My father believed in astrology. His astrologer had predicted that his daughter would become a writer someday. My father would nag me, but I didn’t write a word till he passed away. I wish he could see me now. – Twinkle Khanna
How can I tell my daughter when she grows up to aspire to be what she wants to be if I am too scared to hop back in the ring because of what some people have said about me? – Sonny Bill Williams
The best cookies of all in the world are the ones my daughter Sally makes. They come out all uniform with nice little air holes. – Willard Scott
Women are in a position now to voice their opinion… women are getting empowered. The more power they get, the more voice they get to shift certain things around. Now I have a daughter, I understand. When I didn’t have a daughter, I didn’t understand. – Snoop Dogg
I am Anil Kapoor’s daughter, so I am always compared with legends. It is a part and parcel of my life. – Sonam Kapoor
Seeing my daughter for the first time after I came back from the tour was just a life-changing experience… it still blows my mind. – Sonny Bill Williams
I have a daughter who is a sophomore in college and another who is in the 11th grade of high school. – Thomas Friedman
If stem cells divide equally, so both daughter cells look more or less the same, each one becomes another stem cell. If the split is unequal, neurons form prematurely. – Sam Kean
I think there’s something about the homemade birthday cake, because my wife, on my daughter’s first birthday, started the tradition where she takes a full cake and cuts the number birthday out of it. – Willie Geist
I was gone so much in my first marriage. I love the moments when I engage with my youngest daughter now. It’s not my thing to sit on the ground and play tea party, but I’ll do it because it’s a moment that will stick with me forever. – Tim Allen
Just being aware of what you are about to do greatly diminishes the tendency to do what you don’t want to. You will pull your hand back from that pizza slice, tell the waitress that you are passing on dessert, put on your gym shoes instead of going under the comforter, and take several deep breaths instead of screaming at your daughter. – Srikumar Rao
If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers? – Virginia Woolf
I want to do the basic things, like putting my daughter to bed. It’s the sweetest thing. – Tom Douglas
If I should have a daughter, instead of ‘Mom,’ she’s gonna call me ‘Point B,’ because that way she knows that no matter what happens, at least she can always find her way to me. And I’m going to paint solar systems on the backs of her hands so she has to learn the entire universe before she can say, ‘Oh, I know that like the back of my hand.’ – Sarah Kay
My daughter, when she was younger, was crazy about ‘The X-Files,’ so I’d watch that with her. – Scott Bakula
I acknowledge Shakespeare to be the world’s greatest dramatic poet, but regret that no parent could place the uncorrected book in the hands of his daughter, and therefore I have prepared the Family Shakespeare. – Thomas Bowdler
Losing my daughter was a very serious pain. There was always some empty space in my heart. – Yoko Ono
I didn’t think any amount of money was worth something that would take away what you believed in or what you stood for. I didn’t want to do something my parents and daughter couldn’t be proud of. – Tippi Hedren
When my daughter wanted a toy and I had to check the price of it before buying it – that was one of the worst feelings. – Tablo
The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister’s daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for. – Tori Amos
I coach my daughter’s softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can. – Tim McGraw
In Hawaii, we go to this wonderful place, all families. My wife and I go directly from breakfast to a beach chair where we read all day. My daughter goes from water to pool to running around with friends she meets, some of whom are regulars there. – Stephen Collins
The first ‘Polly and the Pirates’ is about a prim and proper girl who gets kidnapped out of her comfy boarding school by a bunch of pirates that think she’s the daughter of their long lost queen. In the course of the adventure, she discovers she has a natural penchant for swashbuckling, despite her sheltered childhood. – Ted Naifeh
Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: ‘My daughter loves you, will you sign an autograph for her?’ And some people send me stuff. I don’t mind it at all: as a sportswoman, you owe them because they support you. – Zara Phillips
I was the daughter of an immigrant, raised to feel that I needed to get excellent, flawless grades and a full scholarship and a graduate degree and a good job – all the stepping stones to conventional success. – Susan Choi
