200+ Beautiful Mother-Daughter Quotes To Express Your Love

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Mother is a daughter’s first and closest friend in life. Celebrating any occasion with beautiful mother-daughter quotes may instantly bring a smile to any mother or daughter’s face. Regardless of how successful or freed a woman is, she keeps craving a mother’s love, appreciation, and support because a mother is the only one who loves and nurtures her daughter selflessly and with whom she can share all her concerns with comfort, and without any fears. A mother understands her and always stands by her. Moreover, a mother-daughter relationship is distinct and amazing because only after growing up can a daughter comprehend her mother’s past actions and why she must have behaved a certain way in a given situation with empathy. The specialty of this relationship has motivated several people to pen down wonderful quotes over the years. Plunge into this post as we have curated a collection of quotes expressing admiration and adoration for this beautiful relationship that you may use on a special occasion, birthday, or even a casual day to express and spread love.

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Cute Mother Daughter Quotes

For a mother, nothing can be cuter than her daughter and the daughter gets to realize this only when she becomes a mother herself. Here are some cute mother-daughter quotes that reflect the essence of this relationship.

“I am proud of many things in life but nothing beats being a mother of such a girl.”
“A daughter may outgrow your lap, but she will never outgrow your heart.”
“By the time a woman realizes her mother was right, she has a daughter who thinks she’s wrong.”
“Mother and daughter from the start. Best friends forever from the heart.”– Anonymous
“As they get older, our daughters become more and more like us too.” – Amy Newmark
“Mothers and daughters are part of each other’s consciousness, in different degrees and in a different way, but still with the mutual sense of something which has always been there.”– Edith Wharton, The Mother’s Recompense
“A mother is one who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.”– Cardinal Meymillod.
“When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.”– Mitch Albom.
“Even though we fight and drive each other crazy, we now have this little reminder that our love for one another is greater than anything in this world.”
“Sometimes when I see a miracle, I look into my daughter’s eyes and realize I’ve already created one.”
“When someone asks you where you come 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 Quindlan, One True Thing
“A mom is a daughter’s ‘first’ friend. And, through life, becomes her best friend.” – Vicki Reece
“No matter how old she may be, sometimes a girl just needs her mom.” – Cardinal Mermillod
“My mother is a never-ending song in my heart of comfort, happiness and being. I may sometimes forget the words but I always remember the tune.”
“You are always in my thoughts. When you were little, I knew your whereabouts at any given moment. Now that you are off on your own, I still always know where you are, because I keep you in my heart.”– Elizabeth Berg
“Words are not enough to express the unconditional lovethat exists between a mother and a daughter.” – Caitlin Houston
“Some women pray for their daughters to marry good husbands. I pray that my girls will find girlfriends half as loyal and true as the Ya-Yas.”– Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
“You are the woman who came into my life unexpectedly, whose presence kissed my soul.”– Marisa Donnelly
“It is so nice to come home and have solitude with me and my daughter.” – Mindy KalingAD
“There is nothing as powerful as a mother’s love, and nothing as healing as a child’s love.”
“No daughter and mother ever live apart, no matter what the distance between them.”– Christie Watson
“My daughter, no one else will ever know how much I love you, not even you, At least not until you be a mother yourself.”
“One of the most important relationshipswe’ll have is the relationship we have with our mothers.”– Iyanla Vanzant
“Being a mother and grandmother is the best of the best in my life. My grandchildren multiply the joy my daughters bring me.”– Alexandra Stoddard
“The woman who is my best friend, my teacher, my everything: Mom.”– Sandra Vischer, Unliving the Dream
“A loving and careful mother both recognizes and even protects her daughter’s autonomy and also helps her dance out confidently on to a wider stage.”– Rachel BillingtonAD
“I never want her to think that the whole world revolves around her. But I want her to know, without a doubt, that my whole world does.”
“Your smile is charming, your laughter is infectious. You are a stunning woman and above all, you are my daughter.”
“Mother was a comfort. Mother was home. A girl who lost her mother was suddenly a tiny boat on an angry ocean. Some boats eventually floated ashore. And some boats, like me, seemed to float farther and farther from land.”– Ruta Sepetys

