Sentences with phrase «better than his daughter»

Woolman's wife fared better than his daughter, who was not mentioned at all.)

But better than my daughter's tween shows any day of the week!

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Their father was formerly a Louisiana sharecropper and wanted his daughters to have a better life than he did.

She really didn't think in gendered terms, she says; she was «more concerned about being the daughter of the founder and therefore needing to perform better than others so as not to give the impression of nepotism.»

«I have a library, and it's like I want to beat Belle on «Beauty and the Beast» and have a better library than she had,» Bennett says, referring to the 1991 Walt Disney movie, which he watches with his four - year - old daughter, Austyn Jett.

«My daughter was a lot better at gaming than I am,» Mullin says, laughing.

In other words, their 11 played better as a team than the three remarkable players on my daughter's team.

Don't know how old she was that Musa married to at... But understand that females at hotter areas become ripe at earlier age and if body was built well enough and had her monthly period coming early age than she is ready minimum 9 years old... There are still in some small cities, villages and remote areas families are having their daughters marrying at such age to men that could reach upto 80 years old...!

would have done better to have had a daughter than a son..

For thus says the LORD: To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths... I will give, in my house and within my walls, a monument and a name better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off.

a believing bondwoman is better than an idolatress though she please you; and give not your daughters in marriage to idolaters till they believe, for lo!

Mothers in India know no better theme for imparting wisdom and instruction to their daughters, and elderly men know no richer storehouse for narrating tales to children, than these stories preserved in the Epics.

For thus says the LORD, «To the eunuchs who keep My sabbaths, And choose what pleases Me, And hold fast My covenant, To them I will give in My house and within My walls a memorial, And a name better than that of sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name which will not be cut off.

Its easier to worry about what all this will mean for our domestic politics and Mediterranean time shares, than to enter into the abject, diabolical situations which force a mother to commit her daughter into the hands of an unscrupulous stranger in the hope that she will be better off.

My personal belief, & I have came to this as of late, watching ladies like Billy Graham's daughter (who, by the way, also in my own personal opinion, preaches better than most «called» men)... is this....

These idiots are no better than the child abuser Fred Phelps and his hideous daughters.

But as parents in the family, my wife and I (actually, my wife more than I) knew what our daughters need better than they did.

Among other things, he opposed in a pamphlet the idea that marriage between a non-Sayyid man and a Sayyid's daughter should be forbidden; he opposed the custom of regarding Sayyid as a hereditary title, like Sharif, for descendants of the Prophet, for the word does not mean anything more than gentleman, or the title Mr. Of course such a pamphlet caused a break with the Organization for the Good, for it included several Sayyids.

While children of gay and lesbian parents don't «become gay» any more than children of heterose.xuals, daughters of lesbian couples do display one very different behavior: They play better with male children and have more gender - neutral views of society.

It's marvelous because we believe that all human beings are spiritual daughters of God and share in God's divine nature; that Eve was a heroine who contributed to the plan of salvation rather than a temptress who was responsible for the fall of man (and I use «man» quite literally here); and that we have a Mother in Heaven as well as a Father.

4 For thus says the Lord: «To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, who choose the things that please me and hold fast my covenant, 5 I will give in my house and within my walls a monument and a name better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off.

My boy doesn't do so well with cooked vegetables but he'll more than happily chow through an entire bowlful of raw kale, my daughter on the other hand will give everything a go.

My daughter said it was better than Olive Garden.

My 12 yr old daughter, whom has an insatiable appetite for sugary foods, exclaimed that they're just as good, if not better than chocolate, and my 14 yr old sports mad son also downs them like there's no tomorrow.

My kids actually told me they like these better than regular chocolate chip cookies and my daughter had a friend over and asked me to give the recipe to her dad.

My daughter has just recently gone vegan and made these last night, and they were much better than any previous cookie attempts prior to veganism.

My daughter tells me that this Broccoli Cheddar Soup is better than Panera's Broccoli Cheddar Soup, and I have to agree.

My daughter loves the deep dish pizza recipe and is convinced that it «even tastes better than the gluten kind.»

As my daughter says, «It tastes better than sugar!»

My daughter's boyfriend told me they were even better than the store bought kind & asks for them every time he comes over!

The trio appeared to be on some kind of public transport, and the midfielder paid tribute to his partner and daughter with the words: «There's nothing better than spending time with family.»

My daughter has a harder time falling asleep than my son, but both are parented to sleep in a way that works best for them.

As my daughter grows up, we're starting to do a lot more together but nothing will ever be better than coming home, or picking her up from daycare.

My daughter is far better at wrapping than me, but sadly I did all of the Christmas wrapping single - handed!

The people at my daughter's school know my mother better than me.

It wasn't pleasant, but it was far less traumatizing than getting stuck in traffic with a crying baby, and my daughter actually seemed happier and more well - rested afterwards (yes, I was still able to follow her cues).

My husband and I also shared childcare responsibility equally until our daughter was well over a year, when he went back to work full - time and she started daycare (up until that point, we'd both worked part - time) and he's much better at many things than I am (mealtimes and bathtime and bedtime, pretty significantly, while just personality-wise, I'm a lot better at stuff like, having hydrocortisone cream for bug bites, and remembering to put on the bug spray in the first place, etc.) But, especially at the beginning, it really did seem as though I was much more attached?

My daughter's pediatrician also said that a straw cup is better than a sippy cup because that will make for one less transition as they get older.

As the parent, you are (presumably) the one who makes the rules, and if you don't make your family the first priority when you're physically together then why on earth should your tween daughter behave better than you do?

Girls usually don't get their periods until 2 or 2 1/2 years after starting puberty, so if your daughter started puberty later than other girls, she will probably get her period later than other girls as well.

I give my daughter peanut butter and nutella and although I don't think it's a health food, I feel better about that than say, straight up sugar cereal.

My daughter's father and I have disagreed on some of it, but overall he is a really good dad and often more patient than I am!

My daughter is still having accidents, but this had worked better than any other potty training method I had tried until then.»

I knew that I wanted to have a better and closer relationship with my daughter than I had with my own parents.

What was surprising was the finding that mothers vocalized to daughters more frequently than sons at birth as well as at the one month recording.

You may know that your tween daughter looks much better in certain styles and colors than the ones she wants to wear, but it's alright to allow her to make a few fashion mistakes and to learn from them.

Well, instant purely when the glaze dries - which may take longer than desired if, like my daughter, you decide to ooze out more than required.

Despite how far women have come, there remains a sort of unspoken belief that our daughters would be better off married than solo; at the recent wedding of his oldest daughter, one of three, the father of the bride repeatedly was told, «One down, two to go,» as if all his daughters will marry, all his daughters want to marry and — most important — he won't have to «worry» about that one.

My daughter is now 31 mos old and for oh, forever, we've know that if she wakes up for longer than it takes to find a boob, we might as well start cancelling our plans for the next day, because she's probably sick.

This kind of drying rack is about a gazillion times better than the one I had when my daughter was a baby.