Mother And Daughter Quotes

• Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Mothers Day, Mom, Hope

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Professor At The Breakfast Table”, p.129, Reprint Services Corporation

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• A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

  Washington Irving

  Love, Family, Sister

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• Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.

  Jim Bishop

  Daughter, Dad, Being Single

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• Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

  Meryl Streep

  Mothers Day, Mom, Motherhood

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

  Bruce Barton

  Mom, Mother Daughter, Memories

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• Virtue and Happiness are Mother and Daughter.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Mom, Daughter, Mother

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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• A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.

  Gaspard Mermillod

  Relationship, Mothers Day, Mom

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• A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.

  Agatha Christie

  Mothers Day, Mom, Daughter

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• God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Mothers Day, God, Christian

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• If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

  Bruce Barton

  Relationship, Birthday, Daughter

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• When a mother quarrels with a daughter, she has a double dose of unhappiness-hers from the conflict, and empathy with her daughter's from the conflict with her. Throughout her life a mother retains this special need to maintain a good relationship with her daughter.

  Terri E Apter

  Daughter, Mother, Good Relationship

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• No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Mom, Daughter, Mother

  Kathleen Ann Lawrence, Abigail Adams, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale, Louisa May Alcott, Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1989). “The Domestic Idiom: The Rhetorical Appeals of Four Influential Women in Nineteenth-century America”

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• Knots Landing is the best thing that ever happened to me.

  Ted Shackelford

  I Love You, Romantic, Short Love

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  As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

  Solomon Ibn Gabirol

  Daughter, Honesty, Lilies

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• If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

  Thomas Fuller

  Daughter, Honesty, Father

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

  Euripides

  Mother Daughter, Fathers Day, Dad

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• The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman, my mother.

  Sharon Olds

  Birthday, Mom, Daughter

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• You are your child's keeper until she's mature enough to keep herself.

  Laura Ramirez

  Mom, Daughter, Children

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• 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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• 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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• Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

  Beverley Jones

  Funny, Family, Mom

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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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• 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.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother Daughter, Mom And Daughter, College

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Mothers Day, Mom

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• Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.

  Lisa Alther

  Funny, Mothers Day, Mom

  Lisa Alther (2010). “Other Women”, p.36, Open Road Media

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