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My mom made me think I was gorgeous. When I was younger she was like, 'Look at you! You're an angel. You sparkle!' And I was like, 'I do!' You believe your parents.
Sep 29, 2025
I have the same goal I've had ever since I was a girl: I want to rule the world.
Moms and daughters can negotiate over anything, and they can go on longer than it took to settle the Vietnam War.
You are your child's keeper until she's mature enough to keep herself.
The love between a mother and her daughter is special. A mother takes her daughter under her wing and teaches her how to be a woman. In order to do this, you have to ask yourself what it means to be a woman of today. How do you balance care for others with your own quest for meaning and joy in life and how do you pass on these lessons to your daughter?
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.
The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex.
I cannot forget my mother, She is my bridge.
The woman who bore me is no longer alive, but I seem to be her daughter in increasingly profound ways.
Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
The story of a mother's life: Trapped between a scream and a hug.
[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
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.
Beauty is a radiance that originates from within and comes from inner security and strong character.
Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me.
Knots Landing is the best thing that ever happened to me.
If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.
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.
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.
We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.
A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
The knowingness of little girls, is hidden underneath their curls.
Baby's fishing for a dream, fishing near and far. His line a silver moonbeam is, his bait a silver star.
There is a garden in her eyes, where roses and white lilies flow.
Maternal love, like an orange tree, buds and blossoms and bears at once. When a woman puts her finger for the first time into the tiny hand of her baby and feels that helpless clutch which tightens her very heartstrings, she is born again with her newborn child.
Old photograph: amid the set poses of her family, a young girl smiles and raises her hand a little.
Be to her virtues very kind, Be to her faults a little blind.
Girls like to be played with and rumpled a little too sometimes.
How long is a girl a child? She is a child, and then one morning you wake up she's a woman, and a dozen different people of whom you recognize none.
A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot.
Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse.
Little girls are the nicest things that happen to people. They are born with a little bit of angelshine about them, and though it wears thin sometimes there is always enough left to lasso your heart.
The moment a child is born, the mother is also born.
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.
The first lesson every child of Athena learned: Mom was the best at everything, and you should never, ever suggest otherwise.
A Daughter: The companion, the friend, and the confidant of her mother, and the object of a pleasure something like the love between the angels to her father.
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
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.
She's my teacher, my adviser, my greatest inspiration.
A mother is the truest friend we have when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity.
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
That best academy, a mother's knee.
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.