(629 quotes found)
“Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are.”
Augustine of Hippo
“Fame is rot; daughters are the thing”
James Matthew Barrie
“To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.”
Euripides
“I used to tell women graduate students, half-seriously, that the role of slightly rebellious daughter was one of the better roles for women living in patriarchy.”
Carol Gilligan
“A son is a son till he takes him a wife, a daughter is a daughter all of her life.”
Irish Sayings
“Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.”
Clementine Paddleford
“If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.”
Brigham Young
“Which one of the three candidates would you want your daughter to marry?”
H Ross Perot
“If you want to ask about my drug problem, go ask my big, fat, smart, ten pound daughter, she'll answer any questions you have about it.”
Courtney Love
“I like all the angels around because they protect me and my daughter. I mean, her Dad's an angel.”