The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex.
- Wynonna Judd
A daughter may outgrow your lap, but she will never outgrow your heart.
- Unknown
A daughter is a gift of love.
- Unknown
A mother's treasure is her daughter.
- Catherine Pulsifer
Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half - especially if he has a teenage daughter.
- Guy Lombardo
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
- Enid Bagnold
A son is a son till he takes him a wife, a daughter is a daughter all of her life.
- Irish Saying
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
Daughter am I in my mother's house, but mistress in my own.
- Rudyard Kipling
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. Daughters are like flowers, they fill the world with beauty, and sometimes attract pests.
- Unknown
They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards.
- John Gay
Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.
- Jim Bishop
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.
- James T. Adams
Mothers and daughters are closest, when daughters become mothers.
- Unknown
And mothers are their daughters' role model, their biological and emotional road map, the arbiter of all their relationships.
- Victoria Secunda
To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
- Euripides
A daughter is a little girl who grows up to be a friend.
- Unknown
A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity, that ever were written.
- Thomas Jefferson
I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.
- Peter Ustinov
What the daughter does, the mother did.
- Jewish Proverb
Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
- Victoria Secunda
A busy mother makes slothful daughters.
- Portuguese Proverb
