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

Shitbucket, hellfire, damnation, and son of a mother bitch, said Rosaleen, laying into each word like it was sweet potatoes on her tongue. — Sue Monk Kidd

The bar exam's a mother. I mean, for me it was. I failed it the first two times, but I guess it's like losing your virginity, third time's the charm. — Jimmy McGill

Magic," her mother said, "is a kind of hope. And wishes are like dreams. When we have them, we can make things change. Without, we stay the same. — Avi

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. — Lady Gaga

My mother was a dancer, so I like to use the body as part of the instrument of acting. — Nicolas Cage

I'd like to be a wife and mother. I guess I'll know Mr. Right when I meet him. — Marcia Cross

She believed in her dream like a fabled virgin mother expecting a messiah. — C.J. Anderson

For a long time I was scared I'd find out I was like my mother. — Marilyn Monroe

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. — Amy Poehler

But being without a mother is like being stripped naked and thrown into the snow. — Nadia Hashimi

Nobody ever told you that being a mother is all about making what seemed like thousands of tiny decisions. — Liane Moriarty

He had never thought that a fugitive might be a hapless mother, a defenceless child, - like — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Loneliness, mother said, is like a hammer blow that shatters glass but hardens steel. — Amos Oz

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

I remember mother saying : Inventors are like poets, a trashy lot — Muriel Rukeyser

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. — Leonardo DiCaprio

Helianthus snorted. "Olorun is like his mother: he will only change as the face of a rock changes. But . . . I think he missed you. — Ash Gray

My mother says I'm like a disease that can walk into a room and get it infected. I can destroy things in seconds. — Georgina Chapman

Being a publicist is like management in a lot of ways - you're their friend, you're their mother, you're their confidante. — Debi Mazar

You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a two-by-four. — Dan Birdwell

Every time I find a girl who can cook like my mother - she looks like my father — Tony Randall

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

Success will not come to you like a baby who came to his mother — Isra

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. — David Ortiz

If you want to be treated like a mother, act like one. — Jeannette Walls

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted. — Jim Carrey

A beautiful death is for people who lived like animals to die like angels - loved and wanted. — Mother Teresa

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. — Mia James

I certainly wanted for my mother a nice, quiet easy death like everyone else wants. — Edmund Kemper

I don't feel like I need to be a successor to my mother, or her work. — Peaches Geldof

To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother. — Barry Humphries

My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending. — Jack Whitehall

My mother always says that love is like a snakebite, a venom slowly spreading through your veins — Cynthia Hand

A lot of people have told me they have mothers like my mother. I seriously doubt it. — Hannah Gadsby

Her mom looked like a queen, like the star of some fairy tale.
Not a princess - princesses are just pretty. Eleanor's mother was beautiful. — Rainbow Rowell

My mother is from Cairo, Georgia. This makes everything she says sound like it went through a curling iron. — Augusten Burroughs

If I do a movie where I have to have a son and it's a chubby kid, my mother is always like, 'You were never like that.' She gets so upset about it. — Kevin James

Becoming a mother was the single defining event of my life. It felt like the whole world shifted. — Debra Messing

You're acting like a mother hen." Which I love. "Cluck, cluck," he deadpans — Kristen Callihan

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. — Barbara Kingsolver

It was her mother, I didn't know what to say, I was hanging by a string. She said, hey you two, I was once like you and liked to do the wild thing. — Tone-Loc

God has always been to me not so much like a father as like a dear and tender mother. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

A mother's love is like an island, In life's ocean vast and wide, A peaceful, quiet shelter, From the restless, rising tide. — Helen Steiner Rice

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 — Gregory Corso

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. — Mariah Carey

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. — Essence Atkins

Women often forget that the man she is complaining about is a creation of a mother like her. — Debasish Mridha

My mother's eyes were like cold stars. She belonged in a different sky. — Jeanette Winterson

Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle. — Veronica Roth

Bethink you of the blessedness. Every wife is like the Mother of God and has the hope of bearing a saviour of mankind. — John Buchan

A mother's voice is like no other. We recognize every lilt and whisper, every warble or shriek. — Mitch Albom

Skills are called hidden treasure as they save like a mother in a foreign country. — Chanakya

