Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Austen

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters.

Jane Austen

He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal.

Jane Austen

Mrs. Jennings was a widow, with an ample jointure. She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see respectably married, and she had now therefore nothing to do but to marry all the rest of the world.

Dana Milbank

I told my daughter that terrorists would love to attack Washington, but we, unlike the French, are an ocean away from Syria, that lots of smart people are working very hard to stop the terrorists, and that the terrorists are not very sophisticated.

Bree Turner

I have an incredibly supportive husband and family and an incredibly well-adjusted daughter.

Brandy Norwood

I'll be a nun, raise my daughter, and make albums.

Bruce Willis

I think I'm much more afraid of making a mistake in raising my daughters than I would be with any work that I do, as an actor. It's a much higher scale of fear, raising kids.

Frank Martin

When I'm home with my wife and daughter and we're sitting around and my mind is away from the game, I wonder about that. I wonder how many more days I'm still going to be around the University of Cincinnati, whether it's going to be another week or another 10 years.

Elizabeth Edwards

My job as the mother of daughters is to make sure my children see that every opportunity is available to them.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

What will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than our Saxon fathers?

You can never get in her head and know what she was thinking when she killed her daughter and know what you were thinking. You don't know what she was thinking when she killed her child.

What Roger Bentley did to my daughter ... and my family was very horrendous. I would not wish this on my worst enemy.

We find ourselves fighting back tears as we contemplate what our days will be like when our daughter leaves the nest to embark on a new stage of life.

Robert Thompson

We got a lot of kids in the neighborhood going up and down these streets and everything, so it's sad. For the family's sake, you just hope that they would get their daughter returned.

Thomas Fuller

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

Isn't it enough that my daughter was murdered? Nobody should be defiled.

I started about two and a half years ago because my daughter wanted to come skating.

We just want our daughter back, and we're trying to do everything to get her picture out there, and information out there, because somebody knows something.

Doris Lessing

I have a daughter and two grand-daughters and a great grandson in Africa, in Cape Town.

Don Williams

It's something families could do together. They can be passed on from father to son, or father to daughter.

Courteney Cox

~[My daughter is] very artistic, but she's also a perfectionist. I feel a little bad: That's the part I see in her that's like me - and you don't want them to have that at age 5.~

Dusty Baker

I love my daughter, but she had me on couscous and fixed me pastas and made me eat oatmeal every morning and what else, turkey burgers, turkey bacon, and that kind of stuff. So she wants her dad to live a long time, and I do, too.

Dustin Clare

McLeod's Daughters was my first regular job out of drama school, and my first full-time role. That was great because I learned a lot, in terms of working in front of the camera. I learned a lot of technical aspects that you take for granted once you know them, but you have to learn them somewhere, along the way. It was a bit of a training ground for me, working in front of the camera and also dealing with media.

Dustin Clare

McLeod's Daughters' was my first regular job out of drama school, and my first full-time role. That was great because I learned a lot, in terms of working in front of the camera.

Duane Chapman

I say to all fathers - be as good as you can be- because your sons and daughters will follow in your footsteps.

Donald Trump

I told Sarah Palin it would be absolutely fine. I thought it would be appropriate. There was tremendous press, and I think it`s something that`s very important to discuss.Not even for her son, but for so many other sons and daughters that are coming back from the Middle East, where they have traumatic problems. They have tremendous problems.

Adam Carolla

I have a daughter who I love very much, I hire women, I've worked with women, I've never had an issue with women.

Ace Frehley

One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter.

Anita Baker

I'm used to getting up at 7, getting breakfast, getting the kids off to school, and doing the mommy thing and the wife thing and the daughter thing.

Ani Difranco

Promiscuity does not scare me as long as she is savvy and self possessed when puberty comes to call. My aim is to simply raise my daughter to be secure in her self worth and capable of happiness all on her own.

Ani Difranco

I love my country, by which I mean I am indebted joyfully to all the people throughout its history, who have fought the government to make right. Where so many cunning sons and daughters, our foremothers and forefathers came singing through slaughter, came through hell and high water so that we could stand here, and behold breathlessly the sight; how a raging river of tears cut a grand canyon of light. Why can't all decent men and women call themselves feminists, out of respect for those that fought for this?

Allan Sherman

There's Beatles books and T-shirts and rings, and one thing and another. To buy my daughter all these things, I had to sell her brother.

Alicia Machado

Well, I think it's because I'm an only daughter. I have four brothers, a bunch of guy cousins, and so it's like I was raised amongst men. So I've always gotten along really well with men.