Best daughter & children Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 3

Source: Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures: Volume 1: Unfinished Manuscripts, Mysterious Stories, and Lost Notes from One of the World's Most Popular Novelists

“My daughter is seven, and some of the other second-grade parents complain that their children don't read for pleasure. When I visit their homes, the children's rooms are crammed with expensive books, but the parent's rooms are empty. Those children do not see their parents reading, as I did every day of my childhood. By contrast, when I walk into an apartment with books on the shelves, books on the bedside tables, books on the floor, and books on the toilet tank, then I know what I would see if I opened the door that says 'PRIVATE--GROWNUPS KEEP OUT': a child sprawled on the bed, reading.”

“Tereza's mother never stopped reminding her that being a mother meant sacrificing everything. Her words had the ring of truth, backed as they were by the experience of a woman who had lost everything because of her child. Tereza would listen and believe that being a mother was the highest value in life and that being a mother was a great sacrifice. If a mother was Sacrifice personified, then a daughter was Guilt, with no possibility of redress.”

“Women without children are also the best of mothers,often, with the patience,interest, and saving grace that the constant relationship with children cannot always sustain. I come to crave our talk and our daughters gain precious aunts. Women who are not mothering their own children have the clarity and focus to see deeply into the character of children webbed by family. A child is fortuante who feels witnessed as a peron,outside relationships with parents by another adult.”

Feels Children Character Mother Parent Interest Focus Grace Daughter Adults Gains Constant Parenting Clarity Saving Crave Aunt Mothering Our Daughter Saving Grace

Author:Louise Erdrich

“Although I have felt compelled to write things down since I was five years old, I doubt that my daughter ever will, for she is a singularly blessed and accepting child, delighted with life exactly as life presents itself to her, unafraid to go to sleep and unafraid to wake up. Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss.”

Source: Slouching towards Bethlehem

“Under the plan of heaven, the husband and the wife walk side by side as companions, neither one ahead of the other, but a daughter of God and a son of God walking side by side. Let your families be families of love and peace and happiness. Gather your children around you and have your family home evenings, teach your children the ways of the Lord, read to them from the scriptures, and let them come to know the great truths of the eternal gospel as set forth in these words of the Almighty.”

“I saw what I had been fighting for: It was for me, a scared child, who had run away a long time ago to what I had imagined was a safer place. And hiding in this place, behind my invisible barriers, I knew what lay on the other side: Her side attacks. Her secret weapons. Her uncanny ability to find my weakest spots. But in the brief instant that I had peered over the barriers I could finally see what was finally there: an old woman, a wok for her armor, a knitting needle for her sword, getting a little crabby as she waited patiently for her daughter to invite her in.”

Source: The Joy Luck Club

“People are afraid of being more ignorant than their children―especially, apparantly, their daughters.”

People Children Daughter Ignorant

Author:Daniel Dennett

“A daughter,' Rowley scooped up the child and held her high. The baby blinked from sleep and crowed with him. 'Any fool can have a son,' he said. 'It takes a man to conceive a daughter.”

Men Children Said Parent Sleep Son Baby Fool Daughter Parenting

Book:The Serpent's Tale

Source: The Serpent's Tale

“My daughter," I said blankly. "I see. Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought it took a man, as well as a woman, to make a child. Is this infant's father to be a crab, or a seagull maybe? Or were you planning to shipwreck some likely sailor on my doorstep, so I can make convenient use of him?”

Source: Child of the Prophecy: Book Three of the Sevenwaters Trilogy

“And yet, in each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. Multiply those odds by countless generations, against the odds of your ancestors being alive; meeting; siring this precise son; that exact daughter... Until your mother loves a man she has every reason to hate, and of that union, of the thousand million children competing for fertilization, it was you, only you, that emerged. To distill so specific a form from that chaos of improbability, like turning air to gold... that is the crowning unlikelihood. The thermodynamic miracle.”

“No matter what you read or hear, no matter what the difference of circumstances you observe in the lives of women about you, it is important for you Latter-day Saint women to understand that the Lord holds motherhood and mothers sacred and in the highest esteem. He has entrusted to his daughters the great responsibility of bearing and nurturing children.... There is divinity in each new life.”

“I have never understood why it is called losing a child. No parent is that careless. We all know exactly where our sons and daughters are; we just don't necessarily want them to be there”

Knows Want Children Parent Son Losing Daughter Understood Careless Son And Daughter Losing A Child

Book:My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel

Source: My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel

“It's a wonder that any mother ever called a daughter Dinah again. But some did. Maybe you guessed that there was more to me than the voiceless cipher in the text. Maybe you heard it in the music of my name: the first vowel high and clear, as when a mother calls to her child at dusk; the second sound soft, for whispering secrets on pillows. Dee-nah.”

