Mother And Daughter Quotes - Page 2

• My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.

  Michelle Obama

  Daughter, Mother, Integrity

  Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 25 August 2008, INVESCO Field at Mile High Stadium, Denver, Colorado

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

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

  Birthday, Thank You, Mother Daughter

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

  Emily Dickinson

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.475, Harvard University Press

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• Ignore reality, there's nothing you can do about it.

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Sister, Letting Go, Brother

  Song: Don't You Think?, Album: Left of the Middle, 1997

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

  Victor Hugo

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (Fantine)”, p.160, Wildside Press LLC

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• Being sectioned was the best thing that ever happened to me.

  Frank Bruno

  I Love You, Romantic, Break Up

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• God intended motherhood to be a relay race. Each generation would pass the baton on to the next.

  Mary Pride

  Daughter, Mother, Race

  Mary Pride (1985). “The Way Home: Beyond Feminism, Back to Reality”, Good News Pub

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• Daughter am I in my mother's house, but mistress in my own.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Daughter, Mother, Honesty

  Departmental Ditties (1898 US ed.) "Our Lady of the Snows"

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• 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 Truslow Adams

  Mother Daughter, Stars, Teenage

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• I still hear you humming, Mama. The colour of your song calls me home. The colour of your words saying, Let her be. She got a right to be different. She gonna stumble on herself one of these days. Just let the child be. And I be, Mama.

  Sonia Sanchez

  Daughter, Mother, Song

  Sonia Sanchez (2012). “Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems”, p.58, Beacon Press

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• 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

  Running, Mother Daughter, Fathers Day

  John Gregory Brown (2001). “Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery”, p.68, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.

  Anita Diament

  Daughter, Mother, Stronger

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• A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

  Sophia Loren

  Mom, Mother, Children

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

  Agatha Christie

  Love, Birthday, Family

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

  Princess Diana

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

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• We mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters' lengthening flight.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Mom, Daughter, Mother

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1983). “Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Fame is rot; daughters are the thing.

  James M. Barrie

  Daughter, Mother, Honesty

  James M. Barrie (2013). “My Best Plays (Annotated Edition)”, p.392, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me.

  Marilyn French

  I Love You, Romantic, Short Love

  Marilyn French (2013). “A Season in Hell: A Memoir”, p.245, Open Road Media

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• Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter.

  Joseph Addison

  Thank You, Daughter, Children

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

  Johnnetta B. Cole

  Mother Daughter, Honesty, Mom And Daughter

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Mother Daughter

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.54, Diversion Books

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• 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 Nexø

  Mother Daughter, Honesty, Father

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• Maybe mom is my alter ego and the woman I'm able to be when I'm working.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Mom, Daughter, Mother

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

  Gloria Naylor

  Mother Daughter, Fathers Day, Dad

  Gloria Naylor (2017). “Mama Day: A Novel”, p.185, Open Road Media

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• Yes, it's quite amazing how I continue to shock my mother even after all these years together

  Eloisa James

  Mother, Years, Together

  Eloisa James (2011). “Winning the Wallflower: A Novella”, p.9, Harper Collins

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