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“Take care that you never spell a word wrong. Always before you write a word, consider how it is spelled, and, if you do not remember, turn to a dictionary. It produces great praise to a lady to spell well. to his daughter Martha”

Ifs Writing Wells Care Remember Turns Produce Daughter Praise Caring Take Care Spells Dictionary Spelling

Book:Jefferson: Political Writings

Source: Jefferson: Political Writings

“Our mythology tells us so much about fathers and sons. ... What do we know about mothers and daughters? ... Our power is so oblique, so hidden, so ethereal a matter, that we rarely struggle with our daughters over actual kingdoms or corporate shares. On the other hand, our attractiveness dries as theirs blooms, our journey shortens just as theirs begins. We too must be afraid and awed and amazed that we cannot live forever and that our replacements are eager for their turn, indifferent to our wishes, ready to leave us behind.”

“After Memory Keepers Daughter, it took me a few months to shut out the world. I really had to turn off the Internet and sort of cloister myself away from the world again and sink into that psychic space to write again.”

World Writing Turns Memories Space Months Internet Daughter Psychics Keepers Turn Off

Author:Kim Edwards

“You're getting old when you see a girl who looks like someone you used to know, and it turns out to be her daughter.”

Knows Looks Used Turns Girl Modern Daughter Getting Old Modern Life

Author:Mike Connolly

“Fathers be good to your daughters, daughters will love like you do. Girls become lovers, who turn into mothers, so mothers be good to your daughters, too.”

Mother Song Turns Girl Father Like You Lovers Daughter Be Good Our Daughter Your Daughter

Author:John Mayer

“Those are the stakes that are constantly there and how do those stakes change you? How does that change the person you are? If it does just turn out to be about survival then is that living? How does that make you, you? How does that change your identity? That picture of the governor, his wife, and his daughter, he wasn't that guy before this all started. People dying around him changed him into that.”

People Ifs Persons Doe Guy Turns Wife Dying Identity Changed Survival Daughter Stakes Governors That Guy People Dying

Author:Scott M. Gimple

“At the end of the Peterson trial, my daughter turns to me and she goes, 'Daddy, are you going to kill Mommy?' 'Oh, honey - that's up to mommy, isn't it?”

Ends Turns Daughter Trials My Daughter Honey Daddy

Author:Christopher Titus

“I used to turn to nature and animals a lot. And fishing. I spend time still with my Bible and the gospel music, and I still have to feed the animals! But my wife and daughter have brought me a world of perspective when I'm feeling just a little "extra important."”

World Littles Stills Important Feelings Used Turns Animal Wife Perspective Daughter My Wife Extras Fishing End Times Spend Time Gospel Music Nature And Animals Wife And Daughter

Author:Brandi Carlile

“With over 3 million women battling breast cancer today, everywhere you turn there is a mother, daughter, sister, or friend who has been affected by breast cancer.”

Has Beens Today Mother Turns Millions Daughter Cancer Breasts Affected Breast Cancer Mother Daughter Breast Cancer Inspiration Breast Cancer Inspirational

Author:Betsey Johnson

“My daughter decided to embrace and celebrate who she was. She was a size 2 at one time, but she decided she didn't want to be hungry anymore. I think that's how you turn it around. Today, more and more designers are recognizing how lucrative that market is.”

Thinking Want Today Turns Daughter Decided Embrace Size Hungry Celebrate Designer My Daughter One Time Recognizing

Author:Beverly Johnson

“When did I turn into a needywhiny angsty idiot who needed to be swept off her feet? She snorted then started running again, forcing me into a brief sprint to catch up. We're conditioned from birth she said. I swear to god,if I ever have a daughter I'll ban all of the Disney princesses from the house. Except Mulan. She kicks ass.”

Ifs Said Running Turns House Feet Birth Needed Daughter Ass Idiot Kicks Princess Swear Bans Kick Ass Sprint Swear To God

Author:Diana Rowland

“I have been asked so many times why I live a green life, why water conservation, why getting wells in places, why work with water organizations, why conserve water at home with double-flush toilets, why I tell my daughters, "Turn off the tap" so much. Sometimes I want to say, "I wish I knew the answer." My answer really is: I don't understand why everyone doesn't feel this way.”

