Top 1200 Like A Mother Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

At an ERA fundraiser years ago, one of my favorite buttons was the one that said, 'Every mother is a working mother.'

Mother cow is in many ways better than the mother who gave us birth.

What I love most about Mother's Day is that I am acknowledged and honored for being a mother.

It's a complicated dynamic sometimes, mothers and daughters. There's this thing of, like, 'This is a model of womanhood for you,' but yet we find so many reasons why we don't want to be like our mother.

I'm a fighter as a mother. I'm fighting to be a mother, but I cannot say no to my passion because it's me, as well.

I see my shows like Gandhi, and I've got little baby Gandhis, and they are changing the world. I know that I'm a bit delusional about that, but I do think of them like Gandhi. They are not celebrities: they are like Gandhi and Mother Teresa.

A mother who is obsessing about being thin and dieting and exercising is not going to be a very good mother.

I was called "T-Bow" but the people got it mixed up with "T-Bone." My name is Aaron Walker but "T-Bone" is catchy, people remember it. My auntie gave it to me when I was a kid. Mother's mother was a Cherokee Indian full blooded. There were sixteen girls and two boys in my mother's family, all dead but two.

My mother used to say, 'He who angers you, conquers you!' But my mother was a saint.

When you become a mother, you respect your mother so much more.

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it - I would have made a terrible mother.

I adore my mother, and I am probably a chef because of my mother. She was adventurous.

In traditional agriculture, the soil is the mother. She's the mother who gives, to whom you must give back.

Her mother was a Christian Scientist who didn't believe in calling doctors. So when my mother caught whooping cough as a baby, stopped breathing and turned blue, her mother revived her by spanking her on the bottom. She saw life itself as a gift and saw her own survival as precious and a matter of chance.

I would have gone home to my mother, but I'm not that crazy about my mother.

My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me

I felt so much closer to my mother after I had babies. It bonds a mother and daughter more.

I know that I play a mother all the time, but different kinds of mother.

Mother's room, and mother's need for privacy become a valuable lesson in respect for other people's rights.

Mother was actually a great doer and organizer. All the special occasions were directed by mother.

A good friend of mine was Lucy Ball. Her mother and my mother were best friends.

I'm ultimately a widow and a single mother, who's not even getting to be a mother right now. I am so alone, it's freaky.

I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

A mother is beyond any notion of a beginning. That's what makes her a mother.

My mother is a very liberal wife and mother, so there was no peer pressure to marry.

The Mother of the universe is the Mother of all. From Her have come out both good and evil.

A psychic once read my palm and told me I was my mother's mother in a past life. Isn't that weird?

My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me.

Even losing my mother, I wanted my mother. That's who you want instinctually when you're having a hard time.

Mother-love is not inevitable. The good mother is a great artist ever creating beauty out of chaos

I do not think that I am a natural born mother... If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my father.

Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.

My mother is the most supportive mother in the world, she's magical.

I don't think I'd like Manhattan anymore. My mother-in-law lives there, and you go there. But I like looking at it from a distance. It's a fantastic sight - every time, it awes me.

I pray to my mother before every game. She passed away when I was 9, but I always consider her my wings on the floor, my extra step, my extra focus, my extra everything, to watch over me when I'm on the court. It takes some pressure off you when you feel like you have your mother above watching you. And I always pray to God for guidance.

My father's a keen sportsman, and so is my mother. My mother's brothers all played international rugby for Samoa. That's where I got my dreams from.

I get my voice from my mother's side of the family. My mother and my grandmother both had strong voices.

I'm fine with playing the protagonist's mother, mother-in-law or friend - as long as my role is well-written.

In 2008, while the film version of my book 'Choke' was coming to market, my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer. That meant that I had to appear in public to promote a comedy about a son trying to save his dying mother - the plot of Choke - while privately I was caring for my own dying mother. It was torture.

When I came into the movies, I was 27 years. I had the choice of playing the mother or sister. I chose mother.

I think my confidence and competitiveness - that will - comes from my mother. I always knew my mom loved me, and she always made me feel like I was - I don't want to say 'special' - but that I was capable of doing things. Before I ever shot a basketball or before I ever threw a baseball, I had confidence, and that was from my mother.

The greatest lessons I have every learned were at my mother's knees... All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

My mother graduated from high school in 1969, and on January 3, 1971, she gave birth to me. She was married later that year, but by the time I was 10, she was a divorced single mother of two young boys. To make ends meet, we moved in with my grandparents, who were also housing two of my mother's siblings and their kids.

In my case, my mother had to be my mother and father, so I am thankful to her.

What do you do with mother love and mother wit when the babies are grown and gone away?

Truth is love's mother, and we all know it is not wise to lie to anyone's mother.

You always have that moment where you grow up and you're like, "Oh, my god, I'm being exactly like my mother." I think that's everyone's greatest hope and worst fear.

Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.

My boat is nearing the calm harbour from which it is never more to be driven out. Glory, glory unto Mother! (Referring to the Divine Mother of the Universe.) I have no wish, no ambition now. Blessed be Mother! I am the servant of Ramakrishna. I am merely a machine. I know nothing else. Nor do I want to know.

I am a mother first. I will always be a mother, and I would die for my kids if need be.

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.

I am not into the mother sentiment, really. My heart is not into this ideal mother role; it does not work for me.

I'd really like to go with you, Agachak. Truly I would...but I just can't." "I don't understand. Why not?" "I'm not allowed to leave home. My mother'd punish me something awful if I did..." "But you're the king." "That doesn't change a thing. I still do what mother says. She tells everybody that I'm the best boy ever when it comes to that." Agachak resisted a powerful urge to change this half-wit into a toad or perhaps a jellyfish.

What does it mean to a successful woman today? Does it mean you have to be a mother? If you are a mother, does it mean you have to be a mother with a husband? If you don't have a husband, what is the role that the man plays? I think there are a lot of confusing things that we're all really still sorting out.

I grew up around so many beautiful things. My mother's jewelry and purses - they're very much statement pieces. Again, that sort of over-the-top Russian thing where it looks like treasure. I always say to my husband, you don't ever have to get me another piece of jewelry. When your mother is this amazing woman, a North Star, sometimes you want a simpler presentation of yourself.

As a woman and as a mother, as a young mother, I felt guilty about being successful.

I consider all women as mother. I compose poems for any female considering her as mother.

My mother always, always, always thought that I was going to be famous. Thought that I was going to win Oscars. In fact, I believe I accepted the Oscar as a ketchup bottle many a time in front of my mother in the kitchen. 'I'd like to thank the Academy,' I said with a ketchup bottle.

I realized that my mother was at the center of my work, because now that my mother is no longer there, there's nobody left.

My adoptive mother always wanted to meet my biological mother.