Daughter Quotes
Famous Quotes & Quotations About Daughters:
The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, "Daddy, I need to ask you something," he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.
~ Garrison Keillor.
There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself.
~ John Gregory Brown.
To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
~ Euripides.
Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.
~ Jim Bishop.
We've begun to raise daughters more like sons, but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
~ Gloria Steinem.
What the daughter does, the mother did.
~ Jewish Proverb.
The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex.
~ Wynonna Judd.
The woman who bore me is no longer alive, but I seem to be her daughter in increasingly profound ways.
~ Johnnetta Betsch Cole.
When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college - that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared at me, incredulous, and said, "You mean they forget?"
~ Howard Ikemoto.
Why, Madam, do you know there are upward of thirty yards of bowels squeezed underneath that girdle of your daughter's? Go home and cut it; let Nature have fair play, and you will have no need of my advice.
~ John Abernethy.
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
~ Kahlil Gibran.
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