Quotes on daughters
A son is a son till he takes him a wife, a daughter is a daughter all of her life.
Saying, Irish
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.
Brown, John Gregory
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
Wilde, Oscar
Every mother hopes that her daughter will marry a better man than she did, and is convinced that her son will never find a wife as good as his father did.
Andersen-Nexo, Martin
We've begun to raise daughters more like sons, but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
Steinem, Gloria
A daughter is a day brightener and a heart warmer.
Unknown, Author
The woman who bore me is no longer alive, but I seem to be her daughter in increasingly profound ways.
Cole, Johnnetta Betsch
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.
Addison, Joseph
Mothers and daughters are closest, when daughters become mothers.
Unknown, Author
Any astronomer can predict with absolute accuracy just where every star in the universe will be at 11.30 tonight. He can make no such prediction about his teenage daughter.
Adams, James T.
To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
Euripides
Daughter am I in my mother's house, but mistress in my own.
Kipling, Rudyard
As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.
Gabirol, Solomon Ibn
A father is available to help his daughter balance both her love and her anger toward her mother, to moderate the inevitable emotional extremes in the intense mother-daughter equation. With Daddy's steadying influence daughters can learn to be comfortable with healthy anger, rather than feeling that they must be eternal good girls who must at all costs conceal it.
Secunda, Victoria
A daughter is a gift of love.
Unknown, Author
Suddenly, through birthing a daughter, a woman finds herself face to face not only with an infant, a little girl, a woman-to-be, but also with her own unresolved conflicts from the past and her hopes and dreams for the future. As though experiencing an earthquake, mothers of daughters may find their lives shifted, their deep feelings unearthed, the balance struck in all relationships once again off kilter.
Elizabeth Debold and Idelisse Malave
Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.
Bishop, Jim
The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex.
Judd, Wynonna