Mom Daughter Quotes

• What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?

  Louisa May Alcott

  Girl, Mom, Mother

  1869 Little Women, pt.2, ch.46.

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• All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Mothers Day, Mom

  The Importance of Being Earnest act 1 (1895). The same lines appear, as a dialogue between Lord Illingworth and Mrs. Allonby, in A Woman of No Importance, act 2 (1893).

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• The moment a child is born, the mother is also born.

  Rajneesh

  Mothers Day, Mom, Children

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• A Mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually VACCINATES her daughter against low self-esteem.

  Naomi Wolf

  Mother, Daughter, Self Esteem

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• A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.

  Washington Irving

  Best Friend, Family, Mothers Day

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• Ignore reality, there's nothing you can do about it.

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Sister, Letting Go, Brother

  Song: Don't You Think?, Album: Left of the Middle, 1997

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• The best place to cry is on a mother's arms.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Birthday, Mother Daughter, Fathers Day

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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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• 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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• 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 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

  Love, Birthday, Family

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• We mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters' lengthening flight.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Mom, Daughter, Mother

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1983). “Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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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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• The older I get, the more I feel.

  Sharon Olds

  Daughter, Natural Talent, Getting Older

  "Trauma Units" by Stephen Burt, www.nytimes.com. December 15, 2002.

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• Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me.

  Marilyn French

  I Love You, Romantic, Short Love

  Marilyn French (2013). “A Season in Hell: A Memoir”, p.245, Open Road Media

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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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• [A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

  Emily Dickinson

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.475, Harvard University Press

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• A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's.

  Princess Diana

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

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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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• The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.

  Rajneesh

  Mom, Mother, Baby

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

  Rudyard Kipling

  Mothers Day, God, Christian

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• 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.

  Kaitlyn

  Best Friend, Daughter, Love You

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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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