Mama Quotes - Page 13

• When Mama starts to move across a room, people pay attention. You can never be sure she's not going to grab you by the top of the head to steady herself. And she's pretty free with that walking stick, too.

  Bailey White

  Moving, Walking Sticks, People

  Bailey White (2009). “Mama Makes Up Her Mind: And Other Dangers of Southern Living”, p.6, Da Capo Press

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• What’ cha doing out here all alone? Did you forget how to find Sanctuary? (Simi) No. I want to be alone for a bit. (Gallagher) Why? Were the bears mean to you? Mama can get a bit cranky whenever I play with the cubs. She thinks I’m going to eat one, but bleh! They’re way too hairy. Now if she’d let me skin one, I might be interested. (Simi) Are you joking? (Gallagher) Oh no. I never joke about hairy food. (Simi)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mean, Thinking, Play

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• 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, Like Family, Christianity

  Armistead Maupin (1989). “Tales of the city ; More tales of the city ; Further tales of the city: an omnibus”, Vintage

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• A long time ago, Trinity and I made a list of types of guys you should never date. We add to it every now and then. It includes things like never date a guy whose computer costs more than his car (you'll never get him to pay attention to you except over instant messages), never date a guy who has a pet lizard (he's probably into weird stuff in bed) and never under any circumstances go on a second date with a guy who says the word "married" on the first date (he'll turn out to be a mama's boy or a religious type)

  Adam Selzer

  Religious, Boys, Car

  Adam Selzer (2010). “I Kissed a Zombie, and I Liked It”, p.46, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• When that mama worry takes ahold of a woman you can't expect no sense from her. She'll do or say anything at all and you just better hope you ain't in her way. That's the Lord's doing right there. He made mothers to be like that on account of children need protecting and the men ain't around to do it most of the time. Helping that child be up to the mama. But God never gives us a task without giving us the means to see it through. That mama worry come straight from Him, it make it so she can't help but look after that child.

  Hillary Jordan

  Mother, Children, Mean

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• When it's not always raining there'll be days like this. When there's no one complaining there'll be days like this. When everything falls into place like the flick of a switch. Well my mama told me there'll be days like this.

  Van Morrison

  Rain, Fall, Days Like This

  Song: Days Like This, Album: Days Like This

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• Look, as my mama always said, 'One monkey don't stop no show.

  Terry McMillan

  Looks, Monkeys, Said

  Terry McMillan (2010). “Getting to Happy”, p.177, Penguin

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• You almost felt sorry for the devil cause heaven knows he didn't have a prayer, when Mama prayed.

  Randy Travis

  Prayer, Sorry, Evil

  Song: When Mama Prayed, Album: Rise and Shine

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• This is your dividing line, by the way, between child and nonchild - when the first trouble happens that Mama can't fix.

  Peg Bracken

  Children, Growth, Lines

  Peg Bracken (1982). “A Window Over the Sink”, Avon Books

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• I recollect a nurse called Ann,
  Who carried me about the grass,
  And one fine day a fine young man
  Came up and kissed the pretty lass.
  She did not make the least objection.
  Thinks I, "Aha,
  When I can talk I'll tell Mama,"
  And that's my earliest recollection.

  Frederick Locker-Lampson

  Men, Thinking, Nurse

  Frederick Locker-Lampson, “A Terrible Infant”

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• Widowhood provided Mama with a higher form of being. In refusing to recover from my father's death she had discovered that her life was endowed with a seriousness her years in the kitchen had denied her. She remained devoted to this seriousness for thirty years. She never tired of it, never grew bored or restless in its company, found new ways to keep alive the interest it deserved and had so undeniably earned.

  Vivian Gornick

  Father, Tired, Years

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• Just remember, when your mother’s gnawing my ankle like a furious mama bear separated from her cum, I did it for you.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mother, Ankles, Bears

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• Rudy handed it back. "Speaking of which, I think we're both slightly in for it when we get home. You especially." "Why me?" "You know- your mama." "What about her?" Liesel was exercising the blatant right of every person who's ever belonged to a family. It's all very well for such a person to whine and moan and criticize other family members, but they won't let anyone else do it. That's when you get your back up and show loyalty.

