“One time I was at a swimming pool with my kids, a public pool. I had my daughter, my six year old, on my arm like this. She was like clamped on, and she's kicking. ... And then she got off and another random child just clamped on. It's like a rat. "Get off of me." "But I love you." "I don't know you, kid."” KnowsYearsChildrenKidsFunnyComedyLove YouArmsSixDaughterMy DaughterSwimmingPoolOne TimeRatsKickingSix Year OldsSwimming Pool Author:Louis C. K.
“Having this lovely person in my life. My daughter is the funniest person I know and I couldn't imagine my life without her. I think it also starts an amazing journey in a woman. You don't obsess about yourself in the way you used to, as the bulk of your time isn't spent on you.” ThinkingKnowsWayPersonsUsedImagineJourneyDaughterLovelyMy DaughterAbout YourselfLovely Person Author:Donna Air
“From the time she was born, until she was fifteen, I didn't know where I left off and she began. We were joined at the hip or the heart or the brain.” KnowsHeartMotherLeftBornBrainDaughterHipsFifteenMother DaughterMother And DaughterMother And Daughter Relationship Author:Lee Grant
“It's funny, it never occurred to me that a movie star would play me. But now that she [Reese Witherspoon] is playing me, it's like, of course, it couldn't be anyone else! I don't know if you've seen pictures of Reese and me and Reese and my daughter Bobbi, who's named after my mother, and also plays me. There's a kind of resemblance.” IfsKnowsKindPlayMotherCoursesStarsDaughterMy DaughterMovie StarResemblance Author:Cheryl Strayed
“I really don't see any men sitting in the corner office plotting to keep women out. All the men I know are actively trying to promote women, to get more women involved. These men have wives they care about; they have daughters they desperately care about. So I don't think it's fair to blame men - or I don't think it's accurate to blame men anymore.” ThinkingKnowsMenTryingCareWifeHe ManInvolvedOfficeDaughterSittingFairsBlameCornersAccurateBlame Me Author:Debora Spar
“I've had no contact with my daughter for years. That's her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don't want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantYearsMovingChoicesFineDaughterContactBotherMy DaughterBlessKnowing GodGod Bless Author:Anthony Hopkins
“A great deal of thought must be given to your daughter's marriage. Otherwise, she will simply slink off like a cat on a dark night to be fertilized under a bush to God knows whom!” KnowsNightGivenDarkDealsDaughterCatGod KnowsYour DaughterDark Night Author:J. G. Farrell
“I treat myself like I would my daughter. I brusher her hair, was her laundry, tuck her in goodnight. Most importantly, I feed her. I do not punish her. I do not berate her, leave tears staining her face. I do not leave her alone. I know she deserves more. I know I deserve more.” KnowsFacesTearsHairDaughterDeserveTreatsMy DaughterLaundryDeserve More Author:K.Michelle
“I would love to work with Gena Rowlands. I just don't know in what capacity. I'd play her daughter or granddaughter, or whatever. I would just love to work with her, in whatever capacity.” KnowsPlayDaughterCapacityGranddaughter Author:Tatiana Maslany
“I don't know if God exists and I don't care. God's will and design for this temporal and spatial vastness, if any, is so patently, deliberately impenetrable that I doubt any mortal has a grasp on it. The very inexplicability of sad events like the tsunami, like the AIDS crisis or even like the cancer death of the father of one of my daughter's 2nd-grade classmates last week are, to me, reminders to focus on our obligations to one another, not to the infinite; to honor the creator, if any, by honoring creation itself and hoping that's good enough.” IfsKnowsEnoughCareLastsFatherDoubtFocusWeekEventsDesignCreationHonorDaughterInfiniteCrisisCancerCreatorDon't CareAidsGods WillObligationMortalsI Don't CareGradesMy DaughterGood EnoughRemindersGod ExistsVastnessTsunamiClassmatesSpatialCancer Death Author:Eric Zorn
“Iniesta is the boyfriend that every mother wants her daughter to have. The figures over his career tell you all you need to know. He is a magical player. There are few players in the world that can compare to him.” KnowsWorldWantNeedsMotherCareersPlayerFiguresDaughterCompareIniesta Author:Sergio Ramos
