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Quotations about Daughters
Certain it is, that there is no Kind of Affection so pure and angelic as that of a Father to a Daughter. ~Joseph Addison, 1712
Margaret: I think men need daughters.
Dearth: They do... Fame is rot; daughters are the thing.
Margaret: Daughters are the thing.
~J. M. Barrie, Dear Brutus, 1917
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. ~Enid Bagnold, 1969
And thou shalt in thy daughter see,
This picture, once, resembled thee.
~Ambrose Philips, "To Miss Charlotte Pulteney, In Her Mother's Arms," 1724
Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor, Mama Day, 1988
...To a father waxing old
Nothing is dearer than a daughter: sons
Have spirits of a higher pitch, but less inclined
To sweet endearing fondness...
~Euripides (480–406 BC), "The Supplicants," translated by R. Potter, 1836
Thus a lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics and divinity that ever were written. ~Thomas Jefferson, letter to Robert Skipwith, 1771 August 3rd, Monticello
"Girlie, girlie!" was all he said... "My girlie." ~Barbra Ring, Fjeldmus paa utenlands-reise, 1908, translated from the Norwegian by J. L. Ethel Aspinall, The Tomboy Cousin, 1927
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