Quotes tagged ‘daughters’

“Jesus, why do daughters get to say that they're fucked up by their fathers, when it's so often the other way around.”

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Dad, Bill Paterson, imdb.com

“Dorcas and Agatha: Are we your daughters, too? Father Blackwood: No, you’re just orphans.”

— Oanh Ly, Salli Richardson Whitfield, Rachel Talalay, Jeff Woolnough, Kevin Rodney Sullivan, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Lee Toland Krieger, Ross Maxwell, Rob Seidenglanz, Michael Goi, Matthew Barry, Alex Garcia Lopez, Mj Kaufman, Christina Ham, Donna Thorland, Axelle Carolyn, Craig Macneill, Joshua Conkel, Christianne Hedtke, Lindsay Calhoon Bring, Maggie Kiley, Father Blackwood, Richard Coyle, imdb.com

“Of all my daughters, you've always been my favorite.”

— Adria Lang, Brother Michael, Steven Weber, imdb.com

“[to World Security Council official] Let me ask you a question. What if Pakistan marched into Mumbai tomorrow, and you knew they were going to drag your daughters into a soccer stadium for execution and you could stop it with a flick of a switch, wouldn't you?”

— Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely, Alexander Pierce, Robert Redford, imdb.com

“Young man, I hear you and your friends are stealing goods. But you don't even send a dress to my house. No respect! You know I've got three daughters. This is my neighborhood. You and your friends should show me some respect. You should let me wet my beak a little. I hear you and your friends cleare…”

— Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo, Don Fanucci, Gastone Moschin, imdb.com

“You know what I heard once? I heard that a daughter is supposed to be a comfort and a blessing to her father.”

— Patrick Massett, John Zinman, Eric Taylor, Kyle Chandler, imdb.com

“Swear to the moon, the stars, the sons and the daughters. Our love is deeper than the oceans of water.”

— BØRNS, open.spotify.com

“We need to talk about your daughters. One of them is dangerous and the other ones in danger.”

— Vince Calandra, Vickery, Matt Craven, imdb.com

“Hershel Greene: If you understand what it's like to have a daughter, then how can you threaten to kill someone else's? The Governor: Because they aren't mine.”

— Seth Hoffman, The Governor, David Morrissey, imdb.com

“Shirley: Some day, God willing, I'm gonna be a mother. And if my daughter comes to me and says, 'Mama, I want to go to this bachelor party and come outta this cake'... what can I tell her? Laverne: A lot more than most mothers!”

— Mark Rothman, Lowell Ganz, Laverne De Fazio, Penny Marshall, imdb.com

“When you have a little girl, as a parent you think, 'I should probably save for med school.' And when you have a little boy, you think, 'There's going to be a couple rounds of rehab.”

— Jim Gaffigan, npr.org

“Mothers took their mothering so seriously now. Their frantic little faces. Their busy little bottoms strutting into the school in their tight gym gear. Ponytails swinging. Eyes fixed on the mobile phones held in the palms of their hands like compasses.”

— Liane Moriarty, amazon.com

“When my father didn’t have my hand…he had my back.”

— Linda Poindexter, thoughtcatalog.com

“The reason why daughters love their Dad the most is…that there is at least one man in the world who will never hurt her.”

— Anonymous, thoughtcatalog.com

“He opened the jar of pickles when no one else could. He was the only one in the house who wasn’t afraid to go into the basement by himself. He cut himself shaving, but no one kissed it or got excited about it. It was understood when it rained, he got the car and brought it around to the door. When a…”

— Erma Bombeck, thoughtcatalog.com

“They say that from the instant he lays eyes on her, a father adores his daughter. Whoever she grows up to be, she is always to him that little girl in pigtails. She makes him feel like Christmas. In exchange, he makes a secret promise not to see the awkwardness of her teenage years, the mistakes she…”

— Anonymous, thoughtcatalog.com

“Behind every great daughter is a truly amazing dad.”

— Anonymous, thoughtcatalog.com

“Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.”

— Joseph Addison, thoughtcatalog.com

“I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.”

— Martha Gellhorn, thoughtcatalog.com

“As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine a life without her.”

— Kristin Hannah, thoughtcatalog.com