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“I was born in the U.S., my wife was born in Mexico and emigrated here when she was in college, and my daughters were born in New York City. That makes them passport-carrying, natural-born, eligible-to-run-for-president Americans. But they're also Mexicans and they like that just fine.”

Running Mother President Born Natural Cities Wife New York College Fine Daughter My Wife My Daughter New York City Mexico Passports

Author:Jeffrey Kluger

“I'm still not a great reader, but my wife is and my daughters are, and I envy them. I think I got into a bad habit of trying to do something all the time, instead of trying to sit down and take my time a little bit.”

Thinking Trying Littles Stills Mother Bits Sports Wife Reader Habit Little Bit Daughter Down And My Wife Envy My Time My Daughter Bad Habits

Author:Mike Krzyzewski

“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.”

Looks Mother Pride Dad Daughter My Family Incredibles Fallen My Daughter Cliche

Author:Christian Bale

“I bought my daughter a Chihuahua and I fell in love with it. So now I carry Coco around with me all the time.”

Mother Daughter My Daughter Chihuahua

Author:Denis Leary

“I hate being clean-shaven. My daughter gets very upset if I shave and says, 'Bring back the spikes, Dad.'”

Ifs Mother Hate Dad Daughter I Hate Clean Upset My Daughter Clean Shaven

Author:Eric Bana

“I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness but I can't speak on their behalf.”

Thinking I Can Self Mother Speak Awareness Healthy Daughter Self Awareness My Daughter Behalf

Author:Annie Lennox

“I haven't lived my life through my daughters. Some parents devote everything to their children, which must be so hard, and it's very beautiful. But I'm a working parent, so I've always kept my own life.”

Children Hard Beautiful Parent My Own Havens Daughter My Daughter My Own Life Very Beautiful Working Parents

Author:Annie Lennox

“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.”

Want Ends Might Mother Guy Dangerous Daughter Twenties Like Me My Daughter Terrified

Author:Antonio Banderas

“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.”

Home Mother Wife Daughter Workers Warm My Wife Boss My Daughter Very Happy

Author:Jet Li

“I am a lover. And with my kids I am even softer. I realize with my son, I have to sometimes be tough, especially now when he's pushing boundaries. With my daughter, I can get a little stern with her and she pretty much will listen.”

Littles I Can Sometimes Kids Mother Realizing Son Lovers Daughter Tough Boundaries Pushing My Daughter My Son Pushing Boundaries

Author:Jennifer Lopez

“I like all the angels around because they protect me and my daughter. I mean, her Dad's an angel.”

Mean Mother Dad Protect Daughter Angel My Daughter Express Yourself

Author:Courtney Love

“I don't want to be too strict, because I think kids can get rebellious, but I want to raise my daughter to be passionate about doing good things and pursuing real things and hobbies instead of frivolous materialistic stuff.”

Thinking Want Real Kids Mother Stuff Daughter Raises Good Things Passionate My Daughter Hobbies Strict Rebellious Doing Good Real Things Materialistic Frivolous

Author:Holly Madison

“I love to read about healthy eating and preach to my husband, who doesn't listen. Now I'm trying to teach it to my daughters.”

Trying Mother Teach Healthy Husband Eating Daughter My Daughter My Husband Healthy Eating Love To Read

Author:Martina McBride

“If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.”

“The songwriting was almost like something I did while I was waiting for my daughter to come back.”

Mother Waiting Daughter My Daughter Songwriting Like Something

Author:Joni Mitchell

“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!”

World Mother Next Study Doors Heard Car Daughter Smell My Daughter Scent Filling Fragrance Gasoline Mummy Filling Up

Author:Kate Moss

“I hope that my daughter grows up empowered and doesn't define herself by the way she looks but by qualities that make her a intelligent, strong and responsible woman.”

Way Looks Mother Strong Grows Quality Growing Up Daughter Intelligent Responsible My Daughter Empowered

Author:Isaiah Mustafa

“Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.”

Source: Mama Day: A Novel

“To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt.”

Home Mother Hurt Daughter Parenting Luxury My Daughter Occasional Hurt Feelings Massage

Author:Olivia Newton-John

“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.”

Joy Mother Force Compassion Seeing Integrity Daughter Our Family My Daughter Sustaining Mother Daughter Mother And Daughter Mother's Love

Author:Michelle Obama

“You see, at the end of the day, my most important title is still 'mom-in-chief.' My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.”

World Heart Stills Important Ends Mother Mom My Heart Daughter Chiefs Titles The End Of The Day My Daughter

Author:Michelle Obama

“Losing my daughter was a very serious pain. There was always some empty space in my heart.”

Heart Pain Space Serious My Heart Losing Daughter Empty My Daughter Empty Space

Author:Yoko Ono

“Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.”

Inspirational Grows Strength Ought Daughter Empowerment My Daughter Encouraging Backbone Mother Daughter Mother And Daughter Your Daughter Mom And Daughter Love My Daughter I Love My Daughter Wishbones

Author:Clementine Paddleford

“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.”

Moments Seems Mother Three Father Family Birth Husband Daughter Add Meetings Gambling My Daughter My Husband

Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“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.'.”

Years Kids Used Mother Easy Sleep Birth Daughter Wake Up My Daughter Ripped Melissa

Author:Joan Rivers

“Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well, every time my daughter says, 'Let's make a wish on a star,' there's one thing I wish for: wisdom.”

