Mama Quotations

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

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.

I was the only child born to Josephine Perry that survived. Mama had six other children before me, and all had passed very quickly and very young, all succumbing to a combination of illness and disease and the lack of strength to fight off both.

'Y Tu Mama Tambien' is one of the first unrated movies to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. But many video stores won't take a movie that's not rated, so I had to make the movie an R.

I always thought it was a goat that kicked me over the fence. My mama told me the other day it was a cow. Now I'm sort of scared of both.

You play a 'lowdown dirty shame slow and lonesome, my mama dead, my papa across the sea I ain't dead but I'm just supposed to be' blues. You can take that same blues, make it uptempo, a shuffle blues, that's what rock n' roll did with it. So blues ain't going nowhere. Ain't goin' nowhere.

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'?

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.

Mama never told me, 'Bess, you did good.' She wanted the best for us and she was an incredible administrator. She ran those three kids, that house, the whole bit. But if I looked fine, she'd find something wrong - the color, the hem... I used to tell her, 'Mama, don't worry when you're not with me, because you're with me.'

In every advanced mammalian species that survives and thrives, a common anthropological characteristic is the fierce behavior of the adult female of the species when she senses a threat to her cubs. The lioness, the tigress and the mama bear are all examples.

I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.

Mama grizzlies mate later than other bears. They have two cubs instead of four. They wait four years - about twice as long as other bears - between having cubs. And after they're pregnant, if winter is hard or their health is not good or the food supply is uncertain, they re-absorb the embryo into their body.

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

What little family I got is in Mississippi. A whole lot of them died before I left, and my sister died a long time ago, before my mama did.

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.

I think that Mama June has the greatest self-esteem on the planet. I always say to people, 'If I had her self-worth, I would probably be ruling the world.'

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

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

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

Mama was a country woman with a whole lot of common sense. She understood what most of our neighbors didn't - that I shouldn't grow dependent on anyone except myself. 'One of these days, I ain't gonna be here,' she kept hammering inside my head.

I'll get depressed out on the road simply because I'm not being the mama that's cooking supper every night, or that's fixing my husband's plate and my baby's plate. You miss those things, and I miss them.

Mama is slowly getting better. So many people are so fond of her.

The only music we ever listened to out in the piney woods was Roy Acuff and the Grand Ole Opry. That was the only night of the week I was allowed to lay in the middle of the bed with Mama and Daddy, just long enough to hear Roy Acuff sing; then I had to go back to bed.

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

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

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?

I caught a lot of flak for being a young mama.

I know if mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.

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

People couldn't understand why my mama would have this blind kid out doing things like cutting wood for the fire. But her thing was: He may be blind, but he ain't stupid.

I'm tired of people disturbing the peace, getting on the radio and sounding a hot mess. If I can tell what the note really is, why let them go to the note they think it is? I've got that mama vibe. I don't look at it with an ego.

I got three whippings a day from my mama.

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

My mama loved books; I became fascinated by the wonderful stories that came out of these things she held in her hand - and started to make them up myself.

Oh, my mama was awesome. Very strict, overreligious, loved the Lord, loved rules. But she had to be that way because of where we were growing up, the neighborhood I was from.

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

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

When I was 16, I was working at Queen City Speedway. I made $84 and change one week, then my mama told me to quit to concentrate on baseball.

We used to use the money made from Kinfolk Days, but that has gotten more expensive each year. It costs MAMA anywhere from $15,000 - $20,000 to pay for everything, including the entertainment and fireworks.

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

So Mama would have to sneak out and meet Daddy and go jitterbugging.

She is very little to understand Mama is not going to come back. But she understands Mama is in heaven watching over her. In the future, it's going to be hard.

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

I loved and protected my own children like a fierce mama bear, but one of them died anyway. It was a dark day when I realized that part of my responsibility in Casey's death was that I did not love all the children of the world in that same real, not abstract, way.

From now on, 'trying hard' isn't enough. Anybody can try. My mama can try. This time of year, you gotta win.

If it was an elective, you'd get twenty girls and three boys doing ballroom dancing. Girls want to dance, boys don't. The whole class goes and the boys pretend 'Oh, I have to go,' but then three or four lessons later, they love it, once they shake what their mama gave them, they get into the music. It doesn't matter what color or creed you are, music is international, movement is an international language. Everybody loves to shake it.

