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The thing I'm the most proud of in my personal life is that my daughter actually thinks that I'm fabulous.
Brooke Shields
Actress · American · b. 1965
Sometimes, his methods and his motives are questionable and even his morals are questionable in the way he does things. But I think his intention is always to protect his daughter.
Victor Garber
Actor · Canadian · b. 1949
My sons are a hell of a lot easier to get through to than my daughter is. She seems to have my number. She can just run through the buttons.
Don Johnson
Actor · American · b. 1949
After filming I like to go home and lie down with my daughter and have a glass of wine so I don't really socialize with the other actors.
Izabella Scorupco
Actress · Polish · b. 1970
He's looking for the president's kidnapped daughter; everybody he calls on to help him is busy, but lo and behold, you look across the room, and I'm waiting for that action.
Derek Luke
Actor · American · b. 1974
We often don't think of them, we think of the great wars and the great battles, but what about losing a son or a daughter, or a girl losing her husband or vice versa? I think of the people who never got the chance to have the opportunities I had.
Tony Curtis
Actor · American · 1925 – 2010
I'm so lucky to be in a situation that I can always have my daughter with me.
I may be boring, but it would be to wake up by my dog and then my daughter.
If one day I have a daughter and my daughter wants to be a model, I would never let her!
Adriana Lima
Model · Brazilian · b. 1981
I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story.
Patti Smith
Musician · American · b. 1946
My daughter is a freshman in college and my son is - well, our daughter and our son - is a sophomore in college. So they come home on selected weekends, they come home on vacations and they're home in the summer, although they have jobs.
Erika Slezak
Actress · American · b. 1946
My daughter is wonderful and incredibly well behaved. I am very lucky. She will always be my priority.
Jamelia
Musician · English · b. 1981
I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence.
When my daughter asks, 'What do you do?', every movie I have a different answer. As she grows, she wants more explanations.
Michelle Williams
Actress · American · b. 1980
We're very open and outspoken about our faith and our beliefs. We also talk about our doubts, our moments of insecurities. We talk about it all day, how we're inspired by God. We recognize little miracles every day, and that's how we're raising our daughter.
Boris Kodjoe
Actor · Austrian · b. 1973
My priorities had been changing before I had Addie but after she was born they changed completely. I don't count - my daughter sort of owns me.
Kim Basinger
Actress · American · b. 1953
When it was over my daughter said, 'Oh, I felt so sorry for him - he didn't want to hurt you, he liked you.' That was Victoria. When you visualize him up there on top of the Empire State Building, you do feel sorry for him.
Fay Wray
Actress · American · 1907 – 2004
My father in the film - which we probably haven't seen in previous movies, and in British Asian movies you could probably count on one hand - he says exactly why, actually why he's frightened for his daughter. He came to this country, England, and had a bit of a crappy time.
Parminder Nagra
Actress · English · b. 1975
But my middle daughter, Kate, is very involved in martial arts, and I was just at one of her competitions.
Meredith Baxter
Actress · American · b. 1947
Right now, my daughter's just rolling her eyes at everything I do; I'm just an embarrassment.
Elizabeth Perkins
Actress · American · b. 1960
All of my life people have thought of me as Bing Crosby's daughter. Now they'll remember me as the person who shot J.R.
Mary Crosby
Actress · American · b. 1959
I've never returned to the locations. I do remember certain days more clearly than others and certain locations with a sense of nostalgia. Perhaps one day, I'll bring my daughter to see them, if she's interested.
Madeleine Stowe
Actress · American · b. 1958
I turned down a movie this summer because it was nine weeks in Vancouver and my oldest daughter is 14. I've got four more summers with her. I'm not giving away nine weeks of her summer to go do a silly movie.
Jeff Foxworthy
Comedian · American · b. 1958
I don't mind talking about my two daughters, but I don't feel comfortable denying them their privacy.
Tom Bergeron
Celebrity · American · b. 1955
When I had my first boy it all started and that male energy seemed to keep me awake but since my daughter, who's incredibly serene, I can't seem to stop sleeping because she's asleep all the time. It's a pattern.
Sadie Frost
Actress · English · b. 1965
Well, I think it's because I'm an only daughter. I have four brothers, a bunch of guy cousins, and so it's like I was raised amongst men. So I've always gotten along really well with men.
Alicia Machado
Celebrity · Venezuelan · b. 1976
I had a breakthrough, I think my life just became calmer, I gave up drinking. My priorities changed as I had a young daughter. The group didn't want me to record for the Think Tank album... so I took it as a sign to leave.
Graham Coxon
Musician · German · b. 1969
With my daughter, who at the time was one, my domestic life needed to take more precedent and really with my own self I needed to develop quite a bit more. So that put Blur down the list of priorities quite a lot by the time I came to thinking about it.
There were a couple of things in the intervention that made me know I needed help. One was a letter from my daughter saying that she was ashamed she had the same last name as I did, which will shock you a little bit.
Pat Summerall
Celebrity · American · b. 1930
If you didn't know that I am an actress, I don't think you could tell from my lifestyle. I cook and cook and cook. I like to be with my daughter. She's 16, so of course I bore her.
Karen Black
Actress · American · b. 1939
Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King's daughter, I would have gone nevertheless.
Joan of Arc
Celebrity · French
My daughter, when she was a week old, was diagnosed with congenital heart disease. For the past thirteen years, she's had four major heart surgeries. She's a candidate for - and must have - heart replacement surgery in order to have a long life.
Nick Cassavetes
Actor · American · b. 1959
I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day. I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young sons become men.
Magic Johnson
Athlete · American · b. 1959
The first Superman film took up a huge chunk of our lives, but it was a wonderful time for us. We were young, my daughter was little, we were filming in London for a year, so we became like a close family.
Margot Kidder
Actress · American · b. 1948
It's just a whole different thing, and it's just that my life has been a blessing, and I thank god every day for the gifts that he has given me and for my daughter and to be able to watch her grow and be a part of her joys and her excitement and what she wants to do in life.
Teena Marie
Musician · American · b. 1956
It wasn't my intention in going after this part but I suppose now I do. The adult roles are a lot meatier - you're not always just the daughter or the girlfriend or whatever.
Emmy Rossum
Actress · American · b. 1986
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
Oscar Wilde
Dramatist · Irish · 1854 – 1900
We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
Gloria Steinem
Activist · American · b. 1934
If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.
Thomas Fuller
Clergyman · English · 1608 – 1661
Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
Francis Bacon
Philosopher · English · 1561 – 1626
I have a daughter who is a sophomore in college and another who is in the 11th grade of high school.
Thomas Friedman
Journalist · American · b. 1953
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.
Sarah Palin
Politician · American · b. 1964
There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, "Truth is the daughter of Time."
Abraham Lincoln
President · American · 1809 – 1865
A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Playwright · Irish · 1751 – 1816
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.
Michael Bloomberg
Politician · American · b. 1942
Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.
Jeremy Taylor
Clergyman · British · d. 1667
My daughter, Anna, is almost 15, and my son, Ben, is almost 10.
Cornelia Funke
Author · German · b. 1958
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
Khalil Gibran
Poet · 1883 – 1931