Daughter Quotes

A busy mother makes slothful daughters.
- Portuguese Proverb

Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
- Victoria Secunda

What the daughter does, the mother did.
- Jewish Proverb

I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.
- Peter Ustinov

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

A daughter is a little girl who grows up to be a friend.
- Anonymous Author

To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
- Euripides

And mothers are their daughters' role model, their biological and emotional road map, the arbiter of all their relationships.
- Victoria Secunda

Mothers and daughters are closest, when daughters become mothers.
- Anonymous Author

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