Mama Quotes

You can be a mama's boy, be a daddy's boy, but you can't be both. So you cling to the one you think you might lose.

I don't know why no one ever thought to paste a label on the toilet-tissue spindle giving 1-2-3 directions for replacing the tissue on it. Then everyone in the house would know what Mama knows.

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'.

It was hell, hugging my Mama from a jail cell.

You almost felt sorry for the devil cause heaven knows he didn't have a prayer, when Mama prayed.

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

I got three whippings a day from my mama.

Even as a dope fiend mama. You always was a black queen mama.

Callin my ex-girl or e-mailin my mama, you're the only one that's causin me this drama.

Mama always said a good family has one heartbeat. No one knows you like the people you live with, and no one will take up your cause to the outside world quite like your blood relatives.

Mama, don't forget to put a little monument on my tomb when I'm dead.

I left Texas A&M because my school called me. Mama called, and when Mama calls, then you just have to come running.

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.

Let the child see Mama and Daddy both at least once a day. Never quarrel or argue in front of a baby or a child-it destroys security.

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

How that is so I don't know. How Mama and Daddy know me sixteen years and hate me, how a stranger meet me and love me. (131)

Rock and roll hoochie koo, lawdy mama, light my fuse.

Rock 'n' roll offered me a platform to speak what I felt. It also offered me a platform to support my mama and my brothers and sisters - twelve children.

This is your dividing line, by the way, between child and nonchild - when the first trouble happens that Mama can't fix.

River gonna take me, Sing me sweet and sleepy, Sing me sweet and sleepy all the way back home, It's a far gone lullaby sung many years ago Mama, Mama, many worlds I've come since I first left home

You know how we'd get along better? If everybody'd just remember how we're all related. White, black, Asian, skin. No difference. All the bloodlines go back to that one old mama in Africa.

One fine day as my mother was putting the bread in the oven, I went up to her and taking her by her flour-smeared elbow I said to her, Mama I want to be a painter.

It don't gotta be Mother's Day, or your birthday, for me to just call and say Hey Mama

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

Every time a player goes out there, at least 20 people have some amount of influence on him. His mother has more influence than anyone. I know because I played, and I loved my mama.

Oh, Mama was a smart woman. It takes a smart woman to fall in love with a good man.

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

Papa loved Mama, Mama loved men, Mama's in the graveyard, Papa's in the pen.

I think I'm a mama's boy who wanted to be a hockey player, who failed, and had to become a singer. I think that I'm a generous, impatient, kind, jerk.

We know how powerful our mother was when we were little, but is our wife that powerful to us now? Must we relive our great deed of escape from Mama with every other woman in our life?

Mama gave birth to a hell raising heavenly son. See the doctor tried to smack me, but I smacked him back.

Even bad men love their mommas.

My own grandmother went to great lengths to make sure I knew simple things like how and when to open the door for a lady. And the best thing my mama taught me was to pray.

Most children's first words are 'Mama' or 'Daddy.' Mine were, 'Do I have to use my own money?'

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.

I'm hooked on gin and tonics like your mama's Hooked on Phonics.

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.

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

When we were growing up, we were so poor that our heritage was the only thing we had. Mama would say, 'Kids, pour more water in the soup. Better days are coming.'

When I was in fourth grade I was drawing Jordans when my mama couldn't afford them.

Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We've lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!

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

I really didn't have an interest in being in the kitchen until after I was married, when I was 18. It didn't take me long to realize that Mama was not going to show up at my house every day and cook.

Somebody will be upset and say I got rich and deserted my female people; No offense, but the only black woman I ever loved is my mama.

Mama always told me not to look into the sights of the sun. Oh, but mama, that's where the fun is.

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

I do not want to die being known for doing baby mama DNA tests on my show.

Mama raised a hellraiser why cry, That's just life in the ghetto, do or die.

Mama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live.

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