When I was pregnant my husband and I would often think “thank goodness we’re having a girl”. Now that we have two, we couldn't imagine it any other way. Daughters are the best! These quotes reflect the love, joy, and special bond that exists between parents and their daughters. Use them for inspiration as you celebrate a new mom or just to read something that makes you happy!
"A daughter is someone you laugh with, dream with, and love with all your heart." – Unknown
"To a father growing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter." – Euripides
"A daughter is a treasure and a cause of sleeplessness." – Ben Sirach
"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
"A daughter is a day brightener and a heart warmer." – Unknown
"A daughter may outgrow your lap, but she will never outgrow your heart." – Unknown
"A daughter is God's way of saying, 'thought you could use a lifelong friend'." – Unknown
"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." – Unknown
"A daughter is just a little girl who grows up to be your best friend." – Unknown
"The laugh of a daughter is a favorite symphony of a father." – Unknown
"Daughters are angels sent from above to fill our heart with unending love." – J. Lee
A daughter is one of the most beautiful gifts this world has to give." – Laurel Atherton
"What’s it like to have the greatest daughter in the world? I don’t know, ask your grandmother." – Unknown
"A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future." – Unknown
"Daughters can sometimes be too serious, teach them to laugh and not take life too seriously." – Catherine Pulsifer
"Daughters are like flowers, they fill the world with beauty, and sometimes attract pests." – Unknown
"The more a daughter knows the details of her mother’s life, the stronger the daughter." – Anita Diamant
"A daughter is a miracle that never ceases to be miraculous." – Unknown
"Holding my daughter in my arms has been the best moment of my life." – Lenny Kravitz
"A daughter is a bundle of firsts that excite and delight, giggles that come from deep inside and are always contagious, everything wonderful and precious and your love for her knows no bounds." – Barbara Cage
"A daughter is a gift of love." – Unknown
"My daughter is my passion and my life." – Tamara Mellon
"Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter’s mouth." – Victoria Secunda
"Our daughters are the most precious of our treasures, the dearest possessions of our homes and the objects of our most watchful love." – Margaret E. Sangster
"When my daughter says 'Daddy I need you!' I wonder if she has any idea that I need her billion times more." – Stanley Behrman
"A daughter is a little girl who grows up to be a friend." – Unknown
"We gotta start teaching our daughters to be somebodies instead of somebody’s." – Kifah Shah
"A daughter's need for her mom is biologic, and it continues throughout her life." – Christiane Northrup
"No matter how old she may be, sometimes a girl just needs her mom." – Cardinal Mermillod
"A mother's treasure is her daughter." – Catherine Pulsifer
"The dearest things I know are what you are." – Oscar Hammerstein II
"A daughter is a miracle that never ceases to be miraculous...full of beauty and forever beautiful...loving and caring and truly amazing." – Deanna Beisser
"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
"In my life, you are the sun that never fades and the moon that never wanes." – Unknown
"Every moment I have had with my daughter is precious." – Cathy Shaffer
"A daughter is a bundle of firsts that excite and delight." – Unknown
"One of the greatest gifts I’ve ever gotten is my daughter." – Ace Frehley
"My daughter, you are worthy of being loved because you are so precious to me that I died for you." – Unknown
"A mother and a daughter always share a special bond, which is engraved on their hearts." – Unknown
"Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million-dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla." – Jim Bishop
"Good daughters make good mothers." – Abigail G. Whittlesey
"A son is a son till he takes him a wife, a daughter is a daughter all of her life." – Irish Saying
"My mom taught me a woman’s mind should be the most beautiful part of her." – Sonya Teclai
"Words are not enough to express the unconditional love that exists between a mother and a daughter." – Caitlin Houston
"My daughter is not just another person. She is my laugh, my heart, my joy, and my soul." – Unknown
"A daughter is a day brightener and a heart warmer." – Unknown
"The best music I have ever heard is the sound of my daughter's giggling." – Deasish Mridha
"My daughter is the biggest gift; I’ve said it so many times and it sounds like a cliché, but the thing about being a parent is when you have kids, they act like a mirror of you." – Chris Hemsworth
A daughter is a rainbow – a curve of light through scattered mist that lifts the spirit with her prismatic presence. Is a shadow – a reminder of something brilliant ducking out of sight, too easily drawn away." – Ellen Hopkins
"My daughters are the bouquet of my life." – Barbara W Bansley
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