Quotes about Like a Mother

God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness. Votes: 4

You can't help but feel a little bit like a mother to the younger cast members. Votes: 4

I like being a mother. Votes: 2

I never felt like I had a mother. Votes: 2

Becoming a grandmother has felt like being a mother. Votes: 2

I look a lot like my father and his mother. Votes: 2

The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction. Votes: 2

I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother. Votes: 2

If I were like your mother, I would be a woman. Votes: 2

When will society, like a mother, take care of all her children? Votes: 2

Sorry, there's nothing like a screaming baby to make a mother twitch. Votes: 2

I'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25. Votes: 2

One day treats us like a hireling nurse, another like a mother. Votes: 2

There is no other love like a mother's love for her child, Votes: 2

If you want to be treated like a mother, act like one. Votes: 2

For a long time I was scared I'd find out I was like my mother. Votes: 2

Skills are called hidden treasure as they save like a mother in a foreign country. Votes: 2

A car is like a mother-in-law - if you let it, it will rule your life. Votes: 2

A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes. Votes: 2

My mother could do absolutely anything. She was like Martha Stewart before such a thing existed. Votes: 2

As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging. Votes: 2

Prayer sometimes dulls the hunger of the pauper, like a mother's finger thrust into the mouth of her starving baby. Votes: 2

Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage in their development. Votes: 2

I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.' Votes: 2

When the heart acknowledges how much pain there is in the mind, it turns like a mother toward a frightened child. Votes: 2

A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn't like a mother's womb. It won't bleed. It won't stretch to make room for you. Votes: 2

I believe that an author who cannot control her characters is, like a mother who cannot control her children, not really fit to look after them. Votes: 2

Philanthropy is natural. For a mother, taking care of her children is natural. If I am rich, I take care of the poor, like a mother would. Votes: 2

My mother never liked Mother's Day. She thought it was a fake holiday dreamed up by Hallmark to commodify deep sentiments that couldn't be expressed with a card. Votes: 2

Learning is like a cow of desire. It, like her, yields in all seasons. Like a mother, it feeds you on your journey. Therefore learning is a hidden treasure. Votes: 2

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night. Votes: 2

Silent waters rocking on the morning of our birth, like an empty cradle waiting to be filled. And from the heart of God the Spirit moved upon the earth, like a mother breathing life into her child. Votes: 2

There is no theoretical study of motherhood. You know, before I became a mother, I did play a mother, but I was like - I was more thinking of my own mother. I was doing my mother. Votes: 2

Mother humor is such a universal theme. I wrote a show called '25 Questions for a Jewish Mother.' I had people coming up to me after the show saying, 'I'm Baptist, and my mother is just like yours.' Votes: 2

I feel like a mother-queen-vampire-Dracula because I want to make more girls so I can have more friends and more girls to play with, you know? For a long time, it was really just me. There were other girls in the niche underground, but not on a world level. Votes: 2

There is no human love like a mother's love. There is no human tenderness like a mother's tenderness......In all ages everywhere, the true children of a true mother 'rise up and call her blessed'; for they realize, sooner or later, that God gives no richer blessing to man than is found in a mother's love. Votes: 2

The first gatherings of the garden in May of salads, radishes and herbs made me feel like a mother about her baby - how could anything so beautiful be mine. And this emotion of wonder filled me for each vegetable as it was gathered every year. There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has grown. Votes: 2

My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong. Votes: 2

My mother did not like children. Votes: 0

Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me. Votes: 0

Like father like son, like mother like daughter! Votes: 0

Im like my mother, I stereotype. Its faster. Votes: 0

Mother and daughter like spoons in a drawer. Votes: 0

Mother went out again tonight, looking like a courtesan. Votes: 0

The one who rules like the mother lasts long. Votes: 0

I loved my mother, but I don't like her. Votes: 0

My mother, she's like, She can work on herself. Votes: 0

I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother. Votes: 0

Greatness is in simplicity and in kindness, like Mother Theresa. Votes: 0

A novelist is a man who doesn't like his mother. Votes: 0

I believe it stands for 'mother I'd like to...befriend, Votes: 0

Because everyone is someone's child, every woman seems like someone's mother. Votes: 0

