Daughters Quotes
583 Daughters quotes by 470 unique authors
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I have never understood why it is called losing a child. No parent is that careless. We all know exactly where our sons and daughters…
— Jodi Picoult
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So hand in hand they passed, the loveliest pair that ever since in love's embraces met -- Adam, the goodliest man of men since born…
— John Milton
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Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life.
— Lisa See
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The fact is that Chinese parents can do things that would seem unimaginable-even legally actionable-to Westerners. Chinese mothers can say to their daughters, "Hey fatty-lose…
— Amy Chua
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Poseidon grinned. "You're doing well with those new cabins, by the way. I suppose this means I can claim all those other sons and daughters…
— Rick Riordan
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I've got two daughters who will have to make their way in this skinny-obsessed world, and it worries me, because I don't want them to…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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The other reason women wanted daughters was to keep their memories alive.
— Anita Diament
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Daughters can spend ten percent more than a man can make in any usual occupation. That’s a law of nature, to be known henceforth as…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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The ranks of society are once again filled with Ambitious Mamas, whose only aim is to see their Darling Daughters married off to Determined Bachelors
— Julia Quinn
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No one was ever good enough for anybody's precious sons. No one ever called daughters precious, and why was that? Things had not changed very…
— Melissa de la Cruz
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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…
— Ray Bradbury
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I had asked her for help, and she had sent me to the lions. I knew that she was trying to save her little girl,…
— Laura Whitcomb
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A little more money won't do you any good - because daughters can use up ten percent more than a man can make in any…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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I went to bed feeling melancholy, wishing I could have poured out all my fears and insecurities to my mom. Wasn’t that what normal mothers…
— Richelle Mead
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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives…
— Joseph Addison
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Tell my daughter Elizabeth -- no! Tell all my daughters, everywhere, in all the ages yet to come. Tell them how I died, and why.…
— Philippa Gregory
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… our sons must become men – such men as we hope our daughters, born and unborn, will be pleased to live among. Our sons…
— Audre Lorde
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I hope that I live for a thousand years, and have a thousand daughters so that there will always be a woman who can curse…
— Lauren Kate
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Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this…
— Alice Hoffman
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In the olden days, when wishing still worked, there lived a king whose daughters were all beautiful, but the youngest daughter was so lovely that…
— Jacob Grimm
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