Quotes -
Quotes for Daughters
Before you were conceived
I wanted you
Before you were born I loved you
Before you were here
an hour I would die for you
This is miracle of life.
-Maureen Hawkins
Thy Daughters bright thy walks adorn,
Gay as the gilded summer sky,
Sweet as the dewy, milk-white thorn,
Dear as the ruptured thrill of joy.
--Robert Burns
There be none of beauty's daughters,
With a magic like thee;
And like music on the waters
IS thy sweet voice to be.
--Lord Byron
When I held you, Jane -my
first baby - in my arms, I
had the greatest thrill I have ever
experienced.
-Mrs. Colbert,
to her daughter
There is so much between us, sa
and good. I find you a
fascinating person. So there is much
more than mother-daughter love. You
really do enrich my life and teach me.
--Nan Hunt,
in a ltter to her daughter Diana
In giving our daughter life,
her father and I had also given her death,
something I hadn't reallized
until the new creature flailed her arms in .
What was now infinite space.
We had given her disease and speeding cars and flying cornices:
once out of the fortress that had been myself,
she would never be safe again...
And until yhe day we die we fear the phone that rings in the die
we fear the phone that rings in the middle of the night.
-Mary Cantwell.
To my daughter Leonora without whose
never-failing sympathy and encouragement
this book would have been finished in half the time.
-P.G.Wodehouse,
in the dedication to The Heart of a Goof.
I was so proud of you and thrilled
at having you so close to me on
our long walk in Westminister Abbey,
but when I handed your hand to the
Archbishop I felt that I had lost
something very precious.
--King George VI of England
of his daughter Elizabeth on her wedding day
A daughter is to her father a treasure of sleeplessnes.
--Ben Siva
The thoughts of a daughter
are a kind of memorial.
-Enid Bagnold.
Many man wishes he were strong enough
to tear a telephone book in
half-especially if he has a teenage daughter.
-Guy Lombardo.
Oh my son's my son till
he gets him a wife,
But my daughter's my daughter all her life.
-Dinab Mulock Craik
Father is always making his baby
into a little woman.
And when she is a woman
he turns her back again.
-Enid Bagnold.
Children want to feel instinctively
that their father is behind them as
solid as mountain, but, like a mountain,
is something to look up to.
-Dorothy Thompson.
Daughter is a companion,
the friend, and confidant of her mother,
and the object of a pleasure something
like love between the angels to her father.
-Richard Steel.
Whenever I try to recall that long-ago
first day at school only one memory shines
through my father held my hand.
-Marcelene Cox.
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 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 part of butter in a hot frying pan.
-Garrison Keillor.
Many fathers don't see the war within the
daughter,
her struggles with conflicting images
of the idealized and flawed father...
-Victoria Secunda.
It isn't that I'm a weak father,
it's just that she's a strong daughter!
-Henry Fonda
of his daughter Jane.
It doesn't matter who my father was;
it mattes who I remember he was.
Anne Sexton.
My mother is a poem
I'LL never be able to write though
everything I write is a poem to my mother.
-Sharon Doubiage
What I would like to give my
daughter is freedom. And
this is given by example, not by
exhortation. Freedom is a loos leash, a
license to be different from your mother
and still be loved.... Freedom is...not
insisting that your daughter share your
limitations.Freedom also means letting
your daughter reject you when she
needs to and come back when she needs
to. Freedom is unconditional love.
--Erica Jong
My ten-year-old daughter is my #1 power
source.
Hanan Mikbail Asbrawi.
When she comes and looks in
my face and calls me
"mother", indeed I then truly am a
mother ...
Emma Hamilton
If I had a daughter I would bring
her up as a clinging vine.
--Mary Lathrop
Most of all the other beautiful things in
life come by twos and threes,
by dozens and hundreds,plenty of roses,
stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers and
sisters, aunts and cousins, comrades and friends-but only mother in the Whole World.
-Kate Douglass Wiggin.
Then farewell, my dear; my loved
daughter, adieu;
The last pang of life is in parting
from you.
--Thomas Jefferson
Mother is not a person to lean on,
but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Dorotby Canfield Fisher.
My face is a caricature of hers
and her soul is a caricature of mine.
In fact, she has no soul. She is my substance.
She robbed me of substance in the womb.
That's why I named her Narcissa...
She grew her beauty on me like a flower on a dunghill.
She is my material.I am her soul.
We are that perilous pair.
-Rose O'Neill.
Did you ever meet a mother
who complained that her
child phoned her too often?
Me neither.
Maureen Lipman.
Dear Mother:
I'am all right. Stop worrying about me.
Papyrus letter of seventeen-year-old
Egyptian girl to her mother,2000 B.c.
Your happiness was my first wish,
and the pursuit of all my actions,
divested of all self-interest.
So far I think you ought,
and believe you do,
remember me as your friend.
Lady Mary Wbortey Montagu,
in a letter to her daughter.
Things change so fast,
You can't use 1971 ethics on someone born in 1971.
Whatever she does is going to look far-out to me.
I hope I'll either like it or keep my mouth shut.
-Grace Slick
of her daughter as an infant.
I was so proud of you
and thrilled at having you so close to me
on our long walk in Westminster Abbey,
but when I handed your hand to the Archbishop
I felt that I had lost something very precious.
-King George VI of England
of his daughter Elizabeth on her wedding day.
The thing that impresses me the most about
Americans is the way parents obey their children.
-King Edward VIII.
It is not a bad thing that children
should occasionally, and politely,
put parents in their place.
-Colette.
Parents learn a lot from their children
about coping with life.
-Muriel Spark.
The death of any loved parent is an
incalculable lasting blow.
Because no one ever loves you again like that.
-Brenda Ueland.
The debt of gratitude we owe our mother
and father goes forward,
not backward. What we owe our parents
is the bill presented to us by our children.
-Nancy Friday.
Family life!
The United Nations is child's play
compared to the tugs and splits and
need to understand and forgive in any family.
-May Sarton.
The family is one of nature's
masterpieces.
-George Santayana.
Healthy families are our greatest national
resource.
-Dolores Curran.
From the birth to eighteen a girl needs
parents.
From eighteen to thirty-five,
she needs good looks.
From thirty-five to fifty-five,
good personality.
From fifty-five on, she needs good cash.
I'm saving my money.
-Sophie Tucker.
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