“A mother is someone who will hear your lies but will patiently wait for you to admit what you have done. Thanks for bearing with me my entire life mom, I love you!”
“She raised us with humor, and she raised us to understand that not everything was going to be great – but how to laugh through it.” – Liza Minelli
“My mom is a never-ending song in my heart of comfort, happiness, and being. I may sometimes forget the words, but I always remember the tune.”– Graycie Harmon
“A mother-daughter bond is the perfect blessing, so that makes me one blessed mom because I have you.” – Stephanie Lahart
“Mom: The glue that holds everything together even when she feels like she may fall apart.”
“A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future.”
“I will hold you up when you can’t stand, I will wipe away your tears when you cry, I will fight for you when you give up, and I will love you forever and always.”
“I never knew how much love my heart could hold, until someone called me mommy.”
“Her love’s ‘til the end, she’s my best friend. Ain’t nobody got a mom like mine.” – Meghan Trainor, Mom
“All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” – Abraham Lincoln
“I love my mother as the trees love water and sunshine. She helps me prosper and reach great heights.” – Terri Guillemets
“My daughter is super amazing and I’m the lucky one because I get to be her momma.”
“No matter how old you get, sometimes, you still need a hug from mom to make everything better.”
“Mother and daughter relationship is a special bond that spans the years. Through laughter, worry, smiles and tears. A sense of trust that can’t be broken, a depth of love sometimes unspoken.”
“Every single missed opportunity in my life has been totally worth it because it eventually led me to have a beautiful daughter like you.”
“I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate.” – Angelina Jolie
“Even as a small child, I understood that woman 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, The Dovekeepers
“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
“There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn’t have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.”– Taylor Swift
“You will always be Super Mom in the eyes of your daughter no matter how many times you think you’ve failed.”
“Dearest mother, I know we fight every now and then and we keep on arguing again and again. But please know that deep within, I hope that your heart knows that my love for you will grow forever, I love you.”
“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, In My Daughter’s Eyes
“Mother is a verb. It’s something you do. Not just who you are.”– Cheryl Lacey Donovan
“Mothers and daughters together are a powerful force to be reckoned with.”– Melia Keeton-Digby, The Heroines Club
“The happiest moment of my life was probably when my daughter was born,”
“When you are an adult, your mother walks beside you. As two friends you can enjoy life together.”
“There is nothing more powerful than a mother’s love for her daughter and there is nothing more healing than a daughter’s gratitude.”
“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. She is the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine a life without her.”– Kristin Hannah
“It was easy for me to not feel beautiful in a world of prom queens, yet my mother was always reminding me of how worthy I was. I was a lucky daughter.”– Brittainy C. Cherry, Eleanor & Grey
“Mother is the heartbeat in the home; and without her, there seems to be no heart throb.” – Leroy Brownlow
“When I’m weak and unpretty, I know I’m beautiful and strong. Because I see myself like my mother does.”– Lauren Alaina, Like My Mother Does
“I am not at all afraid of dying because I have already seen heaven when I rest my head on my mom’s shoulder. You are my inspiration and my favorite person. I love you so much, mom.”
“Mother and daughter – it’s a special bond that spans over the years. Through laughter, worry, smiles and tears, a sense of trust that can’t be broken, a depth of love sometimes unspoken, a lifelong friendship built on sharing, hugs, and kisses, warmth and caring. Mother and daughter, their hearts as one- a link that can never be undone.”

“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

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“Once I asked her why she didn’t like nuts on her sundae, and she said she did like them, but I loved them. And she loved me.” – Jenny Han
“My daughter is not the child that I expected. She is so much more.” – Brenda Kosciuk
“My mother never gave me any idea that I couldn’t do whatever I wanted to do or be whomever I wanted to be. … I don’t know if she ever realized that the person I most wanted to be was her.” – Rory, The Gilmore Girls

Short Mother Daughter Quotes

Sometimes a single line is enough to tell how much you love your mother/ daughter. These quotes are apt for slipping small notes to each other or printing on bracelets and necklaces so that they can remind you of the remarkable relationship you have with each other.

“Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.” – Ricki Lake

“In a child’s eyes, a mother is a goddess.” – N.K. Jemisin
“Good daughters make good mothers.” – Abigail G. Whittlesey
“She’s the kind of crazy you want fighting on your side.”– Ginny, Ginny & Georgia
“A mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.”- Erich Fromm
“Life doesn’t come with a manual, it comes with a mother.”

“A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.”-Princess Diana
“Mother: one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.”– Emily Dickinson
“A mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually vaccinates her daughter against low self-esteem.” – Naomi Wolf
“A mother’s treasure is her daughter.”– Catherine Pulsifer
“The best place to cry is on a mother’s arms.” – Jodi Picoult

“Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.” – Barbara Kingsolver
“Daughters are the little girls that grow up to become your best friend.”
“The moment they placed you in my arms, you snuggled right into my heart.”
“I believe in love at first sightbecause I loved my mom since I opened my eyes.”
“We laugh, we cry. We make time fly. We are best friends, my mother and I.”

“Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.” – Oprah Winfrey
“Motherhood is difficult and rewarding.” – Gloria Estefan
“What the daughter does, the mother did.”– Jewish Proverb
“A mother’s and daughter’s love is never separated.”– Viola Shipman
“I like it when my mother smiles. And I especially like it when I make her smile.” – Adriana Trigiani

“God cannot be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers”– Rudyard Kipling

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“I am a strong woman because a strong woman raised me.”
“My mother was my role model before I even knew what that word was.”– Lisa Leslie
“My mother was my first country, the first place I ever lived.”– Nayyirah Waheed, Lands
“Everything good in me, I got it from my mama.”– Honey County

“As for my girls, I’ll raise them to think they breathe fire.” – Jessica Kirkland
“A child’s first teacher is its mother.” – Peng Liyuan
“My life may not be a fairy tale, but my daughter is my princess.”
“The key to happiness is to have a daughter like you.”
“Like mother like daughter. I wouldn’t want to be like anyone else.”

“Life brings many things, but the bond between a mother and daughter is something special.”
“He that would the daughter win must with the mother first begin.”– English Proverb
“Lucky is the woman whose first child is a daughter.” – Prophet Mohammed
“My mom and I are freakishly linked.” – Rory, The Gilmore Girls
“Maybe motherhood means honoring one’s mother.” – Sheila Heti

“I know a girl, she puts color inside my world. She is none other than my daughter.”
“Dear mom, you are more than love to me and you are my everything.”

“Mothers and daughters share the best stories.”

“Mothers and daughters are the closest when the daughters become mothers.”
“The worst sight in this world is seeing your mom cry.”
“Mom, you are not in my way. You are my way.” – Kate Pearson, This is Us
“I am grateful to be a mom to the sweetest daughter.” – Katie Holmes
“My daughters are the bouquet of my life.” – Barbara W Bansley
“Mother and daughter like spoons in a drawer.” – Maggie Stiefvater

Funny Mother Daughter Quotes

Do you and your mom just need to look at each other to understand a joke? Do you both share funny memes and jokes with each other all the time? Then, here are a few funny quotes to read together and laugh.

