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That sounded like something Mother would say, throwing color onto a black-and-white picture. — Ruta Sepetys

Hagnon fixes a value to everything. It occurs to Alexander that the man would probably sell his mother for an obol and consider it a deal. — Eleanor Herman

A mother who would stop at nothing for her child is dangerous woman when crossed. — Solange Nicole

My mother said I would have more chances to become a tennis player than a football player. — Marat Safin

Being a mother must be the saddest yet the most hopeful thing in the world, falling into a love that, once started, would never end. — Yiyun Li

Ever since I was a little girl, I always loved fashion. I would watch my mother get dressed and suggest things she should wear. — Monique Lhuillier

We were so poor that my mother would often leave me in a foster home until she could raise enough money to rent rooms for us. — Carmen Dell'Orefice

When I was a child I wanted to be a vet. I'd come home with "lost" kittens and dogs. My mother would tell me to put them back. — Philippa Gregory

Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion. — Oriana Fallaci

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. -Mother Teresa- — A Meredith Walters

I never received any encouragement. My father would work nights and my mother would work during the day. We were expected to get a job with a trade. — Ozzy Osbourne

My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor. — Matt Damon

Blessed is a mother that would give up part of her soul for her children's happiness. — Shannon L. Alder

And I've always been paranoid. I can remember as a baby my mother would spin the mobile above my head and thinking ... yeah, that's coming down. — Dennis Miller

I am a complete mother's boy. I try to do everything with honour, respect and grace because the last thing I would want to do is hurt her. — Julian Lennon

My mother had no idea that her daughter would turn out to be a writer, but she would not let me go through a day of my childhood without music. — Virginia Euwer Wolff

If my mother hadn't been trying to be a writer, I don't know if I would have thought of it myself. — John Updike

Your mother's in here, Karras. Would you like to leave a message? I'll see that she gets it. — William Peter Blatty

If I were like your mother, I would be a woman. — Ryan Stiles

She's frightened of me. Mother would be so proud. He turned away, skewering a fish on one of his claws. I guess I did threaten to slice off her face. — Tui T. Sutherland

A teacher told my mother that I would never become successful, which illustrates the difficulty of long-run forecasting on inadequate data. — Clive Granger

There was a ton of fighting between my mother and father. The kids would be thrown into the middle, to choose sides. — Nick Carter

If she fully embraced life with all its conflicts, she would suffer a breakdown. — Dean Koontz

Being a mother, singer and actress is a definite juggling act, but I don't think I would be comfortable any other way. — Christina Aguilera

If I'd been a thorn in Mother's side, Angelina would be the whole briar patch. — Sue Monk Kidd

She is the mother I never had, she is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don't know a better person. — Oprah Winfrey

My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer. — Mick Jagger

They were a mother's words, words I would say to my own daughter if I were concerned for her — Tracy Chevalier

My mother told me once that she and my father agreed that I would not be brought up Jewish in Chicago. She had me going to a Methodist church. — Wesley Clark

I remember when I was a kid I used to come home from Sunday School and my mother would get drunk and try to make pancakes — George Carlin

I would want to be a very present mother. You know, something that I never had. — Traci Lords

Besides, who would think of marrying a mothball? A question my mother put to me often, later, in other forms. — Margaret Atwood

This is really why I made my daughters learn to garden - so they would always have a mother to love them, long after I am gone. — Robin Wall Kimmerer

Sometimes she would whisper the word Mama and see her mother's face a hundred times in a single afternoon. — Markus Zusak

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity. — Eleanor Roosevelt

I thought that would go without saying, that if a mother gives up her children, it's very painful. — Doris Lessing

As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging. — Damien Hirst

The thought that my mother would suddenly be a foreigner would upset me very much. — Tony Benn

My mother would not be distracted from her grief. To this day it remains a hobby. — Gillian Flynn

I was a loud child, and if my mother sang to me, I would be quiet. — Maya Rudolph

Ain't too young for nothing." "In some societies that would be true. Different places. Different times. You'd be old enough to be a wife and mother. — Karen Marie Moning

When a song came on the radio that I wanted to learn, my mother would quickly write down the lyrics for me. Soon after, I would be singing it. — Kiran Ahluwalia

The key to living a moral life is this: Do nothing in private that you would be ashamed to discuss openly with your mother. — J. P. Morgan

My mother tried to kill me when I was a baby. She denied it. She said she thought the plastic bag would keep me fresh. — Bob Monkhouse

My mother once told me she thought hell would be nothing more than being given a glimpse of God
then having it taken away, forever. — Glen Duncan

Can you stop your mother from singing to you? Who would do such a thing? — Louise Erdrich

I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image. — David Bowie

I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the painter of a great masterpiece. — Rose Kennedy

My mother was a seamstress, so making clothes was not something you would willingly go into. — Phillip Lim

Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder. — Nick Bostrom

She said she promised her mother that she would never drink a drop of wine. That was the drop she never drank. — Joe Haldeman

When I was young, I thought I wouldn't be a good mother. Now I think I would be, but I'm too long in the tooth. — Robyn Davidson

