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• Mama?" "Yes, Emmy." She traced a rivulet of rain with her finger as it made its journey down the glass. "How do you know when it's been long enough?" Emmy could sense her mother smiling into the phone. "When you relaize that love doesn't have a time span. Only pain does. I think sometimes it's hard to distinguish between the two, so we just hold on to both of them like they're inseparable.

  Karen White

  Mother, Pain, Rain

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• Mama said, "Dreams are different to real life but important too."

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Dream, Real, Important

  "The Time Traveler’s Wife". Book by Audrey Niffenegger, 2013.

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• I'm alive inside. A bird is my heart. Mama and Daddy is not win. I'm winning. I'm drinking hot chocolate in the Village wif girls--all kind who love me. How that is so I don't know. How Mama and Daddy kknow me sixteen years and hate me, how a stranger meet me and love me. Must be what they already had in they pocket.

  Sapphire

  Love, Girl, Hate

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• I wanna tell the whole world about a friend of mine / This little light of mine, I'm feelin' let it shine / I'm feelin' take y'all back to them better times/ I'm feelin' talk about my mama if y'all don't mind

  Kanye West

  Inspiring, Mom, Mother

  Song: Hey Mama

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• If a kid calls his grandma "Mommy" and his mama "Pam", he's going to jail!

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Grandma, Humor

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• When I was little and something awful was happening my Mama would tell me to close my eyes.She was tryin' to keep me from seeing her do drugs or other bad things. And then when she was finished or the bad things were over she'd say, “now when I count to three, you open your eyes and the past is gone, the world is a good place,and it's all gonna be okay.

  Michael Oher

  Eye, Past, Drug

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• My mother and I definitely got to a point where we had to have a real conversation and talk woman to woman, or daughter to mother, friend to friend - just off the record, clear the air and communicate. I didn't want to drive my mama crazy, but at the same time, I had to do, I had to learn, I had to grow and she understood that. She knows me better than anyone else on the planet so I tried to think about that.

  Queen Latifah

  Mother, Daughter, Crazy

  Source: globalgrind.com

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• 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.

  Bear Bryant

  Sports, Mother, Winning

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• My mama used to say, 'Are you sad? Then just wait a minute.

  Shannon Hale

  Waiting, Used, Minutes

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• 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.'

  Ashley Judd

  Growing Up, Kids, Water

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• But you...are my sweetest gift. The life surprise that soothed all my ills and gave me my greatest joys. I feel so blessed you are mine. —Mama Ya-Ya

  Jewell Parker Rhodes

  Blessed, Joy, Surprise

  Jewell Parker Rhodes (2010). “Ninth Ward”, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

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• It's a cliche, but Americans are puritanical. In their movies, they are scared of sex, but they overindulge in violence. I could have cut a G-rated version of 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' that would have pleased the American ratings board, but it would have been five minutes long.

  Alfonso Cuaron

  Sex, Cutting, Long

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

  Niccolo Paganini

  Variation, Popularity, I Can

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• I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama's boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental nature of her task. It will take a crowbar, two bulldozers and half a dozen Molotov cocktails to pry my Oedipus and me loose from one another.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Boys, Oedipus, Molotov Cocktail

  Ayelet Waldman (2009). “Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace”, p.88, Anchor

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• 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.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Daddy, Matter, Responsible

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• Republicans: steely, rational, paternalistic, respectful of authority, easy to herd, the party of No. Democrats: sugary, emotional, idealistic, yearning for novelty, hard to marshal, the party of Oh Yeah, Baby, Make Mama Feel Good.

  James Wolcott

  Baby, Party, Emotional

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• Why did Mama say that? Had Papa made her angry again? He made her angry a lot. Gran said it was on account of his "hores." One time Celia asked Nurse what a hore was, and Nurse paddled her and told her that was a bad word. Then why did Papa have them?

  Sabrina Jeffries

  Nurse, Papa, Made

  Sabrina Jeffries (2012). “A Lady Never Surrenders”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• Beside Mama, in my own folding chair, with my feet sticking out in front of me, I thought about my own innards. Just a few months before I'd had no idea whether my reproductive equipment worked. There was no evidence. But that week I had become a full-fledged bleeder and was still absorbed by this first change in myself that I had ever noticed. The click and buzz of my synapses kept making the same connection. If you can change, you can also end. Death had always been a theory to me. Now I knew. The terror hurt good and I nursed it and played it like a loose tooth.

  Katherine Dunn

  Hurt, Feet, Ideas

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• To the newcomer to the south, hearing that a coworker plans a weekend visit to 'mama and them's' (the correct plural possessive, don'tchaknow), might make him think that mama has been left alone either throught an act of scoundreldom involving the town's resident hoochie-mama (an altogether different kind of mama) or Daddy's untimely demise.

  Celia Rivenbark

  Weekend, Thinking, Daddy

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• I've dated the sweet mama's boy, the musician rocker, the struggling artist - basically a lot of people without jobs.

  Alyssa Milano

  Sweet, Jobs, Struggle

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• 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

  Lucille Clifton

  Dream, Fields, Grass

  Lucille Clifton, “My Mama Moved Among The Days”

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• I've dated a number of 'mama's boys.'

  Gabrielle Union

  Boys, Numbers, Mama's Boy

  "'Think Like a Man's' Gabrielle Union, Regina Hall and Meagan Good on 'Mama Boys' and Men Who Love Rom-Coms" by Todd Gilchrist, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 17, 2012.

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• 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'?

  Chris Tucker

  Money, Men, Loan

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

  Joy Behar

  Chinese, Restaurants, Teresa

  Interview with Rachael Ray, www.rachaelraymag.com. November 1, 2005.

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• I asked the producers when I was doing 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' if they could give me a VHS recording of the film that I could show to my family, because in Mexico and Latin America, when you do a film, you don't expect anybody to see it, especially not in the cinema.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Latin, America, Giving

  Guardian interviews at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2006.

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