There is nothing quite like the bond between a mother and daughter. It’s a relationship that is full of love, understanding, and support. No matter what life throws your way, you can always count on your mom to be there for you. There are many quotes that remind us of just how special the relationship is between a mother and a daughter.
As mothers and daughters, we have a unique relationship that is unlike any other. We share common experiences, but also have our own individual ones. The following 103 mother and daughter quotes capture the special bond between us and remind us why it’s so important. Enjoy!
Let the mother-daughter quotes begin!
1) “A daughter is someone you laugh with, dream with, and love with all your heart.” – Unknown
2) “Mothers, look after your daughters, keep them near you, keep their confidence – that they may be true and faithful.” – Elmina S. Taylor
3) “You’re my best friend Mom and absolutely everything to me. It’s always us against the world.” – Unknown
4) “All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” – Abraham Lincoln
5) “I am a strong woman because a strong woman raised me.” – Unknown
6) “A mother and a daughter always share a special bond, which is engraved on their hearts.” – Unknown
7) “A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.” – Princess Diana
8) “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
9) “Becoming a mother forced me to have hope.” – Nefertiti Austin
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10) “Behind every young child who believes in himself is a parent who believed first.” – Matthew L. Jacobson
11) “Mothers, I believe, intoxicate us. We idolize them and take them for granted. We hate them and blame them and exalt them more thoroughly than anyone else in our lives. We sift through the evidence of their love, reassure ourselves of their affection and its biological genesis. We can steal and lie and leave and they will love us.” – Megan Mayhew Bergman, Birds of a Lesser Paradise: Stories
12) “The best place to cry is in a mother’s arms.” – Jodi Picoult
13) “The biggest adjustment is I just didn’t know there was that much room in a house for that much joy.” – Hoda Kotb
14) “By the time you realize your mother was right, you have a daughter who thinks that you’re wrong.” – Sada Malhotra
15) “Life doesn’t come with a manual; it comes with a mother.” – Unknown
16) “A daughter is just a little girl who grows up to be your best friend.” – Unknown
17) “Mother-daughter disagreements were, in hindsight, basically mother stating the truth and daughter taking her own sweet time coming around.” – Barbara Delinsky
18) “Even as a small child, I understood that women had secrets and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this way, we were bound together for eternity.” – Alice Hoffman
19) “Mom, everything I am, you helped me to be.” – Unknown
In my daughter’s eyes…
20) “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
21) “My mother was my first country, the first place I ever lived.” – Nayyirah Waheed
22) “First my mother, forever my friend.” – Unknown
23) “She’s my best friend – she’s everything to me. It’s always just been me and her against the world.” – Jacquelyn Middleton
24) “Mother and daughter from the start. Best friends forever from the heart.” – Unknown
25) “For all the things my hands have held, the best by far is you.” – Unknown
26) “God couldn’t be everywhere so that is why he invented mothers.” – Daphne Wilder, Because I Said So
27) “I’m going to see my mom. She’s a big mucky-muck in the county school system. She’s my hero. How do I explain her? She is as respected as Mother Theresa, as powerful as Stalin, and as beautiful as Margaret Thatcher.” – Leslie Knope, Parks and Recreation
28) “I’ve got her spirit / She’s always got my back / When I look at her / I think, I want to be just like that.” – Lauren Alaina
29) “Happiness is mother and daughter time.” – Unknown
30) “Having a little girl has been like following an old treasure map with the important paths torn away.” – Heather Gudenkauf
31) “The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.” – Honoré de Balzac
32) “I did not give you the gift of life, life gave me the gift of you.” – Unknown
Mother Daughter Quotes by Jojo Moyes
33) “Even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you had your mother at your back, you’d be OK.” – Jojo Moyes
34) “Because 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.” – Jojo Moyes, One Plus One
35) “In my life, you are the sun that never fades and the moon that never wanes.” – Unknown
36) “Mother is the heartbeat in the home; and without her, there seems to be no heart throb.” – Leroy Brownlow
37) “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
38) “Just do everything we didn’t do and you will be perfectly safe.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
39) “I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.” – Julie Walters
The joys of being a mother…
40) “Having kids – the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings – is the biggest job anyone can embark on.” – Maria Shriver
41) “The first lesson every child of Athena learned: Mom was the best at everything, and you should never, ever suggest otherwise.” – Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena
42) “Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.” – George Eliot
43) “My mom is literally a part of me. You can’t say that about many people except relatives and organ donors.” – Carrie Latet
44) “I look at my mom and think, what would I do without this woman?” – Unknown
45) “Love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark.” – J.K. Rowling
46) “My daughter makes me laugh with her incredibly humorous take on the world. Everything makes her laugh, and I aspire to take in the world the same shoes she does.” – Unknown
47) “No matter how old she may be, sometimes a girl just needs her mom.” – Unknown
48) “A daughter may outgrow your lap, but she will never outgrow your heart.” – Unknown
49) “Maybe motherhood means honoring one’s mother.” – Sheila Heti
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50) “My mom is a strong-willed lady. She taught me to believe in myself no matter what anybody else said.” – Tracey Edmonds
51) “The more a daughter knows the details of her mother’s life…The stronger the daughter.” – Anita Diamant
52) “Mother and daughter never truly part, maybe in distance but never in heart.” – Unknown
53) “Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.” – Robert Browning
54) “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
55) “Mothers of daughters are daughters of mothers and have remained so, in circles joined to circles, since time began.” – Signe Hammer
56) “My daughter is my biggest achievement. She is a little star and my life has changed so much for the better since she came along.” – Denise Van Outen
57) “No matter how much I say I love you, I always love you more than that.” – Unknown
58) “There is nothing as powerful as mother’s love, and nothing as healing as a child’s soul.” – Unknown
59) “Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter’s mouth.” – Victoria Secunda
Mother and daughter quotes for Mother’s Day.
