100+ Inspirational Mom Daughter Quotes to Celebrate Unbreakable Bonds

"You are my sun, my moon, and all of my stars."

- E.E. Cummings

"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

"You don’t know what unconditional love is. You may say you do, but if you don’t have a child, you don’t know what that is. But when you experience it, it is the most fulfilling ever."

- Regina King

"It’s a different kind of love. It’s very pure, it’s unconditional, but they haven’t earned it yet. They didn’t do anything, they just exist and you love them completely, but it’s not built on anything other than their existence."

- John Legend

"Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There’s no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving."

- Gail Tsukiyama

"A mother’s and daughter’s love is never separated."

- Viola Shipman

"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

"You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars."

- e.e. cummings

"The bond between a mother and her child is the only real and purest bond in the world, the only true love we can ever find in our lifetime."

- Ama H. Vanniarachchy

"A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s."

- Princess Diana

"A mother’s love is like an everlasting bed of roses, that continues to blossom. A mother’s love bears strength, comfort, healing, and warmth. Her beauty is compared to a sunny day that shines upon each rose petal and inspires hope."

- Ellen J. Barrier

"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

"When you look into your mother's eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth."

- Mitch Albom

"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

"You will always be the miracle that makes my life complete."

- George Strait

"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

"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 was my role model before I even knew what that word was."

- Lisa Leslie

"Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face."

- George Eliot

"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

"A daughter is one of the most beautiful gifts this world has to give."

- Laurel Atherton

"Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That’s what little girls are made of."

- Bethany Hamilton

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

- Christie Watson

"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

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

- Iyanla Vanzant

"My highest hope for her is just that she has the fearlessness to always be her authentic self, no matter what she thinks men want her to be."

- Channing Tatum

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

- Emily Dickinson

"Motherhood: All love begins and ends there."

- Robert Browning

"Children and mothers never truly part, bound in the beating of each other’s heart."

- Charlotte Gray

"Being a mother is learning about the strengths you didn’t know you had… and dealing with fears you didn’t know existed."

- Linda Wooten

"A mother’s treasure is her daughter."

- Catherine Pulsifer

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

- Caitlin Houston

"The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life... the stronger the daughter."

- Anita Diamant

"My highest hope for her is just that she has the fearlessness to always be her authentic self."

- Channing Tatum

"Little girls are the nicest things that happen to people. They are born with a little bit of angel-shine about them, and though it wears thin sometimes there is always enough left to lasso your heart."

- Alan Beck

"Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field since the payment is pure love."

- Mildred Vermont

"Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws."

- Barbara Kingsolver

"I’ve never had a moment’s doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life."

- Ian McEwan

"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

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

- Taylor Swift

"Life is tough my darling, but so are you."

- Stephanie Bennet Henry

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

- Sonya Teclai

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

- Sharon Olds

"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

"Dream big, for dreams do come true."

- Walt Disney

"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

"My mother was my first country, the first place I ever lived."

- Nayyirah Waheed

"The woman who is my best friend, my teacher, my everything: Mom."

- Sandra Vischer

"Mothers and daughters together are a powerful force to be reckoned with."

- Melia Keeton-Digby

"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

"Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy."

- Tina Fey

"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

"I love my mother as trees love water and sunshine. She helps me grow, prosper, and reach great heights."

- Terri Guillemets

"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

"We are born of love; love is our mother."

- Rumi

"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

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

- Terri Guillemets

"Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together."

- Susan Gale

"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

"It doesn't matter how old you are or what you do in your life. You never stop needing your mom."

- Kate Winslet

"The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life, the stronger the daughter."

- Anita Diamant

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"From that moment, and for the rest of my life, my mother's words—perceptive and many others—have helped me to be the thing she saw and named in me."

- Karen Swallow Prior

"Mother was comfort. Mother was home."

- Ruta Sepetys

"Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire."

- Jennifer Lee

"It may be that loving children, radically and beyond reason, expands our capacity to love others, particularly our own mothers."

- Kelly Corrigan

"’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

"The only good poem I’ve ever written is you. A daughter is a poem. A daughter is a kind of psalm. You, in the world, responding to me, is the song I made. I cannot make another."

- Kaitlyn Greenidge

"To the moon and back, that’s how much I love you"

- Sam McBratney

"Sometimes even grown women need their mother's comfort so they can take a break from all that being strong."

- Colleen Hoover

"She was my constant lantern when, like now, the world was dark and I didn't know which way to go."

- Penn Cole

"And though she be but little, she is fierce."

- Shakespeare

"Mother is comfort. Mother is home."

- Ruta Sepetys

"I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled."

- Emily Dickinson

"Maybe it’s true that in the end, all daughters turn into their mothers."

- Paula Ramón

"Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart."

- Winnie the Pooh

"The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex."

- Wynonna Judd

"Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved."

- Erich Fromm

"There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one."

- Jill Churchill

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

- Dorothy C. Fisher

"We mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters’ lengthening flight."

- Letty Cottin Pogrebin

"Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing."

- Ricki Lake

"The more a daughter knows the details of her mother’s life the stronger the daughter."

- Anita Diamant

"Each day I give thanks for you and appreciate all that you do."

- Catherine Pulsifer

"I like it when my mother smiles. And I especially like it when I make her smile."

- Adriana Trigiani

"When someone asks you where you come from, the answer is your mother."

- Anna Quindlen

"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

"God couldn't be everywhere so that is why he invented mothers."

