DAUGHTER QUOTES

• To my daughter Leonora without whose never failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been completed in half the time.
  ~ P. G. Wodehouse ~
• It's the moms of this nation - single, married, widowed - who really hold this country together. We're the mothers, we're the wives, we're the grandmothers, we're the big sisters, we're the little sisters, we're the daughters. You know it's true, don't you? You're the ones who always have to do a little more.
  ~ Ann Romney ~
• I am the granddaughter of a Welsh coal miner who was determined that his kids get out of the mines. My dad got his first job when he was six years old, in a little village in Wales called Nantyffyllon, cleaning bottles at the Colliers Arms.
  ~ Ann Romney ~
• The current leadership of the Labor party react to the idea that working-class students might study the subjects they studied with the same horror that the Earl of Grantham showed when a chauffeur wanted to marry his daughter.
  ~ Michael Gove ~
• About the time I turned 50, I experienced the profound biological change that often accompanies women at that age. Also, I put two kids in college and lost both of my parents, so I'm no longer somebody's daughter.
  ~ Jane Pauley ~
• I was gone so much in my first marriage. I love the moments when I engage with my youngest daughter now. It's not my thing to sit on the ground and play tea party, but I'll do it because it's a moment that will stick with me forever.
  ~ Tim Allen ~
• My wife is the boss at home, and my daughters are the bosses. I am just the worker. We are a very warm family and very happy.
  ~ Jet Li ~
• If my daughter wants to get into this business, I would support that decision. She's going to have a hard time not being in it. She loves food and she's around it all the time.
  ~ Bobby Flay ~
• As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.
  ~ Vera Wang ~
• As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.
  ~ Vera Wang ~
• As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.
  ~ Vera Wang ~
• My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.
  ~ Gwyneth Paltrow ~
• My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.
  ~ Gwyneth Paltrow ~
• I hate being clean-shaven. My daughter gets very upset if I shave and says, 'Bring back the spikes, Dad.'
  ~ Eric Bana ~
• My wife has brought great beauty into my life. And my daughter has brought me nothing but joy. Those qualities were greatly lacking.
  ~ Christopher Meloni ~
• I have two daughters and I have done everything in my power to prevent them from assimilating, even being aware of, my idiocy about my weight.
  ~ Ayelet Waldman ~
• I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves.
  ~ Joyce Maynard ~
• Every now and then, I have blissful moments of thanking God for all the amazing things that are happening. When I leave the White House after just meeting Obama or when I see my face on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' or when I meet someone who tells me that their daughter is inspired by me, those are moments that are incredibly joyful.
  ~ Lea Michele ~
• Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.
  ~ Isabel Allende ~
• Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.
  ~ Isabel Allende ~
• I am so excited to let fans in on how important my relationship with my family is to me. I hope to motivate mothers and daughters to build lifetimes of memories together and inspire kids around the world to live their dreams.
  ~ Miley Cyrus ~
• I am so excited to let fans in on how important my relationship with my family is to me. I hope to motivate mothers and daughters to build lifetimes of memories together and inspire kids around the world to live their dreams.
  ~ Miley Cyrus ~
• I am so excited to let fans in on how important my relationship with my family is to me. I hope to motivate mothers and daughters to build lifetimes of memories together and inspire kids around the world to live their dreams.
  ~ Miley Cyrus ~
• I am so excited to let fans in on how important my relationship with my family is to me. I hope to motivate mothers and daughters to build lifetimes of memories together and inspire kids around the world to live their dreams.
  ~ Miley Cyrus ~
• My family truly believes they are better cooks than I am. They see me as Giada, not as a celebrity chef. To them I'm just me - their granddaughter, niece, etc., and they're older and wiser. I like that because it keeps you grounded.
  ~ Giada De Laurentiis ~
• I want to be a positive role-model for my daughter. The last thing I want to put out there is that it's acceptable to be too thin or have an eating disorder because you're in Hollywood.
  ~ Tori Spelling ~
• I care so passionately about improving the quality of life for women and girls, not just here in the United States, but internationally as well. I am a single mom and I raised a daughter who is now a young adult.
  ~ Valerie Jarrett ~
• Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
  ~ Abigail Adams ~
• I had a daughter who was 9 years old and I had the feeling I wasn't going to be a real parent if I didn't quit making movies for a while and spend time with her. I also felt that I'd made enough movies and said what I had to say at the time.
  ~ Jane Campion ~
• I'm a filmmaker who decided to go to culinary school. All I picked up was the fact if I didn't understand what was going on with every single ingredient, I could be qualifying for, like, the lunch food job at my daughter's school.
  ~ Alton Brown ~
• It's hard to think of yourself as a brand, especially when I have four daughters who kick my butt early in the morning every day before I go to work.
  ~ Harvey Weinstein ~
• Do not look at the evil eye, o son of man Not every daughter of eve is a prostitute / harlot / quean
  ~ Prince Danish ~
• My daughter Lila loves the smell of gasoline - she always says, 'Mummy, keep the door open,' when I'm filling up the car. I've heard it is one of the most preferred scents in the world - maybe that's something to study for my next fragrance!
  ~ Kate Moss ~
• I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence.
