Mother And Daughter Quotes

No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.

This is a nice metaphor, too, about mothers and daughters - that when it came time for me to make my own, I was making a completely different garden than the one that my mom has. They don't look like they came from relatives. Hers is a very productive and pragmatic vegetable garden, and mine is a ridiculous overabundance of useless plants. It doesn't feed anybody, it doesn't serve any purpose.

From the time she was born, until she was fifteen, I didn't know where I left off and she began. We were joined at the hip or the heart or the brain.

Mothers and daughters can stay very connected during teenage years. In the middle of your life, you can become very alone. Even though you're connected deeply to other family members, lovers, husbands, friends.

Mother and daughter like spoons in a drawer.

The audience I have in mind is always me and my friends. And my two sisters. We're the feminists in my life - and we are also mothers and daughters and hot and neurotic and existing on wine and coffee and disappointed and brave.

When war ends, women are the first to pick up the pieces. Where there is no market place, they go door to door. When homes are destroyed, mothers and daughters haul stones to rebuild or plow fields together.

The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, and so are you.

The mother is the early care giver and primary source of identification for all children.... A daughter continues to identify with the mother

Over my slumbers your loving watch keep; Rock me to sleep, mother; rock me to sleep.

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?

Without self awareness we are as babies in the cradles.

Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.

The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex.

There's innate competition, I think, between mothers and daughters - mine no more so than anyone else.

I grew up in a makeup chair, to see! the women around me getting ready was so aspirational, It is about mothers and daughters, a girl watching her mom at a vanity table.

I cannot forget my mother, She is my bridge.

If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

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

To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.

Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.

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

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

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.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

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

Knots Landing is the best thing that ever happened to me.

Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.

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.

This and the small sample size inevitably leads to stereotypes - sweeping family sagas from India, 'lush' colonial romances from South-East Asia. Mother and daughter reconciling generational differences through preparing a 'traditional' meal together. Geishas. And even if something more exciting does manage to sneak through, it gets the same insultingly clichéd cover slapped on it anyway, so no one will ever know.

My mother was the most beautiful woman I have ever seen. There are moments when I remember her beauty, unadorned, unposed, not in some artificial place like a set or a photo call but rather captured outdoors in nature, where she took my breath away. When those moments surface, I miss her the most.

Wisdom is the daughter of experience

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of herself. -Author Unknown As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

Prayer by its nature is communion and union of man with God; by its action it is the reconciliation of man with God, the mother and daughter of tears, a bridge for crossing temptations, a wall of protection from afflictions, a crushing of conflicts, boundless activity, the spring of virtues, the source of spiritual gifts, invisible progress, food of the soul, the enlightening of the mind, an axe for despair, a demonstration of hope, release from sorrow, the wealth of monks.

Emily and I have some funny scenes where we quarrel and it gets quite heated, the mother-daughter relationship. You know, film mothers and daughters adore each other. And some don't. But how could you not love Emily Blunt? But I think I'm just one of those people who's always discontented.

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

From the time I was a child I wanted to be like my mother. Not necessarily an actress - I never dreamed I'd have the courage. But an active, volatile woman like she was.

Your True Nature Is Love. There's Nothing You Can Do About It.

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.

Operation Peter Pan spanned from 1960-62 whereby over 14,000 children were sent away from their families in Cuba, some never to reunite again. Pan Am flights took the children to Miami FL, 'Never-Never Land', and the children became known as the 'Peter Pans.' I wrote this song for my daughter, and it is sung for all the daughters and mothers, fathers and brothers who felt this pain of separation all because of governments and their politics.