Wells Mother Wish Stars One Thing Daughter Blow Shoulders Birthday My Daughter Candle Pennies Make A Wish Well Wishes

Author:Rene Russo

“I wish I could just go tell all the young women I work with, all these fabulous women, 'Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.' I wish I could tell that to my daughter. But it's not that simple.”

Believe Young Mother Wish Simple Daughter Believe In Yourself My Daughter Young Women Fabulous

Author:Sheryl Sandberg

“I have a five year-old son and a three year-old daughter. I want my son to have a choice to contribute fully in the workforce or at home. And I want my daughter to have the choice to not just succeed, but to be liked for her accomplishments.”

Want Years Home Mother Choices Three Five Son Succeed Daughter Accomplishment Five Years My Daughter My Son Three Years Workforce Five Year Olds Three Year Olds

Author:Sheryl Sandberg

“That for me was the big turning point in my artistic life, when my wife and I had our kids. The world got infused with morality again. Every person in the world should theoretically be loved as much as I love my daughters.”

World Should Persons Bigs Kids Mother Wife Morality Daughter My Wife Artistic My Daughter Turning Points Artistic Life Love My Daughter I Love My Daughter

Author:George Saunders

“My son is trying to be a sports writer, and my daughter is a college student. She wants to be a comedy writer, and she's at film school. I discouraged both of them early on from getting involved in Starbucks. I didn't think it would be fair; plus, they didn't have any interest anyway.”

Thinking Want Trying Would Be School Film Sports Interest Comedy Students College Son Involved Daughter Fairs My Daughter Plus My Son Discouraged Starbucks Film School College Students

Author:Howard Schultz

“The thing I'm the most proud of in my personal life is that my daughter actually thinks that I'm fabulous.”

Thinking Life Is Mother Proud Daughter My Daughter Personal Life Fabulous

Author:Brooke Shields

“I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence.”

Thinking Mother Inspiring Daughter Rebellion My Daughter Parenthood Adolescence

Author:Brooke Shields

“Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.”

“One of my daughters is a competitive jumper, we live with horses, we have stables on our property. But I don't ride. I observe, and I worry.”

Mother Worry Daughter Horse Property My Daughter Jumpers

Author:Steven Spielberg

“We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.”

“My daughter recently reminded me not to get so busy making a living, I forget to make a life and I'm going to take that advice.”

Mother Forget Advice Daughter Busy My Daughter Making A Living

Author:Angie Stone

“I've always traveled with a picture of my daughter from 1989, her kindergarten school picture, that has 'I love you, Daddy' written on it. She's always made fun of me because I never changed that picture out. It's like my resistance to her getting older. It was the first thing she'd ever written to me and it means the world to me.”

“It's not my fault that there is this gap between rich and poor, it is the fault of governments. I want a different world. One where I don't wake up thinking I'm so lucky to be able to feed my daughter.”

Thinking World Want Different Government Able Mother Poor Rich Lucky Daughter Wake Up Faults My Daughter Gaps Rich And Poor Different Worlds So Lucky

Author:Emma Thompson

“My mother has never approved of high heels. As a result, I have never been able to walk in high heels - and they were all I ever wanted. So of course, my daughter has two pairs.”

Two Able Wanted Mother Courses Walks Results Daughter Pairs My Daughter Heels Approved High Heels

Author:Emma Thompson

“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!”

Littles Hands Light Mother Felt Bits Morning Cutting Little Bit Daughter Tea My Daughter Wipe Dolls Towels

Author:Emma Thompson

“I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.”

Three Results Honesty Kings Daughter My Daughter Rehearsal Lear Mom And Daughter Three Daughters

Author:Peter Ustinov

“In 2002, my daughter was diagnosed with a rare form of colon cancer. And it was such a shock, a surprise to us.”

Form Mother Daughter Surprise Cancer Shock My Daughter Colon Cancer

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“I used to refer to myself as a 'theoretical anorexic,' just as crazy when it came to body image, but saved by a lack of self-discipline. My daughters do everything better than I do - they're smarter, more beautiful, happier. What if they end up better at anorexia, too?”

Ifs Ends Self Body Beautiful Used Mother Crazy Discipline Daughter Saved What If My Daughter Smarter Self Discipline Body Image Theoretical Anorexia Anorexics

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.”

Mother Hell Seeing Daughter My Daughter Bloody

Author:Julie Walters

“As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.”

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)

“I'm sure that when my daughter will bring home her first boyfriend I'll? be so intimidating that he'll run away, but embarrassing as well, just to have a bit of fun.”

Firsts Wells Home Running Fun Bits Daughter My Daughter Running Away Embarrassing Intimidating First Boyfriend

Author:Robbie Williams

“I'm trying to teach my daughter about healthy eating.”

Trying Mother Teach Healthy Eating Daughter My Daughter Healthy Eating

Author:Carnie Wilson

“I have to be a teacher to my daughters.”

Mother Teacher Daughter My Daughter

Author:Carnie Wilson

“That said, my kids are at home right now with my husband and I'm missing something important at my daughter's school which makes me feel sick inside. It's a lot of balance and a lot of really hard decision making.”

Feels Said Important Hard Home Kids School Mother Decision Missing Balance Right Now Husband Daughter Sick Decision Making My Daughter My Husband Missing Something Hard Decision

Author:Reese Witherspoon

“If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.”

Ifs Mother Choices Opportunity Education Son Daughter My Daughter My Son Educate Constraints Constrain

Author:Brigham Young

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