Mama Quotes - Page 8

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

  Nicki Minaj

  Breakup, Bad Ass, Might

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• Mama raised a hellraiser why cry, That's just life in the ghetto, do or die.

  Tupac Shakur

  Ghetto, Rapper, Cry

  Song: Hell Razor, 1997

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• I heard a rumor I died, Murdered in cold blood dramatized, Pictures of me in my final state, You know mama cried, But that was fiction, Some coward got the story twisted, Like I no longer existed, Mysteriously missin', I'm known worldwide baby, I ain't hard to find.

  Tupac Shakur

  Baby, Rapper, Blood

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• Even as a dope fiend mama. You always was a black queen mama.

  Tupac Shakur

  Family, Queens, Dope

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

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Mean, Listening, Sides

  Jacqueline Woodson (2010). “From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun”, p.10, Penguin

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• On the evenings when my parents held parties, the drawing-room mirrors multiplied to infinity the scintillations of a crystal chandelier. Mama would take her seat at the grand piano to accompany a lady dressed in a cloud of tulle who played the violin and a cousin who performed on a cello. I would crack between my teeth the candied shell of an artificial fruit, and a burst of light would illuminate my palate with a taste of blackcurrant or pineapple: all the colours, all the lights were mine, the gauzy scarves, the diamonds, the laces; I held the whole party in my mouth.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Cousin, Party, Clouds

  Simone de Beauvoir (2016). “Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter”, p.7, HarperCollins

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• You can be a mama's boy, be a daddy's boy, but you can't be both. So you cling to the one you think you might lose.

  Mitch Albom

  Boys, Thinking, Daddy

  Mitch Albom (2009). “For One More Day”, p.26, Hachette UK

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• 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

  Julia Quinn

  Daughter, Ambitious, Determined

  Julia Quinn (2009). “The Viscount Who Loved Me”, p.11, Harper Collins

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

  Lucille Clifton

  Funny, Children, Poet

  Lucille Clifton (1969). “Good times: poems”

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• Mama, Mama, put me to bed I won’t make it home, I’m already half-dead I met an Invalid, and fell for his art He showed me his smile, and went straight for my heart.

  Lauren Oliver

  Art, Home, Bed

  Lauren Oliver (2014). “Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem”, p.39, Harper Collins

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• Victory in defeat, there is none higher. She didn't give up, Ben; she's still trying to lift that stone after it has crushed her. She's a father working while cancer eats away his insides, to bring home one more pay check. She's a twelve-year-old trying to mother her brothers and sisters because mama had to go to Heaven. She's a switchboard operator sticking to her post while smoke chokes her and fire cuts off her escape. She's all the unsung heroes who couldn't make it but never quit.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Mother, Brother, Giving Up

  Robert A. Heinlein (1983). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, Berkley

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• Your white tee, well to me, looks like a nightgown;
  Make your mama proud, take that thing two sizes down.

  Andre Benjamin

  Rap, Two, White

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• Mama never thought I was bad kid
  But I got a lot of tales for the grandkids

  100s

  Kids, Hip Hop, Tales

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• Mama and Papa are more to blame (for delinquency) than the kids; parents should stay home and raise their children and spend less time in taverns.

  Harry S. Truman

  Children, Home, Kids

  Harry S. Truman, Ralph Keyes (1995). “Wit and wisdom of Harry Truman”, Harpercollins

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• June 16, 1971, mama gave birth to a Hell rasing heavenly son.

  Tupac Shakur

  Son, Rapper, June

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• The first lady of Uganda is a devoted evangelical and beloved by the faith community. At an evangelical conference in Argentina, one minister said, "Mama Janet has given us the keys to Africa." She has done that by creating a nation that has embraced a Dominionist form of Christianity that believes that Christians have a God-given right to rule the world.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Christian, Believe, Creating

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• Growing up, I had a very busy social life. It wasn't until I was a sophomore in high school that I asked Mama if I could come into the kitchen and have her teach me how to cook something.

  Paula Deen

  Growing Up, School, Kitchen

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• I didn't have much, but I was always happy to share what I did have. It seemed like every African that came to New York City would show up at my apartment door at dinnertime, and I couldn't turn them away. I wasn't much older than any of them, but they started calling me 'Mama Africa' and the name stuck.

  Miriam Makeba

  New York, Doors, Cities

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• When I was a little baby, my mama she said "Son.Travel where you will and grow to be a manAnd sing what must be sung, poor boySing what must be sung.

  Hoyt Axton

  Baby, Son, Littles

  Song: Greenback Dollar, Album: The Balladeer, 1962

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• Them that's got shall get, Them that's not shall lose. So the Bible says, And it still is news. Mama may have, Papa may have, But God bless the child that's got his own.

  Billie Holiday

  Wisdom, Children, Papa

  Billie Holiday, William Dufty (2011). “Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography”, p.108, Broadway Books

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• In every language, the first word after "Mama!" that every kid learns to say is "Mine!" A system that doesn't allow ownership, that doesn't allow you to say "Mine!" when you grow up, has - to put in mildly - a fatal design flaw.

  Frank Zappa

  Growing Up, Kids, Firsts

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.330, Simon and Schuster

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• Some people ask me whether I'm a 'mama's girl' or a 'papa's girl.' I'm nobody's girl. My brother clings to our parents; I'm the one shoving them out the door.

  Hayden Panettiere

  Girl, Brother, Doors

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• Most children's first words are 'Mama' or 'Daddy.' Mine were, 'Do I have to use my own money?'

  Erma Bombeck

  Children, Daddy, Use

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• I never drew a picture of anything that was before me but always from fancy, a sure sign of the absence of artistic eyesight; and I illustrated my lack of real feeling for art by a very early speech: 'Mama,' said I, 'I have drawed a man. Shall I draw his soul now?

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Art, Real, Men

  Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, William Ernest Henley (1911). “The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson”

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• What the color is, who the daddy be, who the mama is don’t mean nothin’.  We family, carin’ for each other.  Family make us strong in times of trouble.  We all stick together, help each other out.  That the real meanin’ of family.  When you grow up, you take that family feelin’ with you.

  Kathleen Grissom

  Strong, Growing Up, Real

  Kathleen Grissom (2014). “The Kitchen House: A Novel”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

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