The mother-daughter bond is a strong one and these gorgeous quotes all capture that magic!
As a mother of two daughters I know only too well the strength of our bond.
The love we have as parents for our children is extremely difficult to put into words – it feels like love just isn’t a big enough word for that unbreakable bond and adoration.
Even now I am in my late 30s and a mother myself the relationship I have with my own mum is one of the most important in my life. She’s the one I would still go back to again and again if I ever needed help or reassurance.
As my own daughters grow up I want them to know I will always be there for them and so sometimes it’s nice to be able to put into words how special that mother daughter bond is.
An actual scientific study even found that the mother-daughter relationship is the strongest.
These stunning mother daughter quotes can be used in cards, social media posts, messages or just as special words to help you find the right words to describe this special relationship.
You will find motherhood quotes about having a daughter and also quotes from a daughter to her mother to show how much you appreciate each other!
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Adorable mother and daughter quotes
These are heartwarming quotes about the mother-daughter bond that will reflect the tenderness and joy of this special relationship.
1. I love our daughters more than anything in the world, more than life itself. So for me, being Mom-in-Chief is, and always will be, job number one. – Michelle Obama
2. A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled. – Emily Dickinson, poet
3. Mothers were the only ones you could depend on to tell the whole, unvarnished truth. – Margaret Dilloway, author
4. No matter your age, you will always need your mum.
5. A mother is someone you laugh with, dream with and love with all your heart.
6. A daughter may outgrow your lap, but she will never outgrow your heart.
7. A daughter is just a little girl who grows up to be your best friend.
8. Mother and daughter never truly part, maybe in distance but never in heart.
9. First my mother, forever my friend.
10. There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one. – Jill Churchill
11. A mother’s and daughters love is never separated. – Viola Shipman
12. Angels are often disguised as daughters.
13. Of all the gifts that life has to offer, a loving mother is the greatest of them all.
14. For all the things my hands have held, the best by far is you.
Inspiring mother and daughter quotes
Mothers and daughters inspire and challenge each other in different ways every day. These beautiful quotes perfectly sum up the inspiring nature of the mother and daughter relationship.
15. The more a daughter knows the details of her mother’s life, the stronger the daughter. – Anita Diamant, author
16. My mother shed her protective love down around me and without know why people sensed that I had value. – Maya Angelou, author
17. To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow. – Maya Angelou
18. Maybe motherhood means honouring one’s mother. – Sheila Heti, author
19. As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. – Kristin Hannah
20. Love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark. – From Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by JK Rowling
21. It is not the job of the child to protect her mother. It’s the mother’s job to protect the child. By allowing your mother to protect you, you gave her a gift. – Kristin Cashore, author
22. Mother was comfort. Mother was home. – Ruta Sepetys, author
23. My mother was my first country, the first place I ever lived. – Nayyirah Waheed, author
24. A mother is the only person in the world, who can turn daughter’s worries and fears into happiness.
25. A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary. – Dorothy C Fisher
26. The best place to cry is on a mother’s arms.
27. One of the most important relationships we have is the relationship we have with our mothers. – Iyanla Vanzant
28. We are born of love; love is our mother.
29. Even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you had your mother at your back, you’d be okay. Some deep-rooted part of you would know you were loved. That you deserved to be loved. – Jojo Moyes, author
30. A mother is someone who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.
31. Mother is a verb. It’s something you do. Not just who you are. – Cheryl Lacey Donovan
32. Mothering is a mysterious task. First you create an intimate, all-consuming attachment with your daughter, then you spend the rest of your life learning to let her go. – Judy Ford
33. Mothers of daughters are daughters of mothers and have remained so, in circles joined to circles since time began. – Signe Hammer
34. Words are not enough to express the unconditional love that exists between a mother and a daughter. – Caitlin Houston
35. A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s. – Princess Diana
36. Mother and daughter like spoons in a drawer. – Maggie Stiefvater
37. A mother and a daughter always share a special bond, which is engraved on their hearts.
38. 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
39. Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter’s mouth. — Victoria Secunda
40. I cannot forget my mother. She is my bridge. When I needed to get across, she steadies herself long enough for me to run across safely. — Renita Weems
41. A mom is a daughter’s ‘first’ friend. And, through life, becomes her best friend. — Vicki Reece
42. My mom is a never-ending song in my heart of comfort, happiness, and being. I may sometimes forget the words, but I always remember the tune. — Graycie Harmon
43. My mother was like sand. The kind that warms you on a beach when you come shivering out of the cold water. The kind that clings to your body, leaving its impression on your skin to remind you where you’ve been and where you’ve come from. — Clare Vanderpool
44. A daughter makes a mother’s life brighter and the mother makes daughter’s life warmer.
45. 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
46. When I’m weak and unpretty, I know I’m beautiful and strong because I see myself like my mother does. – Lauren Alaina
47. A son is a son until he takes him a wife, a daughter is a daughter all of her life. – Emily Giffin
48. One of the greatest gifts I’ve ever gotten is my daughter.
49. Mother and daughter from the start. Best friends forever from the heart.
50. Happiness is mother and daughter time.
51. When someone asks you where you come from, the answer is your mother… When your mother’s gone, you’ve lost your past. – Anna Quindlen
52. Having a little girl has been like following an old treasure map with the important paths torn away. – Heather Gudenkauf, author
53. You are my rainbow to keep. My eyes will always be watching you; never will I lose sight of you. – Vesna Bailey
54. Keep shining little one, the world needs your light.
55. To my daughter. Never forget that I love you. Life is filled with hard times and good times. Learn from everything you can. Be the woman I know you can be.
