Mother Daughter Quotes

There is nothing more precious than laughter

God enjoins you to treat women well, for they are your mothers, daughters, aunts.

A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's.

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

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.

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future.

When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.

While we tend to equate motherhood solely with maternity, in the Lord’s language, the word 'mother' has layers of meaning...Mothe rhood is more than bearing children, though it is certainly that. It is the essence of who we are as women. It defines our very identity, our divine stature and nature, and the unique traits our Father gave us.

To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.

My mom has always said that if I get a big head, she'll take me out of this business as quickly as I got into it.

I want to do something where I play Judi Dench's younger sister or daughter.

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

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.

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

... the physical and domestic education of daughters should occupy the principal attention of mothers, in childhood: and the stimulation of the intellect should be very much reduced.

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.

[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.

A mother is the truest friend we have when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity.

Our daughters are the most precious of our treasures, the dearest possessions of our homes and the objects of our most watchful love.

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

All I know is that I carried you for nine months. I fed you, I clothed you, I paid for your college education. Friending me on Facebook seems like a small thing to ask in return.

Recognizing and preventing men's health problems is not just a man's issue. Because of its impact on wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters, men's health is truly a family issue.

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

The best place to cry is on a mother's arms.

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.

A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of herself. -Author Unknown As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

Of course mothers and daughters with strong personalities might see the world from very different points of view.

Raising a daughter is an extremely political act in this culture. Mothers have been placed in a no-win situation with their daught ers: if they teach their daughters simply how to get along in a world that has been shaped by men and male desires, then they betray their daughters' potential But, if they do not, they leave their daughters adrift in a hostile world without survival strategies.

The more love I craved, the more distant and abusive he grew. The role I longed to play was never written into Ryan's script: daughter.

The mother must socialize her daughter to become subordinate to men, and if her daughter challenges patriarchal norms, the mother is likely to defend the patriarchal structures against her own daughters.

All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.

The current leadership of the Labor party react to the idea that working-class students might study the subjects they studied with the same horror that the Earl of Grantham showed when a chauffeur wanted to marry his daughter.

It was so satisfying for me - a great reward, just to see it done well. And it was beautifully directed by my daughter Susan Riskin. Imagine, a play about my mother directed by my daughter?!

I've been advised not to have any more children for medical reasons, so that's it - the shop has closed, even though I would have loved a daughter.

I will watch a ton of movies while I'm writing for inspiration. "Postcards from the Edge" was one. I love the mother-daughter relationship and all the hard humiliating stuff she has to go through. Or thinks she has to go through.

I make sure I carve out time to be with my daughter.

The female attention I have to struggle hardest with is from my two-year-old daughter.

I would infinitely prefer a daughter.

I just started asking my friends if they had noticed. None of them - feminists, mothers, daughters - noticed until I pointed it out. Then I decided to bring it up within the industry. I knew a lot of people, so I'd say, "Have you ever noticed how few female characters there are in kids movies?" when I met a director, a producer, whatever. And they said, "Oh, but that's not true anymore."