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Quotes About Comparison

The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from a giant pine that lives for a thousand years.
~ Alan Watts
I'd like to wake up and look like Brad Pitt in the morning, but I don't. I look in the mirror, and I see me.
~ Anthony Hopkins
I don't know what I expected, but my first morning in the Oval Office had a surprising ring of familiarity to it. It reminded me a lot of my job as governor.
~ Ronald Reagan
I have my mother's hips...I have an apple bottom.
~ Brendon Urie
A woman is like beer. They look good, they smell good, and you'd step over your own mother just to get one!
~ Matt Groening
Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother's milk.
~ Dick Gregory
I just wish, when neither of us has written to my husband's mother, I didn't feel so much worse about it than he does.
~ Katharine Whitehorn
The Christian take on Hellfire seems less dramatic than the Muslim vision, which I grew up with, but Christian magical thinking appeals to me no more than my mother's angels and djinns.
~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Adolf Hitler is simply the dark-side of Mother Teresa.
~ Gregory A. Boyd
Boys, don't try to find a woman as wonderful as your mother to marry because if you do, you'll stay single your whole lives.
~ Anthony Perkins
Mothers always think their children are prettier than they really are, and mine has always told me I look like Tom Cruise.
~ James Blunt
I couldn't imagine owning beauty like my mothers. I wouldn't dare.
~ Janet Fitch, White Oleander
A mother-in-law is better than a single and childless political persona, though.
~ Vladimir Zhirinovsky
Yet you would not drive a car with your mouth unless you are my mother-in-law.
~ Jean-Louis Gassee
A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
My mother-in-law has so many wrinkles, when she smiles she looks like a Venetian blind.
~ Les Dawson
I feel about mothers the way I feel about dimples: because I do not have one myself, I notice everyone who does.
~ Letty Cottin Pogrebin
If I'm his 'twin,' we do not have the same mother.
~ Rene Preval
When a scientist's son or daughter becomes a scientist they'll say "Wonderful! Wonderful!" So, why, in the name of God, would a mother be jealous to see her daughter become a successful writer?
~ Mary Higgins Clark
One of the great logical puzzles is how a woman is always like her mother but never like her sister.
~ Robert Breault
My mother told me, if you call yourself 'Little' Stevie Wonder, you'd better be as good as Little Willie John.
~ Stevie Wonder
Everyone always says, 'Kristen got 'Panic Room' because she looks like Jodie Foster.' But it was actually Nicole Kidman who was supposed to play my mother.
~ Kristen Stewart
There was a certain power beautiful mothers held over their less beautiful daughters.
~ Sarah Addison Allen
I see lots of differences between Australians and Americans - but as mothers, I think were pretty much alike!
~ Liane Moriarty