Firsts Children Mother Names Sound Secret Wonder Clear Heard Daughter Pillow Whispering Dusk Voiceless Vowels Ciphers

Author:Anita Diament

“Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend?”

Children Daughter Thank You Kinder Mom And Daughter Thank You Sister

Book:Emma

Source: Emma

“...I do not tell you often enough, dear Mother, how very grateful I am that I am yours. It is a rare parent who would offer a child such latitude and understanding. It is an even rarer one who calls a daughter friend. I do love you, dear Mama.”

Children Enough Mother Parent Understanding Love You Offers Daughter Grateful Dear Mama Latitude Dear Mother

Author:Julia Quinn

“The infant-inconvenience kicked in response, and Conall twitched at the sensation. “Active little pup, isn’t he?” “She,” corrected his wife. “As if any child of mine would dare be a boy.” It was a long-standing argument. “Boy,” replied Conall. “Any child as difficult as this one has been from the start must, perforce, be male.” Alexia snorted. “As if my daughter would be calm and biddable.” Conall grinned, catching one of her hands and bringing it in for a kiss, all prickly whiskers and soft lips. “Very good point, wife. Very good point.”

“I have six illegitimate children," Villiers informed her, not kindly. She visibly paled. :My daughter is marrying a duke," the duchess said between clenched teeth. "True, he apparently has the morals of a squirrel, but that's my cross to bear.”

Children Said Moral Bears Six Daughter Crosses Teeth My Daughter Marrying Dukes Squirrels Duchess Illegitimate Child Crosses To Bear

Author:Eloisa James

“I should not have loved my daughter as I did. Not in this world in which nothing lives for long. You children are flies. You are roses. You multiply and die.”

World Should Children Long Dies This World Daughter Rose My Daughter

Book:Fever

Source: Fever

“I look older. Maybe it's the short hair or maybe it's just that I wear all that has happened like a mask. Either way, I always thought I would be happy when I stopped looking like a child. But all I feel is a lump in my throat. I am no longer the daughter my parents knew. They will never know me as I am now.”

Knows Way Feels Looks Children Would Be Parent Happened Hair Daughter Mask Throat Know Me Lumps Short Hair

Author:Veronica Roth

“I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan't make the mistakes I've made. When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I'm going to bring up my daughter so that she's free and can stand on her own feet. I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he's willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.”

Source: The Painted Veil

“Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this way we were bound together for eternity.”

Way Children Together Secret Daughter Understood Eternity Bounds Small Child Mother's Love Love For My Mother Good Happy Mothers Day Mothers Day Messages

Author:Alice Hoffman

“We were his disposable things. Brought to him like cattle. Stripped of what made us sisters or daughters or children. There was nothing that he could take from us—our genes, our bones, our wombs—that would ever satisfy him. There was no other way that we would be free.”

Way Children Made Would Be Daughter Bones Genes Womb Cattle Disposable

Author:Lauren DeStefano

“A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.”

Author:Dorothy Canfield Fisher

“Our daughters are the most precious of our treasures, the dearest possessions of our homes and the objects of our most watchful love.”

Children Home Objects Daughter Possession Treasure Birthday My Daughter Thank You Mother Daughter Mother And Daughter Our Daughter Your Daughter Mom And Daughter Daughter To Father Father Daughter Love Love My Daughter I Love My Daughter

Author:Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

“When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born, too of course, but at least for her it's a gradual process. Body and soul, she has nine months to get used to what's happening. She becomes what's happening. But for even the best-prepared father, it happens all at once. On the other side of a plate-glass window, a nurse is holding up something roughly the size of a loaf of bread for him to see for the first time.”

Source: Whistling in the dark: an ABC theologized

“Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farm workers can become the president of a great nation. It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.”

“As with the bud, so with the blossom. A boy is the only thing known from which a man can be made. I hope that we as parents are teaching our children that they are the sons and daughters of God, and that they have the capacity to become like him. It was the old Edinburgh weaver who prayed, 'O God, help me to hold a high opinion of myself.' Likewise I would counsel young people to hold a high opinion of themselves, to remember who they really are, and to put their faith in their Heavenly Father.”

“I'm a man with many defects. I love. I sing. I dream. I was born in the poor countryside. I was raised in the countryside, planting corn and selling sweets made by my grandmother. My children, my two daughters are with me and I want a better world for my grandchildren, for your grandchildren.”

Men World Want Children Made Two Dream Born Poor Sweet Daughter Raised Selling My Children Grandmother Grandchildren Defects My Grandmother Corn Countryside My Grandchildren Two Daughters

Author:Hugo Chavez

“A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.”