60) “The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman, my mother.” – Sharon Olds
61) “Oh the wars would all be over / ‘Cause she’d raise us all as friends / And no one would ever wonder, if somebody wanted them / We’d walk on grass that’s greener / And our cares would all be freer / If the world had a mother like mine” – The Band Perry, Mother Like Mine
62) “Once you’re a mom, you’re always a mom. It’s like riding a bike, you never forget.” – Taraji P. Henson
63) “One is a mother to shield when lightning streaks the night, when thunder shakes the earth, when mud bogs one down. One is a mother in order to love without beginning or end.” – Mariama Bâ, So Long a Letter
64) “The only love between a mother and a daughter can’t be changed and only this love has no limits. It grows with every single day and never fades.” – Unknown
65) “Your arms were always open when I needed a hug. Your heart understood when I needed a friend. Your gentle eyes were stern when I needed a lesson. Your strength and love have guided me and given me wings to fly.” – Sarah Malin
66) “Over my heart, in the days that are flown, No love like mother-love ever has shone; No other worship abides and endures, Faithful, unselfish, and patient like yours. None like a mother can charm away pain, From the sick soul and the world-weary brain.” – Elizabeth Akers Allen, Rock Me to Sleep
67) “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
A mother’s love is peace…
68) “Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.” – Erich Fromm
“69) I am a princess not because I have a prince, but because a queen raised me.” – Unknown
70) “There’s a reason some people think they can achieve anything. They listened to their mother.” – Unknown
71) “The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is tremendously powerful, scarcely to be comprehended in any rational way.” – Joyce Carol Oates
72) “Mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.” – Unknown
73) “It is so nice to come home and have solitude with me and my daughter.” – Mindy Kaling
74) “Someday when the pages of my life end, I know that you will be one of the most beautiful chapters.” – Unknown
75) “When someone asks you where you came from, the answer is your mother. It’s so much more than love. Even when there’s no love, it’s so much more than anything else in your life.” – Anna Quindlen
76) “Maybe I stepped into the skin my mother left behind and became the girl my mother had been, the one she still wanted to be.” – Laura Kasischke, White Bird in a Blizzard
77) “My mom taught me that a woman’s mind should be the most beautiful part of her.” – Unknown
78) “You are my best friend, my teacher, my everything Mom.” – Unknown
79) “I tell my daughter every morning, ‘Now, what are the two most important parts of you?’ And she says, ‘My head and my heart.’” – Viola Davis
The love of a mother…
80) “Mom, thank you for being my anchor in this stormy sea of life.” – Unknown
81) “My mother taught me that reading is a kind of work, and that every paragraph merits exertion, and in this way, I learned how to absorb difficult books.” – Hope Jahren
82) “The woman who is my best friend, my teacher, my everything: Mom.” – Sandra Vischer
83) “There were times when…I didn’t have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.” – Taylor Swift
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
Mother Daughter Quotes by Maya Angelou
85) “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
86) “My mother is so full of joy and life. I am her child. And that is better than being the child of anyone else in the world.” – Maya Angelou
87) “My mother shed her protective love down around me and without knowing why people sensed that I had value.” – Maya Angelou
88) “My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady, and the other was to be independent.” – Ruth Bader Ginsburg
89) “A daughter is a treasure and a cause of sleeplessness.” – Ben Sirach
Mother and daughter quotes for your best friend, your mom.
90) “Mother is a verb. It’s something you do. Not just who you are.” – Cheryl Lacey Donovan
91) “My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.” – Erica Jong
92) “Mother was comfort. Mother was home.” – Ruta Sepetys
93) “A daughter is God’s way of saying, ‘Thought you could use a lifelong friend.'” – Unknown
94) “Mothers were the only ones you could depend on to tell the whole, unvarnished truth.” – Margaret Dilloway
95) “What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?” – Rose Kennedy
96) “When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.” – Sophia Loren
97) “A mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually vaccinates her daughter against low self-esteem.” – Naomi Wolf
98) “A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.” – Emily Dickinson
99) “Words are not enough to express the unconditional love that exists between a mother and a daughter.” – Caitlin Houston
Mother and Daughter quotes for a birthday…
100) “Yes, it’s quite amazing how I continue to shock my mother, even after all these years together.” – Eloisa James
101) “You will teach them to fly, but they will not fly your flight. You will teach them to dream, but they will not dream your dreams. You will teach them to live, but they will not live your life. Nevertheless, in every flight, in every dream, and in every life, the print of the way you taught will always remain.” – Unknown
102) “When your mother asks, ‘Do you want a piece of advice?’ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.” – Erma Bombeck
103) “Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
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