80 Mother-Daughter Quotes To Express Your Everlasting Bond

These mother-daughter quotes are perfect for any occasion, whether you need something to write in that Mother’s Day card this year, you want to remind your daughter just how much you love her, or you want to send your mom a nice text this afternoon, just because. If you’re not quite a wordsmith yourself, let some of our favorite quotes explain how much your mom or daughter means to you.

Sentimental Mother-Daughter Quotes

• “Mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.” —Unknown
• “When someone asks you where you come from, the answer is your mother…When your mother’s gone, you’ve lost your past. It’s so much more than love. Even when there’s no love, it’s so much more than anything else in your life. I did love my mother, but I didn’t know how much until she was gone.” —Anna Quindlen, One True Thing
• “Mothers, I believe, intoxicate us. We idolize them and take them for granted. We hate them and blame them and exalt them more thoroughly than anyone else in our lives. We sift through the evidence of their love, reassure ourselves of their affection and its biological genesis. We can steal and lie and leave and they will love us.” —Megan Mayhew Bergman, Birds of a Lesser Paradise: Stories
• “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
• “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, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
• “Oh the wars would all be over
  ‘Cause she’d raise us all as friends
  And no one would ever wonder, if somebody wanted them
  We’d walk on grass that’s greener
  And our cares would all be freer
  If the world had a mother like mine”
  —The Band Perry, Mother Like Mine
• “Over my heart, in the days that are flown,
  No love like mother-love ever has shone;
  No other worship abides and endures,
  Faithful, unselfish, and patient like yours:
  None like a mother can charm away pain
  From the sick soul and the world-weary brain.”
  —Elizabeth Akers Allen, Rock Me to Sleep
• “There were times, in middle school and junior high, I didn’t have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.” —Taylor Swift
• “Someday when the pages of my life end, I know that you will be one of the most beautiful chapters.” —Unknown
• “A daughter is someone you laugh with, dream with, and love with all your heart.” —Unknown
• “6 pounds and 9 ounces, looking up at me, like I have all the answers. I hope I have the ones you need.” —Reba McEntire, You’re Gonna Be
• “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 Daughters Eyes
• “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 Gilmore, Gilmore Girls

Quotes About The Mother-Daughter Bond

• “A mother and a daughter always share a special bond, which is engraved on their hearts.” —Unknown
• “Mother and daughter never truly part, maybe in distance but never in heart.” —Unknown
• “Words are not enough to express the unconditional love that exists between a mother and a daughter.” —Caitlin Houston
• “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
• “As mothers and daughters, we are connected to one another. My mother is in the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is in my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is in the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine a life without her.” —Kristin Hannah, Summer Island
• “Mothers and daughters are closest, when daughters become mothers.” —Unknown
• “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
• “Mothers and daughters together are a powerful force to be reckoned with.” —Melia Keeton-Digby
• “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, The Last Séance
• “My daughter introduced me to myself… the connection I had with her when I was giving birth was something that I’ve never felt before.” —Beyoncé 
• “No daughter and mother ever live apart, no matter what the distance between them.” —Christie Watson, Tiny Sunbirds, Far Away
• “My mom and I are freakishly linked.” —Rory Gilmore, Gilmore Girls

Mother To Daughter Quotes

• “For all the things my hands have held, the best by far is you.” —Unknown
• “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 the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future.” —Unknown
• “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
• “Her smile makes me smile. Her laugh is infectious. Her heart is pure and true. Above all, I love that she is my daughter.” —Unknown
• “No matter how old you get, you’ll always be my baby girl.” —Unknown
• “A daughter is one of the most beautiful gifts this world has to give.” —Laurel Atherton
• “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
• “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 Dearest Baby, You gave me the strength I didn’t know I had. You taught me the true meaning of serenity and peace.” —Serena Williams

