Having A Daughter Quotes:

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

- Gloria Steinem

topic: Daughter, Courage, Honesty, Mom And Daughter, Son And Daughter

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

- Thomas Fuller

topic: Daughter, Honesty, Father, Mom And Daughter, Mother And Daughter

I have the most beautiful daughter in the world and I'm grateful for her.

- Bethenny Frankel

topic: Beautiful, Daughter, Mother, Your Daughter, Beautiful Daughter

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?

- Milton Berle

topic: Funny, Hilarious, Mom, Mom And Daughter, Joys Of Motherhood

The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex.

- Wynonna Judd

topic: Mother Daughter, Daughter, Mother, Mom And Daughter, Mother And Daughter Relationship

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.

- Washington Irving

topic: Family, Mom, Mother, Mother Son, Mom And Daughter

I was given such a great gift. It's a miracle that never stops amazing me and reminding me to give thanks, every day. Having a wife and daughter gives me a lot more purpose. I was much more selfish before, but now I think about what kind of role model I'll be. I just want to be a better man.

- Jake Owen

topic: Daughter, Mother, Selfish, Love My Daughter, Wife And Daughter

Having daughters tends to help a guy get in touch with his inner social conservative.

- Robert Stacy McCain

topic: Daughter, Guy, Helping, Having A Daughter

I try to be a good daughter, as I believe in karma and feel that how you are with your parents is directly proportionate to what you receive in your life. I am a big oneness follower, and our gurus have told us that if you want to achieve external happiness, you need to be happy internally. And your inner circle is your family.

- Shilpa Shetty

topic: Karma, Daughter, Believe, Your Daughter, Having A Daughter

I resisted parenthood for a long, long time. But having a daughter has given me a sense of hopefulness that I didn't have before.

- George Meyer

source: Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

topic: Daughter, Long, Parenthood, Having A Daughter, Hopefulness

I feel more beautiful than I've ever felt because I've given birth. I have never felt so connected, never felt like I had such a purpose on this earth. The best thing about having a daughter is having a true legacy. The word love means something completely different now.

- Beyonce Knowles

source: "Motherhood Makes Beyoncé Feel 'More Beautiful Than Ever'". Interview with Alexis Chiu, people.com. April 25, 2012.

topic: Beautiful, Daughter, Mean, Words Love, Having A Daughter

Having a daughter makes you see things in a different way. This is my only girl. So I don't care what it takes to protect her. You can call it what you want to call it. As long as you treat her the same way I treat her, like my princess, I don't mind.

- Tracy Morgan

topic: Girl, Daughter, Princess, My Princess, Having A Daughter

I think having a daughter is just terrifying. Women in the world get the short end of the stick all the time in many, many ways, and so it's just terrifying to be like, "Well, this is the world we chose to bring you into. I'm sorry." It's not knowing how to prepare for that.

- Kurt Braunohler

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Daughter, Sorry, Thinking, Having A Daughter

Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King's daughter, I would have gone nevertheless.

- Joan of Arc

topic: Mothers Day, Daughter, Kings, Having A Daughter

Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half - especially if he has a teenage daughter.

- Guy Lombardo

topic: Daughter, Strong, Teenage, Daughter To Father, Teenage Daughter

It's one of the worst-kept secrets of family life that all parents have a preferred son or daughter, and the rules for acknowledging it are the same everywhere: The favored kids recognize their status and keep quiet about it - the better to preserve the good thing they've got going and to keep their siblings off their back.

- Jeffrey Kluger

topic: Daughter, Mother, Sibling, Best Kept Secrets, Having A Daughter

I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be an absolute catastrophe. I would certainly be interested in deserving it, but to receive it would be terrible. It would just complicate even more the problems of fame. The only thing I really regret in life is not having a daughter.

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

source: "Gabriel García Márquez, The Art of Fiction No. 69". Interviewed with Peter H. Stone. Issue 82, p. 339, www.theparisreview.org. Winter 1981.

topic: Daughter, Regret, Thinking, Life Regret, Deserving It

Having a daughter and a grandson, I certainly could relate to the fact that this child, who you simply dote on, being taken away from you at an early age, and every single kind of emotion you would have to go through.

- Judi Dench

source: "Philomena - Dame Judi Dench interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

topic: Daughter, Children, Taken, Having A Daughter

I'd love to adopt, but having a daughter, Daisy, who's in the middle of her teens, I'm now thinking: Is this a time to start all over again or is this a time to realise those child-rearing years are over?

- Joely Richardson

source: "Joely Richardson wants to adopt but not like Madonna". The Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. May 30, 2008.

topic: Daughter, Mother, Children, Rearing A Child, Having A Daughter

Movie acting is a great job for your twenties: You travel all over, you have affairs with people, and you throw yourself into one part and then another. It gets more challenging as you get older, and it's not just having a daughter, it's wanting to have your own life and be yourself.

- Helen Hunt

topic: Mother, Daughter, Being Yourself, Having A Daughter