You knew your life was going to change the moment you held your daughter in your arms and studied her beautiful face. The first time you saw her cry, you promised to protect her from all the harm in the world. The first time she laughed or smiled, you did everything you could to make her feel the same way again and again. You stayed by her side to help and support her every time she needed it. She’s not just your daughter but your greatest source of pride, your brightest ray of sunshine and your most precious friend in the world.
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Needless to say, a daughter is the best gift of life. She may outgrow your lap (or piggyback rides!) but she will never outgrow your heart. So, if you’re looking for unique ways to convey your love, here’s our collection of some of the most beautiful daughter’s day quotes.
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Daughter’s Day Quotes From Mother
Here are some of the sweetest messages for daughters from their mothers to convey love:
1. “Having a little girl has been like following an old treasure map with the important paths torn away.” – Heather Gudenkauf
2. “A mother’s treasure is her daughter.” – Catherine Pulsifer
3. “Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter’s mouth.” – Victoria Secunda
4. “She stands firmly on her own two feet and I just behind her; should she ever need me.” – J. Iron Wood
5. “No mother and daughter ever live apart, no matter what the distance between them.” – Christie Watson
6. “My daughter, while we had adversity, we also have had more sweet memories that allow us to overcome the challenges we faced.” – Ann Butler
7. “Mothers of daughters are daughters of mothers and have remained so, in circles joined to circles, since time began.” – Signe Hammer
8. “Words are not enough to express the unconditional love that exists between a mother and a daughter.” – Caitlin Houston
9. “When we weren’t scratching each other’s eyes out, we were making each other laugh harder than anyone else could.” – Lucie Arnaz
10. “Mother-daughter disagreements were, in hindsight, basically mother stating the truth and daughter taking her own sweet time coming around.” – Barbara Delinsky
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11. “The more a daughter knows the details of her mother’s life the stronger the daughter.” – Anita Diamant
12. “A daughter is a mother’s gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of her self. And mothers are their daughters’ role model, their biological and emotional road map, the arbiter of all their relationships.” – Victoria Secunda
13. “As for my girls, I’ll raise them to think they breathe fire.” – Jessica Kirkland
14. “A mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually vaccinates her daughter against low self-esteem.” – Naomi Wolf
15. “I am not a perfect mother and I will never be. You are not a perfect daughter and you will never be. But put us together and we will be the best mother and daughter we would ever be.” – Zoraida Pesante
16. “A mother teaches her daughter how to feel about herself, about handling pressure, about relishing life’s joys and conquering fears.” – Melissa Harrison
17. “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
18. “The mother-daughter relationship is one of the most complex of all types because the levels of expectations for love and understanding are so high.” – Dr Trevicia Williams
19. “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
20. “What I wanted most for my daughter was that she be able to soar differently in her own sky, wherever that might be, and if there was space for me as well, I would, indeed, have reaped what I had tried to sow.” – Helen Claes
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In case you’ve still not bought a gift for your daughter, we’ve got two awesome suggestions for you. Even though it’ll reach her after the special day, the fact that it’s so cool will make up for the delay!
Daughter’s Day Quotes From Father
Here are some of the best quotes we could find of fathers expressing their relationship with their daughters:
21. “A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman, he turns her back again.” – Enid Bagnold
22. “Having a daughter makes you see things in a different way. This is my only girl. So I don’t care what it takes to protect her. You can call it what you want to call it. As long as you treat her the same way I treat her, like my princess, I don’t mind.” – Tracy Morgan
23. “One of the greatest things about daughters is how they adored you when they were little; how they rushed into your arms with electric delight and demanded that you watch everything they do and listen to everything they say.” – Michael Josephson
24. “Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter.” – Joseph Addison
25. “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.” – John Gregory Brown
26. “A man’s daughter is his heart. Just with feet, walking out in the world.” – Mat Johnson
27. “When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that’s happened that day just melts away.” – Huge Jackman
28. “When my daughter says ‘Daddy, I need you!’ I wonder if she has any idea that I need her billion times more.” – Stanley Behrman
29. “I think my mom puts it best. Little girls soften their daddy’s hearts.” – Paul Walker
30. “A daughter is a treasure and a cause of sleeplessness.” – Ben Sirach
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31. “To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.” – Euripides
32. “Fathers, be good to your daughters. You are the god and the weight of her world.” – John Mayor
33. “You’ve had me wrapped around your finger since the day you were born.” – Tim McGraw
34. “You fathers will understand. You have a little girl. She looks up to you. You’re her oracle. You’re her hero. And then the day comes when she gets her first permanent wave and goes to her first real party, and from that day on, you’re in a constant state of panic.” – Stanley T. Banks
35. “No one in this world can love a girl more than her father.” – Michael Ratnadeepak
36. “A good father will leave his imprint on his daughter for the rest of her life.” – Dr James Dobson
37. “A daughter needs a dad to be the standard against which she will judge all men.” – Gregory E. Lang
38. “Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million-dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.” – Jim Bishop
39. “Daughters are angels sent from above to fill our heart with unending love.” – J. Lee
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Some More Daughter’s Day Quotes…
Couldn’t get enough of such sweet quotes? We’ve got a few more to make you smile! These words for daughter will make your bond even stronger.
40. “My son is my son till he have got him a wife. But my daughter’s my daughter all the days of her life.” – Thomas Fuller
41. “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
42. “I don’t believe in rules. As I tell my daughter when she is mischievous, ‘Well-behaved women rarely make history’.” – Nia Vardalos
43. “Daughters can sometimes be too serious, teach them to laugh and not take life too seriously.” – Catherine Pulsifer
44. “From a daughter, we are given happy and beautiful memories of days before, the melodies of the heart in those moments of the present, and the hopeful expectations of what will be in the future.” – Byron Pulsifer
45. “I hope that my daughter grows up empowered and doesn’t define herself by the way she looks but by qualities that make her an intelligent, strong and responsible woman.” – Isaiah Mustafa
46. “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
47. “To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase ‘terrible beauty.’ Nothing can make one so happily exhilarated or so frightened: it’s a solid lesson in the limitations of self to realize that your heart is running around inside someone else’s body.” – Christopher Hitchens
48. “I will let my daughter do whatever her heart wants. I will support her and guide her and give her all the knowledge that I have because I want her to succeed in whatever she loves.” – The Miz
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49. “We must teach our girls that if they speak their mind, they can create the world they want to see.” – Robyn Silverman
50. “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
51. “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
52. “A daughter can lead to baldness, but the remainder of the road is just as smooth.” – Byron Pulsifer
53. “We gotta start teaching our daughters to be ‘somebodies’ instead of somebody’s.” – Kifah Shah
54. “We mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters’ lengthening flight.” – Letty Cottin Pogrebin
55. “Suddenly, through birthing a daughter, a woman finds herself face to face not only with an infant, a little girl, a woman-to-be but also with her own unresolved conflicts from the past and her hopes and dreams for the future… As though experiencing an earthquake, mothers of daughters may find their lives shifted, their deep feelings unearthed, the balance struck in all relationships once again off-kilter.” – Elizabeth Debold and Idelisse Malave
So, which wishes for daughters are your favourite?
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