Sayings about Daughters
A busy mother makes slothful daughters. ~ Portuguese Proverbs
He that would the daughter win must with the mother first begin. ~ English Proverbs
Mothers raise their daughters and let their sons grow up. ~ African-American Proverb
One good daughter is worth seven sons. ~ Russian Proverbs
When you have three daughters, you sleep with the door open. ~ Korean Proverb
What the daughter does, the mother did. ~ Jewish Proverb
A son is a son till he takes him a wife, a daughter is a daughter all of her life. ~ Irish Proverb
Many an Irish property was increased by the lace of a daughter’s petticoat. ~ Irish Proverb
Your son can be a prince, your daughter will be a mother. ~ Kurdish Proverb
Look at the mother, marry the daughter. ~ Hungarian Proverb
Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son. ~ Russian Proverb
A brilliant daughter makes a brittle wife. ~ Dutch Proverb
Quotations about Daughters
Good daughters make good mothers. ~ Abigail G. Whittlesey
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
I only have two rules for my newly born daughter: she will dress well and never have sex. ~ John Malkovich
Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half – especially if he has a teenage daughter. ~ Guy Lombardo
Oh, high is the price of parenthood, and daughters may cost you double. You dare not forget, as you thought you could, that youth is a plague and a trouble. ~ Phyllis McGinley
To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter. ~ Euripides
My eleven year old daughter mopes around the house all day waiting for her breasts to grow. ~Bill Cosby
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
Mothers and daughters are closest, when daughters become mothers. ~Author Unknown
We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons, but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters. ~Gloria Steinem
Ability is what will get you to the top if the boss has no daughter. ~ Author Unknown
I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal. ~ Peter Ustinov
As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters. ~ Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
A daughter may outgrow your lap, but she will never outgrow your heart. ~ Author Unknown
See, indeed, that your daughter is thoroughly grounded and experienced in household duties; but take care, through religion and poetry, to keep her heart open to heaven. ~ Johann Paul Richter
Fame is rot; daughters are the thing. ~ James Matthew Barrie
If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter. ~ Thomas Fuller
A mother’s treasure is her daughter. ~ Catherine Pulsifer
Daughters are like flowers, they fill the world with beauty, and sometimes attract pests. ~ Author Unknown
A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future. ~ Author Unknown
Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter’s mouth. ~Victoria Secunda
Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla. ~Jim Bishop
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied. ~Oscar Wilde
You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company. ~ Samuel Johnson
Three daughters and a mother are four devils for a father. ~ Argentine Proverb
The woman who bore me is no longer alive, but I seem to be her daughter in increasingly profound ways. ~Johnnetta Betsch Cole
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-Nexö
Our sons and daughters must be trained in national service, taught to give as well as to receive. ~ Emmeline Pankburst
A daughter is a mother’s gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of her self. ~ Author Unknown
A daughter is a little girl who grows up to be a friend. ~ Author Unknown
A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can’t get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother. ~ Anzia Yezierska
The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex. ~ Wynonna Judd
Daughter am I in my mother’s house, but mistress in my own. ~ Rudyard Kipling
And mothers are their daughters‘ role model, their biological and emotional road map, the arbiter of all their relationships. ~ Victoria Secunda
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
Oh my son’s my son till he gets him a wife, but my daughter’s my daughter all her life. ~ Dinah Mulock Craik
A daughter is a day brightener and a heart warmer. ~ Author 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
If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. ~ Bruce Barton
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. ~ Enid Bagnold
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife. ~ Benjamin Franklin
A daughter is a gift of love. ~ Saying
Suggested readings: Fathers and Daughters in Shakespeare and Shaw. ~ Preview book