Famous Quotes & Sayings

And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines.

And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.

And my master made me swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell: / But thou shalt go unto my father's house, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son.

And make ye marriages with us, and give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you.

Brad Johnson

And so, they wait. Mothers, wives and daughters wait to place flowers at those graves -- and to start life over again.

The jurors can determine that this is a 43-year-old man with three young daughters looking at a very long stretch in jail.

Paulo Coelho

If the whole world is evil, then the tragedy that befell you is justified," she went on. "That would make it easier for you to accept the deaths of your wife and daughters. But if good people do exist, then, however much you deny it, your life will be unbearable; because fate set a trap for you, and you know you didn't deserve it. It isn't the light you want to recover, it's the certainty that there is only darkness.

Martin Scorsese

I'm in a different chapter of my life. As time goes by and I grow older, I find that I need to just be quiet and think. There have been periods when I've locked myself away for days, but now it's different - I'm married and we have a daughter who is in my office the whole time.

Marlene Dietrich

Your daughter is your child for life.

Marlene Dietrich

On Becoming a 'Lady': What every mother wants her daughter to be.

Marjane Satrapi

I'd heard so many stupidities about my country since I left Iran. People had watched this stupid movie Not Without My Daughter [in which Sally Field plays an American who rescues her daughter from her estranged in-laws in Iran]; I heard so many things like that. I did not make Persepolis for Iranians. It was my answer to the rest of the world, to say, "Let me give you another point of view."

Max Miller

My wife's father said if you marry my daughter I'll give you three acres and a cow. I'm still waiting for the three acres.

Max Lucado

The book on my nightstand right now isnt anything that inspired me, but it entertained me. I read a book on Labor Day, it was a holiday, and I have three daughters, and we all went to the shopping mall and I sat on the bench and read a book while they shopped, it was called The Greatest Golfer there Ever Was, it was a great book, easy to read and entertaining.

Maureen Reagan

There's a special place in heaven for caregivers.

Maureen McCormick

I was actually losing about a pound a week which was really wonderful. It was a really nice, and good, and healthy way to do it. And I still got to eat my chocolate every day which was wonderful, although I haven't had a drink in a really, really, really long time. I love being outside and working out, and I sometimes jog with my husband, and sometimes I jog with one of my daughter's best friends, and it's incredible. I was able to do Pilates for the first time in my life, which is almost better than sex. Not quite, but almost.

Maureen Johnson

It makes you very cool," he said, taking big, jumping steps to get in front of me. "CNN would interview you, for sure. Daughter of Flobie! But don't worry. I'll keep them back!

Mayim Bialik

Let’s reserve judgment for people who beat their children, sell their daughters into prostitution, or deny women the right to make decisions about their bodies and their lives.

Maya Angelou

My great blessing is my son, but I have daughters. I have white ones and Black ones and fat ones and thin ones and pretty ones and plain. I have gay ones and straight. I have daughters. I have Asian ones, I have Jewish ones, I have Muslim ones.

Maya Angelou

If I could give you one thought, it would be to lift someone up. Lift a stranger up--lift her up. I would ask you, mother and father, brother and sister, lovers, mother and daughter, father and son, lift someone. The very idea of lifting someone up will lift you, as well.

As a parent, you want everything for your child. We want this event to tell our daughter that she is as welcome on the White House lawn as any other kid in the world.

Our daughter is left stateless. She has no country. She has no home. That is the fundamental issue here, ... We are trying to get her a home.

Our daughter is 14, ... She feels good about where we moved.

People still think that, you know, it might be okay for a man, but it wouldn't happen to women. Mothers, daughters and sisters do not drink. They're not supposed to have the disease of alcoholism.

Roma Downey

After my daughter was born, I remember dressing her up, putting a little pink bonnet on her and proudly pushing her up Main Street in a stroller.

They're more in Washington than here, and with their daughter leaving soon for college, they just don't need a big house.

Emma Thompson

They still get jilted. They're still looking for people to marry. They're still worried about how they are going to survive financially. There are still mothers who want to get their daughters married.

This boy's 15 years old. Imagine your own son or daughter being in a situation like this.

It's a horrible thing to have happen. I have a 15-year-old daughter myself, so this sharpens the perspective for me." ()

This place is in our roots. I plan to stay here, and so do my daughter and granddaughter.

There wasn't a dry eye in the place. I realized immediately that his daughter had a gift for speaking.

There weren?t enough hands there, ... The phone lines were all lit up. My daughters wanted me to help.

Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions

Jalal Talabani

Your sons and daughters freed us from that nightmare.