growing until I die. This has exasperated my daughters, amused my friends and baffled… — Pete Hamill
Those were the Rommely women: Mary, the mother, Evy, Sissy, and Katie, her daughters, and Francie, who would grow up to be a Rommely woman… — Betty Smith
All things are in the hand of heaven, and Folly, eldest of Jove's daughters, shuts men's eyes to their destruction. She walks delicately, not on… — Homer
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to. — Simone de Beauvoir
What is this I hear of sorrow and weariness, Anger, discontent and drooping hopes? Degenerate sons and daughters, Life is too strong for youâ€” It… — Edgar Lee Masters
But the spirit of Eve is strong in all her daughters. — Louisa May Alcott
If the whole world is evil, then the tragedy that befell you is justified," she went on. "That would make it easier for you to… — Paulo Coelho
Most mothers worry when their daughters reach adolescence but I was the opposite. I relaxed, I sighed with relief. Little girls are cute and small… — Margaret Atwood
For a flicker of a moment I imagined a world completely different from the one I'd always known, a world in which I was treated… — Arthur Golden
Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not… — Saint Augustine
Women without children are also the best of mothers,often, with the patience,interest, and saving grace that the constant relationship with children cannot always sustain. I… — Louise Erdrich
Mrs. Jennings was a widow, with an ample jointure. She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see respectably married, and… — Jane Austen
If, as I suspect, my body survives by uttering itself over and over again, then I have some questions. If [I] am one word, so… — Louise Erdrich
The Lord would want you to be successful. He would. You are His sons and His daughters. He has the same kind of love and… — Gordon B. Hinckley
And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the… — Amy Tan
Only two kinds of daughters, she shouted in Chinese. Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind! — Amy Tan
There are so few people given us to love. I want to tell my daughters this, that each time you fall in love it is… — Anne Enright
We hug, but there are no tears. For every awful thing that's been said and done, she is my sister. Parents die, daughters grow up… — Lisa See
The business of Mr. Bennett's life was to keep his daughters alive. The business of Mrs. Bennett's was to get them married. — Seth Grahame-Smith

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