Mama famous quotes

I didn't have a mother; I had a mama. I measure other women by the stature of my mama.
-- Al Green

#Mother #Mama

I was not aware of how much I loved 'Canoa' until I saw it after doing 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' and realized that my voice - over about the story's historical context - that narrator - came from 'Canoa'.
-- Alfonso Cuaron

#Voice #Historical #Mama

I know I can't tell you what it's like to be gay. But I can tell you what it's not. It's not hiding behind words, Mama. Like family and decency and Christianity.
-- Armistead Maupin

#Gay #Mama #Christianity

My favorite drive is Highway 101 in California between Los Angeles and San Luis Obispo. I love the 101; Highway 1 is too windy, and 5 is too boring - the 101 is just right. It's like the Mama Bear of scenic drives.
-- Art Alexakis

#California #Mama #Bears

Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
-- Barry White

#Strong #Mama #Streets

Mama wanted me to be a preacher. I told her coachin' and preachin' were a lot alike.
-- Bear Bryant

#Believe #Mama #Preacher

I know Mama Rose is a great role and I love having a chance to do it.
-- Bernadette Peters

#Rose #Roles #Mama

I really worshipped Mama Cass a lot. Mama Cass, who was really fat and she didn't lose weight. Yeah, she went on diets but for the most part of her life and the better part of her career she was a big person.
-- Beth Ditto

#Careers #Weight #Mama

Them that's got shall get, Them that's not shall lose. So the Bible says, And it still is news. Mama may have, Papa may have, But God bless the child that's got his own.
-- Billie Holiday

#Children #Mama #Papa

Maybe I should quit the business. There's no one left for me to love. Mama's dead. Mr. Burns couldn't care less about me. What's left?
-- Bobby Darin

#Care #Mama #Quitting

Mama always said that if it can't rain on you, you're indoors.
-- Bum Phillips

#Rain #Mama #Said

My role in the Mamas and Papas was basically just to sing.
-- Cass Elliot

#Papa #Roles #Mama

When you've been hurt, you don't make excuses for the jerk who hurt you. That's his mama's job.
-- Catherine Anderson

#Hurt #Jobs #Mama

You loan your friend money. You see them again, they don't say nothin' 'bout the money. 'Hi, how ya doin'? How's ya mama doing?' Man, how's my money doin'?
-- Chris Tucker

#Money #Men #Mama

The activities of these parasites and degenerates gave rise to Cubism, Fauvism, Futurism, Pointillism, Constructivism, Orphism, Surrealism, Dada, and also Impossibleism, Supersurrealism, Dynamic Double-Dog Realism, Ishkabibbleism, and Mama, which is like Dada only nicer.
-- Daniel Pinkwater

#Dog #Degenerates #Mama

He gave you to me," she said, so low I could hardly hear her. "Now I have to give you back to him, Mama.
-- Diana Gabaldon

#Giving #Mama #Lows

When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!
-- Diane Lane

#New York #Parent #Mama

Mama learned to laugh with them, before they could laugh at her, and to do it so well no one could be sure what she really thought or felt.
-- Dorothy Allison

#Laughing #Mama #Wells

He never said "Don't tell your mama." He never had to say it. I did not know how to tell anyone what I felt, what scared me and shamed me... (109)
-- Dorothy Allison

#Mama #Scared #Said

Jack Kerouac, like a sick refrigerator, worked too hard at keeping cool and died on his mama's lap from alcohol and infantilism.
-- Edward Abbey

#Sick #Alcohol #Mama

I got three whippings a day from my mama.
-- Evander Holyfield

#Three #Mama

I caught a lot of flak for being a young mama.
-- Fantasia Barrino

#Mama #Caught #Young

My great-grandmama told my grandmama the part she lived through that my grandmama didn't live through and my grandmama told my mama what they both lived through and my mama told me what they all lived through and we were suppose to pass it down like that from generation to generation so we'd never forget.
-- Gayl Jones

#Generations #Mama #Never Forget

I love a man who loves his mama, which is one of the many reasons I'm crazy about Justin Timberlake.
-- Gayle King

#Crazy #Men #Mama

And that reminds me, Mama! I have just intercepted another of that puppy’s floral offerings to my sister. This billet was attached to it.” (Charles)
-- Georgette Heyer

#Offering #Mama #Puppy

Does it ever occur to you, Mama, that my grandfather is a lunatic?
-- Georgette Heyer

#Grandfather #Doe #Mama

Eccentricity may be diverting, Mama, but it is out of place in a wife: certainly in my wife!
-- Georgette Heyer

#Wife #May #Mama

What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No cubs.
-- Harry Caray

#Baseball #World #Mama

will you stop trying to be brave! It's me, Mama! You can be honest with me." -Hetty
-- Jacqueline Wilson

#Brave #Trying #Mama

Mama says it's okay to be on the quiet side—if quiet means you're listening, watching, taking it all in.
-- Jacqueline Woodson

#Mean #Listening #Mama

But you...are my sweetest gift. The life surprise that soothed all my ills and gave me my greatest joys. I feel so blessed you are mine. —Mama Ya-Ya
-- Jewell Parker Rhodes

#Blessed #Joy #Mama

I'm the only hell my Mama ever raised.
-- Johnny Paycheck

#Family #Mama #Hell

Never eat at a Chinese restaurant named Mama Teresa's Trattoria.
-- Joy Behar

#Chinese #Mama #Restaurants

Good for you, Ethan." That's what my poor mama would've said. Ma'am.
-- Kami Garcia

#Mama #Poor #Said

When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets," Papa would say, "she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery that the hens themselves yearned toward her, waltzing around her, hypnotized with longing.
-- Katherine Dunn

