Mama Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• 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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• Let me tell you something. I ain't scared of nothing. I came out my mama.

  Lil Boosie

  Meaningful, Scared, Let Me

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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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• Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We've lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!

  Bertolt Brecht

  Moon, Bye, Alabama

  Bertolt Brecht (1990). “Brecht Collected Plays: The Rise and Fall of the City of Mohagony and the Seven Deadly Sins :”, Methuen

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• River gonna take me, Sing me sweet and sleepy,
  Sing me sweet and sleepy all the way back home,
  It's a far gone lullaby sung many years ago
  Mama, Mama, many worlds I've come since I first left home

  Robert Hunter

  Song, Sweet, Home

  Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• Summertime And the living is easy Fish are jumpin' And the cotton is high Oh, your daddy's rich And your mama's good lookin' So hush little baby now don't you cry One of these mornin's You're gonna rise up singin' Then you'll spread your wings And take to the sky But til that mornin' Ain't nothin' can harm you With your daddy And your mammy standin' by.

  George Gershwin

  Summer, Baby, Sky

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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 tied a blindfold over my eyes. The next thing I felt my flesh was being cut away. I heard the blade sawing back and forth through my skin. The pain between my legs was so intense I wished I would die.

  Waris Dirie

  Pain, Eye, Cutting

  "Young Human Rights Reporter of the Year 2013 - Sixth-form Category". www.theguardian.com. May 06, 2013.

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• 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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• Callin my ex-girl or e-mailin my mama, you're the only one that's causin me this drama.

  Drake

  Break Up, Girl, Breakup

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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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• Beautiful as seemed mama's face, it became more lovely when she smiled and seemed to enliven everything about her.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Beautiful, Mom, Lovely

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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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• 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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• Step on a crack , you'll break your mama's back. Step on a stone, you'll end up all alone. Step on a stick, you're bound to get the Sick. Watch where you tread, you'll bring out all the dead. - A common children's playground chant, usually accompanied by jumping rope or clapping.

  Lauren Oliver

  Children, Jumping, Sick

  Lauren Oliver (2014). “Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem”, p.27, Harper Collins

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• ...I do not tell you often enough, dear Mother, how very grateful I am that I am yours. It is a rare parent who would offer a child such latitude and understanding. It is an even rarer one who calls a daughter friend. I do love you, dear Mama.

  Julia Quinn

  Daughter, Mother, Children

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• Does it ever occur to you, Mama, that my grandfather is a lunatic?

  Georgette Heyer

  Grandfather, Doe, Lunatic

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• He loves the sparkling fountains and their cascades and says the strangest things as he watches them. they look like stars breaking. Or, They look like Mama's diamonds. Or, They look like all the souls in heaven.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Stars, Heaven, Soul

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.121, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• It was a constant source of amazement to Alexia that the only thing she had ever done in her entire life that pleased her mama was marry a werewolf.

  Gail Carriger

  Done, Werewolf, Source

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• 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, Lows, Said

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1684, Dell

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• Mama says that satisfaction isn't what I should search for. Respect is. Respect? I detest that word. Probably because in this world you have to respect the wrong people for the wrong reasons.

  Melina Marchetta

  People, World, Satisfaction

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.134, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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

  Georgette Heyer

  Wife, May, Eccentricity

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• Pop ya kickstand little mama I'm the Nickster. I'll pop you then I'll pop your little sister.

  Nicki Minaj

  Bad Ass, Little Sister, Littles

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• Grandma told me Mama was once caught by the Principal for writing in the front of her book, "In Case of Fire, Throw This in First." I have never had so much respect for Mama as the day I heard this.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Reading, Book

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