Momma Quotes

• Give her a day, and then in return Momma gives you the other 364.

  Will Rogers

  Giving, Return

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

  Dolly Parton

  Country, Saying Bad Things, Ifs

  Twitter post from Mar 30, 2010

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• Miss America was always white. All the beautiful brown women in America, beautiful sun tans, beautiful shapes, all types of complexions, but she always was white.And Miss World was always white, and Miss Universe was always white.And the angel fruit cake was the white cake and the devil food cake was the chocolate cake.I said, 'Momma, why is everything white?' I always wondered. And the President lived in the White House.

  Muhammad Ali

  Beautiful, Angel, Cake

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• I hope they're still making women like my momma. She always told me to do the right thing. She always told me to have pride in myself; she said a good name is better than money.

  Joe Louis

  Pride, Names, Boxing

  Joe Louis, Edna Rust, Art Rust (1978). “Joe Louis: My Life”, Harcourt

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• Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs of their families. Whether they are awake at night nursing a baby, spending their time and money on less-than-grateful teenagers, or preparing meals, moms continuously put others before themselves.

  Charles Stanley

  Mom, Baby, Teenager

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• Momma kept a garden, which sounds romantic to people who have never held a hoe

  Rick Bragg

  Garden, People, Hoe

  Rick Bragg (2010). “All Over but the Shoutin'”, p.46, Vintage

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• No one can beat Momma. She made me the person I am today. The way I think and act and move and talk and speak. It's all because of her.

  Deshaun Watson

  Moving, Thinking, Today

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• The world's a hard place, Danny. It don't care. It don't hate you and me, but it don't love us, either. Terrible things happen in the world, and they're things no one can explain. Good people die in bad, painful ways and leave the folks that love them all alone. Sometimes it seems like it's only the bad people who stay healthy and prosper. The world don't love you, but your momma does and so do I.

  Stephen King

  Life, Hate, Love You

  STEPHEN KING (1977). “THE SHINING”

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• After Momma gave birth to twelve of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.

  Dolly Parton

  Kids, Daddy, Twelve

  Twitter post from Aug 24, 2011

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• My momma always said, 'You and Elvis are pretty good, but y'all ain't no Chuck Berry.

  Jerry Lee Lewis

  Berries, Said, Chuck

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• I like the hip writers: Fitzgerald, the guy who committed suicide, Hemingway, all those guys. Some of them were alcoholics and drug addicts but they had fun. They were real people. They formed the culture of American literature. Hemingway admired Tolstoy, Tolstoy admired Pushkin, and Mailer admired Hemingway. It all flows down. The greats are all connected. One day I'm gonna write a book myself. The first chapter will be about what a rough deal my momma got. She believed in you guys and your society.

  Mike Tyson

  Suicide, Fun, Real

  "Boxing: Tyson's complicated world". Interview with Paul Hayward, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 1, 2002.

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• Yeah school girl, cool girl. Your dress is sexy and your momma is a cougar.

  J. Cole

  Girl, Sexy, School

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• I want to remind all Africans, please come to Africa. It’s right across the water. Come look at yourselves. Momma is waiting.

  Geronimo Pratt

  Water, Waiting, Want

  "Geronimo Ji Jaga: Soulja’s Story Pt 2". AllHipHop Interview, allhiphop.com. September 18, 2003.

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• Some politicians like to kiss babies. I like to kiss the baby's mommas.

  Edwin Edwards

  Baby, Kissing, Politician

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• Kodachrome, it gives us those nice bright colors Gives us the greens of summers Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah! I got a Nikon camera, I love to take a photograph So momma, don't take my Kodachrome away.

  Paul Simon

  Summer, Photography, Nice

  Paul Simon (2011). “Lyrics 1964-2011”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• I got a chance to get an actual label. I performed this slow song, this ballad I have. I just remember going to the first woman I saw in the room and just getting on my knees holding her hand just singing. And I was like, you know what, I got to just sell it. I remember that day they were like, yo we want to sign you. [After] I went into the bathroom, I started crying, [and] I called my mom. I was like momma – I did it.

  Chris Brown

  Mom, Song, Hands

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• There’s nothing more fierce than the female, like the momma lion. Believe me, my wife is a good example.

  Lance Henriksen

  Believe, Wife, Example

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• You might be a redneck if your Momma would rather go the racetrack than the Kennedy Center.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Might, Your Mom

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• I was raised in the city, shitty
  Ever since I was an itty bitty kitty
  Drinkin' liquor out my momma's titty
  And smokin' weed was an everyday thang in my household,
  And drinking liquor til' you out cold

  Tupac Shakur

  Weed, Drinking, Rap

  Song: Death Around The Corner

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• Your momma used to live at the church on Sunday
  You just go to LIV after church on Sunday

  Drake

  Party, Sunday, Church

  Song: 305 To My City

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• Momma, you're special," Renesmee told me without any surprise, like she was commenting on the color of my clothes.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Color, Clothes, Special

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Breaking Dawn: Twilight”, p.348, Hachette UK

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• If on Judgement Day I were summoned by St. Peter to give testimony to the used-to-be sheriff's act of kindness, I would be unable to say anything in his behalf. His confidence that my uncle and every other Black man who heard of the Klan's coming ride would scurry under their houses to hide in chicken droppings was too humiliating to hear. Without waiting for Momma's thanks, he rode out of the yard, sure that things were as they should be and that he was a gentle squire, saving those deserving serfs from the laws of the land, which he condoned.

  Maya Angelou

  Uncles, Kindness, Men

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• When I want to be lectured on strategy, I'll consult someone who's actually won battles," Amelie said. "Not one who ran away from them." "Snap," Eve said. "You know what they're talking about?" Shane asked. "Don't need to know to get that one. She smacked him so hard his momma felt it.

  Rachel Caine

  Talking, Battle, Needs

  Rachel Caine (2009). “Fade Out: The Morganville Vampires”, p.36, Penguin

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• She smacked him so hard his momma felt it.

  Rachel Caine

  Morganville Vampires, Felt, Hard

  Rachel Caine (2009). “Fade Out: The Morganville Vampires”, p.36, Penguin

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• I don’t know how you’ve managed a tan,” Daydra said, “but you’ll have to keep it up, and talk like a pirate. If you want to work for Momma K, you’re going to be the Sethi pirate girl. You have a husband or a lover?” Kaldrosa hesitated. “Husband,” she admitted. “The last beating nearly killed him.” “If you do this, you’ll never get him back. A man can forgive a woman who leaves whoring for him, but he’ll never forgive one who goes whoring for him.” “It’s worth it,” Kaldrosa said. “To save his life, it’s worth it.

  Brent Weeks

  Girl, Husband, Men

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