  ~ Brooke Shields ~
• I wouldn't want my daughters to date a guy like me. I was dangerous around women in my twenties. I'm terrified that they might end up with someone like me.
  ~ Antonio Banderas ~
• Look, I've got incredible pride for my family. I've absolutely fallen into that cliche of a dad who could just happily talk about my daughter endlessly.
  ~ Christian Bale ~
• Look, I've got incredible pride for my family. I've absolutely fallen into that cliche of a dad who could just happily talk about my daughter endlessly.
  ~ Christian Bale ~
• My sister is totally my dad's daughter because she loves sports.
  ~ Ashley Tisdale ~
• My sister is totally my dad's daughter because she loves sports.
  ~ Ashley Tisdale ~
• This morning, I went to wipe my hands on a tea towel, and while I was using it, it seemed like it felt a bit light. I unfolded it and realized my daughter had cut little bits out of it to make frocks for her dolls!
  ~ Emma Thompson ~
• I understand what it's like to come with your family, and to uproot yourself and come to another culture. You need a lot of support. People say, 'She's got her daughter she's got her husband.' Yeah, but she hasn't got anyone else.
  ~ Emma Thompson ~
• To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
  ~ Euripides ~
• The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks. If my daughter has a mediocre sense of humor, I'm just gonna tell her, 'Be a staff writer for a sitcom. Because they'll have to hire you, they can't really fire you, and you don't have to produce that much. It'll be awesome.'
  ~ Adam Carolla ~
• The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks. If my daughter has a mediocre sense of humor, I'm just gonna tell her, 'Be a staff writer for a sitcom. Because they'll have to hire you, they can't really fire you, and you don't have to produce that much. It'll be awesome.'
  ~ Adam Carolla ~
• I'm privileged, because I have a lot of freedom. I want to use it to make as warm and normal a life as I can for our daughters.
  ~ Jennifer Garner ~
• There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. It's really the first time I've thought about the future and what it could be.
  ~ Johnny Depp ~
• There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. It's really the first time I've thought about the future and what it could be.
  ~ Johnny Depp ~
• There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. It's really the first time I've thought about the future and what it could be.
  ~ Johnny Depp ~
• There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. It's really the first time I've thought about the future and what it could be.
  ~ Johnny Depp ~
• We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
  ~ Gloria Steinem ~
• I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
  ~ J. K. Rowling ~
• I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
  ~ J. K. Rowling ~
• My future daughter is not going to go through what I did.
  ~ Christina Aguilera ~
• It's one of the worst-kept secrets of family life that all parents have a preferred son or daughter, and the rules for acknowledging it are the same everywhere: The favored kids recognize their status and keep quiet about it - the better to preserve the good thing they've got going and to keep their siblings off their back.
  ~ Jeffrey Kluger ~
• Being a father at a later age is different from when I had my other two daughters when I was in my 20s and 30s. If you're in your 60s and you're with the kid every day, you're dealing with the mind of a child, so it opens up that childishness in you again.
  ~ Martin Scorsese ~
• The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister's daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for.
  ~ Tori Amos ~
• Don't tell your kids you had an easy birth or they won't respect you. For years I used to wake up my daughter and say, 'Melissa you ripped me to shreds. Now go back to sleep.'.
  ~ Joan Rivers ~
• Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It's getting bigger and better all the time and I'm glad to be a part of it.
  ~ Shania Twain ~
• I didn't think it was fair to my music to label me as the daughter of somebody - I didn't think it described me very well and I didn't think it had anything to do with my music.
  ~ Norah Jones ~
• I've been told the weirdest things: 'Yeah, I love taking a bath to your music!' or 'I gave birth to my daughter while listening to your music.'
  ~ Norah Jones ~
• I have three goddaughters - I'm not sure why they trust me, because I have no experience with children - but I try.
  ~ Diane Kruger ~
• I have three goddaughters - I'm not sure why they trust me, because I have no experience with children - but I try.
  ~ Diane Kruger ~
• I think it's important that kids have responsibilities and understand the value of things, but I think it's great I get to travel the world with my daughter.
  ~ Salma Hayek ~
• If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?
  ~ Virginia Woolf ~
• If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?
  ~ Virginia Woolf ~
• My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.
  ~ Michelle Obama ~
• My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.
  ~ Michelle Obama ~
• And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.
  ~ Michelle Obama ~
• My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.
  ~ Michelle Obama ~
• Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
  ~ Thomas Fuller ~
• Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
  ~ Thomas Fuller ~
• Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
  ~ Thomas Fuller ~
• Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
  ~ Francis Bacon ~
• Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
  ~ Francis Bacon ~
• My mother was a professional sick person she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time.
  ~ Jim Carrey ~
• Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you're gonna be depressed real fast. I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She's my first priority.
  ~ Jim Carrey ~
• Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you're gonna be depressed real fast. I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She's my first priority.
  ~ Jim Carrey ~
• Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you're gonna be depressed real fast. I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She's my first priority.
  ~ Jim Carrey ~
• My mother was a professional sick person she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time.
  ~ Jim Carrey ~
• I feel so lucky to have both a son and a daughter, because there's a different relationship with each of them.
  ~ Hugh Jackman ~
• When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that's happened that day just melts away.
  ~ Hugh Jackman ~