97 Mama Quotes
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Famous Mama Quotes
MOTHER (a word that means the world to me) — Eddy Arnold
Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love. — Stevie Wonder
My mother is home. Your mother is your home. Everybody is a momma's boy or a momma's girl. That's where we came from, from a woman's womb. — Jay Rock
Any man who doesn't love his mama can't be no friend of mine. — Mr. T
My own momma turned her back on me, and that's my momma. — Gucci Mane
[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled. — Emily Dickinson
If it's not one thing, it's your mother. — Sigmund Freud
Thank you Mama for the nine months you carried me through/…No one knows the pressure you bear a just only you. — Sizzla
Dear mama, yo baby boys doing fine tell the homies I'm in heaven and they aint got hoods. — Tupac Shakur
Momma tried to raise me better, but her pleading I denied, and that leaves only me to blame, cause Momma tried. — Merle Haggard
Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin' too. — B. B. King
A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's. — Princess Diana
Honestly, woman, you call yourself our mother? — J. K. Rowling
I'm a Mommy's Girl - the strongest influence in my young life was my mom. — Susie Bright
Mama had an appreciation of the language. She taught me a love of words, of how they should be used and how they can fill a creative soul with a passion and lead to a life's work. — Lewis Grizzard
Short Mama Quotes
- What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No cubs. — Harry Caray
- Came out my mama's pussy, I'm on welfare. Twenty-six years old, still on welfare. — Ol' Dirty Bastard
- My whole persona is vodka bottles and marijuana The hope in Nana was rockin', inspired from my Mama — Vinnie Paz
- You're a man, but the day you raise your voice to your mother, you're not anymore. — Tariq Ramadan
- Got ants in my pants and I need to dance, so big fine mama, come give me a chance. — James Brown
- My mama told me when I was young we're all born SUPERSTARS! — Lady Gaga
- Honesty, like my mama always says, is always the best policy. — Kelly Rowland
- Mama says that, happiness is from magic rays of sunshine that come down when you're feeling blue. — Adam Sandler
- Mama always said, dying was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn't. — Tom Hanks
- Callin my ex-girl or e-mailin my mama, you're the only one that's causin me this drama. — Drake
Baby Mama Quotes
Dear Mama, don't cry, your baby boy's doin' good, Tell the homies I'm in heaven, and they ain't got hoods. Seen a show with Marvin Gaye last night, it had me shook, Drippin' peppermint Schnapps, with Jackie Wilson, and Sam Cooke. — Tupac Shakur
If you're trying to get somebody and this might be the only time you're going to catch him, but he is holding his baby and with his mama, you ain't gonna let that chance go by. That's the mentality of the streets. If you let that chance go by, he might catch your ass. — Snoop Dogg
When I was a baby, my mama told me son, always be a good boy, don't ever play with guns. But I shot a man in Reno. — Johnny Cash
Go to sleep, baby,Mama will sing. Of blue butterflies, and dragonfly wings. Moonlight and sunbeams, raiments so fine. Silver and gold, for baby of mine. Go to sleep, baby. Sister will tell, of wolves and of lambs, and demons who fell.-Pierce's Lullaby Kim Harrison (Black Magic Sanction) — Kim Harrison
If a man loves you... he's willing to profess it. He'll give you a title after a while. You're going to be his lady, his woman, his fiancee, his wife, his baby's mama, something. — Steve Harvey
Mama, you taught me to do the right things / So now you have to let your baby fly / You've given me everything that I will need / To make it through this crazy thing called life — Carrie Underwood
There is only room for a certain amount of black actresses in this industry. I don't want to fall into the zone of playing the 'ghetto bootalicious baby mama drama.' I want to play something with depth, like a crackhead or something. — Selita Ebanks
I do not want to die being known for doing baby mama DNA tests on my show. — Ricki Lake
I am very thankful and blessed to have a healthy and happy baby boy and baby mama. — Eric Church
There ain't no "baby mama drama" up in this Vortex, homie! — Esther Hicks
Big Mama Quotes
I'm not perfect, I'm not an angel, but I try to live a certain way because it brings honour and respect to my mother. I tell people that when they look at me, they're looking at nothing but a big, overgrown, tough mama's boy. That's who I am. — Mr. T
I played Big Mama in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof when I was 20 years old at the University of Michigan. — Margo Martindale
I'm obsessed with hockey and my son's a big player. I spend a lot of time driving to the ice rink and I'm a huge Los Angeles Kings fan. So, yeah, I'm a hockey mama - a cool hockey mama. — Amber Valletta
My family is really, really Southern - I had two uncle Bubbas, and grandparents that we called Big Mama and Big Daddy. — Laura Lippman
The schools can't cover all the values that go along with how you handle your money. For example, a financial literacy class might not teach me to hate debt the way my grandmother, Big Mama did. — Michelle Singletary
Save me, save me, save me from this squeeze. I got a big fat mama trying to break me. — Ray Davies
When Mama prayed, lives were changed. Not much more than five foot tall, but mountains big and small crumbled all away. — Randy Travis
Mammy Quotes
Scarlett tells Mammy: "I'm too young to be a widow." She weeps to her mother: "My life is over. Nothing will ever happen to me anymore." Her mother comforts her: "It's only natural to want to look young and be young when you are young." — Vivien Leigh
This Great God, Like a mammy bending over her baby, Kneeled down in the dust Toiling over a lump of clay Till He shaped it in His own image. — James Weldon Johnson
We were raised right in the heart of the Bogside. Everything was so bad at the time that Mammy would bring us to the pantomime, circus, concerts because we were so confined at home. — Bronagh Gallagher
I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish. — Viola Davis
My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am grateful. — Hattie McDaniel
