Inspiring Mom and Daughter Quotes to Cherish Forever

"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

"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, 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

"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

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

- Anita Diamant

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

- Kate Winslet

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

- Laurel Atherton

"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

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

- Sandra Vischer

"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

"Mother was comfort. Mother was home."

- Ruta Sepetys

"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

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

- Diane Keaton

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

- Caitlin Houston

"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

"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

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

- Emily Dickinson

"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

"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

"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

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

- Christie Watson

"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

"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

"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

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

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

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

"A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future."

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

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

"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.'"

"Happiness is mother and daughter time."

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