Daughter To Mother Quotes

• “I love my mother as the trees love water and sunshine. She helps me prosper and reach great heights.” —Terri Guillemets
• “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
• “No matter how old she may be, sometimes a girl just needs her mom.” —Cardinal Mermillod
• “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
• “I am a strong woman because a strong woman raised me.” —Unknown
• “The woman who is my best friend, my teacher, my everything: Mom.” —Sandra Vischer, Unliving the Dream
• “It doesn’t matter how old you are or what you do in your life. You never stop needing your mom.” —Kate Winslet

Funny Mother-Daughter Quotes

• “If you have ever done me wrong, just know my mom knows and she doesn’t like you.” —Unknown
• “Maybe it’s just a daughter’s job to piss off her mother.” —Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
• “I smile because I’m your daughter. I laugh because there’s nothing you can do about it.” —Unknown
• “Having a mini-me is all fun and games until she starts acting just like you.” —Unknown
• “By the time a woman realizes her mother was right, she has a daughter who thinks she is wrong.” —Unknown
• “Life doesn’t come with a manual; it comes with a mother.” —Unknown
• “Having a little girl has been like following an old treasure map with the important paths torn away.” —Heather Gudenkauf
• “If at first you don’t succeed, try doing it the way Mom told you to in the beginning.” —Unknown
• “I do what I want, when I want, where I want…if my mom says it’s okay.” —Unknown
• “Sometimes when I open my mouth, my mother comes out.” —Unknown
• “God couldn’t be everywhere so that is why he invented mothers.” —Diane Keaton as Daphne Wilder, Because I Said So
• “The first lesson every child of Athena learned: Mom was the best at everything, and you should never, ever suggest otherwise.” —Rick Riordan
• “What’s it like to have the greatest daughter in the world? I don’t know ask your grandmother.” —Unknown
• “It’s not ’empty nest syndrome’ until all of their crap is out of your basement.” —Unknown
• “Mother-daughter disagreements were, in hindsight, basically mother stating the truth and daughter taking her own sweet time coming around.” —Barbara Delinsky

Inspirational Mother-Daughter Quotes

• “The more a daughter knows the details of her mother’s life, the stronger the daughter.” —Anita Diamant, The Red Tent
• “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, on her mother Carrie Fisher
• “A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.” —Dorothy C. Fisher
• “My mom taught me a woman’s mind should be the most beautiful part of her.” —Sonya Teclai
• “Mothers of daughters are daughters of mothers and have remained so, in circles joined to circles, since time began.” —Signe Hammer
• “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
• “You are my angel, you remind me of the goodness in this world and inspire me to be the greatest version of myself.” —Steve Maraboli
• “A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.” —Emily Dickinson
• “My favorite thing about being a mom is just what a better person it makes you on a daily basis. Every morning when I wake her up, the endgame is, Can I get her to smile? And that puts me in a good mood.” —Drew Barrymore
• “There is nothing as powerful as a mother’s love, and a child’s soul.” —Unknown
• “I will not be a mystery to my daughter. She will know me and I will share my stories with her—the stories of failure, shame, and accomplishment. She will know she’s not alone in that wilderness.” —Viola Davis

Short and Sweet Mother-Daughter Quotes

• “A mother is a daughter’s best friend.” —Unknown
• “First my mother, forever my friend.” —Unknown
• “A daughter is God’s way of saying, ‘Thought you could use a lifelong friend.'” —Unknown
• “A daughter is just a little girl who grows up to be your best friend.” —Unknown
• “Mother (n): A person who does the work of many. For free.” —Unknown
• “A mother’s treasure is her daughter.” —Catherine Pulsifer
• “Daughters are far more precious than jewels.” —Unknown
• “My greatest blessings call me mom.” —Unknown
• “The best place to cry is on a mother’s arms.” —Jodi Picoult
• “Happiness is mother and daughter time.” —Unknown
• “As they get older, our daughters become more and more like us too.” —Amy Newmark
• “Mother was comfort. Mother was home.” —Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea