To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future.
Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter.
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.
The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex.
As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.
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.
Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.
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.
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.
Fame is rot; daughters are the thing.
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.
A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.
We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.
A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of herself. -Author Unknown As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.
Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.
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