Quotes on Mother And Daughter

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.

My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.

I am all the time talking about you, and bragging, to one person or another. I am like the Ancient Mariner, who had a tale in his heart he must unfold to all. I am always buttonholing somebody and saying, "Someday you must meet my mother."

The essential thing about mothers is that one needs to know that they are there, particularly at that age when, paradoxically, one is trying so hard to break away from parental influence.

A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's.

There is nothing more precious than laughter

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

We are born haunted, he said, his voice weak, but still clear. Haunted by our fathers and mothers and daughters, and by people we don't remember. We are haunted by otherness, by the path not taken, by the life unlived. We are haunted by the changing winds and the ebbing tides of history. And even as our own flame burns brightest, we are haunted by the embers of the first dying fire. But mostly, said Lord Jim, we are haunted by ourselves.