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They are the greatest curse of all great men, daughters.
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Jason Zebehazy
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If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.
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Brigham Young
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Thanks to the heroic sons and daughters of this country, who have paid sacrifices, we have been able to score a number of victories which are encouraging the nation-building process we are engaged in.
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Girma Woldegiorgis
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Aware that his disappointment has its source in a defective education, he looks with anxiety on his other daughters, whose minds, like lovely buds, are beginning to open. Where shall he find a genial soil in which he may place them to expand?
Author:
Emma Willard
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Both of our daughters, Debbie and Bonnie, are also cancer survivors.
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David Wilkerson
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One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.
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Lawrence Welk
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Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879.
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Mary Ward
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My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died.
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Mary Ward
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As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.
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Vera Wang
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Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.
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Izaak Walton
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Rob Lowe, I've known him for a long time because I have three daughters, ya know. He's been cruising those three girls for a long time.
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Robert Wagner
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Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
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Voltaire
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In many ways we are all sons and daughters of ancient Greece.
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Nia Vardalos
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People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who's right here too.
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Jim Valvano
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I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.
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Peter Ustinov
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We must work together to save and strengthen Social Security not just for my father's generation but also for my daughters' generation.
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John Thune
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There are now grandmothers and grandfathers coming to see us because they are of that age, they grew up in the '50s and '60s and they bring their sons and their daughters to hear the songs they heard when they were young.
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George Thorogood
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Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.
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Jeremy Taylor
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We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
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Gloria Steinem
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I can only hope that neither of my daughters was scarred by their upbringing.
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Georg Solti
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I think Desperate Housewives is a pretty good show, I watch it, I like it and I don't love reality tv that much. I do watch some, I've got three daughters so we'll watch the good stuff, the fun stuff.
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Bob Saget
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In 1947 I married Rowena Palmer, and we have two daughters, Alison and Claire, and a son, John.
Author:
Martin Ryle
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Like any other people, like fathers, mothers, sons and daughters in every land, when the issue of peace or war has been put squarely to the American people, they have registered for peace.
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Paul Robeson
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Ever since Two Daughters I've been composing my own music.
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Satyajit Ray
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I'm concerned about the insidious influence of the media's bad messages that undermine the lessons parents try to instill in their sons and daughters.
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John Ratzenberger
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Once upon a time there was a widow who had two daughters. The elder was so much like her, both in looks and character, that whoever saw the daughter saw the mother.
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Charles Perrault
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To the families of special needs children all across this country I have a message for you: for years you have sought to make America a more welcoming place for your sons and daughters, and I pledge to you that if we're elected, you will have a friend, an advocate, in The White House.
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Sarah Palin
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I'm just one of many moms who will say an extra prayer each night for our sons and daughters going into harm's way.
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Sarah Palin
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I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.
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Barack Obama
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What's really fun is seeing mothers bringing their daughters to the shows. And the best part is the mothers know they don't have to worry about sexual innuendo in the songs. The shows are family shows.
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Peter Noone
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Let's say there are 500 sons and daughters like you in each state. Then we could control the government.
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Sun Moon
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I have three daughters, so I can't be as tough as I want to be. When you have kids - especially daughters - they know how to work you. They're a lot smarter than we are, that's for sure. But I'll be more tough on their boyfriends.
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Tim McGraw
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You know not having my real dad around and having a step dad made me want to be a great dad. So now I have been one for 9 years. And now 3 daughters. So, that is what I am - a dad, first and foremost, before anything else. It's just something that comes natural now.
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Tim McGraw
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My youngest son, who is now the drummer in my band, lives in Brooklyn. My oldest son is about to move out to California, and my daughters are both out of town.
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Herbie Mann
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All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.
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Gordon Lightfoot
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It's the kind of clothes that mothers and daughters can wear, in terms of concept... It's not about age. It's about taste, and it's about lifestyle. I believe women of all ages can wear anything.
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Ralph Lauren
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I'm still not a great reader, but my wife is and my daughters are, and I envy them. I think I got into a bad habit of trying to do something all the time, instead of trying to sit down and take my time a little bit.
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Mike Krzyzewski
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The role of Charlie Eppes has changed me. I never imagined I would play a role like this. I lost some weight, grew my hair and now every woman in America over 40 wants to date me. It's their daughters I want to convince. The truth is all this talk makes me blush. Me, I look in the mirror and all I see is this Jewish kid from Queens.
