“You know, I have had a terrible life. I married two men I really didn't like. My only daughter was killed in a car accident. My brother committed suicide. Has my life been a life for anyone to envy?” KnowsMenTwoCarBrotherTerribleMarriedDaughterSuicideCommittedEnvyAccidentsMy BrotherCar AccidentOnly Daughter Author:Clare Boothe Luce
“I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be an absolute catastrophe. I would certainly be interested in deserving it, but to receive it would be terrible. It would just complicate even more the problems of fame. The only thing I really regret in life is not having a daughter.” IfsThinkingProblemWould BeLife IsRegretTerribleFameDaughterAbsolutesPrizeCatastropheDeservingNobelNobel PrizeLife RegretHaving A DaughterDeserving It Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“I am a true 80s girl. I loved Kylie, Madonna, The Bangles and Human League. I fancied a couple of the Neighbours kids too and I loved Bros. God, I had terrible music taste. I’m getting a taste of my own medicine now, as my daughter’s been asking for some quite scary albums.” HumansKidsGirlMy OwnCoupleTerribleTasteDaughterAskingMedicineAlbumsScaryLeagueMy Daughter80sNeighbourBrosBangles Author:Donna Air
“When I was a teenager, for the most part, I had a really great, easy relationship with my mom, but there are those occasional mom/daughter things that are unavoidable. That's what makes it more upsetting and more true to life. We have great moments, and then we have terrible moments as well.” WellsMomentsEasyMomTerribleDaughterMy MomTeenagerUpsetReally GreatOccasionalTrue LifeGreat MomentsMom Daughter Author:Mae Whitman
“People would stop me in the street - my demographic tends to be the elderly Jewish women from Miami; I think they tend to fancy me as someone that would've been good with their daughter or something - and a lot of them will do the wrist-slapping thing. "Oh, you're a terrible man! Just terrible!" And I'm, like, "Well, it's just a show. I'm just playing a character."” PeopleThinkingMenWellsCharacterShowsStreetsTerribleDaughterFancyElderlyWristsMiamiDemographicsSlapping Author:Peter Jacobson
“You must be a terrible burden to your mother. I am feeling so sorry for her not to have a proper daughter." Mrs. Apusenja - To the Nines” FeelingsMotherTerribleDaughterSorryBurden Author:Janet Evanovich
“To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase 'terrible beauty.' Nothing can make one so happily exhilarated or so frightened: it's a solid lesson in the limitations of self to realize that your heart is running around inside someone else's body. It also makes me quite astonishingly calm at the thought of death: I know whom I would die to protect and I also understand that nobody but a lugubrious serf can possibly wish for a father who never goes away.” KnowsHeartSelfBodyRunningDiesFatherWishRealizingGrowingAtheismTerribleLessonsProtectDaughterCalmAtheistLimitationPhrasesFrightenedFatherhoodEvokeBeing A DadSerfsYeatsThoughts Of Death Author:Christopher Hitchens
“~I've never met a 2-year-old who is terrible. I'm so cool with every stage my daughter goes through. I just think she's amazing. I hope she's not looking at me thinking, Mom, are the terrible 30s coming on with you?~” ThinkingYearsStageMomTerribleMetsDaughterParentingMy Daughter Author:Katie Holmes
“For Astrid, no matter what challenges they go through, they are going to face each other. It's hard for a daughter to accept that her mother is that selfish and that terrible.” MatterHardFacesMotherChallengesAcceptingTerribleDaughterNo Matter WhatSelfishSelfishness Author:Alison Lohman