Like my mother said, you can't go back to holding hands Votes: 0

like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone. Votes: 0

I remember mother saying : Inventors are like poets, a trashy lot Votes: 0

Scrum is like your mother-in-law, it points out ALL your faults. Votes: 0

Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother. Votes: 0

Father's Day is like Mother's Day except the gift is cheaper. Votes: 0

My children love me. I'm like the mother they never had. Votes: 0

My mother taught me beauty really lives in places like a smile. Votes: 0

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like. Votes: 0

I'd get demolitions experts to rig mother to implode like a skyscraper. Votes: 0

Mother was a talkative person, and I was a lot like her. Votes: 0

Talking about your home town is like talking about your own mother. Votes: 0

Like my mother before me, I have always been a good speller. Votes: 0

My mother wasn't strong like my aunt. She was just very passive. Votes: 0

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. Votes: 0

I hope to start enjoying flirting again when I'm 70, like my mother did. Votes: 0

I'd like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie. Votes: 0

Like the mother of the world, touch each being as your beloved child. Votes: 0

You know which title I like best? I like to be called mother. Votes: 0

Holy mother!" "Hmph. More like holy father. I'd think you'd know the difference." -Hephaetus Votes: 0

I kind of like the position of being the fair-haired savior of my mother Votes: 0

I'd like to buy my mother her dream home. Hopefully it will happen soon. Votes: 0

The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public. Votes: 0

I'm strong. I like to mother people, look after people. I lead the gang. Votes: 0

My writings are my letters to the universe, who loved me like a mother. Votes: 0

So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap. Votes: 0

I haven't spoken to my mother-in-law for eighteen months-I don't like to interrupt her. Votes: 0

I certainly wanted for my mother a nice, quiet easy death like everyone else wants. Votes: 0

For a bookworm like Mother, a Brontë novel sister was better than a biological one. Votes: 0

I always assumed that like my mother before me, one day I would have children. Votes: 0

My mother-in-law has so many wrinkles, when she smiles she looks like a Venetian blind. Votes: 0

There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears. Votes: 0

I don't like the word 'businesswoman.' Perhaps 'committed mother' would be the best description. Votes: 0

There's healthy attachment, like with a mother and child. It's biologically part of our survival. Votes: 0

You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a two-by-four. Votes: 0

My child has done nothing wrong apart from being born to a mother like me Votes: 0

All I ever learned at my mother's knee was what a bony knee looked like. Votes: 0

There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing. Votes: 0

By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp. Votes: 0

Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow. Votes: 0

OF COURSE I'd like to be the ideal mother. But I'm too busy raising children. Votes: 0

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted. Votes: 0

She looked like a mother protecting her child of course, we're talking a half-crazed, bloodthirsty mother. Votes: 0

My mother was like a sister to me, only we didn't have sex quite so often. Votes: 0

I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them. Votes: 0

Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies. Votes: 0

Plus, according to my mother, memories change like people do, especially if there's enough alcohol involved-Aphrodite Votes: 0

My mother could do absolutely anything. She was like Martha Stewart before such a thing existed Votes: 0

My mother's nickname for me is Positive Patrick. I like to live up to that title. Votes: 0

Like any good shaman, professional baseball player, or politician, my mother always answered questions with questions. Votes: 0

I feel like being on Broadway will convince my mother that my theater degree was worth it. Votes: 0

Her other mother smiled brightly and the hair on her head drifted like plants under the sea. Votes: 0

I like changing my hairstyle, much to my mother's annoyance. It depends on my state of mind. Votes: 0

You look at the Barefoot Contessa or Lydia Bastianich, and it's just like watching your mother cooking. Votes: 0

My mother is extraordinary; she's a superwoman, like so many other single mothers who are out there. Votes: 0

I travel like a gypsy, and I didn't know how I could perform and be a mother. Votes: 0

I like having a good time. It's probably my mother's Brazilian genes in me - party, party. Votes: 0

My mother's been married many, many times and grew up believing in love like that. It's remarkable. Votes: 0