“Mother-daughter disagreements were, in hindsight, basically mother stating the truth and daughter taking her own sweet time coming around.”– Barbara Delinsky
“Having a little girl has been like following an old treasure map with the important paths torn away.”– Heather Gudenkauf
“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
“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
“By the time you realize your mother was right, you have a daughter who thinks that you’re wrong.” – Sada Malhotra
“The first lesson every child of Athena learned: Mom was the best at everything, and you should never, ever suggest otherwise.” – Rick Riordan
“Yes, it’s quite amazing how I continue to shock my mother even after all these years together.”– Eloisa James
“I hope someday she meets just the right man and has babies- a whole passel of babies, more than I could have- so she understands how it kills me now that she won’t let me hug her when she’s in obvious distress.”– Kristina Riggle
“I can never forget my mother. She is my bridge when I needed to get across, she steadied herself long enough for me to run across safely.”– Renita Weems.
“My sweet little girl… excuse me… I mean my adult daughter!!! Words can’t describe how proud I am of you.”– Reese Witherspoon
“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.” – Oscar Wilde
““Now that I am a mother myself, I know that my mother was never really regretful of every ‘accidental’ hair tug that occurred while she braided.”
“All I know is that I carried you for nine months. I fed you, I clothed you, I paid for your college education. Friending me on Facebook seems like a small thing to ask in return.”
“I may look like my daddy, but I have my mama’s attitude.”
“Now, as alway, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.”– Beverly Jones
“I can’t believe how much like my mother I turned out. I feel sorry for my kids.” – Melanie White
“Raising a daughter is partly joyful because the other half is just guerilla warfare.”
“I told my mom she was invading my private space and she said I came out of her personal space.”
“Maybe mom is my alter ego and the woman I’m able to be when I’m working.”– Mary Tyler Moore
“If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?”– Milton Berle
“Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field since the payment is pure love.”– Mildred Vermont
“Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter’s mouth.” – Victoria Secunda
“A mother’s diet is sixty percent baby food and forty percent of her daughter’s failed attempts at cooking.”
“Mother’s Day shopping is hard when your mom deserves an island, but you can afford a candle.”
“Mum, I just wanted to say congratulations. I turned out perfect.”
“I can’t believe I shared my body with a daughter that won’t even share her M&Ms with me.”
“As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.’ – Oscar Wilde
“When someone asks you where you come from, the answer is your mother.” – Anna Quindlen
“When your children are teenagers, it’s important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.” – Nora Ephron
“The patience of a mother might be likened to be a tube of toothpaste- it’s never quite all gone.”
“I feel personally victimized by my own daughter. I just want her to stop throwing things at me.”
“My mom is literally a part of me. You can’t say that about many people except relatives, and organ donors.” – Carrie Latet
“When your mother asks, “Do you want a piece of advice?” it’s a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.” – Erma Bombeck
“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.”– Martin Andersen Nexö

Inspirational Mother Daughter Quotes

A mother is a daughter’s first role model, as she grows up dreaming to be like her. And once she becomes a young woman, the mother feels the pride of being known by her daughter. So, if you are a mother seeking to inspire your daughter or a daughter wishing to express gratitude to your mom for all the love, kindness, and sacrifices she has made for you, here are a few quotes to draw encouragement from.

“Daughter, I want you to forgive easily, laugh loudly and never allow yourself to become the invisible, silent woman that your mother was. Daughter, this is how we soften our hearts and become better human beings.”– Diriye Osma
“Every day I become a little bit more like my mother and I couldn’t be prouder.”
“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

“She taught by her own example, that the most evolved person is seemingly a contradiction – they are both the strongest and the most vulnerable person in the room.”– Billie Lourd
“A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.” – Dorothy C. Fisher
“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.”
“I love my mother as trees love water and sunshine. She helps me grow, prosper, and reach great heights.”– Terry Guillemets
“I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body.” – Brené Brown
“The more a daughter knows the details of her mother’s life the stronger the daughter.”– Anita Diamant
“My mom taught me a woman’s mind should be the most beautiful part of her.”– Sonya Teclai
“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
“A mother teaches her daughter how to feel about herself, about handling pressure, about relishing life’s joys and conquering fears.”– Melissa Harrison
“From a little girl so very small, how and when did you get so tall?”― Karen Mortensen
“My mom is the greatest mom in the whole wide world. She’s done everything for me to make my dreams come true.” – Josh Hutcherson
“There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.” – Jill Churchill
“We mothers have a wonderfully precious and truly powerful role to play in the future self-images of our daughters. The truth is, the most effective way to inculcate in our daughters a fighting chance at life-long self-love and empowerment is not in the books we read to them, or the workshops we send them to, or the media we do or do not expose them to, or even the things we tell them, rather it is in the reflection of self-love and empowerment they see in us, their mothers. The model of our own empowerment gives our daughters permission to be powerful.”– Melia Keeton-Digby
“She raised us with humor, and she raised us to understand that not everything was going to be great – but how to laugh through it.”– Liza Minnelli
“It’s quite possible my daughter will disagree with this version altogether. She might say that I’ve put words into her mouth. Show me a mother who hasn’t.” – Kimberly King Parsons, Black Light
“The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman, my mother.”– Sharon Olds
“Mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.” – Cardinal Mermillod

