Children Quote by Elif Shafak

“Ah, Jo, instead of wishing that, thank God that 'Father and Mother were particular', and pity from your heart those who have no such…

— Louisa May Alcott

“Every father wants a daughter to meet the right God, and the right man. Perhaps her father had failed with both.”

— Kathy Hepinstall

“Mariam saw now the sacrifices a mother made. Decency was but one...Mariam wished she's been a better daughter to Nana. She wished she's understood…

— Khaled Hosseini

“I want my daughters to be beautiful, accomplished, and good; to be admired, loved and respected; to have a happy youth; to be well…

— Louisa M Alcott

“Indeed, she had started to wonder if her blessings might be in her daughters and their progeny rather than in her sons. There was…

— Elizabeth Chadwick

“I would give something to know for precisely whom the deeds were really done, of which it is publicly stated they were done 'for…

— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

“Peri felt the energy in her father's hand ebb; his fingers grew light and bloodless, the hand of a cadaver waiting to be dissected.…

— Elif Shafak

“O my brothers, your nobility should not look backward but ahead! Exiles shall you be from all father- and forefather-lands! Your children's land shall…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Drawing a deep breath, she took control of her fear. She was a commander’s child. Her father had been born in poverty and had…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“they knew that what they hoped for from the operation was to safeguard their daughters’ chastity, because upon that chastity depended the honor of…

— Geraldine Brooks

“The thing about fathers is that they are human. But, they stay bent on being heroes to their children, readily willing to give themselves…

— Srini Chandra

“They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.”

— Khalil Gibran