I'm not a big fan of doing what my mother wants me to do, like any daughter. Votes: 0

A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in. Votes: 0

You could be my son. You even look like me a little bit... Say, who's your mother? Votes: 0

I like it when my mother smiles. And I especially like it when I make her smile. Votes: 0

Like, my mother would have company over, and I would sing so they'd pay attention to me. Votes: 0

My family was very unorthodox. My mother was very eccentric and amazing. She always treated us like adults. Votes: 0

My mother made a brilliant impression upon my childhood life. She shone for me like the evening star. Votes: 0

Acceptance is to love and embrace everything that we find within ourselves like a mother embraces her child. Votes: 0

I'm not saying my mother didn't like me, but she kept looking for loopholes in my birth certificate. Votes: 0

If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before. Votes: 0

I'd like to be a wife and mother. I guess I'll know Mr. Right when I meet him. Votes: 0

I have an older sister who sounds, unfortunately, exactly like me, and we sound like our mother did. Votes: 0

So why in the name of Merlin's saggy left "”" "Don't talk to your mother like that. Votes: 0

Becoming a mother was the single defining event of my life. It felt like the whole world shifted. Votes: 0

Well, hello there, Mother,” Sebastian said in a voice like silk. “Surprised to see me? Votes: 0

Every time I find a girl who can cook like my mother - she looks like my father Votes: 0

I resented my mother for guessing my innermost secrets. She was like God, everywhere at once knowing everything. Votes: 0

I'm a mother, so I instantly identified with what that would be like and the horror of that. Votes: 0

I'd like to thank my mother, my father, the Academy. I'm sorry. I was thinking of something else. Votes: 0

My mother was a dancer, so I like to use the body as part of the instrument of acting. Votes: 0

Nobody ever told you that being a mother is all about making what seemed like thousands of tiny decisions. Votes: 0

Saying the Tech Bloom is not commercially driven is like saying Mother Teresa had an interest in the poor. Votes: 0

My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him... My mother is British, but she's of French extraction. Votes: 0

To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother. Votes: 0

Everything had felt so precarious since her mother's death, like she was walking on a bridge made of paper. Votes: 0

My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him My mother is British, but she's of French extraction. Votes: 0

God has always been to me not so much like a father as like a dear and tender mother. Votes: 0

My mother is from Cairo, Georgia. This makes everything she says sound like it went through a curling iron. Votes: 0

The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after. Votes: 0

Moths like me die by the thousands every minute. Her work goes on all the same. Glory unto Mother!... Votes: 0

Never lie to your mother. That's like the biggest lesson that I learned, learned throughout my life, you know? Votes: 0

You both sicken me. (Markus) It's what I live for"Father. Your eternal disgust succors me like mother's milk. (Fang) Votes: 0

I sound like such a tool, but becoming a mother has made me next-level confident. I've never felt more empowered. Votes: 0

Om is that God of love. Like a loving mother Om cleans us of our clutters collected through many incarnations. Votes: 0

The man who says, 'my country right or wrong' is like the man who says, 'my mother drunk or sober' Votes: 0

I learned to use language like my mother did. I would simulcast, give you the program in your own tongue. Votes: 0

When I was a little girl, my mother tried to make me dance, but I did not like it then. Votes: 0

Actually, the reason I look like this is because my father was from Sweden and my mother was Elton John. Votes: 0

Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see. Votes: 0

I like movies like Mother's Day, where you watch it, and you've liked it for years as a horror movie. Votes: 0

One of the great logical puzzles is how a woman is always like her mother but never like her sister. Votes: 0

We're blessed on 'How I Met Your Mother' to feel like we're doing a bit of a funny playlet everyday. Votes: 0

Man can never expect to start from scratch; he must start from ready-made things, like even his own mother and father. Votes: 0

I've written something like 17 novels, which isn't bad, I suppose, but my father wrote 120 books, my mother 40. In comparison, I'm lazy. Votes: 0

For a mother's love is fashioned, After God's enduring love, It is endless and unfailing, Like the love of Him above. Votes: 0

