"Like father like son, like mother like daughter!" — Jamaica Kincaid
"Like father like son, like mother like daughter!"
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Jamaica Kincaid
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68 Quotes by Jamaica Kincaid
Jamaica Kincaid has 68 quotes on this site.
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It is true that I am a writer, and I was married to a composer, and I have lived in…
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But you know, where did the Brontes go to college? Where did George Eliot go to college? Where did Thomas…
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I read about writers who have routines. They write at certain times of the day. I can't do that. I…
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I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't…
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The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not.
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When I'm writing, I think about the garden, and when I'm in the garden I think about writing. I do…
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Gardeners (or just plain simple writers who write about the garden) always have something they like intensely and in particular,…
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The space between the idea of something and its reality is always wide and deep and dark. The longer they…
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There's something to be said about a slightly plump person—you have just enough of too much.
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One day I was living silently in a personal hell, without anyone to tell what I felt, without even knowing…
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But some natives--most natives in the world--cannot go anywhere. They are too poor. They are too poor to go anywhere.…
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It is sad that unless you are born a god, your life,from its very beginning, is a mystery to you.
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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the…
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her…
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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most…
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Look, I've got incredible pride for my family. I've absolutely fallen into that cliche of a dad who could just…
— Christian Bale
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A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise…
— Honore de Balzac
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I hate being clean-shaven. My daughter gets very upset if I shave and says, 'Bring back the spikes, Dad.'
— Eric Bana
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I wouldn't want my daughters to date a guy like me. I was dangerous around women in my twenties. I'm…
— Antonio Banderas
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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If at any moment of the day I ever think I'm remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I…
— Pat Benatar
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Go on daddy-daughter dates and father-and-sons' outings with your children. As a family, go on campouts and picnics, to ball…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Since the beginning, a woman's first and most important role has been ushering into mortality spirit sons and daughters of…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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