ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD DAUGHTER
Old English dohtor; related to Old High German tohter daughter, Greek thugatēr, Sanskrit duhitá.
10 QUOTES WITH «DAUGHTER»
Famous quotes and sentences with the word
daughter.
I can't imagine myself not working. And I hope my daughter will work when she's older.
My success set me up for life, and it meant that I could retire from the music industry at 27 to spend time with my newborn daughter and my wife. My time away from the spotlight allowed me to rediscover my love for music, and I'm doing it for me now and no one else.
I can't tell you how many times I've gone to present at the Golden Globes, come home, whipped the dress off and read to my daughter wearing gazillion-dollar earrings. That's how it goes in my house, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
I have never written a book about my life, despite being offered purses of gold. I made 'Boxes' because I wanted to make a sincere depiction of a daughter who has lost her father, or the jealousy one can feel towards a daughter who has become more beautiful than you and whose stepfather starts to take her shopping.
I don't want my daughter to be educated. I think women should just be decorative.
I knew 'Mars Needs Moms! ' would be a movie seconds after the title came to mind. Similarly, I also knew that my daughter would be calling me a dork as a default term of endearment eventually.
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.
My children know I would never call anyone to give my son or daughter a break.
At the age of 15 months my daughter was diagnosed with very bad asthma, and essentially I put my career on hold for a good eight years.
When my friends and I would act out movies as kids, we'd play the guys' roles, since they had the most interesting things to do. Decades later, I can hardly believe my sons and daughter are seeing many of the same limited choices in current films.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DAUGHTER»
Discover the use of
daughter in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
daughter and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Mother-Daughter Book Club
When the mothers of four sixth-grade girls with very different personalities pressure them into forming a book club, they find, as they read and discuss "Little Women," that they have much more in common than they could have imagined.
Heather Vogel Frederick, 2007
You are fat and thin and pretty and plain, gay and straight, educated and unlettered, and I am speaking to you all. Here is my offering to you.” –from Letter to My Daughter From the Hardcover edition.
After a local midwife is accused of being a witch and murdering an orphan in the 17th century, Bavarian Hangman Jakob Kuisl and his daughter, Magdalena, believe that midwife is innocent and seek out the true killer, despite Jakob being ...
4
Galileo's
Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith ...
Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of Galileo's daughter, a cloistered nun, Dava Sobel has written a biography unlike any other of the man Albert Einstein called "the father of modern ...
5
Not Without My
Daughter
The American wife of an Iranian describes her ordeal in Tehran as a virtual prisoner of her fanatical husband and his family and her perilous escape with her daughter to freedom.
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An enthralling tale of modern witch Bess Hawksmith, a fiercely independent woman desperate to escape her cursed history who must confront the evil which has haunted her for centuries My name is Elizabeth Anne ...
7
The Memory Keeper's
Daughter
In a tale spanning twenty-five years, a doctor delivers his newborn twin daughter during a snowstorm and, rashly deciding to protect his wife from the baby's affliction with Down Syndrome, turns her over to a nurse, who secretly raises the ...
8
Daughter of Smoke & Bone
Around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky.
9
Mob
Daughter: The Mafia, Sammy "The Bull" Gravano, and Me!
The daughter of a confessed mafia hitman-turned-state's-evidence struggles to reconcile the image of her elusive yet loving father with that of a murdering Mafioso, and shares how she was able to forge a life after the truth came out. 100 ...
10
The Lost
Daughter: A Memoir
The Lost Daughter is a chronicle of her journey back in time, an exploration of fractured family bonds, and a moving epic of self-discovery.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DAUGHTER»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
daughter is used in the context of the following news items.
Your ideal son or daughter in law? Anything but an MP, YouGov poll …
While no one said they would like their daughter to bring home a male model, three per cent said they would like a son to marry a female model ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
A sad new reality for Kourtney Kardashian's kids: Daughter …
But her new reality will no doubt really sting as she watches on while her young daughter rings in the milestone without her dad present. «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
Man, 21, dies after he's shot in the head in the Bronx with daughter …
The last thing he saw was his wide-eyed baby girl still cradled in his tattooed arms, clutching her to his chest after a fatal bullet tore through his ... «New York Daily News, Jul 15»
Dad loses father-daughter beatbox battle, couldn't be happier about it
... and we're not just talking about their undeniably similar smiles. Dad is a beatbox expert, and he's taught his daughter everything he knows. «Today.com, Jul 15»
Xana Doyle's mother says her daughter's 'only crime was to get into …
The mother of Xana Doyle has called the sentence passed on the men who caused her daughter's death a “joke”. Emma O'Donoghue said ... «WalesOnline, Jul 15»
ABS-CBN teen actress found dead
Buencamino has issued a waiver to dispense of a formal police investigation on the death of his daughter, Julia Louise. Behind Buencamino is ... «Inquirer.net, Jul 15»
Mother and daughter who died in five-car crash near Weston Park …
... died in five-car crash near Weston Park named. Police have named a mother and daughter who died in a five-car crash near Weston Park. «expressandstar.com, Jul 15»
Kylie and Kris Jenner Enjoy Mother-Daughter Date Night, Are All …
The 21-year-old daughter of Kathie Lee and Frank Gifford attended the L.A. premiere of her upcoming horror flick The Gallows at Hollywood ... «E! Online, Jul 15»
Bloomfield Township treasurer accuses supervisor of kidnapping his …
The daughter, who lives at home, is a private nanny and a substitute teacher for several school districts. Gaudard said police were able to ... «Detroit Free Press, Jul 15»
Tamara Ecclestone takes daughter Sophia to her Show Dry blow dry …
31-year-old Tamara treated her daughter to a trip to her Show Dry blow dry salon in Westbourne Grove, London on Tuesday where Sophia, ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
