Fighting Mother Quotes

#1. The thing is, my fantasies about being a parent always involved fighting for my unpopular child, doing for her what my own parents couldn't do for me when I was a girl. I am so ready to be that little girl's mother.

Ayelet Waldman

#2. Don't be so sure,' Cassie said. 'We're fighting for Mother Earth. She has some tricks up her sleeves.'
'Good grief,' Marco said. 'Let's all buy Birkenstocks and go hug some trees.

Katherine Applegate

#3. Yet the only girl who'd love him is his mother ... ' - A Girl Worth Fighting For (song)

David Zippel

#4. My mother is an immigrant from China, and she filled my head with stories about ghosts and fighting monks in China, so the world of 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' was a very familiar one.

Tess Gerritsen

#5. Every minute of every day, a child under 15 is infected with HIV - the overwhelming majority of children under 15 who are HIV-positive get infected through their mothers at birth. Without treatment, half of these children die before they reach their second birthday.

Gabriel Byrne

#6. The day you call someone "Mother" is the day their pain is hers to bear, your burden hers to carry.

Sunanda J. Chatterjee

#7. Bearing my mother's face was a daily reminder that I could be as strong as she had been. And fighting for what I wanted most in life was the best way to keep her alive in my heart.

Amy Plum

#8. But even in your world it's a byword. Men will fight bravely and be heroes, but for last-ditch defense against any odds ... get a Mother.

Diane Duane

#9. Fighting in the name of freedom has too high a price, Merlin sighed as he leaned into his mother's arms.

Dee Marie

#10. 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.

Juliette Binoche

#11. My father and mother - I figured if I could make them laugh, they'd stop fighting. I stole all their material.

Jerry Stiller

#12. I was very dedicated and serious about fighting. I'd read about all the fighters. I found out where they came from, knew about their mothers and their fathers ... I just read all about their lives, their training.

Mike Tyson

#13. To anyone with a drop of Irish blood in them the land they live on is like their mother. It's the only thing that lasts, that's worth working for, for fighting for ...

Alexandra Ripley

#14. It's because you're always fighting sentiment. You're fighting sentimentality all of the time because being a mother alerts you in such a primal way.

Bret Easton Ellis

#15. When your mother and your father are having a fight, do you want them to kill each other? Or do you just want them to stop fighting?

Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

#16. If you can't go back to your mother's womb, you'd better learn to be a good fighter.

Anchee Min

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

Nick Carter

#18. My mother always texts me saying 'Fighting! Do well, my handsome son!'.

Jay Park

#19. Would you lesson me in warfare? I was fighting battles when you were sucking mother's milk.
And losing battles too.

George R R Martin

#20. I didn't come from a household where my mother dragged me outside and said, "You'd better fight." My mother wouldn't let me fight. I was not an aggressive kid.

Mike Tyson

#21. Two bulls fighting for the cow. And a bony one at that. But in America the loser oftentimes got the cow. Mother instinct? Better wallet? Longer dick? God knows what. ...

Charles Bukowski

#22. I find it beautiful when we're in Italy that everybody sits down at the table together. My mother-in-law is like, 'It doesn't matter what's going on in the house, who is fighting, who is upset, who has appointments, you sit down at that table at one o'clock.'

Debi Mazar

#23. My mother, Nicolette, is the Katagaria Grand Regis Ursulan- so don't start no shit, won't be no shit. Quick rule rundown. No fighting, no biting, no magick. You break the rules, we break body parts and you're banned from here ... if you survive. In short, come in peace or leave in pieces. (Dev)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#24. My father's very public life as Famous Amos was the opposite of that of his ex-wife, my mother Shirley, who was fighting a very private, solitary battle with mental illness.

Shawn Amos

#25. If your hair has never given you any trouble, if you've never had huge fights with your mother about it, then you might not have a story to tell. But I think most people do.

Elizabeth Benedict

#26. You think your children are better than mine? Ha! When yours were out playing with gold, mine were out fighting for survival. You taught your children to roll in money when I taught mine what it means to be strong.

S.R. Crawford

#27. My daughter, unfortunately, is ill, because drug addiction is an illness. She's been fighting it for years.

Columba Bush

#28. It's for personal reasons, I say stiffly, which is what my mother had always told me to say about things that had to do with fighting with your brothers, getting any sort of illness that had intestinal ramifications, starting your period, and money.

Maggie Stiefvater

#29. Adolescent girls were fighting a mother's interference because they wanted her to acknowledge their independence. Whatever resentment they had was not towards a mother's excessive concern, or even excessive control, but towards her inability to see, and appreciate, their maturing identity.

Terri E Apter

#30. My mother and father didn't love each other, so they were always fighting.

Tina Turner

#31. I'm more of a realist when it comes to life, and I'd much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.

Kevin Hart