Way Want Feels Wells Has Beens Sometimes Home Turns Wish Water Answers Daughter Organization Green My Daughter Conservation Toilets Turn Off Get Well Water Conservation

Author:Alysia Reiner

“A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.”

“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.”

Knows Book Different Self Turns Girl Party Known Break Struggle Identity Position Kings Daughter Boundaries Queens Internals Princess Contrast Royal Monarchy Party Girl

Author:Vanessa Kirby

“The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.”

“On the morning the last Lisbon daughter took her turn at suicide- it was Mary this time, and sleeping pills, like Therese- the two paramedics arrived at the house knowing exactly where the knife drawer was, and the gas oven, and the beam in the basement from which it was possible to tie a rope.”

Two Lasts Turns House Sleep Morning Knowing Daughter Suicide Ties Gas Knives Mary Rope Pills Beam Basements Drawers Ovens Virgin Suicides Paramedics Sleeping Pills

Book:The Virgin Suicides: A Novel

Source: The Virgin Suicides: A Novel

“One day I was speeding along at the typewriter, and my daughter - who was a child at the time - asked me, "Daddy, why are you writing so fast?" And I replied, "Because I want to see how the story turns out!”

Want Writing Children Stories Turns One Day Daughter My Daughter Daddy Typewriters Speeding

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

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

“In real life during the last decade of the twentieth century, Rumpelstiltskin would probably get the queen's daughter. He would no doubt addict her to heroin, turn her out as a prostitute, confiscate her earnings, beat her for pleasure, hack her to pieces, and escape justice by claiming that society's intolerance for bad-tempered, evil-minded trolls had driven him temporarily insane.”

Real Lasts Turns Evil Justice Pleasure Doubt Pieces Century Beats Daughter Driven Decades Real Life Insane Queens No Doubt Intolerance Earning Addict Twentieth Century Heroin Hacks Troll

Author:Dean Koontz

“A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones.”

Mother Turns Loss Broken Mom Daughter Bones Settling Single Mom Mother Daughter Mother And Daughter Arthritis Mother Daughter Relationship Mother And Daughter Relationship

Author:Kristin Hannah

“And she, the new mother of a daughter, felt a fierceness come over her that seized at her heart, that made her feel as if her bones were turned to steel, as if she could turn herself into a weapon to keep this daughter of hers from having to be hurt by the world outside the ring of her arms.”

Ifs World Feels Heart Made Mother Turns Felt Hurt Arms Weapons Daughter Bones Rings Steel Fierceness New Mother

Author:Lauren Groff

“i was raped, too sexually assaulted in seventh grade, tenth grade. the summer after graduation, at a party i was 16 i was 14 i was 5 and he did it for three years i loved him i didn't even know him he was my best friend's brother, my grandfather, father, mommy's boyfriend, my date, my cousin, my coach i met him for the first time that night and- 4 guys took turns, and- i'm a boy and this happened to me, and- ...i got pregnant i gave up my daughter for adoption... did it happen to you, too?”

“Turn around, and the people you thought you knew might change. Your little boy might now live half a world away. Your beautiful daughter might be sneaking out at night. Your ex-husband might by dying by degrees. This is the reason that dancers learn, early on, how to spot while doing pirouettes: we all want to be able to find the place where we started.”

Source: Lone Wolf: A Novel

“It turns out that Molly wasn't her mother's daughter in that respect. Charity was like the MacGuyver of the kitchen. She could whip up a five-course meal for twelve from an egg, two spaghetti noodles, some household chemicals, and a stick of chewing gum. Molly ... Molly once burned my egg. My boiled egg. I don't know how.”

Knows Two Mother Turns Courses Know How Five Daughter Sticks Charity Meals Kitchen Eggs Chemicals Twelve Household Burned Whips Gum Chewing Spaghetti Noodles Chewing Gum Boiled Eggs

Author:Jim Butcher

“My great grandfather used to say to his wife, my great-grandmother, who in turn told her daughter, my grandmother, who repeated it to her daughter, my mother, who used to remind her daughter, my own sister, that to talk well and eloquently was a very great art, but that an equally great one was to know the right moment to stop.”

“Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these days of changing fortunes of being rich today and poor tomorrow they may have something tangible to fall back upon. This provision might save many persons from misery, who by some unexpected turn of fortune have lost all their means.”

Source: Golden Rules for Making Money