Mama Quotes - Page 2

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

  Miranda Kerr

  Son, Sound, Wake Up

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• My father was a teacher, my mama was a community worker, I taught in so many schools. So when you get that experience of how to communicate with younger people, put that hand on them and give them that old-school feeling, the maturity and adult, a lot of our kids just need the feeling of that love, and that's the frame of reference that I teach from and that's the frame of reference that all of our musicians in the Jazz at Lincoln Center.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Teacher, Father, Kids

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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

  Inspiring, Mom, Mother

  Song: The Hand That Rocks The Cradle, 2003

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• 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

  Mother, Night, Daddy

  Pat Conroy (2016). “A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life”, p.144, Nan A. Talese

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• For reasons of sentiment, I would like part of my ashes to be mixed up with Mama's, and both her ashes and mine put side by side in the columbarium. We were joined in life and I would like our ashes to be joined after this life.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Ashes, Sides, Reason

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  If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?

  Milton Berle

  Funny, Mothers Day, Hilarious

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• 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.

  Erma Bombeck

  Giving, House, Labels

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• When we were at school we were taught to sing the songs of the Europeans. How many of us were taught the songs of the Wanyamwezi or of the Wahehe? Many of us have learnt to dance the rumba, or the cha cha, to rock and roll and to twist and even to dance the waltz and foxtrot. But how many of us can dance, or have even heard of the gombe sugu, the mangala, nyang umumi, kiduo, or lele mama?

  Julius Nyerere

  Song, School, Rocks

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• When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets," Papa would say, "she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery that the hens themselves yearned toward her, waltzing around her, hypnotized with longing.

  Katherine Dunn

  Papa, Hens, Crystals

  FaceBook post by Katherine Dunn from Nov 27, 2015

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• Mama's in the factory, she ain't got no shoes. Daddy's in the alley, he's looking for food.

  Bob Dylan

  Reality, Shoes, Daddy

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• 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?

  Frank Pittman

  Mother, Powerful, Wife

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• Mama used to tell us a story about a cicada sitting high in a tree. It chirps and drinks in dew, oblivious to the praying mantis behind it. The mantis arches up its front leg to stab the cicada, but it doesn't know an oriole perches behind it. The bird stretches out its neck to snap up the mantis for a midday meal, but its unaware of the boy who's come into the garden with a net. Three creatures—the cicada, the mantis and the oriole—all coveted gains without being aware of the greater and inescapable danger that was coming.

  Lisa See

  Boys, Garden, Praying Mantis

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• 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

  Baby, Son, Gun

  Johnny Cash (2004). “Johnny Cash, the Songs”

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• You're a man, but the day you raise your voice to your mother, you're not anymore.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Mother, Men, Voice

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• I'm just one woman away, my mother, from being the same as Mike Tyson. I would've ended up like him if my mama had not been so tough and strong. A lot of people, including Mike, don't know I came from the ghetto. They think I'm too nice and proper. But that's the way my mama raised me - to look people in the eye and respect them.

  Evander Holyfield

  Mother, Strong, Nice

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• My mama was a rocker way back in fifty-three, buys them old records that they sell on TV.

  Tom Petty

  Family, Three, Records

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• I am very thankful and blessed to have a healthy and happy baby boy and baby mama.

  Eric Church

  Baby, Blessed, Boys

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• Mama was crying, and the rain made it seem as if the whole world was crying.

  Lois Lowry

  Rain, World, Cry

  Lois Lowry, Douglas Wayne Larche, Susan Elliott Larche (1996). “Number the Stars”, p.28, Dramatic Publishing

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

  Bernadette Peters

  Rose, Roles, Chance

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

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• I used to have Bible studies at my house. I was in the choir. I was mischievous but also a real mama's boy. It was a pretty happy childhood.

  Woody Harrelson

  Real, Boys, House

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• If a lady comes up to you and tells you that your dear mama is lying in a faint on the pavement round the corner, don't you believe her, don't have anything to do with her, do not go with her into the cab. It is the White Slave Traffic.

  Stevie Smith

  Lying, Believe, White

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• How many rappers in the game have "little" in front of their name? Lil' Wayne, Lil' Boosie it's a lil' shame Lil' Flip, Lil' Cease, yo they not the same Lil' Wyte, Lil' Mama, where Lil' Zane? Little Brother, Lil' Jon, and Lil' Fame Real hip hop, not about your lil' chain Lil' Keke, Lil' Kim a lil' freaky Lil' Fizz, Illegal with Lil' Maliky Lil' Mo, Lil' Bow Wow had beef with Lil' Romeo A lil' teenager told me so.

  Ed O.G.

  Brother, Real, Teenager

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• 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.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Blood, People, World

  Adriana Trigiani (2012). “The Shoemaker's Wife: A Novel”, p.37, Harper Collins

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• You can call me Mama T anytime.

  Teresa Heinz

  Call Me

  "Gay support for Kerry on display at convention" By Sean Loughlin, www.cnn.com. July 29, 2004.

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

  Tupac Shakur

  Family, Son, Doctors

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