Daughter Quotes

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
Abraham Lincoln

Time, Truth, Remember

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
Oscar Wilde

Long, Woman, Her

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.
William Shakespeare

Father, May, Living

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
Benjamin Franklin

Ignorance, Admiration

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

Religion, Wise, Mother

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

Life, May, Done

The quality of life is so different in France. There is the possibility of living a simple life. I would never contemplate raising my daughter in LA. I would never raise any child there.
Johnny Depp

Life, Simple, Different

There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. It's really the first time I've thought about the future and what it could be.
Johnny Depp

Time, Money, Freedom

To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
Euripides

Father, Nothing, Old

It's an odd thing when there is a fan page for my daughter who is not yet 13.
Johnny Depp

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
J. K. Rowling

Life, Fear, Rock

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
Ambrose Bierce

Religion, Nature, Hope

I think a dad has to make his daughter feel that he's genuinely interested in what she's going through.
Harry Connick, Jr.

Dad, Through, She

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
Francis Bacon

Time, Truth, Authority

Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you're gonna be depressed real fast. I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She's my first priority.
Jim Carrey

Work, Time, Good

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
Thomas Fuller

Beauty, God, Light

Cancer affects all of us, whether you're a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, patient.
Jennifer Aniston

Mother, Friend, Sister

To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt.
Olivia Newton-John

Home, Hurt, Massage

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.
Thomas Fuller

Good, Wife, Marry

My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time.
Jim Carrey

Time, Christmas, Alone

And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.
Michelle Obama

Home, Mother, Father

When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that's happened that day just melts away.
Hugh Jackman

Home, Everything, Give

If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?
Virginia Woolf

Education, War, Fight

People love the idea of a good girl gone bad, thinking that my parents were so strict and disowned me, but that actually wasn't the case. Even though they don't necessarily agree with some of the things I do, they love me as their daughter. That's always been their perspective.
Katy Perry

Love, Good, Girl

I'm a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister. I'm a real person operating in the world. For me to discuss the most private thing feels wrong. It feels like I'm betraying myself and my children.
Nicole Kidman

Mother, Children, Woman

Don't tell your kids you had an easy birth or they won't respect you. For years I used to wake up my daughter and say, 'Melissa you ripped me to shreds. Now go back to sleep.'.
Joan Rivers

Respect, Sleep, Tell

My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.
Gwyneth Paltrow

Life, Death, Husband

Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.
Isabel Allende

Marriage, Women, Today

Art is the daughter of freedom.
Friedrich Schiller

Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.
St. Jerome

Life, Heart, Book

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