Daughters Quotes and Sayings
Daughters are like flowers, they fill the world with beauty, and sometimes attract pests.
To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
Euripides
I am all the daughters of my father’s house,
And all the brothers too.
William Shakespeare
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
Oscar Wilde
A daughter is a gift of love.
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
Enid Bagnold
Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.
Jim Bishop
A daughter may outgrow your lap, but she will never outgrow your heart.
I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.
Peter Ustinov
Daughter am I in my mother’s house, but mistress in my own.
Rudyard Kipling
A daughter is a little girl who grows up to be a friend.
Fame is rot; daughters are the thing.
James Matthew Barrie
They are the greatest curse of all great men, daughters.
Jason Zebehazy
A daughter is a day brightener and a heart warmer.
If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.
Thomas Fuller
Mothers and daughters are closest, when daughters become mothers.
He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin.
English Proverb
We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
Gloria Steinem
God enjoins you to treat women well, for they are your mothers, daughters, aunts.
Muhammad
Your children are not your children. / They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
Kahlil Gibran
It’s probably from your daughter that you learned about the sweetness and spice of little girls.
Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son.
Russian Proverb
A busy mother makes slothful daughters.
Portuguese Proverb
Republicans are against abortion until their daughters need one, Democrats are for abortion until their daughter wants one.
Grace McGarvie
Many an Irish property was increased by the lace of a daughter’s petticoat.
Irish Proverb
The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex.
Wynonna Judd
The church the state, and the poor, are 3 daughters which we should maintain, but not portion off.
Benjamin Franklin
If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.
Brigham Young
The woman who bore me is no longer alive, but I seem to be her daughter in increasingly profound ways.
Johnnetta Betsch Cole
And mothers are their daughters’ role model, their biological and emotional road map, the arbiter of all their relationships.
Victoria Secunda
What the daughter does, the mother did.
Jewish 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
Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.
Gloria Naylor
As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol ben Judah
Fame is rot; daughters are the thing.
James Matthew Barrie
My eleven year old daughter mopes around the house all day waiting for her breasts to grow.
Bill Cosby
Ability is what will get you to the top if the boss has no daughter.
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.
Martin Andersen-Nexö