Best My Daughter Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 11

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

“A Mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually VACCINATES her daughter against low self-esteem.”

“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.”

“Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever.”

Loses Teach Laughing Forever Lessons Daughter Innocence My Daughter Joy Luck Club

Book:The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club

“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

“If, as I suspect, my body survives by uttering itself over and over again, then I have some questions. If [I] am one word, so are my daughters, so are all of us in strings and loops. Each life is one short word slowly uttered.”

Ifs Body Life Is Daughter Strings My Daughter Suspects One Word Loops Short Words

Author:Louise Erdrich

“You're so beautiful," said Alice. "I'm afraid of looking at you and not knowing who you are." "I think that even if you don't know who I am someday, you'll still know that I love you." "What if I see you, and I don't know that you're my daughter, and I don't know that you love me?" "Then, I'll tell you that I do, and you'll believe me.”

Source: Lisa Genova Box Set: Still Alice and Left Neglected

“For all these years I kept my mouth closed so selfish desires would not fall out. And because I remained quiet for so long now my daughter does not hear me... All these years I kept my true nature hidden, running along like a small shadow so nobody could catch me. And because I moved so secretly now my daughter does not see me... We are lost, she and I, unseen and not seeing; unheard and not hearing, unknown by others.”

Years Long Doe Running Desire Fall Lost Seeing Quiet Mouths Daughter Shadow Moved Hearing Selfish My Daughter Unseen True Nature Unheard Catch Me Selfish Desire

Author:Amy Tan

“Yesterday my daughter said to me, 'My marriage is falling apart.' And now all she can do is watch it falling.”

Said Fall Can Do Watches Daughter Yesterday My Daughter Falling Apart

Book:The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club

“So this is what I will do. I will gather together my past and look. I will see a thing that has already happened. the pain that cut my spirit loose. I will hold that pain in my hand until it becomes hard and shiny, more clear. And then my fierceness can come back, my golden side, my black side. I will use this sharp pain to penetrate my daughter's tough skin and cut her tiger spirit loose. She will fight me, because this is the nature of two tigers. But I will win and giver her my spirit, because this is the way a mother loves her daughter.”

Source: The Joy Luck Club

“There are so few people given us to love. I want to tell my daughters this, that each time you fall in love it is important, even at nineteen. Especially at nineteen. And if you can, at nineteen, count the people you love on one hand, you will not, at forty, have run out of fingers on the other. There are so few people given us to love and they all stick.”

People Ifs Want Important Hands Running Fall Given Daughter Sticks Fingers Falling In Love Forty My Daughter Nineteen

Book:The Gathering

Source: The Gathering

“That mirror, that's one I hate to let go, he said. That was my daughter's the whole time she was growing up. It probably seen her more than me--everything from a baby up to twenty years old. Sometimes I wonder if all that might still be inside it. Got to make an impression on a thing, reflecting the same person every day.”

Ifs Years Persons Said Stills Sometimes Whole Might Hate Wonder Growing Up Growing Baby Letting Go Daughter I Hate Twenties Mirrors Impression My Daughter Reflecting Sometimes I Wonder

Author:David Wroblewski

“Now let me teach you another thing about my daughter. I love her very much but she has the ability to hide as expertly as a sock in a washing machine. No one knows where it goes, just as no one knows where she goes, but at least when she decides to come back, we're all here, waiting for her.”

Knows Waiting Ability Teach Daughter Machines Let Me My Daughter Washing Sock Washing Machines

Author:Cecelia Ahern

“If, for example, I saw my grandparents or my daughter for an instant, would I recognize them? Probably not, because in looking so hard for a way to keep them alive, remembering them in the most minimal details, I have been changing them, adorning them with qualities they may not have had. I have given them a destiny much more complex than the ones they lived.”

Ifs Way May Has Beens Hard Remember Given Quality Destiny Saws Alive Example Daughter Complexes Details Instant My Daughter Grandparent

Book:My invented country: a memoir

Source: My invented country: a memoir

“You nickednamed my daughter after the Loch Ness Monster?”

Daughter Humorous Monsters My Daughter Locks

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“Of course mothers and daughters with strong personalities might see the world from very different points of view.”

World Different Might Mother Courses Strong Views Relationship Personality Daughter Point Of View My Daughter Mother Daughter Mother And Daughter Different Points Of View Strong Personality Beautiful Daughter Beautiful Mother And Daughter

Author:Katherine Howe

“Wait just a minute," Ares growled. He pointed at Thalia and me. "These two are dangerous. It'd be much safer, while we've got them here—" "Ares," Poseidon interrupted, "they are worthy heroes. We will not blast my son to bits." "Nor my daughter," Zeus grumbled. "She has done well.”

