Famous Quotes & Sayings

Georgina Chapman

We don't leave home without my daughter's doll La-La. She looks like a bit of a rag, but India is obsessed with her.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

I can testify, from my own experience and observation, that slavery is a curse to the whites as well as to the blacks. It makes the white fathers cruel and sensual; the sons violent and licentious; it contaminates the daughters, and makes the wives wretched. And as for the colored race, it needs an abler pen than mine to describe the extremity of their sufferings, the depth of their degradation.

Halle Berry

My daughter doesn't want to go to school because she knows 'the men' are watching for her. They jump out of the bushes and from behind cars and who knows where else, besieging these children just to get a photo.

Homer

Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over the heads of men to trap us all. She entangles one man, now another.

Hollis Stacy

I think people feel threatened by homosexuality. The problem isn't about gay people, the problem is about the attitude towards gay people. People think that all gays are Hannibal Lecters. But gay people are sons and daughters, politicians and doctors, American heroes and daughters of American heroes.

Iain Duncan Smith

I have two daughters, it really means a lot to me to have two women standing now and being the PM.

Hugo Chavez

I'm a man with many defects. I love. I sing. I dream. I was born in the poor countryside. I was raised in the countryside, planting corn and selling sweets made by my grandmother. My children, my two daughters are with me and I want a better world for my grandchildren, for your grandchildren.

Richard Moss

He told me his daughter was going to get married.

He that would the daughter win must with the mother first begin.

Gary North

The question eventually must be raised: Is it a criminal offense to take the name of the Lord in vain? When people curse their parents, it unquestionably is a capital crime (Ex. 21:17). The son or daughter is under the lawful jurisdiction of the family. The integrity of the family must be maintained by the threat of death. Clearly, cursing God (blasphemy) is a comparable crime, and is therefore a capital crime (Lev. 24:16).

Eric Zorn

I don't know if God exists and I don't care. God's will and design for this temporal and spatial vastness, if any, is so patently, deliberately impenetrable that I doubt any mortal has a grasp on it. The very inexplicability of sad events like the tsunami, like the AIDS crisis or even like the cancer death of the father of one of my daughter's 2nd-grade classmates last week are, to me, reminders to focus on our obligations to one another, not to the infinite; to honor the creator, if any, by honoring creation itself and hoping that's good enough.

The sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were fair

A son is a son till he takes him a wife, a daughter is a daughter all of her life.

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.

The sad thing is you have a mother and daughter separated.

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.

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.

I'm grateful that our daughter talked to us about this. You never think that something like this is going to happen, but when it does, it sure is nice to have something like this.

Joe Girardi

Youth is fun to watch, because you get to see them grow. It's like when you see your daughter or son take that first step.

Kathy Smith

(Then) our daughter said they just opened a PetSmart and we were excited. We live in Grapeland so we'd have to go to Tyler or Conroe (otherwise).

Jim Carroll

I want to speak directly to the kidnappers of my daughter Jill, who could be fathers like me.

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

It's not for James. It's for his family, his daughter and these other officers' families.

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

I quite like it here. My wife likes it here. My daughter loves it here.

Candace Parker

I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, maybe in my daughter's generation, where their salaries will be similar to men's. But we're still starting off, like, where the NBA was back in the 1950s.

Buchi Emecheta

I am a woman and a woman of Africa. I am a daughter of Nigeria and if she is in shame, I shall stayand mourn with her in shame.

Buchi Emecheta

But who made the law that we should not hope in our daughters? We women subscribe to that law more than anyone. Until we change all this, it is still a man's world, which women will always help to build.

James E. Faust

A conviction that you are a daughter of God gives you a feeling of comfort in your self-worth. It means that you can find strength in the balm of Christ. It will help you meet the heartaches and challenges with faith and serenity. ... A woman can and must have an identity and feel useful, valued, and needed whether she is single or married. She must feel that she can do something for someone else that no one else ever born can do