“I don’t want my daughter to follow in my footsteps. I want her to take the path next to me and go further than I could have ever dreamt possible.”
“Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That’s what little girls are made of.”– Bethany Hamilton
“Mothers are the most dynamic and influential force on the development of a young woman’s journey to being herself.” – Hillary L. McBride, Mothers, Daughters, and Body
“A mother is the only person in the world, who can turn daughter’s worries and fears into happiness.”– Anonymous
“My daughter, while we have had adversity, we also have had more sweet memories that allow us to overcome the challenges we faced.” – Ann Butler
“A daughter is a mother’s gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of herself. And mothers are their daughters’ role model, their biological and emotional road map, the arbiter of all their relationships.” – Victoria Secunda
“Mother and daughter got on very well indeed, with a deep affection founded on an almost complete misunderstanding.”– Mary Stewart
“The living mother-daughter relationship, you learn over and over again, is a constant choice between adaptation and acceptance.” – Kelly Corrigan, Glitter and Glue
“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
“My mother was like sand. The kind that warms you on a beach when you come shivering out of the cold water. The kind that clings to your body, leaving its impression on your skin to remind you where you’ve been and where you’ve come from.” – Clare Vanderpool
“A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.” – Agatha Christie
“Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me.” – Lady Gaga
“A daughter is one of the most beautiful gifts this world has to give.” – Laurel Atherton
“During the worst storms of life, a mother is the beacon of light that guides her daughter home.”
“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
“If I could give my daughter three things, it would be the confidence to always know her self-worth, the strength to chase her dreams and the ability to know how truly, deeply loved she is.”
“Of course, mothers and daughters with strong personalities might see the world from very different points of view.” – Katherine Howe
“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
“My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady, and the other was to be independent.” – Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“No one in your life will ever love you as your mother does. There is no love as pure, unconditional and strong as a mother’s love. And I will never be loved that way again.”– Hope Edelman
“Over the years, I learned so much from mom. She taught me about the importance of home and history and family and tradition. She also taught me that aging need not mean narrowing the scope of your activities and interests or a diminution of the great pleasures to be had in the every day.”-Martha Stewart
“A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones.”– Letty Cottin Pogrebin
“There’s nothing like your mother’s sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.” – Sophie Kinsella, Confessions of a Shopaholic
“A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones.” – Kristin Hannah
“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.” – Isabella Rossellini

Frequently Asked Questions

1. How can mother-daughter quotes be used in a scrapbook or photo album?

Mother-daughter quotes, when written in a fancy font, can add to the beauty of a scrapbook or photo album.

2. How can mother-daughter quotes be incorporated into a gift for Mother’s Day or a daughter’s birthday?

You can write the quote on a gift card and attach it to the gift. If the quote is handwritten, it makes it even more special.

3. What are the emotional benefits of reading and sharing mother-daughter quotes?

A mother-daughter quote can convey feelings that are complex to understand and express. Reading and sharing these quotes can touch the receiver’s heart and make them feel special.

Sharing mother-daughter quotes is an excellent means of expressing the love, care, affection, and profound bond between mothers and daughters. The mother-daughter relationship is renowned for its strength, as they often share a deep understanding of each other’s emotions. On a special occasion, you can select quotes that beautifully convey your adoration and appreciation for your mother or daughter’s unique personality. Sharing these meaningful quotes can serve as a heartfelt gesture, highlighting the respect, care, and love you hold for your beloved family member.

Infographic: Quotes To Express The Love Between Mother And Daughter

A mother is her daughter’s first best friend, and a daughter always looks up to her mother for inspiration and strength. In the infographic that follows, we have a few quotes that will help you understand the relationship between the two. So read on, share it with your daughter or your mother and cherish the moments you spend with each other.

quotes about the mother daughter relationship (infographic)

Key Pointers

Quotes about mothers and daughters can bring joy to both and help express feelings that are hard to put into words.
These quotes are great for showing how much you love and admire each other on special days like birthdays or just any regular day.
These quotes can be incorporated into scrapbooks, photo albums, or as gifts for Mother’s Day or a daughter’s birthday to add a personal touch.

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Explore the heartwarming bond between mothers and daughters through these lovely quotes. From laughter to life lessons, these words beautifully capture the essence of this special connection.