Daughter Quotes

A collection of short inspirational daughter quotes. As a mother of a wonderful daughter many of these brief quotes express my feelings for my daughter. May these concise quotes remind you of how wonderful daughters truly are. As they say, when a daughter is born, so is a mother.

Mothers and daughters are closest,
when daughters become mothers.
Author Unknown

"If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm."
Bruce Barton

The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex.
Wynonna Judd

"To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter."
Euripides

"Chance made you my daughter;
love made you my friend."
Author Unknown

"BUT, my greatest accomplishment, and my greatest pride and joy are my children. They truly are my greatest success."
Catherine Pulsifer

"Wisdom is the daughter of experience."
Leonardo da Vinci

"Mothers, look after your daughters, keep them near you, keep their confidence — that they may be true and faithful."
Elmina S. Taylor

"A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of her self. And mothers are their daughters' role model, their biological and emotional road map, the arbiter of all their relationships."
Victoria Secunda

"He who has daughters is always a shepherd."
Proverb




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Enjoy more short quotes and concise sayings about daughters:
"Like mother, like daughter."
Proverb

"Oh my son's my son till he gets a wife,
But my daughter's my daughter all her life."
Dinah Mulock Craik

"A mother's treasure is her daughter."
Catherine Pulsifer

"Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be."
Clementine Paddleford

"Your son is your son until he marries,
but your daughter is your daughter until you die."
Irish Proverb

"Virtue and Happiness are Mother and Daughter."
Benjamin Franklin

"Daughters can sometimes be too serious, teach them to laugh and not take life too seriously."
Catherine Pulsifer

"The woman who bore me is no longer alive, but I seem to be her daughter in increasingly profound ways."
Johnnetta Betsch Cole

"There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself."
John Gregory Brown

"He that would the daughter win, Must with the mother first begin."
Proverb

"Sweet sixteen today.
She’s looking like her momma a little more every day."
Bob Carlisle from the song, Butterfly Kisses

"My son is my son till he have got him a wife,
But my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life."
Thomas Fuller

"Daughter, there are not enough words to tell you how much I love you!"
Catherine Pulsifer

"Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla."
Jim Bishop

"Like mother, like daughter."
Proverb

"Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express."
Joseph Addison