He was the kind of man your mama wanted you to grow up to be and, until you met Paul Coverdell, you did not know that was possible,

I think it was my upbringing. Just learning from my mama to always treat people the way you want to be treated. I think (it is) just what she instilled in me, just that humble attitude that no matter what you do, you can always be brought down. So, I think I owe that to her.

Mama may have, papa may have, But God bless the child that's got his own!

Mama is my chance to be Chris Rock. She says things I would never say. I let her push the envelope.

Mama had her little cough. Once or twice, some quiet sobbing, out of sight... Or the slamming of kitchen cupboard doors. That was her language.

Mama called, and when Mama calls, you just have to come running.

That's the most prestigious award you can probably get in any contest, ... They're the big mama and papa in the grilling world.

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.

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)

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.

Y Tu Mama Tambien' is one of the first unrated movies to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. But many video stores won't take a movie that's not rated, so I had to make the movie an R.

My mama didn't raise any fools and she didn't raise any heroes.

Who would have ever thought that Mama Bell would become a sexy lady? ... But she suddenly is very, very sexy indeed and everybody wants to be in her sleigh.

Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away.

We'd come down and ride the Ferris wheel, and Mama was worn out by the time it would be time to play ball,

But Patsy, she was a great, great girl. And Brenda Lee is a wonderful person, and her mama Grace. I've known those folks for years and years and years.

But Mama was stricter: I had to wear this and I had to do that. She was really kind and loving, but I used to be so happy to go to my father's house.

Cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good No, Cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good When the levee breaks, mama you got to move

As a mama and a grandma, I appreciate, understand and absolutely believe in the sanctity of life. But I recognize that there are those tough situations where heartbreaking decisions have to be made.

As we neared the end of season 1, our plan was that each woman would enter a new life chapter. Gabrielle would learn to function without Carlos, Susan and Mike would build their relationship, Lynette would go back to work, and Bree would become a single woman. We either had to have Rex divorce her or die, and we already did the coma with Mama Solis.

As you can imagine, the parents feel terrible. The mama thought she was doing the right thing.

It took Mama a second or two to figure out what he said, ... Once she did, she was pretty mad. But Daddy got her calmed down, we finished dinner and headed to the track.

It takes you a while to get adjusted because L.A. is so much bigger than Nashville, especially being out here on your own, not having mama to get money from and things like that.

I just want justice for Martin. I was thinking of my baby Martin with him up looking down on me. I know he knows, mama is fighting. He doesn't have a voice. I'm Martin's voice.

I'm the wife. I'm the mom. I'm the friend. And, you know, my friends call me 'Mama T,' or 'Dr. T,' and that's, guess, what I am - the Mama T and the Dr. T. That's who I am.

I remember li'l ol' Hank Jr. - he was just a baby back in them days, you know - but he used to hang around. His mama would bring him around. He was just a natural.

I played Big Mama in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' when I was 20 years old at the University of Michigan.

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

I didn't know if my mama was alive or dead for a couple of days. Then, last Thursday morning she called me from Montgomery. She evacuated at the last moment.

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

Ron Reagan amazingly qualifies as an honest broker. I asked him if he was a mamas boy and he said no, more of a papas boy. At the same time he was willing to say that his father had many shortcomings and needed to be held accountable.

There ain't no "baby mama drama" up in this Vortex, homie!

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

Mama stroked his dinger, Daddy got stinky finger.

Maybe you should stay with your mama, you're kind of stupid and ugly, too.

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

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

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)

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

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

How much trouble you've ever been in is something schools are looking closer at now. But they don't have to worry about me on anything like that. I grew up with a strict mama who always kept a belt close by.

I cannot sing the old songs I sang long years ago, And yet I cannot say I'm sad That time hath changed us so, For when I used to sing those songs, My Papa blankety blanked, And Mama took me on her knee And I, alas! was spanked

I don't make excuses. If you lined my mama up out there, I'd have to catch it over her, too.

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

Just remember, when your mother’s gnawing my ankle like a furious mama bear separated from her cum, I did it for you.

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

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

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

The ranks of society are once again filled with Ambitious Mamas, whose only aim is to see their Darling Daughters married off to Determined Bachelors

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

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

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

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