(641 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
“To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.”
Euripides
“Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.”
Clementine Paddleford
“Fame is rot; daughters are the thing”
James Matthew Barrie
“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
“I like all the angels around because they protect me and my daughter. I mean, her Dad's an angel.”
Courtney Love
“A son is a son till he takes him a wife, a daughter is a daughter all of her life.”
Irish Sayings
“They are the greatest curse of all great men, daughters”
Jason Zebehazy
“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.”
“Do not dismayed daughters, at the number of things which you have to consider before setting out on this divine journey, which is the royal road to heaven. By taking this road we gain such precious treasures that it is no wonder if the cost seems to us a high one. The time will come when we shall realize that all we have paid has been nothing at all by comparison with the greatness of our prizes.”
St. Teresa of Avila