Like the appearance of silver in mother of pearl, the world seems real until the Self, the underlying reality, is realized. Votes: 0

My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending. Votes: 0

Being a publicist is like management in a lot of ways - you're their friend, you're their mother, you're their confidante. Votes: 0

I'm not much like my mother; that role falls to my brothers, who have more of her blithe and freewheeling spirit. Votes: 0

I am often asked which picture is my favorite. This is like asking a mother which child she likes the most. Votes: 0

My mother emails me stuff about when she finds a paparazzi photo and theyre like, his hair is out of control. Votes: 0

My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer. Votes: 0

David what your mother did to you was wrong. Verry wrong.No child deserves to be treated like that. She's sick. Votes: 0

My mother emails me stuff about when she finds a paparazzi photo and they're like, his hair is out of control. Votes: 0

My mother was like, "What did they teach you?", and I had never talked about that [sex-ed] so I freaked out. Votes: 0

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb. Votes: 0

I had a story-telling mother; she's written novels and short stories. So I feel like maybe I'm staying alive by telling tales. Votes: 0

A woman is like beer. They look good, they smell good, and you'd step over your own mother just to get one! Votes: 0

I took a straight picture that made me look like a thirty-year-old Italian who'd kill anybody who said something against his mother. Votes: 0

Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were. Votes: 0

I also want to go to an Italian island and do cuisine properly with some famous Italian chef and, like, his mother. Votes: 0

I think my mom just filled me with confidence. I just thought I was the best at everything. Like any mother really. Votes: 0

I view my wife as my lover, and we have a bond that goes beyond words like wife or girlfriend or mother. Votes: 0

No matter how old we become, we can still call them 'Holy Mother' and 'Father' and put a child-like trust in them. Votes: 0

I feel I am a child that's lost its mother. I feel like a calf whose mother has gone off to slaughter. Votes: 0

Like I said on my bio on my webpage, I was born at an early age, I was close to my mother. Votes: 0

A mother's love is like an island, In life's ocean vast and wide, A peaceful, quiet shelter, From the restless, rising tide. Votes: 0

My mother's last word to me clanks inside me like an iron bell that someone beats at dinnertime: love, love, love, love, love. Votes: 0

After my mother's death, I began to see her as she had really been.... It was less like losing someone than discovering someone. Votes: 0

My mother gave me a choice. She said, 'Would you like to take singing lessons or piano.' I'm glad I chose piano. Votes: 0

Being a mother is no longer a liability, and being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition! That's what change looks like. Votes: 0

My mother tries to explain that I need support and that I'm just going through a period of adjustment. "Like puberty," she says. Votes: 0

Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb. Votes: 0

Like most of us, I'm used to juggling about 52 roles in life. Wife. Mother. Sister. Friend. Author. Sometimes I feel a bit 'multiple-personality'. Votes: 0

We, like the Mother of the World, become the compassionate presence that can hold, with tenderness, the rising and passing waves of suffering. Votes: 0

Spiritualism is but a baby now, an unwelcome stranger, whom public opinion, like an unnatural foster mother, tries to crush out of existence. Votes: 0

I look at Barack [Obama], he's slim like my father, and Michelle's [Obama] full figured like my mother. And I just love it. Votes: 0

A mother's love is like a fortress, And we seek protection there, When the waves of tribulation, Seem to drown us in despair. Votes: 0

That's the way love sounds, my mother told me. You think it should feel like honey, but instead it cuts like a knife. Votes: 0

On Mother's Day: It's just a rip-off, to tell the truth, a chance to sell my perfume and other things that ladies like. Votes: 0

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories. Votes: 0

She was like a mother to me...and I betrayed as a daughter will betray her mother and yet, never stop loving her. Votes: 0

I never felt like a good Jew. My mother was not Jewish, and that makes me a non-Jew according to Jewish religious law. Votes: 0

Like every mother, my wish - every birthday - is for my children to stay healthy (and) for my family to remain healthy. Votes: 0

Bethink you of the blessedness. Every wife is like the Mother of God and has the hope of bearing a saviour of mankind. Votes: 0