“I put my heart, soul and tears into the game and this is what I get. I don't know what to do. My wife can't sleep at night. I hold my daughter all night. I am ashamed I played cricket.” KnowsHeartSoulNightGamesSleepWifeTearsMy HeartDaughterMy WifeAshamedMy DaughterCricketAll NightCan't Sleep Author:Kapil Dev
“The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous....You know I didn't think they'd rake through my bins, I didn't expect to be photographed on the beach through long lens. I never dreamt it would impact my daughter's life negatively, which at times it has. It would be churlish to say there's nothing good about being famous; to have a total stranger walk up to you as you're walking around Safeways, and say a number of nice things that they might say about your work.” ThinkingKnowsLongMightWould BeWantedWalksInterestingNumbersNiceWalkingFameDaughterImpactStrangerBeachMy DaughterLensesUp To YouNice ThingsBeing FamousRakes Author:J. K. Rowling
“But, you know, when I look at somebody like Hillary Clinton, who sits there and tells her daughter and a government official that no, this was a terrorist attack, and then tells everybody else that it was a video. Where I came from, they call that a lie.” KnowsLooksGovernmentLyingDaughterClintonTerroristVideoOfficialsTerrorist AttacksGovernment Officials Author:Benjamin Carson
“Emily and I have some funny scenes where we quarrel and it gets quite heated, the mother-daughter relationship. You know, film mothers and daughters adore each other. And some don't. But how could you not love Emily Blunt? But I think I'm just one of those people who's always discontented.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFilmMotherSceneDaughterJust OneAdoreQuarrelsBluntEmilyMother DaughterMother And DaughterMother Daughter Relationship Author:Jacki Weaver
“Well, let's say Asian. Some are Japanese. Some are Chinese. Some are Thai. Some are Vietnamese. He runs the gamut. And I actually happen to have a very dear daughter-in-law who's Japanese. I don't know what she's going to make of the film, but I say a few disparaging things.” KnowsWellsHappensRunningFilmLawDaughterDearChineseAsianIn-lawsVietnameseThaiDisparagingDaughter In Law Author:Jacki Weaver
“McLeod's Daughters was my first regular job out of drama school, and my first full-time role. That was great because I learned a lot, in terms of working in front of the camera. I learned a lot of technical aspects that you take for granted once you know them, but you have to learn them somewhere, along the way. It was a bit of a training ground for me, working in front of the camera and also dealing with media.” KnowsWayFirstsSchoolJobsBitsTermRolesMediaFrontsDramaTrainingDaughterAspectCamerasGranted Author:Dustin Clare
“Though my wife thinks I'm mad, I know I'll drop my daughter to the parties she's invited to. I'll want her friends to say, "Wow what a handsome father you have!" When she's with her boyfriend in the backseat of our car, I'll be at the wheel, driving her around.” ThinkingKnowsWantFatherPartyWifeCarDaughterMadMy WifeDrivingWheelsMy DaughterWowInvitedHandsomeBackseat Author:Shahrukh Khan
“I love my daughter, but there's a certain feeling, a certain emotion when you got a granddaughter, you know?” KnowsFeelingsCertainEmotionDaughterMy DaughterGranddaughterLove My DaughterI Love My DaughterGrand Daughter Author:Bernie Mac
“My wife is funny. And I dabble in it. So being funny is big around our house. But what's surprised me is my daughter can do an English accent. I don't know how she learned this.” KnowsBigsHouseCan DoKnow HowWifeDaughterMy WifeMy DaughterAccentsBeing Funny Author:Jerry Seinfeld
“You know why they say that, that models are too skinny? Because parents are horrible, they can't tell their sixteen year old daughter she's not really a princess, well guess what, I can.” KnowsYearsWellsI CanParentModelsDaughterHorriblePrincessSkinnySixteenSixteen Year Olds Author:Daniel Tosh