  Markus Zusak

  Loyalty, Home, Exercise

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• She sifted, sighed, and stared up at the ceiling, trying to think about anything but Lord Maccoon, her current predicament, or Lord Akeldama's safety. Which meant she could do nothing but reflect on the complex plight of her mama's more recent embroidery project. Thins, in itself, was a worse torture than any her captors could devise.

  Gail Carriger

  Thinking, Safety, Trying

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• The boy heaved a sigh. "I would ask to go with you," he said, " but I have to finish my lessons. I so look forward to the day when I know everything. Then I won't have to read any more books or do any more counting." Beatrix smiled. "I don't wish to be discouraging, Rye, but it's not possible to know everything." "Mama does." Rye paused reflectively. "At least, Papa says we mus t pretend she does, because it makes her happy." "Your father," Beatrix informed him with a laugh, " is one of the wisest men I've ever known.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Father, Book, Men

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• I said the first thing that came into my head unfortunately. "Save the drama for your mama " I told her just like an eleven-year-old.

  Charlaine Harris

  Drama, Years, Firsts

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.1699, Penguin

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• 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, Wells, Felt

  Dorothy Allison (2005). “Bastard Out of Carolina: A Novel”, p.18, Penguin

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• Mama was always saying I was a brain snob, that I didn't like people who didn't think. I didn't know if that was snobby. Who wanted to walk around explaining everything to people all the time?

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Thinking, People, Brain

  Jacqueline Woodson (2008). “After Tupac and D Foster”, p.21, Penguin

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• It's always the mother's fault, ain't it?" she said softly, collecting her coat. "That boy turn out bad cause his mama a drunk, or she a junkie. She let him run wild, she don't teach him right from wrong. She never home when he back from school. Nobody ever say his daddy a drunk, or his daddy not home after school. And nobody ever say they some kids just damned mean.

  Lionel Shriver

  Mother, Running, Home

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• Mama, I know you used to ride the bus. Riding the bus, and it’s hot and bumpy and crowded and too noisy, and more than anything else in the world, you wanna get off. And the only reason in the world you don’t get off is it’s still fifty blocks from where you’re going. Well, I can get off right now if I want to. Because even if I ride fifty more years and get off then, it’s still the same place when I step down to it. Whenever I feel like it, I can get off. Whenever I’ve had enough, it’s my stop. I’ve had enough.

  Marsha Norman

  Block, Years, Bored

  "'night, Mother". www.imdb.com. September 5, 1986.

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• There ain't no "baby mama drama" up in this Vortex, homie!

  Esther Hicks

  Baby, Drama, Vortex

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• I found it curious that people kept animals for companionship and not food. When I'd asked Mama Oaks when she planned to cook the fat creature that slept in a basket in the kitchen, her eyes almost popped out of her head. Since then, she'd kept her pet away from me, like she suspected I meant to turn it into stew. Clearly, I had a lot to learn.

  Ann Aguirre

  Eye, Animal, People

  "Outpost". Book by Ann Aguirre, 2012.

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• Mama, Mama, help me get home I'm out in the woods, I am out on my own. I found me a werewolf, a nasty old mutt It showed me its teeth and went straight for my gut. Mama, Mama, help me get home I'm out in the woods, I am out on my own. I was stopped by a vampire, a rotting old wreck It showed me its teeth and went straight for my neck. 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. -From "A Child's Walk Home," Nursery Rhymes and Folk Tales

  Lauren Oliver

  Art, Children, Home

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

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• Mama read it an began pulling her hair an weepin an praisin the Lord, 'cause it say I am 'Temporarily Deferred' on account of I am a numbnuts.

  Winston Groom

  Hair, Causes, Lord

  Winston Groom (2013). “Forrest Gump”, p.24, Random House

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• Of course you realize you're leaving me in the position of being the one tell everyone - your mother, Luke, Alec, Izzy, Magnus..." "I guess I shouldn't have said there wouldn't be no risk to you," Clary said meekly. "That's right," said Simon. "Just remember, when your mothers's gnawing my ankle like a furious mama bear separated from her cub, I did it for you.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mother, Leaving, Risk

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