Just remember, when your mother’s gnawing my ankle like a furious mama bear separated from her cum, I did it for you. Votes: 0

My mother says I'm like a disease that can walk into a room and get it infected. I can destroy things in seconds. Votes: 0

I like to make Arroz con Gandules, rice with pigeon peas. My husband loves it. It's a Puerto Rican dish my mother taught me. Votes: 0

Mother does not exist, like water that has given life to a flower and then disappeared. Mothers live somewhere after giving birth to us. Votes: 0

No, it happened. And right when your song ended, I knew - just like your mother - I was a goner,' Peeta says. Votes: 0

Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle. Votes: 0

A mother's love is like a tower, Rising far above the crowd, And her smile is like the sunshine, Breaking through a threatening cloud. Votes: 0

I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all. Votes: 0

For me, writing something in the spirit of Halloween is like Mother Teresa writing on charity and sacrifice. It's just second nature to me. Votes: 0

I should like the whole race of nurses to be abolished: children should be with their mother as much as possible, in my opinion. Votes: 0

With being a mother, I feel like you choose how you spend your time so much more carefully - which is a good thing. Votes: 0

Trust is like a mirror, you can fix it if it's broken, but you can still see the crack in that mother fucker's reflection. Votes: 0

What distinguished my life from my brother's is that my mother didn't like me. When I became a woman, I seemed to repel her. Votes: 0

There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother. Votes: 0

I asked people who have already finished books for advice, which is akin to asking a mother with a four-year-old what childbirth is like. Votes: 0

Like any working mother, I have to balance and manage my time very carefully. My children and husband come first, of course, then my work. Votes: 0

My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort of an oxymoron. Votes: 0

Your mother sets you up blind dates? With guys like that?" The corners of his mouth twitched. "She doesn't like you very much, does she? Votes: 0

Mother Earth is hurting. And she needs a generation of thoughtful, caring and active kids like all of you to protect her for the future. Votes: 0

The first gathering of salads, radishes and herbs made me feel like a mother about her baby - how could anything so beautiful be mine? Votes: 0

It seemed like an unachievable goal for one person to bring sunshine to one hundred little faces when what they need is a mother apiece. Votes: 0

My mother pretty much raised me to be a free spirit. Anything my father would say, she would tell me, 'No, it's like this.' Votes: 0

His Nana's prayers were moving toward his mother like little butterflies of thoughts wrapped in the most beautiful colors. Each prayer looked like a mini-rainbow. Votes: 0

I respect every mother and I believe people are entitled to use whatever benefits, claims and entitlements, if you like, that are available to them Votes: 0

Romanticism is the mother of kitsch and that there are moments when the child becomes so like its mother that one cannot differentiate between them Votes: 0

All Americans believe that they are born fishermen. For a man to admit a distaste for fishing would be like denouncing mother-love or hating moonlight. Votes: 0

Go to bed, Cammie,” my aunt ordered, sounding exactly like my mother. “No,” I said, sounding exactly like my aunt. Votes: 0

My parents split up when I was about 2. I realize more and more how much I'm like my father. My gentleness comes from my mother. Votes: 0

My mother once told me I was like water. Water can carve its way even through stone. And when trapped, water makes a new path. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Terri and her mother arrived. She was obviously a dedicated stage mother because she was loaded down with camera equipment, looking like a Japanese tourist. Votes: 0

For every hour a mother gets to herself, a father will demand five times that amount for drinking with friends and acting like an immature dipshit. Votes: 0

A mother's love is like a beacon, Burning bright with Faith and Prayer, And through the changing scenes of life, We can find a haven there.... Votes: 0

Don't get me wrong. Being a mom is no picnic. Raising the kids is the mother's responsibility. It's a thankless, solitary job, like sheriff or Pope. Votes: 0

Natural-born American means you don`t have to be naturalized. You were born to an American mother, like President Obama, no matter where you were born. Votes: 0

Mother's Day, like motherhood itself, is fraught with peril. There are so many ways to get it wrong, so many opportunities to disappoint and be disappointed. Votes: 0

