Daughter Quotes

Quotations list about daughter, sons and stepmother citing Yiddish Proverbs, Leonardo da Vinci and Voltaire

  • One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world.

    — Yiddish Proverbs
    69
  • And Wisdom be the Daughter of Experience

    — Leonardo da Vinci
    40
  • Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy; the mad daughter of a wise mother.

    — Voltaire
    36
  • Oh my son's my son till he gets him a wife, but my daughter's my daughter all her life.

    — Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
    22
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  • Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

    — Voltaire
    16
  • To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.

    — Euripides
    9
  • If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

    — Thomas Fuller
    9
  • As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

    — Oscar Wilde
    8
  • Truth is the daughter of time.

    — Proverbs
    6
  • Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

    — Thomas Fuller
    4
  • 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.

    — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    4
  • I only have two rules for my newly born daughter: she will dress well and never have sex.

    — John Malkovich
    4
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  • I have a daughter and a family.

    — Kim Clijsters
    4
  • He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal.

    — Jane Austen
    4
  • What I really want to tell him is to pick up that baby of his and hold her tight, to set the moon on the edge of her crib and to hang her name up in the stars.

    — Jodi Picoult
    4
  • Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son.

    — Proverbs
    3
  • He that would the daughter win must with the mother first begin.

    — English Proverbs
    3
  • There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, "Truth is the daughter of Time."

    — Abraham Lincoln
    3
  • My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.

    — Jodi Picoult
    3
  • I have done everything I can to make sure my daughter knows her father because you form your own identity by rebelling against your parents - but first you have to know them.

    — Greta Scacchi
    3
  • If my daughter, Liza, wants to become an actress, I'll do everything to help her.

    — Judy Garland
    2
  • One day my 3-year-old daughter said 'Your very handsome, Poppy.' That was the best compliment ever.

    — Patrick Dempsey
    2
  • My daughter is exceptionally chatty. I'm not a braggy mother but she is gifted - with the personality of a Russian gymnastics coach.

    — Caroline Rhea
    2
  • The way I was raised, family was always the most important.

    When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.

    — Candace Cameron Bure
    2
  • Anything I've done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.

    — Johnny Depp
    2
  • Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.

    — Vittorio Alfieri
    2
  • I can only hope that neither of my daughters was scarred by their upbringing.

    — Georg Solti
    2
  • I have a daughter who's 11 years old.

    Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story.

    — Patti Smith
    2
  • People are always asking me what it's like to be Judy Garland's daughter.

    It's hard to be a legend's child.

    — Lorna Luft
    2
  • Losing my daughter was a very serious pain. There was always some empty space in my heart.

    — Yoko Ono
    2
  • Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

    — Benjamin Franklin
    1
  • If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

    — Bruce Barton
    1
  • Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

    — Ambrose Bierce
    1
  • I want [my daughter] to look at the world through the underside of a glass-bottom boat, to look through a microscope at the galaxies that exist on the pinpoint of a human mind.

    — Sarah Kay
    1
  • Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.

    — Victoria Secunda
    1
  • I'm just one of many moms who will say an extra prayer each night for our sons and daughters going into harm's way.

    — Sarah Palin
    1
  • When I think about the world I would like to leave to my daughter and the grandchildren I hope to have, it is a world that moves away from unequal, unstable, unsustainable interdependence to integrated communities - locally, nationally and globally - that share the characteristics of all successful communities.

    — William J. Clinton
    1
  • It's just a whole different thing, and it's just that my life has been a blessing, and I thank god every day for the gifts that he has given me and for my daughter and to be able to watch her grow and be a part of her joys and her excitement and what she wants to do in life.

    — Teena Marie
    1
  • I don't want to feel like a failure to my daughter.

    She's the best thing I've ever done. Buffy - pretty great and all, but Charlotte's way better.

    — Sarah Michelle Gellar
    1
  • I'm very jealous of my daughter's education.

    She's been inspired by her teachers, and nobody inspired me as a teenager.

    — Jenny Eclair
    1
  • My daughter hasn't seen me with anybody in five years.

    I'm very, very selective when it comes to that because I want to make sure that it's real. I don't want her to see me with just anybody because she means everything to me.

    — Brandy Norwood
    1
  • I'll be a nun, raise my daughter, and make albums.

    — Brandy Norwood
    1
  • My daughter is my biggest achievement.

    She is a little star and my life has changed so much for the better since she came along.

    — Denise Van Outen
    1
  • The great thing about having a child is that it keeps you very grounded.

    When I decided to have my daughter I was ready to have that responsibility and I made it clear to people that I work with that my job was no longer my priority. My daughter is now my priority. She comes first. Period.

    — Carolyn Murphy
    1
  • When I had my daughter, my priorities shifted.

    Being in the world of fashion you have to be very self-absorbed and surrounded by people that are self-absorbed.

    — Carolyn Murphy
    1
  • I think of myself as a funny guy but nobody thinks I'm funnier than my daughters.

    — Jerry O'Connell
    1
  • I like to look at scenarios and see how people interact with each other.

    That's why I'm an actor because I try to recreate that. Since our daughter joined us the spectrum has widened.

    — Colin Hanks
    1
  • Mothers and daughters have that rivalry thing.

    — Gretchen Wilson
    1
  • To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt.

    — Olivia Newton-John
    1
  • My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned.

    Now I despise all my seven children equally.

    — Evelyn Waugh
    1

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