Mama Quotes

• Mama always had a way of explaining things so I could understand them.

  Tom Hanks

  Way, Explaining, Forrest Gump

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• Nobody controls me but my mama and God.

  Randy Moss

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• My mama is my best friend. We have fun, we can talk about anything, she always is on my side but really quick to tell me when I'm wrong. That's a true friend. She's loyal, smart, witty and intelligent. She loves family and loves to travel. All the things I love!

  Reba McEntire

  Witty, Fun, True Friend

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• 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

  Mothers Day, Mom, Children

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.33, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• 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

  Mothers Day, Mom, Sweet

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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, Rap, Thug

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Family, Mothering, Knows

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

  Mr. T

  Wwe, Bits

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• 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

  Thug, Ends, Yeah

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

  Mr. T

  Men, No Friends, Mines

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• Ain't a woman alive that could take my mama's place

  Tupac Shakur

  Alive

  Song: Dear Mama, Album: Me Against the World

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• There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Stars, Home, Moon

  Barbara KingSolver (1988). “The Bean Trees: A Novel”, Harpercollins

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• You know, nobody can ever cook as good as your mama.

  Paula Deen

  Cooks, Knows

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• Mama always said, dying was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn't.

  Tom Hanks

  Dying, Wish, Said

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• My mama taught me that anything worth doing in life should be a little scary.

  Terry McMillan

  Inspirational, Scary, Littles

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• The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

  Honore de Balzac

  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm like a mama's boy and stuff.

  will.i.am

  Boys, Mama's Boy, Stuff

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Barry White

  Strong, Streets, Save Nature

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Mama, humanity is my business.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Humanity

  "The psychology of evil". TED Talks, www.ted.com. February 2008.

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• I think my song that reminds me of Mama is "I'm A Survivor" because she is one.

  Reba McEntire

  Song, Thinking, Survivor

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• 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

  Inspiring, Kings, Parenting

  "The Christian Science Monitor" Newspaper, July 2, 1974.

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• When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

  Sophia Loren

  Motivational, Family, Mothers Day

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

  Al Green

  Mother, Stature

  "Al Green: What I've Learned" by Larry Getlen, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Life, Family, Mothers Day

  Abraham Lincoln (1907). “The Lincoln Year Book: Axioms and Aphorisms from the Great Emancipator”, p.25, Library of Alexandria

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

  Kanye West

  Mother, Rap, Hey

  Song: Hey Mama

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