My mother is a singer, my sisters all sing, my uncles are incredible singers and guitar players, so it's just kind of been like my habitat. Votes: 0

My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God's footsoldiers while our mother's is more like a good cloth coat with a secondhand fit. Votes: 0

Silvia Dunne's voice sounded calm and even, but April knew her mother was like a grenade with the pin out - she could explode any minute. Votes: 0

My mom, she wasn't like a baseball mother who knew everything about the game. She just wanted me to be happy with what I was doing. Votes: 0

Frances Stevens: Mother, this is why I've had to spend half my life running around the world after youto keep men like this away from you. Votes: 0

I was in film before I was on stage. I started acting when I was like 12. But, no, I think my mother indoctrinated me very early. Votes: 0

Everyone always says, 'Kristen got 'Panic Room' because she looks like Jodie Foster.' But it was actually Nicole Kidman who was supposed to play my mother. Votes: 0

My mother had all these maxims - like, classy girls never chew gum, never read comic books, never get their ears pierced, never get their hair dyed. Votes: 0

I like one hair, tuna fish, the smell of rain and things that are pink. I hate pimples, baked potatoes, when my mother's mad, and religious holidays. Votes: 0

We would like to see the virtual elimination of the transmission of [HIV] from mother to child by 2015. ... We believe it can be achieved with political will. Votes: 0

I'm a mother and I have a daughter. I'm lucky to be in a position where I'm able to teach her things like self love and acceptance. Votes: 0

I eat like a horse - my mother still brings me Cadbury's chocolate from Britain; I do have a very healthy appetite - but I work out. Votes: 0

I was raised by a strong mother and I never felt like I had to be a role, you know, I was just me, who I am. Votes: 0

People write me letters and say I should answer them. But I don't like to answer letters. I don't write letters. I've never written my mother one. Votes: 0

I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there. Votes: 0

Being a mother is probably the hardest job in the world. I feel like, in a lot of ways, children come into the world to teach us. Votes: 0

I enlisted when I was a boy. The Navy looked after me like my mother. It fed me, took care of me and gave me wonderful opportunities. Votes: 0

Like a child who suddenly stops sobbing when he is clasped in the arms of his mother, such will be the grip of heaven upon our souls. Votes: 0

It's still a mystery to me, but even though my mother was like an older sister to me, I kind of put her up on a pedestal. Votes: 0

You know what they say - sleep is the mother's drug of choice, but like heroin, only the very rich and the very poor can afford it. Votes: 0

Like a mother who protects her child, her only child, with her own life, one should cultivate a heart of unlimited love and compassion towards all living beings. Votes: 0

We are not a nation, so much as a world; for unless we claim all the world for our sire, like Melchisedec, we are without father or mother. Votes: 0

For their entire lives, even before they met you, your mother and father held their love for you inside their hearts like an acorn holds an oak tree. Votes: 0

For the sight of the angry weather saddens my soul and the sight of the town, sitting like a bereaved mother beneath layers of ice, oppresses my heart. Votes: 0

It's like my parents' musical tastes are the mother and father of my music. It's their fault for making me so emotional and in tune with my emotions! Votes: 0

Mother is a synonym for abandonment and death. Comparing this synonym to water, it is like poured-out water. I call it mother, the identity that I cannot identify. Votes: 0

I remember specifically my mother telling me growing up don't put my business in the street. I was like seven, and I am like, 'What does that mean. Votes: 0

If it weren't for the mentorship and guidance from people like my mother, James Brown and others, I wouldn't have been able to make something of my life. Votes: 0

My mother told me, you don't have to put anything in your mouth you don't want to. Then she made me eat broccoli, which felt like double standards. Votes: 0

I love Downton Abbey. It's just great. My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending. Votes: 0

I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother. Votes: 0

A Daughter: The companion, the friend, and the confidant of her mother, and the object of a pleasure something like the love between the angels to her father. Votes: 0

My relationship with my mother has always felt like the most complicated relationship of my life. I know I have a lot more writing to do on this. Votes: 0

We wondered why when a child laughed, he belonged to Daddy, and when he had a sagging diaper that smelled like a landfill, 'He wants his mother.' Votes: 0