#Crystals #Mama #Papa

Honesty, like my mama always says, is always the best policy.
-- Kelly Rowland

#Honesty #Mama #Policy

For reasons of sentiment, I would like part of my ashes to be mixed up with Mama's, and both her ashes and mine put side by side in the columbarium. We were joined in life and I would like our ashes to be joined after this life.
-- Lee Kuan Yew

#Ashes #Mama #Sides

Let me tell you something. I ain't scared of nothing. I came out my mama.
-- Lil Boosie

#Meaningful #Mama #Scared

Mama was crying, and the rain made it seem as if the whole world was crying.
-- Lois Lowry

#Rain #World #Mama

Mama--Mama--I want so many things... I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy...
-- Lorraine Hansberry

#Crazy #Want #Mama

Children when they ask you why your mama so funny say she is a poet she don't have no sense
-- Lucille Clifton

#Funny #Children #Mama

My Mama Moved Among the Days My Mama moved among the days like a dreamwalker in a field; seemed like what she touched was here seemed like what touched her couldn't hold, she got us almost through the high grass then seemed like she turned around and ran right back in right back on in
-- Lucille Clifton

#Dream #Fields #Mama

To wake up to the sound of my son saying 'Mama, mama!' It's the best sound ever.
-- Miranda Kerr

#Son #Wake Up #Mama

I would like to talk about my Mama, for a bit.
-- Mr. T

#Wwe #Mama

Any man who doesn't love his mama can't be no friend of mine.
-- Mr. T

#Men #No Friends #Mama

The variations I've composed on the graceful Neapolitan ditty, 'Oh Mamma, Mama Cara,' outshine everything. I can't describe it
-- Niccolo Paganini

#Mama #Variation #Popularity

Oh that's what he left? Let his mama pick it up. Might back up on it, VROOM VROOM wit the pick-up truck.
-- Nicki Minaj

#Breakup #Might #Mama

You are responsible for your life. It doesn't matter what your Mama did. It doesn't matter what your Daddy didn't do. You are responsible for your life.
-- Oprah Winfrey

#Daddy #Matter #Mama

Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away.
-- Paul Simon

#Mama #Controversy

You know, nobody can ever cook as good as your mama.
-- Paula Deen

#Mama #Cooks

I'm an amazing mama's boy.
-- Penn Jillette

#Boys #Mama

Mama, humanity is my business.
-- Philip Zimbardo

#Humanity #Mama

Save me, save me, save me from this squeeze. I got a big fat mama trying to break me.
-- Ray Davies

#Trying #Mama #Obesity

Osama, yo Mama didn't raise you right. When you were young, she must have wrapped your turban too tight.
-- Ray Stevens

#Politics #Mama #Young

I spent lunchtime in a grave during the filming of 'Bloody Mama.' When you're younger, you feel that's what you need to do to help you stay in character. When you get older, you become more confident and less intense about it - and you can achieve the same effect.
-- Robert De Niro

#Character #Needs #Mama

Even bad men love their mamas.
-- Russell Crowe

#Men #Mama

Why did Mama say that? Had Papa made her angry again? He made her angry a lot. Gran said it was on account of his "hores." One time Celia asked Nurse what a ***** was, and Nurse paddled her and told her that was a bad word. Then why did Papa have them?
-- Sabrina Jeffries

#Nurse #Mama #Papa

Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.
-- Shannon Hale

#Wisdom #Soul #Mama

Thank you Mama for the nine months you carried me through/…No one knows the pressure you bear a just only you.
-- Sizzla

#Pressure #Months #Mama

The only Black woman I ever loved is my mama.
-- Taye Diggs

#Black #Mama #Black Women

You can call me Mama T anytime.
-- Teresa Heinz

#Mama #Call Me

Look, as my mama always said, 'One monkey don't stop no show.
-- Terry McMillan

#Monkeys #Mama #Looks

If my mama and daddy would've stayed together, one of them would've been dead, and the other would have been locked up for it.
-- Trick Daddy

#Daddy #Together #Mama

Ain't a woman alive that could take my mama's place
-- Tupac Shakur

#Alive #Mama

My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'
-- Tupac Shakur

#Life #Mama #Used

My whole persona is vodka bottles and ***** The hope in Nana was rockin', inspired from my Mama
-- Vinnie Paz

#Marijuana #Mama #Bottles

I'm like a mama's boy and stuff.
-- will.i.am

#Boys #Stuff #Mama

Mama read it an began pulling her hair an weepin an praisin the Lord, 'cause it say I am 'Temporarily Deferred' on account of I am a numbnuts.
-- Winston Groom

#Hair #Mama #Causes

I don't know if mama was right, that we each have a destiny, or if if was Lt Dan, that we are all just floating around, accidental, like on a breeze, but I think... I think... maybe... it's both happening at the same time.
-- Winston Groom

#Thinking #Destiny #Mama

Mama, you know you raised me with no father figure. I wanna take this time to thank you, even though I'm doing life.
-- Wyclef Jean

#Family #Father #Mama

Mama, don't forget to put a little monument on my tomb when I'm dead.
-- Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia

#Littles #Mama #Forget

I was use to wearing things that accentuated and flattered my bust and waist (just shakin' what my mama gave me) and definitely not my thighs.
-- Erica Schroeder

#Use #Mama #Thighs

I've got three women in my life: my mama, ex baby mama and my new baby mama.
-- Felipe Esparza

#Baby #Mama #Three

I wrote out the lyrics that I would do at MAMA 4~5 days in advance. After I said that, Zico hyung told me that it's dangerous to write lyrics quickly like that and that I should be carefully.
-- Kim Nam-joon

#Writing #Mama #Should

Pretty much I don't regret anything that has happened in my life. One thing is I wish I could have spent more time with my mama and my pa.
-- Kurupt

#Regret #Wish #Mama