A daughter is a gift of love.

There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself.

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.

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

To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.

A daughter is a day brightener and a heart warmer.

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

A mother's treasure is her daughter.

A daughter is a little girl who grows up to be a friend.

Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.

And thou shalt in thy daughter see, This picture, once, resembled thee.

A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of her self.

A son is a son till he takes him a wife, a daughter is a daughter all of her life.

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

Mothers and daughters are closest, when daughters become mothers.

While we try to teach our children all about life, Our children teach us what life is all about.

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.