Hell hath no fury like a mother scorned, — Scott Pratt

She's like a picture of our mother that someone crumpled up and tried to smooth out again. — Ben H. Winters

My mother tries to explain that I need support and that I'm just going through a period of adjustment. "Like puberty," she says. — S.G. Browne

Golconda remained a city where the wind was like velvet, where the sun was made of radium, and the sea as warm as a mother's womb. — Anais Nin

Like my mother before me, I have always been a good speller. — Meghan O'Rourke

Prayer sometimes dulls the hunger of the pauper, like a mother's finger thrust into the mouth of her starving baby. — I.L. Peretz

When the heart acknowledges how much pain there is in the mind, it turns like a mother toward a frightened child. — Stephen Levine

My mother could do absolutely anything. She was like Martha Stewart before such a thing existed. — Cheryl Ladd

She knew her mother was likely to blow her top like a geyser in Yosemite National Park, but Mary had stopped giving a damn one way or another. — William Mann

To lose your own language was like forgetting your mother, and as sad, in a way. — Alexander McCall Smith

No, it happened. And right when your song ended, I knew - just like your mother - I was a goner,' Peeta says. — Suzanne Collins

I'm a much better mother at 46 ... than if I were like, 21 or 25. — Halle Berry

My mother once said that having a small child is like having a permanently drunk houseguest. — Moira Hodgson

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. — Virginia Postrel

She looked like a mother protecting her child of course, we're talking a half-crazed, bloodthirsty mother. — Jocelynn Drake

We're blessed on 'How I Met Your Mother' to feel like we're doing a bit of a funny playlet everyday. — Neil Patrick Harris

Just remember, when your mother's gnawing my ankle like a furious mama bear separated from her cum, I did it for you. — Cassandra Clare

Her self lagged behind her anger, like a mother picking up after a destructive child. — Matthew De Abaitua

She sleeps like a cocoyam. A thing without senses. She sleeps like his mother, unplugged from the world. — Taiye Selasi

My writings are my letters to the universe, who loved me like a mother. — Debasish Mridha

Well, hello there, Mother," Sebastian said in a voice like silk. "Surprised to see me? — Cassandra Clare

She decided it was perhaps a little like marriage itself: a good idea that, like all ideas, lived awkwardly on earth. -Terrific Mother — Lorrie Moore

There was the woman I was before my mom died and the one I was now, my old life sitting on the surface of me like a bruise. — Cheryl Strayed

I like being a mother. — Amanda Abbington

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. — Denise Bidot

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

Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage in their development. — David Gottesman

A well-bred duckling spreads his feet wide apart, just like his father and mother, in this way. Now bend your neck, and say 'quack.'" The — Hans Christian Andersen

Mother's love is given by God, John. It holds fast for ever and ever. A girl's love is like a puff of smoke,-it changes with every wind. — Elizabeth Gaskell

Mother went out again tonight, looking like a courtesan. — John Kennedy Toole

My mother was like a sister to me, only we didn't have sex quite so often. — Emo Philips

Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies. — Victor Hugo

Guard your heart, so it doesn't get broken like mine, my mother used to say as often as twice a week. — Tarryn Fisher

She was like a mother to me ... and I betrayed as a daughter will betray her mother and yet, never stop loving her. — Philippa Gregory

Being the mother of a toddler, my emotions often changed like the channels on the television when my husband is holding the remote: Constantly. — Kathy Stock

I love to sing with my daughter. Audiences like it because a mother-daughter pairing is a curiosity. — Montserrat Caballe

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. — Kathleen Sebelius

There is no other love like a mother's love for her child, — Celine Dion

My mother's the youngest of 10 children too, so we have sort of a special bond in that we know what that feels like. It's a strange spot to be in. — Jack White

Her mother walk all the way back to their car, hand in hand, like two jewels on a delicate strand that might at any moment be broken. — Jodi Picoult

His mother stood before him like a monument. He saw her great outline through the blur of his weakness and his passion. She made no movement at all. — Mervyn Peake

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

Don't fuck with me. I don't like it and I know your mother.
Jory to a Handsy-Hayes Fischer — Mary Calmes

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

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

Don't talk to me like that! I am your mother! Oh, God the Father, I have raised a monster! — Carlos Malvar

Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see. — Pope Paul VI