Wells Two Done Bits Waiting Minutes Dangerous Son Hero Daughter Worthy My Daughter My Son Blast Interrupted Zeus Poseidon Thalia Grace

Author:Rick Riordan

“I recall an August afternoon in Chicago in 1973 when I took my daughter, then seven, to see what Georgia O’Keeffe had done with where she had been. One of the vast O’Keeffe ‘Sky Above Clouds’ canvases floated over the back stairs in the Chicago Art Institute that day, dominating what seemed to be several stories of empty light, and my daughter looked at it once, ran to the landing, and kept on looking. "Who drew it," she whispered after a while. I told her. "I need to talk to her," she said finally.”

Source: The White Album

“It’s true, and I was really hideous as a preteen. Tall and gawky. I used to bump my head into everything. Still do sometimes. (Kat) You are my daughter. (Acheron) Sure I am, I can’t imagine you ever being uncoordinated. (Kat) Oh, I assure you I’ve nailed quite a few signs with my forehead. It’s a wonder ‘Exit’ isn’t permanently imprinted right between my eyes. (Acheron)”

Stills I Can Sometimes Eye Used Wonder Imagine Daughter My Daughter Tall Foreheads Exit Hideous Bumps

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“There is always a place where, if you listen closely in the night, you will hear a mother telling a story and at the end of the tale, she will ask you this question: 'Ou libéré?' Are you free, my daughter?" My grandmother quickly pressed her fingers over my lips. Now," she said, "you will know how to answer.”

Ifs Knows Said Ends Stories Mother Night Asks Answers Know How Daughter Fingers Lips Tales Grandmother My Daughter My Grandmother

Author:Edwidge Danticat

“In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a long time, at a single glorious thing: a flame of red geranium outside my bedroom window. And then another: my daughter in a yellow dress. And another: the perfect outline of a full, dark sphere behind the crescent moon. Until I learned to be in love with my life again. Like a stroke victim retraining new parts of the brain to grasp lost skills, I have taught myself joy, over and over again(15).”

“Mr. Buckley, let me explain it this way. And I'll do so very carefully & slowly so that even you will understand it. If I was the sheriff, I would not have arrested him. If I was on the grand jury, I would not have indicted him. If I was the judge, I would not try him. If I was the D.A., I would not prosecute him. If I was on the trial jury, I would vote to give him a key to the city, a plaque to hang on his wall, & I would send him home to his family. And, Mr. Buckley, if my daughter is ever raped, I hope I have the guts to do what he did.”

Ifs Way Giving Trying Home Cities Judging Wall Keys Daughter Vote Let Me Trials Guts My Daughter Arrested Jury Sheriffs Grand Jury

Author:John Grisham

“Relax, Phyra. I’d be more concerned if he were in here with my son than with my daughter. The biggest threat he poses is he might want to borrow her shoes. (Stryker)”

Ifs Want Might Son Daughter Concerned Threat Shoes Relax My Daughter My Son

Book:One Silent Night

Source: One Silent Night

“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

“I begged her, 'Please don't leave me stranded in the middle of some primitive zarking forest with no medical help and a head injury. I could be in serious trouble and so could she.'" "What did she say?" "She hit me on the head with the rock again," Ford responded curtly. "I think i can confirm that was my daughter." "Sweet kid." "You have to get to know her," said Arthur. "She eases up, does she?" "No, but you get a better sense of when to duck.”

“I have to tell you, my seven-year-old granddaughter said to my daughter, her mother, 'So what's the big deal about Grandma Maddy having been Secretary of State? Only girls are Secretaries of State.' Most of her lifetime, it's true. But at the time it really was a big deal.”

Years Said States Bigs Mother Girl Deals Daughter Lifetime Seven My Daughter Secretary Seven Years Big Deal Grandma Granddaughter Grand Daughter

Author:Madeleine Albright

“Are you insinuatin' that my daughter is a liar?" "Oh, no, not at all. I'm saying your daughter is a liar. Surely you can appreciate the difference.”

Differences Daughter Appreciate My Daughter Liars Your Daughter

Author:Kami Garcia

“Demons feed on death and pain madness," Valentine said. "When I kill, it is because I must. You grew up in a falsely beautiful paradise surrounded by fragile glass walls, my daughter. Your mother created the world she wanted to live in and she brought you up in it, but she never told you it was an illusion. And all the time the demons waited with their weapons of blood and terror to smash the glass and pull you free of the lie.”

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

“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?”