“Oh my son's my son till he gets a wife,
But my daughter's my daughter all her life.”
Dinah Craik (1826–1887) English novelist and poet
"Young and Old"
Source: Love the One You're With
“Oh my son's my son till he gets a wife,
But my daughter's my daughter all her life.”
Dinah Craik (1826–1887) English novelist and poet
"Young and Old"
Diana Norman (1933–2011) British author and journalist
Source: The Serpent's Tale
Frederick IV of Naples (1451–1504) King of Naples
Dated 1498 or earlier. Quoted in Sarah Bradford, Cesare Borgia / His Life and Times (1976, George Weidenfeld and Nicolson Limited. London. Reprinted 1981. ISBN 0-297-77124-8), p. 72
“Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
Boulter's Monument. (Supposed to have been inserted by Dr. Johnson, 1745.)
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Words are men’s daughters, but God’s sons are things.”
Samuel Madden (1686–1765) Irish writer
Boulter's Monument (1745). At Madden's request, the poem was revised for publication by Samuel Johnson, some authorities hold that and that this line was an insertion by Johnson; however Johnson's own account was that he had merely "blotted out" unnecessary lines of the poem. See James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies (1791) p. 175. Compare: "Words are women, deeds are men", George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum.
Michelle Obama (1964) lawyer, writer, wife of Barack Obama and former First Lady of the United States
2010s, 2016 Democratic National Convention (2016)
Christine de Pizan book The Book of the City of Ladies
Si la coustume estoit de mettre les petites filles a l'escole, et que communement on les fist apprendre les sciences comme on fait aux filz, qu'elles apprendroient aussi parfaitement et entenderoient les subtilités de toutes les arz et sciences comme ils font.
Part I, ch. 27, p. 63.
Le Livre de la Cité des Dames (c. 1405)
Source: The Book of the City of Ladies
Forest Whitaker (1961) American actor
To Webster Hall curator Baird Jones, reported in the New York Post (11 December 1999); quoted in “Forest Whitaker,” in Hollywood.com http://www.hollywood.com/celebrities/forest-whitaker-57300206/.