Big Mama Sayings

#1. The schools can't cover all the values that go along with how you handle your money. For example, a financial literacy class might not teach me to hate debt the way my grandmother, Big Mama did.

Michelle Singletary

#2. I played Big Mama in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' when I was 20 years old at the University of Michigan.

Margo Martindale

#3. Big mama didn't tell her as much as she probably could have, but she was so proud of Chanel and everything that she had accomplished and was accomplishing. Chanel

Nako

#4. My family is really, really Southern - I had two uncle Bubbas, and grandparents that we called Big Mama and Big Daddy.

Laura Lippman

#5. Got ants in my pants and I need to dance, so big fine mama, come give me a chance.

James Brown

#6. I think the best coaches have their own style. That takes time to mold that.

Vince Kehres

#7. I tried to smile like I wasn't about to die.

Rick Riordan

#8. If there is a reason to believe in God, it would be the Havana Leaf.

Norman Lear

#9. white or black. rich or poor. if you ever had your heart broken you have right to sing the blues

Big Mama Thornton

#10. But amid much elegance and precision, the details of life and the Universe also exhibit haphazard, jury-rigged arrangements and much poor planning. What shall we make of this: an edifice abandoned early in construction by the architect?

Carl Sagan

#11. It's hard to feel smart when you're always forgetting things, but Mama Shannon says that's how you can tell a smart person. They're too busy thinking about Big Ideas to worry about little details like tying their shoes or remembering their homework" -Fella

Sarah Dooley

#12. Should've known when I met her mama. The big, fat acorn didn't fall too far from the big, fat tree.

Johnny Shaw

#13. Being there doesn't mean I'm present. I exist only in words. I want to be transmuted fully to white page and ink.

David Joseph Cribbin

#14. Don't clap too loudly - it's a very old world.

Tom Stoppard

#15. Sometimes my ethnicity is relevant, other times not. I definitely get the best of both worlds.

Archie Panjabi

#16. In Mexico, audiences want to see a big discussion around a film - what we expect from Hollywood films worldwide is more of an entertaining show. 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' was a road movie and comedy, but it had a very strong political connotation that sparked a discussion in Mexico that is still going on.

Gael Garcia Bernal

#17. So James refusing to sit down was a big deal. Unheard of. Like a black child suddenly saying in an English accent to its mama, "No, madam, I will not retrieve a switch so that you may beat me with it. I believe your request to be not only abusive, but also absurd.

Ernessa T. Carter

#18. Even after all these years, she still said the word "gig" self-consciously, in the same way that she always said "croissant" with the proper French pronunciation, but with an apologetic, self-deprecating look to make up for her pretentiousness.

Liane Moriarty

#19. There will be days that you don't want to dress up and if you have some decent looking athletic wear, you can give the illusion that you've just been working out, as opposed to giving up on life.

Big Mama

#20. It's an ill councell that hath no escape.

George Herbert

#21. Un-soft answers only worsen the mama drama in my house. And they don't win many points with my coworkers or neighbors either. When we give an un-soft answer, we drizzle a little gasoline on the tiniest spark of a potential spat. It may combust and flare, setting off a big old blaze. However,

Karen Ehman

#22. I believe that we are arks of the covenant and our true nature is not rage or deceit or terror or logic or craft or even sorrow. It is longing.

Cormac McCarthy

#23. My first film was a movie shot in 1974. I was 18 on that movie set. It was called 'Big Bad Mama.' I turned 19 on the next movie I worked on, which was a black 'Blazing Saddles.' I worked in the art department. It was called 'Darktown Strutters.'

Bill Paxton

#24. I will go down with my colors flying.

Virginia Woolf

#25. if he knew how upset I was for opening my big fat mouth. "I'm sorry about what happened in there. I shouldn't have told Mama about Joseph Theodore Page being on Ted's birth certificate, but she

Maggie Toussaint

#26. I'm not perfect, I'm not an angel, but I try to live a certain way because it brings honour and respect to my mother. I tell people that when they look at me, they're looking at nothing but a big, overgrown, tough mama's boy. That's who I am.

Mr. T

#27. When Mama prayed, lives were changed. Not much more than five foot tall, but mountains big and small crumbled all away.

Randy Travis

#28. 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

#29. I've never had a very quiet voice. I tried in choir to make it smaller, and it just didn't work out. And I listened to a lot of soul music when I was growing up on my own accord. But I was mostly into Mama Cass and Gladys Knight, and they all had big voices too; just different than mine.

Beth Ditto

#30. Save me, save me, save me from this squeeze. I got a big fat mama trying to break me.

Ray Davies