Mama Quotes - Page 12

• 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, Never Forget, Forget

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• Mama gives you money for Sunday school, you trade yours for candy after church is through.

  Stevie Wonder

  School, Sunday, Evil

  Song: I Wish, Album: Natural Wonder, 1976

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• In 1957, when I was in second grade, black children integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. We watched it on TV. All of us watched it. I don't mean Mama and Daddy and Rocky. I mean all the colored people in America watched it, together, with one set of eyes.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Children, School, Mean

  Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2011). “Colored People”, p.20, Vintage

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• 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

  Uncles, Mean, Play

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• 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, Reason

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• I know your mama she don't like me, cause I play in a rock and roll band.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Play

  Song: Rosalita, 1973

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• I'm a mama's boy because everything I do is with respect to my mother. I won't do a movie or a video that would bring disrespect to my mother.

  Mr. T

  Mother, Boys, Disrespect

  "Is this it?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2009.

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

  Lillian Hellman

  Mother, Father, Way

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• I'm a tough guy, but I'm a good guy, I'm durable because when you play football they want you being tough, not just because you sprain your ankle crying "Mama, mama!"

  Mr. T

  Football, Play, Guy

  Source: allhiphop.com

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• 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.

  Charles de Lint

  White, Differences, Black

  Charles de Lint (2002). “The Onion Girl”, p.51, Macmillan

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• 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

  Hate, School, Grandmother

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• Unca Jay!" "How's it going Claire?" She giggled. "Qwil aaaaawl wet now." "I can see that. Where's your mama?" "Gone, gone, gone," Claire sang. "Cwaire pway wid Qwil aaaawl day. Cwaire nebber gowin home." Jacob and Claire, Breaking Dawn, page 152.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Home, Dawn, Gone

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• Now, Mama, Papa, and sir," said Ramses, "please withdraw to the farthest corner and crouch down with your backs turned. It is as I feared; we will never break through by this method. The walls are eight feet thick. Fortunately I brought along a little nitroglycerin--" "Oh, good Gad," shrieked Inspector Cuff.

  Barbara Mertz

  Wall, Eight, Break Through

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• Simi, why did Acheron send you here? (Astrid) To protect you from Thanatos so that your sisters don’t get all freaky and destroy the world. Or something like that. I don’t know why all of you fear the end of the world. It’s not so bad, really. At least then akri’s mama be free. Then she wouldn’t be so cranky at the Simi all the time. (Simi) Ash’s mother is still alive? (Zarek) Oh, akri get mad whenever I tell that. Bad Simi. I not talk anymore. I need food. (Simi)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mother, Mad, Needs

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• Surprise, dickhead, Mama forgot to tell you a few things about me. (Zarek)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Surprise

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Dance With the Devil”, p.220, Macmillan

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• I come home that morning, after I been fired, and stood outside my house with my new work shoes on. The shoes my mama paid a month's worth a light bill for. I guess that's when I understood what shame was and the color of it too. Shame ain't black, like dirt, like I always thought it was. Shame be the color of a new white uniform your mother ironed all night to pay for, white without a smudge or a speck a work-dirt on it.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Mother, Morning, Home

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.162, Penguin

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• Honey, there’s not a single woman in this town who doesn’t know about Sanctuary, Land of the Bodacious Gods. Heck, me and my girlfriends want to get together and vote Mama Lo an award for her policy against hiring any man not seriously buff…Not that you’re not buff. You can certainly hold your own against the Sanctuary Hotties. But face it, haven’t you ever noticed that this place is like Hooters for women? (Sunshine) No, I can honestly say that I’ve never noticed how good-looking the men at Sanctuary are. Nor have I ever cared. (Talon)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Girlfriend, Sunshine, Men

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Night Embrace”, p.328, Macmillan

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• 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, Puppy, My Sister

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• Your mama-akra sent that to you, akri, to hurt the heathen-god. Now it’s Dimonique time. The Simi can’t be bothered we no Greek god messing with the one who pays the plastic bills. Can the Simi have that black metal card she loves so much? (Simi)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hurt, Greek, Black

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• 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

  Scared, Said, Felt

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• We settled Mama into the wheelchair and loaded her down with both our pocketbooks and a vase of flowers I had picked to present to our host in hopes of softening the effects of any opinions Mama might vent during the evening.

  Bailey White

  Flower, Vases, Might

  Bailey White (2009). “Mama Makes Up Her Mind: And Other Dangers of Southern Living”, p.22, Da Capo Press

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• 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

  Baby, Sleep, Butterfly

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• 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

  Baby, Morning, Wall

  Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.6, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• As long as people have been on this earth, the moon has been a mystery to us. Think about it. She is strong enough to pull the oceans, and when she dies away, she always comes back again. My mama used to tell me Our Lady lived on the moon and that I should dance when her face was bright and hibernate when it was dark.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Strong, Ocean, Dark

  Sue Monk Kidd (2011). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.72, Hachette UK

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• 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)

  Sapphire

  Hate, Years, Daddy

  Sapphire (1996). “Push: A Novel”, Vintage

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