Mama Quotes

462 Mama quotes by 327 unique authors

My heart broke all over again. I wanted my life back, my mama, but I knew I would never have that. The child I had… — Dorothy Allison
I'm alive inside. A bird is my heart. Mama and Daddy is not win. I'm winning. I'm drinking hot chocolate in the Village wif girls--all… — Sapphire
Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul. — Shannon Hale
My mama used to say, 'Are you sad? Then just wait a minute. — Shannon Hale
I don't know if mama was right, that we each have a destiny, or if if was Lt Dan, that we are all just floating… — Winston Groom
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… — Harry S. Truman
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… — Mitch Albom
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… — Simone de Beauvoir
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… — Winston Groom
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… — Dorothy Allison
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… — Jacqueline Woodson
My mother, Southern to the bone, once told me, “All Southern literature can be summed up in these words: ‘On the night the hogs ate… — Pat Conroy
Mama was crying, and the rain made it seem as if the whole world was crying. — Lois Lowry
Good-by, Good-by, world. Good-by, Grover's Corners... Mama and Papa. Good-by to clocks ticking... and Mama's sunflowers. And food and coffee. And new-ironed dresses and hot… — Thornton Wilder
What we want most is to be held...and told..that everything (everything is a funny thing, is baby milk and papa's eyes, is roaring logs on… — Truman Capote
As long as people have been on this earth, the moon has been a mystery to us. Think about it. She is strong enough to… — Sue Monk Kidd
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… — Bailey White
We settled Mama into the wheelchair and loaded her down with both our pocketbooks and a vase of flowers I had picked to present to… — Bailey White
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… — Van Morrison
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,… — Armistead Maupin
I come home that morning, after I been fired, and stood outside my house with my new work shoes on. The shoes my mama paid… — Kathryn Stockett
Mama--Mama--I want so many things... I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy... — Lorraine Hansberry
How that is so I don't know. How Mama and Daddy know me sixteen years and hate me, how a stranger meet me and love… — Sapphire
Go to sleep, baby,Mama will sing. Of blue butterflies, and dragonfly wings. Moonlight and sunbeams, raiments so fine. Silver and gold, for baby of mine.… — Kim Harrison
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… — Dorothy Allison

Who Wrote These Mama Quotes

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