Yes. Yes, when we live our life like 1950s detective films. I often go to my fridge, "Hullo, we're out of milk. I say mother, where's the milk?" Votes: 0

Eve had one advantage over all the rest of her sex. In his wildest moments of rage Adam never could accuse her of being 'just like her mother! Votes: 0

I'd like to believe there's a little of Hitler and Napoleon in me. Even if I try, I can't be as selfless as Mahatma Gandhi and Mother Teresa. Votes: 0

For the sight of the angry weather saddens my soul and the sight of the town, sitting like a bereaved mother beneath layers of ice, oppresses my heart. Votes: 0

I've always looked at America like a foster mother doing it only for the check. At any minute, I just knew she'd be ready to give up on me. Votes: 0

Whenever my teenage daughter comes down the stairs dressed like a tramp for her date, I think to myself: 'Damn, why won't her mother wear something like that ?' Votes: 0

My mother was supportive without knowing it. Deep down she wanted all the right things, she just didn't see the world like I did, and she's not supposed to. Votes: 0

I learned to draw everything except glamorous women. No matter how much I tried to make them look sexy, they always ended up looking silly... or like somebody's mother. Votes: 0

Playing Ann Landers is like channeling my mother. That combination of love and the enjoyment of life is my mother. And you find that combination in Ann Landers' letters. Votes: 0

[Kant] was like many people: in intellectual matters he was skeptical, but in moral matters he believed imjplicitly in the maximx that he had imbibed at his mother's knee. Votes: 0

[My mother] would have me smothered like the Princes in the Tower if I showed any inclination for being an artist. She thought all artists little better than lunatics. Votes: 0

To Southerners like my mother, 'Gone With the Wind' was not just a book; it was an answer, a clenched fist raised to the North, an anthem of defiance. Votes: 0

I don't really have a plan. I've lived a very big life, and I don't feel my age, and I feel like I was born to be a mother. Votes: 0

We should be the natural home for young mothers. But we're not. Because too often we sound like people who think the only good mother is a married mother. Votes: 0

My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in - like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order. Votes: 0

Satellite in my eyes Like a diamond in the sky How I wonder Satellite strung from the moon And the world your balloon Peeping Tom for the mother station Votes: 0

Eighty percent of my life is normal like any other mother. I worry about my children, if they're doing all right. I worry that my husband is doing well. Votes: 0

I couldn't help but think, This car is taking me to a mental hospital and my mother is treating it like open-mic night at a Greenwich Village café. Votes: 0

My mother and I were like two continents moving slowly but inexorably apart; my father, the bridge builder, constantly extending the fragile edifice he had constructed to connect us. Votes: 0

I'm lucky to have very good genes. My mother was so tiny she was almost bird-like, and my father was tall and lean. Both lived until their early 80s. Votes: 0

I remember specifically my mother telling me growing up don't put my business in the street. I was like seven, and I am like, 'What does that mean.' Votes: 0

We don't like to say that [my wife was Jewish] because her mother was Jewish, which means she was Jewish. So don't imply that my wife was a shikse. Votes: 0

it's just that I see love as odd as wearing shoes-- I never wanted to marry a girl who was like my mother And Ingrid Bergman was always impossible Votes: 0

I'd like to thank the academy and I'd like to thank my mother and I'd like to thank my mother again, because I forgot to thank her last year. Votes: 0

My mother's Puerto Rican and my father's Russian-Jewish, so we consider ourselves to be Jewricans or Puertojews. I think Puertojew sounds like a kosher bathroom, so I prefer Jewrican. Votes: 0

My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.' Votes: 0

People say you don't need a father to be successful. I take offense to that. I had an argument with my mom about Father's Day and why it's not celebrated like Mother's Day. Votes: 0

The Women of Our World are like Mother Earth. They don't just give life to the next generation but also to Hope. The Women of Our World are to be loved, respected and protected. Votes: 0

What if the church should be less concerned with creating saints than creating a world where we do not need saints? A world where people like Mother Teresa and MLK would have nothing to do. Votes: 0