We look at our daughters everyday and think about how much they’ve grown. We still see little babies sometimes, even as they are walking down the path to the school bus on their first day or perhaps walking down the isle for their wedding. While we don’t need special words and saying to remember all the precious moments we keep in our hearts, it is nice to reflect on the experience and thoughts of others.

Quotes are a favorite at BellaOnline. I know that daughter quotes is one of the most searched for items at Daughters. So I’ve updated the list a bit and hope I’ve added some quotes that you’ll enjoy.


Daughter Quotes

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

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter. ~Thomas Fuller

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

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

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

A son is a son till he takes him a wife, a daughter is a daughter all of her life. ~Irish Saying

When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college - that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared at me, incredulous, and said, You mean they forget? ~Howard Ikemoto

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

How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards. ~John Gay

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

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

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. ~Victoria Secunda

Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me. ~Toni Morrison

Chance made you my daughter; love made you my friend. ~Unknown