“God, she's growing up, and I don't know when it happened, man. I used to buy her Minnie Mouse panties and little Winnie the Pooh underwear. I was helping my wife fold cloths. I picked up a pair of skimpy underwear. I looked at my wife and said: "When you gonna wear these for me?" She goes, "I can't. They're your daughter's." "Aaaaaaahhhhhh! No, No, No!" There was nothing to them! The how-to-wash tag was the biggest piece of cloth on there.” KnowsMenLittlesSaidI CanHelpingUsedGrowing UpPiecesWifeGrowingHappenedDaughterMy WifePairsMiceFoldsUnderwearTagYour DaughterPantiesMinnieMinnie Mouse Author:Bill Engvall
“I am not a rock star or a movie star; I'm a businessperson. I definitely know who my friends are. I'm much more open and trusting than, say, my daughter is.” KnowsStarsRocksDaughterMy FriendsMy DaughterMovie StarRock Star Author:Martha Stewart
“I have a 14 year old daughter now. You know, it was that time in these kids lives when these girls are becoming women and the hormones are raging. They didn't know if The Beatles were any good, they just went for it 'cause The Beatles were attractive.” IfsKnowsYearsKidsGirlCausesBecomingDaughterRageAttractiveHormonesBecoming A Woman Author:Jack Jones
“A friend asked one of my daughters, "Do you like politics?" And my daughter said, "No, I don't. And the reason I don't like it is because there's too much fighting, too much yelling. It's so loud, I don't like it." You know, I turned to my friend and I said, "You know, she's really on to something."” KnowsSaidReasonFightingToo MuchDaughterMy FriendsLoudMy DaughterYelling Author:John Kasich
“Some days I'll be like, "You know what? Why don't I go to my daughter's studio and make a song?!" And then I don't! I don't know if I would have all the time it takes to put into a song.” IfsKnowsSongLike YouDaughterStudiosMy Daughter Author:Tameka Cottle
“A six year old can probably do more on their iPad than you can do and access more. My daughter's swiping away windows and doing all these things that I don't know how to do.” KnowsYearsCan DoKnow HowSixDaughterWindowAccessMy DaughterIpadsSix Year Olds Author:Patricia Arquette
“Walk through Santa Monica and try to find somebody who knows a young man or woman who's in this war. Here, war is an intellectual concept. If you lose your son or daughter, it's no longer an intellectual matter.” IfsKnowsMenTryingWarMatterYoungLosesWalksSonIntellectualDaughterConceptsYoung ManSantaYour SonMonicaSanta Monica Author:Paul Haggis
“But the biggest beauty advice I've given my daughter is every morning I say, "Genesis, what are the two best parts of you?" And she says "my brain and my heart." And I say, "You've gotta remember that, Genesis. You've gotta remember that you're not what you look like," you know? I think that's the best beauty advice I could give her.” ThinkingKnowsGivingLooksHeartTwoRememberGivenBrainMorningAdviceLike YouMy HeartDaughterMy DaughterEvery MorningGenesis Author:Viola Davis
“This and the small sample size inevitably leads to stereotypes - sweeping family sagas from India, 'lush' colonial romances from South-East Asia. Mother and daughter reconciling generational differences through preparing a 'traditional' meal together. Geishas. And even if something more exciting does manage to sneak through, it gets the same insultingly clichéd cover slapped on it anyway, so no one will ever know.” IfsKnowsDoeTogetherRomanceMotherDifferencesDaughterIndiaExcitingSouthSizeEastTraditionalManageMealsPreparingStereotypeAsiaSneakSweepingSampleMother And DaughterSagaLushGeishaEast AsiaSample Size Author:Deborah Smith
“I don't think my father noticed that he had daughters. I think, you know, part of the damage of the childhood was, I simply don't think they were acknowledged as human beings at all. Or - you know, one of the reasons I became a cook later on in my life was, I was not allowed to cook an egg.” ThinkingKnowsHumansReasonFatherHuman BeingsChildhoodDaughterCooksDamageEggs Author:Terry Gross
“If I'm creating a new superhero, it shouldn't be any different from other superheroes in terms of the qualities. Obviously the personality can be different. I think traditionally in comics women have tended to be a girlfriend or the daughter of whoever, whether it's even Batgirl as Gordon's daughter, or whatever. There is that relation of the hero, you know, like Superman's cousin, Supergirl. And that's great. It's fantastic to have a link to these amazing characters, but I kind of like the idea of things being something in their own right, which is why I've always loved Wonder Woman.” IfsThinkingKnowsKindIdeasDifferentCharacterTermQualityWonderPersonalityHeroCreatingDaughterRelationFantasticGirlfriendLinksSuperheroCousinWonder WomanSupergirl Author:Mark Millar
