60+ Best Mother-Daughter Quotes That Show Deep Love

Nothing compares to the one-of-a-kind and unbreakable bond between a mother and her daughter. Mothers want the best for their children, and daughters look to their mothers for guidance and inspiration.

Mothers and daughters are special creations in that they were born to teach and show love, to each other and the people around them.

A daughter will never realize how much she has become her mother until she has her own daughter, which is a full-circle realization. And in this cycle of appreciation, love, strength, learning, and teaching, the mother-daughter relationship becomes, even more, special and unique.

Although the relationship may shift and change over time, one thing remains constant: their deep and unconditional love for each other.

So, to honor this special mother-daughter bond, we have compiled a list of 60+ best mother-daughter quotes that shows just how deep the love between these strong women is.

60+ Best Mother-Daughter quotes

Best mother-daughter quotes

Mothers of daughters are daughters of mothers and have remained so, in circles joined to circles, since time began.
– Signe Hammer

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 dream. You will teach them to live, but they will not live your life. Nevertheless, in every flight, in every life, in every dream, the print of the way you taught them will remain.
– Mother Teresa

There were times when…I didn’t have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.
– Taylor Swift

Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter’s mouth.
– Victoria Secunda

Someday when the pages of my life end, I know that you will be one of the most beautiful chapters.
– Unknown

Words are not enough to express the unconditional love that exists between a mother and a daughter.
– Caitlin Houston

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
– Dorothy C. Fisher

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

My mom taught me a woman’s mind should be the most beautiful part of her.
– Sonya Teclai

A mother is the only person in the world, who can turn daughter’s worries and fears into happiness.
– 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

The woman who is my best friend, my teacher, my everything: Mom.
– Sandra Vischer

No mother and daughter ever live apart, no matter what the distance between them.
– Christie Watson

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

Happiness is mother and daughter time.
– Unknown

One of the most important relationships we’ll have is the relationship we have with our mothers.
– Iyanla Vanzant

I cannot 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

Touching mother-daughter quotes

Mother and daughter never truly part, maybe in distance but never in heart.
– Unknown

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

For all the things my hands have held, the best by far is you.
– Unknown

Find it within you to love exactly who you are and to know you’re capable, you’re loved and you’re beautiful. The world is a better place, because of you. You are unique because there is only ONE of you.
– Shantel VanSanten

In my life, you are the sun that never fades and the moon that never wanes.
– Unknown

I love my mother as the trees love water and sunshine. She helps me prosper and reach great heights.
– Terri Guillemets

A daughter is God’s way of saying, ‘thought you could use a lifelong friend.’
– Unknown

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 treasure is her daughter.
– Catherine Pulsifer

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

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
– Robert Browning

Thank you for being the answer to the prayer I hadn’t realized I asked for.
– Marisa Donnelly

In times of need, and in times of tears, in times of joy and in times of fears… there is mom. The one person who is always there.
– Heather Stillufsen

You’re a very special lady, who showered me with love I am thankful for you as I’ve told God above.
– Charly Lester

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

Funny mother-daughter quotes

Life doesn’t come with a manual, it comes with a Mother.
– Unknown

The first lesson every child of Athena learned: Mom was the best at everything, and you should never, ever suggest otherwise.
– Rick Riordan

Having a little girl has been like following an old treasure map with the important paths torn away.
– Heather Gudenkauf

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?
– Milton Berle

I could never love anyone the way I love you, I used to tell my wife. And then the second I looked in that baby’s eyes, in that exact moment, that if we were ever under attack, I would use my wife as a human shield to protect that baby.
– Ryan Reynolds

My mom is literally a part of me. You can’t say that about many people except relatives, and organ donors.
– Carrie Latet

What’s it like to have the greatest daughter in the world? I don’t know ask your grandmother.
– Unknown

By the time a woman realizes her mother was right, she has a daughter who thinks she’s wrong.
– Unknown

Daughters are like flowers, they fill the world with beauty, and sometimes attract pests.
– Unknown

