Daughters become the women who change the world

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




A daughter is a gift of love.  ~Author Unknown




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




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.  ~Joseph Addison




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




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




Daughter am I in my mother's house, but mistress in my own.  ~Rudyard Kipling




A mother's treasure is her daughter.  ~Catherine Pulsifer, Inspirational Words of Wisdom




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




How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters!  Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all.  They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards.  ~John Gay




Mothers and daughters are closest, when daughters become mothers.  ~Author Unknown




If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.  ~Thomas Fuller




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




A daughter is a day brightener and a heart warmer.  ~Author Unknown




Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half - especially if he has a teenage daughter.  ~Guy Lombardo




Many an Irish property was increased by the lace of a daughter's petticoat.  ~Irish Proverb




He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin.  ~English Proverb




A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity, that ever were written.  ~Thomas Jefferson




I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.  ~Peter Ustinov




Any astronomer can predict with absolute accuracy just where every star in the universe will be at 11.30 tonight.  He can make no such prediction about his teenage daughter.  ~James T. Adams