- Diane Keaton

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

- Signe Hammer

"Mother is the heartbeat in the home; and without her, there seems to be no heart throb."

- leroy Bronlow

"The dearest things I know are what you are."

- Oscar Hammerstein II

"Maybe motherhood means honoring one's mother."

- Sheila Heti

"Little girls are the nicest things that happen to people. They are born with a little bit of angelshine about them, and though it wears thin sometimes there is always enough left to lasso your heart."

- Alan Beck

"A child's first teacher is its mother."

- Peng Liyuan

"By the time you realize your mother was right, you have a daughter who thinks that you’re wrong."

- Sada Malhotra

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

- Jodi Picoult

"Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Mothers were the only ones you could depend on to tell the whole, unvarnished truth."

- Margaret Dilloway

"At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us."

- Albert Schweitzer

"Be Yourself. Everyone Else is Already Taken."

- Oscar Wilde

"Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation."

- Robert A. Heinlein

"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness."

- Honoré de Balzac

"A daughter is a treasure and a cause of sleeplessness."

- Ben Sirach

"As they get older, our daughters become more and more like us too."

- Amy Newmark

"Motherhood is difficult and rewarding."

- Gloria Estefan

"I got it from my mama."

- Will.I.Am

"From a little girl so very small, how and when did you get so tall?"

- Karen Mortensen

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

- Anonymous

"The phrase ‘working mother’ is redundant."

- Jane Sellman

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

- Carrie Latet

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

- Rick Riordan

"If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?."

- Milton Berle

"Thank you for being the answer to the prayer I hadn’t realized I asked for."

- Marisa Donnelly

"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

"It's not easy being a mom. If it were, fathers would do it."

- Betty White

"Most mothers are instinctive philosophers."

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

"I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then, I want to move in with them."

- Phyllis Diller

"Life doesn't come with a manual; it comes with a mother."

- Anonymous

"If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?"

- Milton Berle

"Since I’ve heard your first scream and saw your wonderful eyes, my heart has been stolen. And it was the prettiest thief I’ve ever seen."

"I have never dreamt of having a better daughter than you. You made my life complete."

- Unknown

"You are such a beautiful girl, and I’m so proud of the incredible way that you are growing up. Even at such a young age, you are full of wisdom, kindness, compassion, and courage."

- Unknown

"If you ever feel like giving up, just remember there is a little girl watching who wants to be just like you."

- Unknown

"Stand tall, my girl, even when the world tries to make you small."

"Your heart, my shelter; your happiness, my purpose."

"A daughter may outgrow your lap, but she will never outgrow your heart."

"Your dreams are mine, too. Chase them."

"In you, I see the best parts of me."

"Mothers hold their children's hands for a short while, but their hearts forever."

"You carry my love with you, wherever you go."

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

"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 am a strong woman because a strong woman raised me."

"The most precious jewels you’ll ever have around your neck are the arms of your children."

"A mother is a daughter's best friend."

"First my mother, forever my friend."

"A daughter is God's way of saying, 'Thought you could use a lifelong friend.'"

"A daughter is just a little girl who grows up to be your best friend."

"I hope you believe in yourself as much as I believe in you."

"A daughter is someone you laugh with, dream with, and love with all your heart."

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

- Unknown

"A mother and a daughter always share a special bond, which is engraved on their hearts."

"Mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take."

"My favorite house is my mother."

"The love between a mother and daughter is FOREVER."

"No one in this world can love a girl more than her mother."

- Unknown

"Her smile makes me smile. Her laugh is infectious. Her heart is pure and true. Above all, I love that she is my daughter."

"To my beautiful daughter, always remember: you are brave, you are capable, you are pretty, and you can accomplish ANYTHING your heart desires! I know this because I am your mother."

- Unknown

"No matter how old you get, you’ll always be my baby girl."

- Unknown

"I did not give you the gift of life, life gave me the gift of you."

"Mother and daughter from the start, best friends forever from the heart."

"There is nothing as powerful as a mother's love, and a child's soul."

- Unknown

"Daughters are far more precious than jewels."

"Daughter, your courage inspires me daily."

"A daughter is a day brightener and a heart warmer."

"Angels are often disguised as daughters."

- Unknown

"Mothers and daughters are closest, when daughters become mothers."

"Grow strong, grow kind, but most importantly, grow free."

"You’re always with me, like a handprint on my heart."

"Happiness is mother and daughter time."

"My greatest blessings call me mom."

- Unknown

"Always love your mother because you will never get another."

- Unknown

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

- Unknown

"I smile because I’m your daughter, I laugh because there’s nothing you can do about it."

- Unknown

"Mother (n): A person who does the work of many. For free."

- Unknown

"Mom – a title just above the queen."

"A mother is a daughter’s best friend."

"You’re not just my daughter; you are the keeper of my heart’s secrets."

"Remember, kindness is your greatest strength"

"Nothing is really lost until your mom can't find it."

- Unknown

"Never dim your light; the world needs your brilliance"

"Together, there is nothing we cannot face. We stand together, always."

"If you have ever done me wrong, just know my mom knows and she doesn't like you."

- 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

"Daughter, your strength gives me strength. Your dreams inspire my own."

"If at first you don't succeed, try doing it the way Mom told you to in the beginning."

- Unknown

"From little girl to my best friend: Thank you for growing with me."

"Mother. One person who does the work of twenty. For free."

- Unknown

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

- Unknown

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

- Unknown