56. The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex. – Wynonna Judd
57. I think the hardest thing for a mother is to make it possible for a child to be independent and at the same time let the child know how much you love her, how much you want to take care of her, and yet how truly essential it is for her to fly on her own. – Madeleine Albright
58. In my daughter’s eyes I am a hero, I am strong and wise and I know no fear. But the truth is plain to see. She was sent to rescue me. – Martina McBride
Proud daughter quotes from mother
To be a mother is to feel great pride in your child, but it should also inspire pride in yourself! These mother to daughter quotes express the feelings of pride mothers and daughters feel for each other.
Use these quotes for a daughter from a mother in your cards, social media posts or write them down in a journal you may show your daughter one day!
59. A daughter is a day brightener and a heart warmer.
60. On the darkest days when I feel inadequate, unloved and unworthy, I remember whose daughter I am and I straighten my crown.
61. A daughter is a day brightener and a heart warmer.
62. There is this girl, she stole my heart, she calls me mummy.
63. I am a strong woman because a strong woman raised me.
64. 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. – Jodi Picoult, author
65. My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady, and the other was to be independent. – Ruth Bader Ginsburg
66. She’s my best friend – she’s everything to me. It’s always just been me and her against the world. Jacquelyn Middleton, author
67. Though she be but little, she is fierce. – William Shakespeare
68. Like mother, like daughter.
69. The woman who is my best friend, my teacher, my everything: Mom. – Sandra Vischer, author
70. Mother and daughter from the start. Best friends forever from the heart.
71. She stands firmly on her own two feet and I just behind her; should she ever need me.
72. Every day I become a little bit more like my mother and I couldn’t be prouder.
73. Life is tough my darling, but so are you. – Stephanie Bennett-Henry
74. A mother’s treasure is her daughter.
75. The bond I feel with my daughter can never break. Though she may grow too big for my lap, she will be forever connected to me.
76. My mom taught me a woman’s mind should be the most beautiful part of her. – Sonya Teclai
77. Happiness is mother and daughter time.
78. If I didn’t have you as a mom, I’d choose you as a friend.
79. In a child’s eyes, a mother is a goddess. – Nora Keita Jemisin
80. Maybe motherhood means honoring one’s mother. — Sheila Heti
81. Our daughters are the most precious of our treasures, the dearest possessions of our homes and the objects of our most watchful love. – Margaret F Sangster
Funny mother and daughter quotes
The mother and daughter relationship is a complex one and sometimes it can be challenging. These funny mother and daughter quotes poke fun and are a light hearted look at the more difficult aspects of the mother-daughter bond!
82. By the time a woman realises her mother was right she has a daughter who thinks she is wrong.
83. God couldn’t be everywhere so that is why he invented mothers. – Diane Keaton in the move Because I Said So
84. They both began to giggle and then.. fell into a side-splitting round of laughter, the cleansing, complete sort of laughter only a mother and daughter can share. – Karen Kingsbury, author
85. Life doesn’t come with a manual, it comes with a Mother.
86. The first lesson every child of Athena learned: Mom was the best at everything and you should never ever suggest otherwise. – Rick Riordan
87. My mom is literally a part of me. You can’t say that about many people except relatives, and organ donors. — Carrie Latet
88. I told my mom she was invading my personal space and she said I came out of her personal space.
89. If at first you don’t succeed, try doing it the way mom told you in the beginning.
90. Mother-daughter disagreements were, in hindsight, basically mother stating the truth and daughter taking her own sweet time coming around. – Barbara Delinsky
91. What’s it like to have the greatest daughter in the world? I don’t know ask your grandmother.
92. Just when I think my daughter is nothing like me, she proudly shows her attitude, and I’m like, ‘There I am.’
93. My mother and I have never mutually loved something as much as we love caffeine.
94. I don’t know what’s scarier. That my daughter is starting to act like me or that I am starting to act like my mother.
95. Mum, I want to be just like you when I refuse to grow up.
96. Mom – a title just above the Queen!
97. l women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his. – Oscar Wilde
98. Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter’s mouth. – Victoria Secunda
99. Never make fun of having to help me with computer stuff. I taught you how to use a spoon.
100. Mama: The glue that holds everything together, even when she feels like she may fall apart.
101. My daughter is either my best friend, or Satan. There is no in between.
