Quotes and Sayings About Mama

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

#Mother #Mama

I was not aware of how much I loved 'Canoa' until I saw it after doing 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' and realized that my voice - over about the story's historical context - that narrator - came from 'Canoa'.
-- Alfonso Cuaron

#Voice #Historical #Mama

I know I can't tell you what it's like to be gay. But I can tell you what it's not. It's not hiding behind words, Mama. Like family and decency and Christianity.
-- Armistead Maupin

#Gay #Mama #Christianity

My favorite drive is Highway 101 in California between Los Angeles and San Luis Obispo. I love the 101; Highway 1 is too windy, and 5 is too boring - the 101 is just right. It's like the Mama Bear of scenic drives.
-- Art Alexakis

#California #Mama #Bears

Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
-- Barry White

#Strong #Mama #Streets

Mama wanted me to be a preacher. I told her coachin' and preachin' were a lot alike.
-- Bear Bryant

#Believe #Mama #Preacher

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

#Rose #Roles #Mama

I really worshipped Mama Cass a lot. Mama Cass, who was really fat and she didn't lose weight. Yeah, she went on diets but for the most part of her life and the better part of her career she was a big person.
-- Beth Ditto

#Careers #Weight #Mama

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

#Children #Mama #Papa

Maybe I should quit the business. There's no one left for me to love. Mama's dead. Mr. Burns couldn't care less about me. What's left?
-- Bobby Darin

#Care #Mama #Quitting

Mama always said that if it can't rain on you, you're indoors.
-- Bum Phillips

#Rain #Mama #Said

My role in the Mamas and Papas was basically just to sing.
-- Cass Elliot

#Papa #Roles #Mama

When you've been hurt, you don't make excuses for the jerk who hurt you. That's his mama's job.
-- Catherine Anderson

#Hurt #Jobs #Mama

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 #Mama

The activities of these parasites and degenerates gave rise to Cubism, Fauvism, Futurism, Pointillism, Constructivism, Orphism, Surrealism, Dada, and also Impossibleism, Supersurrealism, Dynamic Double-Dog Realism, Ishkabibbleism, and Mama, which is like Dada only nicer.
-- Daniel Pinkwater

#Dog #Degenerates #Mama

He gave you to me," she said, so low I could hardly hear her. "Now I have to give you back to him, Mama.
-- Diana Gabaldon

#Giving #Mama #Lows

When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!
-- Diane Lane

#New York #Parent #Mama

Mama learned to laugh with them, before they could laugh at her, and to do it so well no one could be sure what she really thought or felt.
-- Dorothy Allison

#Laughing #Mama #Wells

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

#Mama #Scared #Said

Jack Kerouac, like a sick refrigerator, worked too hard at keeping cool and died on his mama's lap from alcohol and infantilism.
-- Edward Abbey

#Sick #Alcohol #Mama

I got three whippings a day from my mama.
-- Evander Holyfield

#Three #Mama

I caught a lot of flak for being a young mama.
-- Fantasia Barrino

#Mama #Caught #Young

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 #Mama #Never Forget

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 #Mama

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 #Mama #Puppy

Does it ever occur to you, Mama, that my grandfather is a lunatic?
-- Georgette Heyer

#Grandfather #Doe #Mama

Eccentricity may be diverting, Mama, but it is out of place in a wife: certainly in my wife!
-- Georgette Heyer

#Wife #May #Mama

What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No cubs.
-- Harry Caray

#Baseball #World #Mama

will you stop trying to be brave! It's me, Mama! You can be honest with me." -Hetty
-- Jacqueline Wilson

#Brave #Trying #Mama

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 #Mama