“After I had my daughter, I kind of got comfortable with motherhood and had time to focus on something else then I started "Sailing Souls" with Fisticuffs, who produced the majority of the mixtape. I just wanted to put out something, like it wasnt really for, you know exposure or to get a deal or really anything like that.” KnowsKindSoulWantedDealsFocusComfortableDaughterMajorityMotherhoodMy DaughterSailingExposureMixtapes Author:Jhene Aiko
“I would want to know that my daughter is going to enjoy a long, happy and healthy life.” KnowsWantLongEnjoyHealthyDaughterMy DaughterHealthy Life Author:Melissa Harris-Perry
“I would say what makes me vulnerable is when I allow my mind to spiral. You know? When I start not being in the present moment and I start skipping ahead and picturing my daughter driving on the freeway on a late saturday night.” KnowsMindMomentsNightLateDaughterDrivingVulnerablePresent MomentMy DaughterSaturdaySaturday NightSpiralsFreewaysDriving On Author:Lauren Bowles
“The thing I've been talking about with daughter is the idea of - and I'm talking about essentially in America - the possibility of, a lost generation. I've been listening to a lot of music - as a fan, as a critic, as somebody who likes to dance - but I hear, you know, within these songs and half the people I hear, these philosophies encoded and embedded in these songs.” PeopleKnowsIdeasPhilosophyAmericaSongLostHalfTalkingGenerationsFansPossibilityListeningDaughterCriticsLikesEmbeddedLost Generation Author:Saul Williams
“I'm really interested in, who's booked the guests, who's decided to have Lena Dunham and to have the mothers of sons who were shot - sons and daughters who were shot by the police and, you know, the other performers, Paul Simon and Alicia Keys.” KnowsMotherSonKeysDaughterShotsDecidedPolicePerformersGuestsSon And Daughter Author:Terry Gross
“I know for sure that my daughter and wife love me.” KnowsWifeDaughterMy DaughterWives Love Author:A. J. McLean
“Do you know how many men that are out of work that just stand around on the corner just watching your daughters coming home from school? Today, with the hormonal things that they are putting in foods, these hormones, when you eat the meat, you'll find a nine-year-old daughter with breasts bigger than her mother's, hips wider than her mother's - and men haven't got anything to do but sit and watch you go and come from school.” KnowsMenYearsHomeTodaySchoolMotherWatchesKnow HowHavensDaughterBiggerCornersNineHipsMeatBreastsComing HomeDo You KnowHormonesNine YearsOur DaughterYour Daughter Author:Louis Farrakhan
“If you want to fight hell and the power of darkness that seek to destroy the hearts of our daughters, I know a type of spiritual warfare that creates value in a daughter's spirit. It is called "Taking your Daughter out for tea" or "Going to Her Soccer Game", and it works in direct opposition to the agenda of hell and darkness that wants to destroy their lives.” IfsKnowsWantHeartSpiritualSpiritValuesFightingGamesDarknessHellTypeDaughterDirectTeaSoccerOppositionAgendasWarfareOur DaughterSpiritual WarfareYour DaughterSoccer Game Author:Jim Anderson
“We put in all the great ideas that can be brought into the film [Doctor Strange] in the service of introducing the world to an audience who's never heard of it and doesn't know it from a hole in the wall. And we thought that an inter-dimensional girlfriend that's the daughter of an inter-dimensional demon-esque creature was a step too far in introducing this world.” KnowsWorldIdeasFilmStepsAudienceHeardThis WorldStrangeWallCreaturesDaughterDoctorsHolesGirlfriendDemonIntroducingGreat Idea Author:Kevin Feige
“The labor part wasn't so great, but seeing [my daughter] for the first time was pretty awesome. I mean, how does it get better than another actual person popping out of your stomach, you know?” KnowsFirstsMeanPersonsDoeSeeingDaughterFirst TimeLaborGet BetterMy DaughterStomachPoppingIt Gets Better Author:Cassandra Peterson
