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Don Corleone What have I ever done to make you treat me so disrespectfully If you'd come to me in friendship, then this scum that ruined your daughter would be suffering this very day. And if by chance an honest man like yourself should make enemies, then they would become my enemies. And then they would fear you. – Godfather, The
Don Corleone Someday - and that day may never come - I'll call upon you to do a service for me. But until that day, accept this justice as gift on my daughter's wedding day. – Godfather, The
Senator, I am one of them. You do not seem to understand who I am. I am a black woman, the daughter of a dining-car worker ... If my life has any meaning at all, it is that those who start out as outcasts can wind up as being part of the system. – Patricia Roberts Harris
Ask not a man who his father was but make trial of his qualities, and then conciliate or reject him accordingly. For it is no disgrace to new wine, if only it be sweet, as to its taste, that it was the juice [or daughter] of sour grapes. – Arabic Proverb
At the opera in Milan with my daughter and me, Needleman leaned out of his box and fell into the orchestra pit. Too proud to admit it was a mistake, he attended the opera every night for a month and repeated it each time. – Woody Allen
Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yieldAgainst stupidity the very godsThemselves contend in vain. Exalted reason,Resplendent daughter of the head divine,Wise foundress of the system of the world,Guide of the stars, who are thou then, if thou,Bound to the tail of folly's uncurb'd steed,Must, vainly shrieking, with the drunken crowd,Eyes open, plunge down headlong in the abyss. – Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller
I've never looked forward to a birthday like I'm looking forward to my new daughter's birthday, because two days after that is when I can apply for reinstatement. – Pete Rose
If it doesn't fart or eat hay, she isn't interested. (on his daughter, Princess Anne) – Prince Phillip
If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. – Bruce Barton
Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half-especially if he has a teenage daughter. – Guy Albert Lombardo
Marry your son when you will, but you daughter when you can. – Benjamin Franklin
Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be. – Clementine Paddleford
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. – Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
This started off as a father-daughter adventure, and it's gotten wonderfully out of hand...I'm going to fly till I die. – Jessica Dubroff
To my daughter Leonora without whose never failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been completed in half the time. – P. G. Wodehouse
Truth is the daughter of time. – Aulus Gellius
You know, my Friends, with what a brave Carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed, And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse. For "Is" and "Is-not" though with Rule and Line And "Up-and-down" by Logic I define, Of all that one should care to fathom, I Was never deep in anything but - Wine. – from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Translation by Edward Fitzgerald)

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