- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Daughter Quotes
On fathers, daughters, and the roles a daughter is asked to play.
These quotes range from a father's plain statement that his daughter loves him for who he is, not his fame, to a boyhood fantasy of exploring South America and marrying a chief's daughter. For more, see Family quotes.
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- Son
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm currently raising a 15 year old son and an 18 year old daughter, which a guess is my punishment for a wild youth!
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although I never married, my brother fortunately did, and I have had the pleasure of watching his three sons and daughter grow up. Several of them now have children of their own. We have been a close-knit family, although often separated by distance, and have shared each other's happiness, sorrows, and aspirations.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
I obviously want to give a healthy body image to my own daughter. I think having good examples, eating properly, that's all one can do - and just be really loving around her. I've tried to give her confidence in who she is. I think she's all right in the confidence department.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love being on the beach - it's my favourite place. I can chill out, read, listen to music, play with my daughter.
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a teenager I hated having Bloomberg as a last name and being seen simply as someone's daughter. I used to shy away from it in every way. As I got older, I began to realize that it was something I could use to make a difference in the causes I cared about. I learned to be proud of my last name.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
There came to port last Sunday night the queerest little craft, without an inch of rigging on; I looked and looked - and laughed. It seemed so curious that she should cross the unknown water, and moor herself within my room - my daughter! O my daughter!
- Farmer
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- Nov 07, 2020
My Swedish grandmother was the daughter of a dairy farmer who lived near Hedemora. My Swedish grandfather worked as a clerk for the Swedish railways in the Stockholm station.
- Feelings
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- Nov 07, 2020
The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.
- She
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- Nov 07, 2020
When she was too young to resist, or even to understand, I turned my daughter into a lifelong, rabid Yankees fan.
- Getting Older
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- Nov 07, 2020
I noticed that when my daughter was born, my son really, really liked her. But then as she started getting older, and as she started crawling around our house and touching different things that were his, sibling rivalry issues started appearing.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my friends and I would act out movies as kids, we'd play the guys' roles, since they had the most interesting things to do. Decades later, I can hardly believe my sons and daughter are seeing many of the same limited choices in current films.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women would rather go to their daughter's piano recital than stay all night at work, working on a proposal, because they're less ambitious.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My daughter's met Hillary Clinton, so she's got a strong bias. But she, of course, parrots me and goes, 'Oh, Donald Trump, I don't like him!' I'm like, 'That's good!'
- Hot
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- Nov 07, 2020