“My daughter is 12, and we have an amazing relationship. She knows without a doubt that she can literally come to me with anything, and I will stifle myself and realize that if it's not what I want to hear, it's more important that she continues to come to me and tell me things and is honest with me than me getting mad at her or giving her my opinion right now. She has figured out a way to make me an amazing parent. She's a wonderful daughter.” IfsKnowsWayWantGivingImportantParentRealizingOpinionDoubtWonderfulHonestRight NowDaughterMadMy DaughterAmazing ParentsAmazing Relationship Author:Justin Hartley
“My daughter [Ariana], she's a sweet, lovely girl, but she doesn't have the drive or the belief in herself. As it says in the film, I get touched up thinking about it, no one can give you a career. You have to have that inner drive. She wants it, but she doesn't know how to go for it, she's too shy. To see her perform and come on stage and feel comfortable, you know, she has talent - that was very touching, very moving, for me. She has a really beautiful sound and voice. She's a young girl still, 26, and innocent. She was kind of sheltered.” ThinkingKnowsWantGivingFeelsKindStillsBeautifulFilmMovingYoungGirlBeliefSoundVoiceCareersKnow HowStageTalentSweetComfortableDaughterLovelyInnocentTouchedShyMy DaughterTouchingSweet LoveReally BeautifulVery MovingLovely Girl Author:Robert Davi
“I'm a father of four girls and I know very much about the relationship between a father and his daughters.” KnowsGirlFatherFourDaughter Author:Ewan McGregor
“I've always been a rebel and it's got me in trouble sometimes, and probably kept me poor. And then again, maybe not, because I might not have the two daughters that I have, you know. And we're all so close now.” KnowsTwoSometimesMightPoorTroubleDaughterRebelTwo Daughters Author:Chuck Mosley
“I knew she was a party girl. The book I liked most on her was called [princess] Margaret: A Life of Contrasts and getting to know her, it was how conflicted her position and her internal life - or self - was. She is so fiercely royal and so fiercely "sister of the queen" or "daughter of the king" because that is her identity and it's all she's ever known. And at the same time she is struggling to push the boundaries and to break away from it, to be different or to modernize the monarchy, to turn it on its head.” KnowsBookDifferentSelfTurnsGirlPartyKnownBreakStruggleIdentityPositionKingsDaughterBoundariesQueensInternalsPrincessContrastRoyalMonarchyParty Girl Author:Vanessa Kirby
“Those are all real things that I experienced, not with [my daughters] growing up but with the, you know - I'm trying not to step into something and get a call, "Dad why'd you say that?"! But we'd go to games [where score wasn't kept], and I'd get it, but I wouldn't get it, because I think there's a real value in winners and losers, in not everybody getting a trophy - it makes you work hard, you appreciate what it takes, to say, "Why didn't we win?" You shouldn't be condemned for losing.” ThinkingKnowsTryingRealHardValuesGamesWinningStepsGrowing UpGrowingHard WorkDadLosingDaughterAppreciateWinnerScoreMy DaughterLoserReal ThingsTrophiesReal ValueWinner And Loser Author:Billy Crystal
“I ask you, how would you like your mom, your wife, your daughter to spend $100,000 to go to Harvard or some state school, and go out into the workplace, and you know she's great, and men are getting paid $200 per week more than her? Would that piss you off? What if you lost your job and you stay home crippled while she goes out, and she thinks she's going to get a good job, but someone male with the same level of experience and the same level of education gets paid more than her? You're going to get pissed. Until you walk a mile in someone else's shoes, I don't want to hear it.” IfsThinkingKnowsMenWantStatesHomeSchoolJobsAsksLostWalksLevelsWifeWeekLike YouMomDaughterPaidMalesShoesMilesWhat IfWorkplaceGood JobHarvardYour MomOur DaughterCrippledYour Daughter Author:Pam Grier
“Before I was a parent I was struck by Rilke, who, as you know, didn't go to his daughter's wedding because he was writing a poem that day. That was the ideal for artistic behavior in 1950. That's the way I wanted to live.” KnowsWayWritingWantedParentBehaviorDaughterIdealsArtistic Author:Robert Bly