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