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To a father waxing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter.
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A son is a son till he takes him a wife, a daughter is a daughter all of her life.
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There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself.
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As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
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Every mother hopes that her daughter will marry a better man than she did, and is convinced that her son will never find a wife as good as his father did.
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We've begun to raise daughters more like sons, but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
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A daughter is a day brightener and a heart warmer.
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The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, "Daddy, I need to ask you something," he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.
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The woman who bore me is no longer alive, but I seem to be her daughter in increasingly profound ways.
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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.
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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.
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Mothers and daughters are closest, when daughters become mothers.
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Any astronomer can predict with absolute accuracy just where every star in the universe will be at 11.30 tonight. He can make no such prediction about his teenage daughter.
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To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
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Daughter am I in my mother's house, but mistress in my own.
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As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.
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A father is available to help his daughter balance both her love and her anger toward her mother, to moderate the inevitable emotional extremes in the intense mother-daughter equation. With Daddy's steadying influence daughters can learn to be comfortable with healthy anger, rather than feeling that they must be eternal good girls who must at all costs conceal it.
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Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
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A daughter is a gift of love.
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A daughter is a little girl who grows up to be a friend.
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Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.
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The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex.
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A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future.
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Daughters are like flowers, they fill the world with beauty, and sometimes attract pests.
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