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David Krumholtz
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The anxiety of most parents in seeing their sons and daughters enlist does not lie only in the fear of the physical dangers they may encounter.
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William King
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Well, right now we're so busy that I kind of had to put all the hobbies on hold. But I like going camping with my kids. I have two daughters; they're 7 and 10 years old.
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Mark Kelly
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I've had women tell me that when their daughters see them taking care of themselves, and being defined from within, and thinking for themselves instead of thinking about that silly culture out there, it's powerful modeling.
Author:
Naomi Judd
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You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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When I got on the airplane in Indonesia coming to Japan, my intentions was to turn myself in to the military for the simple reason I would like to put my daughters with their mother, one thing. Another thing, I'd like to clear my conscience.
Author:
Robert Jenkins
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We need to get our sons and daughters home and their responsibility for the security of Iraq needs to be assumed by Iraqis who will stand up and toe the line for their countries.
Author:
Jay Inslee
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Today, Arizona's sons and daughters, mothers and fathers are proudly serving their country.
Author:
Jane Hull
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You know, my daughters have been through their entire lives and knowing about my case.
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Patty Hearst
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My daughters have grown up knowing all about my kidnapping and the case and what happened.
Author:
Patty Hearst
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Mothers send strips to daughters to make a point. Daughters smack strips down on the breakfast table to make a point. My own mom sometimes cuts a strip out and sends it to me to make sure I understand her.
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Cathy Guisewite
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Because our daughters have school and it's just such a hassle going down to New York all the time, we can really only go on the weekends, we kind of... Steve came up here and worked out stuff for the second half of the record.
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Kim Gordon
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Married and divorced, three beautiful daughters, two in college. The other one is 16, lives with her mom. I'm 46, I've worked for the Post Office for 18 years, seven facilities in three states.
Author:
Arthur Godfrey
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Children make you a better everything. Daughters open up a whole different sensibility to you. When you have children, it focuses you on them as opposed to on yourself.
Author:
Andy Garcia
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As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.
Author:
Solomon Gabirol
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Courtney Love is really cool and funny. I would like to meet Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz. I think I could play their daughters.
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Dakota Fanning
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Sometimes I feel as if four thousand years of silencing women, of the fear of women who were burned in oil or eviscerated in front of their daughters, is imprinted deep within me and has altered my DNA.
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Olympia Dukakis
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Mothers don't let your daughters grow up to be models unless you're present.
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Janice Dickinson
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Generation after generation of women have pledged to raise their daughters differently, only to find that their daughters grow up and fervently pledge the same thing.
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Elizabeth Debold
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As Commander in Chief of the United States Military, I will never send our sons and daughters and our brothers and sisters to die in a foreign land without telling the truth about why they're going there.
Author:
Howard Dean
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I am so excited to let fans in on how important my relationship with my family is to me. I hope to motivate mothers and daughters to build lifetimes of memories together and inspire kids around the world to live their dreams.
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Miley Cyrus
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I invest in funds myself even though I run my own fund for my daughters.
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Jim Cramer
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I have three daughters. I wanted them to be raised where there are real seasons and where everyone their age wasn't trying to get into movies.
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Chevy Chase
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I have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians.
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Rosanne Cash
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Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.
Author:
George Byron
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I believe in the freedom of God's sons and daughters.
Author:
Pat Buckley
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The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too.
Author:
Louise Brown
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So I have four daughters, about ten granddaughters, and five grandsons.
Author:
Pat Boone
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Many of America's and New York's sons and daughters are around the world fighting for the freedoms that the Statue of Liberty stands for.
Author:
Michael Bloomberg
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I walked out of the show business in 1968 because I thought that would be good for the family. It took me some time to decide but I wanted to spend more time with my wife and two daughters who were always beside me. I wanted to do everything I could for them.
Author:
Pete Best
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I don't mind talking about my two daughters, but I don't feel comfortable denying them their privacy.
Author:
Tom Bergeron
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I am the parent of teenagers, my daughters are 13 and 15, so the issue of Internet safety has been an important issue. I have been visiting middle schools to talk about some of the challenges that they face.
Author:
Melissa Bean
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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.
Author:
Saint Avila
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I've brought my daughters all over the world-they travel with me. I drag them out of school just to keep the relationship. When I'm home I'm a big-time daddy.
Author:
Armand Assante
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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
Author:
Abigail Adams