Knows World Love Children Law Mother Family Path Mom Daughter Standing All Things Dare My Mom Motherhood Pity Novelists Crush Birthday Unconditional Love Autism Mothers Day Playwright Being A Mom Family Love Your Mom Being A Mother Mothering Mother And Daughter About Family Mother Love Mother's Love Mother And Child Inspirational Family Love Great Mother Mom And Daughter Inspirational Mothers Love For Her Mother Proverbs Mothers Day Inspirational Love Your Family Love And Care Loving Family Mother Child Love For My Mother Good Happy Mothers Day Just A Mom Lovely Family Importance Of Family Beautiful Family Great Mom Mother Care Mother Flower Like A Mother Love Your Mother She Is Beautiful Inspirational Mom Mom And Child Mom Daughter Joys Of Motherhood I Love My Mother Love Being A Mom Mothers Day Love I Love Being A Mom Unhappy Family Loving My Family Children And Love I Love My Children Love My Children Love My Mom I Love Being A Mother

Author:Agatha Christie

“Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half - especially if he has a teenage daughter.”

“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.”

“Maternal love, like an orange tree, buds and blossoms and bears at once. When a woman puts her finger for the first time into the tiny hand of her baby and feels that helpless clutch which tightens her very heartstrings, she is born again with her newborn child.”

“My own mother fought to make herself more than a possession; she lived her life as a mother who chose when she would have children, and a wife who could earn a living if she so chose. I want my daughters to enjoy that same choice.”

Ifs Want Children Mother Choices Enjoy My Own Wife Daughter Profound Possession My Daughter

Author:Mark Ruffalo

“At some point it's very important to me that my daughter is able to experience life and run through the sprinklers and have slumber parties and trust and live and do all the things that any child should be able to do.”

Should Children Important Running Able Party Daughter Motherhood My Daughter Slumber Slumber Party

Author:Beyonce Knowles

“Having taken on the care of foster children, a mother forced her own daughter to beat them. According to her later account: Mom puts the fly swatter in my hand and shows me how to do it: grab their wrists, and whack the plastic handle over their pink baby palms. She stands in the doorway of their room until I can crack hard enough to make them scream.”

Children I Can Hard Enough Shows Hands Care Mother Rooms Taken Baby Mom Beats Daughter Accounts Handle Cracks Bullying Scream Plastic Show Me Palms Doorways Wrists Foster Children

Author:Julie Gregory

“I still hear you humming, Mama. The colour of your song calls me home. The colour of your words saying, Let her be. She got a right to be different. She gonna stumble on herself one of these days. Just let the child be. And I be, Mama.”

Children Stills Different Home Mother Song Daughter These Days Colour Call Me Mama Mother Daughter Mother And Daughter Humming

Book:Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems

Source: Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems

“"After 17" is a song I wrote when my first daughter went to college, so that's kind of where I'm at in that part of my life. If you listen to that song and knew anything about me, you'd say, "Oh yeah, he wrote that about his daughter," but I try not to write them that they are so specific that they wouldn't apply to anybody that has a child.”

Ifs Writing Trying Firsts Kind Children Mother Song College Daughter Yeah

Author:Alan Jackson

“All I know is that once you have children, you put them before anything you're feeling or going through. Today, my daughter walked into the room and I said, 'I love you, baby,' and she said, 'Well, I don't like you,' and I said to my wife, 'The meaner she is to me, the more I love her.'”

Knows Wells Children Said Feelings Today Mother Rooms Wife Love You Like You Baby Daughter My Wife My Daughter I Don't Like You Love You Baby I Love You Baby

Author:Jeremy Sisto

“Children make you a better everything. Daughters open up a whole different sensibility to you. When you have children, it focuses you on them as opposed to on yourself.”

Children Different Whole Mother Daughter Sensibility

Author:Andy Garcia

“How do you build a relationship when you've hardly shared a word but suddenly share a child? How do you love a daughter you don't see for nearly two years? When does she become your daughter? How does she become your daughter?”

Years Children Doe Two Mother Sports Share Daughter Two Years Mother Daughter Our Daughter Your Daughter

Author:Boris Becker

“I don't feel I was ever a 'famous' child actor. I was just a working actor who happened to be a kid. I was never really in a hit show until I was a teenager with West Wing playing First Daughter Zoey Bartlet. In a way, that was my saving grace - not being a star on a hit show. It kept me working and kept me grounded.”

Way Feels Firsts Children Shows Kids Mother Actors Stars Grace Happened Daughter Wings West Saving Teenager Grounded Child Actors Saving Grace

Author:Elisabeth Moss

Daughter Quotes

Related topics

Daughter Quotes