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.
– Jodi Picoult

I told my mom she was invading my personal space and she said I came out of her personal space.
– Unknown

Mother-daughter disagreements were, in hindsight, basically mother stating the truth and daughter taking her own sweet time coming around.
– Barbara Delinsky

I am in a long-distance relationship. It’s been six months since I met my mom.
– Leena Duwadi

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

My mom is a black-no-sugar woman, but I basically believe in turning my coffee into cheesecake.
– Jordan Weisman

Yes, it’s quite amazing how I continue to shock my mother even after all these years together.
– Eloisa James

Just when I think my daughter is nothing like me she proudly shows her attitude and I’m like ‘There I am’.
– Unknown

God couldn’t be everywhere, so that is why he invented mothers.
– Diane Keaton

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.
– Beverly Jones

Strong mother-daughter quotes

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

As for my girls, I’ll raise them to think they breathe fire.
– Unknown

The more a daughter knows the details of her mother’s life the stronger the daughter.
– Anita Diamant

The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman, my mother.
– Sharon Olds

Life is tough my darling, but so are you.
– Stephanie Bennet Henry

My mother, she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.
– Jodi Picoult

And though she be but little, she is fierce.
– William Shakespeare

A mother teaches her daughter how to feel about herself, about handling pressure, about relishing life’s joys and conquering fears.
– Melissa Harrison

Mothers and daughters together are a powerful force to be reckoned with.
– Melia Keeton-Digby

On the darkest days, when I feel inadequate, unloved and unworthy, I remember whose daughter I am and I straighten my crown.
– Unknown

There’s a reason some people think they can achieve anything. They listened to their mother.
– Unknown

My mother was a force. She had little tolerance for fools, she kept her hair short and wore practical non-fussy clothes. Everything about her radiated confidence and calm.
– Michelle Obama

When life gets hard and you feel all alone, remember you mean the world to somebody, and that somebody calls you mom. – Unknown

Dear Daughter, don’t concern yourself with fitting into glass slippers. Think instead of shattering glass ceilings. – Unknown

Parents exist in children,’ Grandmother said to bolster my confidence. ‘Your mother will always exist in you. She will give you strength wherever you go.
– Lisa See

She’s my best friend—she’s everything to me. It’s always just been me and her against the world.
– Jacquelyn Middleton

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

In a child’s eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either way. I am convinced that this is the greatest power in the universe.
– N.K. Jemisin

What makes a mother-daughter bond special?

The bond between a mother and her daughter(s) is a special bond that any mother with a daughter can attest to. And science backs up this observation, noting that the part of the brain that regulates emotion is more similar between mothers and daughters than any other parent-child pairing. Such as that of mother-son, father-daughter, or father-son.

The “corticolimbic circuitry, which has been implicated in mood regulation, shows matrilineal-specific transmission patterns,” according to a study published in the Journal of Neuroscience.

Put simply, the deep bond between a mother and her daughter(s) in these “mood regulation” transmission patterns play a significant role in how mothers and daughters process emotions. This includes how each reacts to the emotions of the other.

Despite the fact that the study was conducted to provide insight into the transmission of depression from parent to child and that additional research is still warranted, it still highlights the existence of a special bond between mother and daughter that is not found in other parent-child pairings.

This bond or transmission pattern may also be the reason why a mother-daughter understand, love, laugh, and do silly things with each and yet clash, argue, quarrel, and disagree with each other at the same time.

It’s a crazy love-hate relationship but one that is always cherished because it is a very different bond from that shared between a mother and her son.

Also, no matter how time passes, even if the daughter has a daughter of her own, that bond will still be there, becoming even stronger because another link has been added to the circle which the poet Signe Hammer mentioned in his quote which goes,

Mothers of daughters are daughters of mothers and have remained so, in circles joined to circles, since time began.

Granted there are many factors that can influence how a bond develops between mother and daughter, but outside of these negative factors, the natural bond borne of unconditional love can definitely make a mother-daughter tandem a force to be reckoned with.

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