Daughters Quotes
583 Daughters quotes by 470 unique authors
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As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is…
— Kristin Hannah
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I am probably responsible for the odd fact that people don't seem to name their daughters Lolita any more. I have heard of young female…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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People are afraid of being more ignorant than their children―especially, apparantly, their daughters.
— Daniel Dennett
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Percy, lesser beings do many horrible things in the name of the gods. That does not mean we gods approve. The way our sons and…
— Rick Riordan
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Of course mothers and daughters with strong personalities might see the world from very different points of view.
— Katherine Howe
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Come into our home, daughters of Earth; dwell in our tunnels, harvest our fields; what we cannot do, you are now our hands to do…
— Orson Scott Card
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No ninjas! How was that possible? Five daughters brought up at home without any ninjas! I never heard of such a thing. Your mother must…
— Seth Grahame-Smith
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Of all the creations of the Almighty, there is none more beautiful, none more inspiring than a lovely daughter of God who walks in virtue…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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Maybe mothers - consciously or subconsciously - repelled their daughters in different ways.
— Jodi Picoult
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There was a certain power beautiful mothers held over their less beautiful daughters.
— Sarah Addison Allen
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To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase 'terrible beauty.' Nothing can make one…
— Christopher Hitchens
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No matter what you read or hear, no matter what the difference of circumstances you observe in the lives of women about you, it is…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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This is what daughters did. They left, and came home later with lives of their own.
— Sarah Dessen
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The noblest calling in the world is motherhood. True motherhood is the most beautiful of all arts, the greatest of all professions. She who can…
— David O. McKay
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The truth now.He was disappointed in human beings.He had seen too many betrayals,too many pitiful weaknesses,too much greed for money and fame.The falseness between lovers,husbands…
— Mario Puzo
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What would the daughters of the rich do with themselves if the poor ceased to exist?
— Angela Carter
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This Church is true. It will weather every storm that beats against it. It will outlast every critic who rises to mock it. It was…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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And I, Nephi, took one of the daughters of Ishmael to wife.' Well Mr. Go-And-Do just went and did!
— John Bytheway
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little…
— Jane Austen
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We are born haunted, he said, his voice weak, but still clear. Haunted by our fathers and mothers and daughters, and by people we don't…
— Jonathan Evison
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