Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half – especially if he has a teenage daughter.
- Guy Lombardo
Daughter Quotes and Sayings
The woman who bore me is no longer alive, but I seem to be her daughter in increasingly profound ways.
- Johnnetta Betsch Cole
A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future.
- Author Unknown
Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter’s mouth.
- Victoria Secunda
Every mother hopes that her daughter will marry a better man than she did, and is convinced that her son will never find a wife as good as his father did.
- Martin Andersen Nexö
A father is available to help his daughter balance both her love and her anger toward her mother, to moderate the inevitable emotional extremes in the intense mother-daughter equation. With Daddy’s steadying influence daughters can learn to be comfortable with healthy anger, rather than feeling that they must be eternal good girls who must at all costs conceal it.
- Victoria Secunda
And mothers are their daughters’ role model, their biological and emotional road map, the arbiter of all their relationships.
- Victoria Secunda
By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn’t want your daughter to associate with.
- Duke Ellington
A daughter is a bundle of firsts that excite and delight, giggles that come from deep inside and are always contagious, everything wonderful and precious and your love for her knows no bounds.
- Barbara Cage
Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
- Joseph Addison
Who can describe the transports of a beam truly parental on beholding a daughter shoot up like some fair and modest flower, and acquire, day after day, fresh beauty and growing sweetness, so as to fill every eye with pleasure and every heart with admiration?
- George Fordyce
A father knows exactly what those boys at the mall have in their depraved little minds because he once owned such a depraved little mind himself. In fact, if he thinks enough about the plans that he used to have for young girls, the father not only will support his wife in keeping their daughter home but he might even run over to the mall and have a few of those boys arrested.
- Bill Cosby
I don’t want my daughter to be educated. I think women should just be decorative.
- Richard Brautigan