A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future.
If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
We mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters' lengthening flight.
When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me.
The older I get, the more I feel.
Knots Landing is the best thing that ever happened to me.
When I say that I love you, I don't say it out of habit or to make conversation. I say it to remind you that you're the best thing that's ever happened to me.
[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman, my mother.
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?
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