I would, if checking boxes in a questionnaire, say I would oppose abortion except when the life of the mother is in danger. — Michael Baumgartner

Let's just say it was obvious from a very early age the only female heart I'd ever break would be my mother's. — J.L. Merrow

My mother would have loved this girl. Too bad she was just a dream — Colleen Hoover

We realize that what we are accomplishing is a drop in the ocean. But if this drop were not in the ocean, it would be missed. — Mother Teresa

I'm not the kind of guy a girl would take home to her mother. She'd kick the girl out and probably call the cops on me. — Steve Jones

No self-respecting mother would run out of intimidations on the eve of a major holiday. — Erma Bombeck

On played the Mayor's daughters in Horton Hears a Who: I had never done animation, so I thought it would be cool to try something different. — Selena Gomez

There's a Mother's Day and there's a Father's Day, but there's no Children's Day. It would mean a lot. World peace. — Michael Jackson

Someday her child would be a stranger to her, and she would be strange to him ... but not as strange as her own mother had become to her. — Stephen King

My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas. — Kary Mullis

Come morning, his memory would be of a night spent watching over them all. And each of them - dog and boy, mother and old man - would feel the same. — David Wroblewski

My mother's from Thailand, and they're very strict about girls in bikinis, but I would love to do a shoot in the floating market in Thailand. — Christine Teigen

As a boy, when I was bad, my mother would chew me out in Spanish. And since I was bad a lot, I learned a lot of Spanish! — John Sununu

As a child, I was very careful not to erase my mother's writing on the chalkboard because I would miss her. — Joyce Rachelle

When I was a child my mother would tell me that people lost soul in two ways: someone could take it from you, or you'd surrender it willingly. — Tarryn Fisher

My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist. — Joely Richardson

there as a kid, wide-eyed, listening as my mother would talk about how at age nine she — Peter M. Rhee

All of my decisions I made when I was a kid were decisions, would my mother and father be proud of. — Ken Venturi

My mother was a Mohawk, born and raised on a reservation, and when I was a kid, she would take me there to visit her relatives. — Robbie Robertson

If you would really study my pleasure, mother, you must consider your own comfort and convenience a little more than you do. — Anne Bronte

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.' — Action Bronson

Yet you would not drive a car with your mouth unless you are my mother-in-law. — Jean-Louis Gassee

God intended motherhood to be a relay race. Each generation would pass the baton on to the next. — Mary Pride

I would rather be a fairly happy wife and mother. — Mary MacLane

She sees me once in a guy's arms and she has us married already. I wonder what Raffe would think of my mom being his mother-in-law. — Susan Ee

Looking at a king's mouth, ' said an old man, 'one would think he never sucked at his mother's breast. — Chinua Achebe

My mother had no end of tragedy in her life. She would make herself get up and take a deep breath and go out and do laundry. Hang up sheets. — Patti Smith

The only way that a mother would go after her own children is if she's just completely gone and has no humanity. — Katee Sackhoff

If you knew how great is a mother's love, you would have no fear. — J.M. Barrie

My mother once told me, when you have to make a decision, imagine the person you want to become someday. Ask yourself, what would that person do? — Barry Deutsch

Catelyn wanted to run to him, to kiss his sweet brow, to wrap him in her arms so tightly that he would never come to harm ... — George R R Martin

My mother was a very difficult woman to please. She was the sort of woman who thought that if I were praised I would get above myself. — Mem Fox

I'm a mother, so I instantly identified with what that would be like and the horror of that. — Frances O'Connor

My mother made soft polenta often, and as a child, I would watch her stir until she looked like her arm would fall off. — Leo Buscaglia

I was kind of a misfit, and when my mother died, I had to become an adult, something that I never thought I would ever be. — Martha Wainwright

I won't talk about someone's mother. I won't talk about their girlfriend or their wife, but if you have a deformity, I would talk about that. — Shannon Sharpe

You know how they say behind every great man there's a great woman? My mother would say, No, the woman is three steps ahead. — Renee Carlino

When my dad needed a shirt ironed, he would yell downstairs to my mother, who would drop everything and iron his shirt. — Hope Davis

A good woman would rather be the mother of a genius than the wife of a hero — Gelett Burgess

When my old man wanted sex, my mother would show him a picture of me. — Rodney Dangerfield

My mother made a sound that from a lesser woman would have been a snort. — Josh Lanyon

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

I'm a director, but I gotta have the hair, the makeup and the heels. My mother would be appalled if I didn't dress up. — Nicole Holofcener

Two doctorates. My mother would be so happy. If you didn't have a dick. — K.A. Mitchell

One of the things I would have loved to have had was a family that worked better together, although I love my mother and father to bits. — Andy Murray

Do not run a campaign that would embarrass your mother. — Robert Byrd

My father was what you would call a cowboy, a vaquero; he worked out in the ranches with cattle. And my mother came from farmers down in the valley. — Rudolfo Anaya

But given everything I do know, no matter how hard it is, how lonely or stressful, still, I would not want to leave this earth without being a mother. — Kelly Corrigan