In playing the part of Mammy, I tried to make her a living, breathing character, the way she appeared to me in the book. — Hattie McDaniel
Playing the Mammy of Miss Leigh was just about the biggest thrill I've ever had. — Hattie McDaniel
I think Skeeter even says that when she calls up Miss Stein. "No one asked Mammy how she feels in Gone With The Wind." Mammy wasn't really much of a fleshed-out character. She was just kind of there to take care of Miss Scarlett. — Emma Stone
My dream part would be to play Mitt Romney's sarcastic black maid. We could call it 'Mammy & Me.' — Natasha Leggero
Throughout history there have been black people who have played mammies, all sorts of offensive images, who didn't mind doing it. — Marc Lamont Hill
People Writing About Mama
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Eddy Arnold |
9 | 68 |
 Stevie Wonder |
177 | 2391 |
 Mr. T |
71 | 286 |
 Gucci Mane |
54 | 7953 |
 Emily Dickinson |
520 | 5008 |
 Sigmund Freud |
455 | 15250 |
More Mama Quotes
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
I yearn for that livin' large, but mama I ain't done yet/Sit back and watch your son rise, kick back and know your son set — J. Cole
You will never have this day with your children again. Tomorrow they will be a little bigger then they are today. This day is a gift. Breathe and notice. Smell and touch them; study their faces and little feet and pay attention. Relish the charms of the present. Enjoy today mama. It will be over before you know it. — Sayings
I still hear you humming, Mama. The colour of your song calls me home. The colour of your words saying, Let her be. She got a right to be different. She gonna stumble on herself one of these days. Just let the child be. And I be, Mama. — Sonia Sanchez
Every inch of you is perfect from the bottom to the top. My mama, she told me don't worry about your size. She says boys like a little more booty to hold at night. Yeah I won't be no stick figure silicone Barbie doll, so if that's what you're into then go ahead and move along. — Meghan Trainor
There ought to be a hall of fame for mamas / Creation's most unique and precious pearl / And heaven help us always to remember / That the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world — Glen Campbell
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground. — Zora Neale Hurston
I've dated the sweet mama's boy, the musician rocker, the struggling artist - basically a lot of people without jobs. — Alyssa Milano
When it's not always raining there'll be days like this. When there's no one complaining there'll be days like this. When everything falls into place like the flick of a switch. Well my mama told me there'll be days like this. — Van Morrison
Mama tied a blindfold over my eyes. The next thing I felt my flesh was being cut away. I heard the blade sawing back and forth through my skin. The pain between my legs was so intense I wished I would die. — Waris Dirie
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
So much pressure in this life of mine, I cry at times, I once contemplated suicide and woulda tried, but when I held that nine, all I could see was my mama's eyes, no one knows my struggle, they only see the trouble, not knowing it's hard to carry on when no one loves you. — Tupac Shakur
Now up and atom it's on, I was raised to be strong, and mama told me be a thug since the day I was born. The fame was a plot to try a change me, and what's strange is nobody knew my name. — Tupac Shakur
Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become. — Coretta Scott King
My mother, Southern to the bone, once told me, “All Southern literature can be summed up in these words: ‘On the night the hogs ate Willie, Mama died when she heard what Daddy did to Sister.’” She raised me up to be a Southern writer, but it wasn’t easy. — Pat Conroy
Mama, Mama, put me to bed I won’t make it home, I’m already half-dead I met an Invalid, and fell for his art He showed me his smile, and went straight for my heart. — Lauren Oliver
I was in yoga the other day. I was in full lotus position. My chakras were all aligned. My mind is cleared of all clatter and I'm looking out of my third eye and everything that I'm supposed to be doing. It's amazing what comes up, when you sit in that silence. "Mama keeps whites bright like the sunlight, Mama's got the magic of Clorox 2." — Ellen DeGeneres
Mama was a stickler on keeping your word. That's helped me to make the right decisions in so many situations. Because of that, I also think really hard before I make a decision because I know I'm going to have to see it through. — Reba McEntire
Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does. — Johnny Cash
When my Mama asks me will I ever change, I tell her yeah... But it's clear I will always be the same until the end of time. — Tupac Shakur
What we want most is to be held...and told..that everything (everything is a funny thing, is baby milk and papa's eyes, is roaring logs on a cold morning, is hoot owls and the boy who makes you cry after school, is mama's long hair, is being afraid and twisted faces on the bedroom wall)...is going to be alright. — Truman Capote
I don't know what my label is. I just think of myself as a plain forward. I like to think I have some finesse to my game, but inside the paint is where men are made. If you can't play there, you should be home with your mama. — Karl Malone
The variations I've composed on the graceful Neapolitan ditty, 'Oh Mamma, Mama Cara,' outshine everything. I can't describe it — Niccolo Paganini
Good-by, Good-by, world. Good-by, Grover's Corners... Mama and Papa. Good-by to clocks ticking... and Mama's sunflowers. And food and coffee. And new-ironed dresses and hot baths...and sleeping and waking up. Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. — Thornton Wilder
My mama told me I was already in a hurry as a child. I even had measles and chicken pox at the same time — Muhammad Ali
I may drink too much and play too loud, hang out with a rough and rowdy crowd. That don't mean I don't respect my mama or Uncle Sam. — Tracy Byrd
Before you ask some girl for her hand now, keep your freedom for as long as you can now. My Mama told me, you better shop around. — Smokey Robinson
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
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