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

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