Mam Quotes

#1. People say I seem very negative about new music - well, if somebody asks me what I think of Keane, I'll tell 'em. I don't like 'em. I'll obviously take it a step too far and grossly insult the keyboard player's mam or summat, but I'm afraid that's just me.

Noel Gallagher

#2. It's good Mam, you've got a bike
It's so much better than walking
Dad just thinks it's a blessed relief
It's the only time you stop talking

John Walter Bratton

#3. The inspector had interviewed boys before, boys from the poorest parts of town. He had the habit of not specifying "mam" or "dad" or even "parents." They were things he knew not every child possessed and so he was careful.

Sylvia Waugh

#4. Pardon me Mam,I'm new in town, could you please show me the way to your house?

Frank Calvin Mann

#5. (Mam) ignorant as a thistle, married to a drunk and pushing out baby after baby, each of which had to be clothed and fed until it grew up and left, or died.

Meg Rosoff

#6. This will be Great Mam's last spring. Her last June apples. Her last fresh roasting ears from the garden.

Barbara Kingsolver

#7. Sometimes, when something bad leaves the world, something good enters in its place. I've seen it happen before . - Mam

Joseph Delaney

#8. It's not easy for you, Dad
You seek your own space
You slope off to watch telly
But still see (Mom's Mum's Mam's) face

John Walter Bratton

#9. You think our mam likes you better than me?" challenged whichever one was the other. (Don't blame me. I've lost track too.)

John Flanagan

#10. Me mam, bless her soul, tol' me tha' was the worst thing ye could be to a man - convenient.

Karen Hawkins

#11. Are ye all right, man? Ian asked, in the same tone of mild concern he'd heard his da use now and then on his mam or Uncle Jamie. Evidently it was in fact the right tone to take with a Fraser about to go berserk, for William breathed like a grampus for a moment or two, then got himself under control.

Diana Gabaldon

#12. Hi mam I am Divya studying 2nd year English I am doing research about you so please tell me the relation of Anand in Conch series which compared to foreign culture

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#13. Plus he was naturally lucky at cards. As Mam had always said, lucky at cards, or lucky at life. One or the other. Not both.

Cinda Williams Chima

#14. Sometimes in this life it is necessary to sacrifice oneself for the good of others . - Mam

Joseph Delaney

#15. Mr. Grey shuffled his feet. I know what we was told, but it don't feel right, Bistle. I has a sense about these things. Me mam always said so.

G. Norman Lippert

#16. Listen to people and treat people as you find them. There's an inherent goodness in most people. Don't pre-judge people - that was me Mam's advice anyway.

Sean Bean

#17. I work with a cause called the Somaly Mam Foundation, and that is my purpose in life, above anything else. Everything that I do, I'm thinking about girls. As strong as we are, we're also sensitive, and I feel like men take advantage of that.

Shay Mitchell

#18. My mam told me not to tell many people about not being christened, as she said I would be a prime target for witches. To this day I don't know what she meant by that.

Karl Pilkington

#19. I would have dearly liked to close the French doors between us for a bit of peace, but Mam wouldn't allow it; she said that solitude would give me ideas and the last thing a boy of my age needed was ideas.

John Boyne

#20. Over a pint in the pub, you have a good moan
That's the fate of every Magpie
While Mam perfects her game show skills
Giving talks at the WI

John Walter Bratton

#21. Your mam's up there havin' a babbie, in case you've forgotten.' Seth kept the knife steady. 'I haven't forgotten, but Pearl's been Mam's lackey from the day she could toddle, an' you

Rita Bradshaw

#22. I have,' Georgina said. 'I go home once a year to see my mam. It's a lot of suffering for a week. By the time I've recovered I have to go back. But I love seeing them all. We're not getting any younger, any of us, so it's nice to spend a week together.

Colm Toibin

#23. The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects. However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.

Alan Bennett

#24. Betty, he said. Yes. I'm not what you think I am. I aint nothin. I dont know why you put up with me. Well, Mr Parham, I know who you are. And I do know why. You go to sleep now. I'll see you in the morning. Yes mam.

Cormac McCarthy

#25. You got good eyes, she said. Yes mam, he said. I always did. Well I guess so, she said. You dont normally start out with bad ones and they get better.

Cormac McCarthy

#26. For once, mam, my bladder isn't near my eye and why isn't it?

Frank McCourt

#27. I travel to Cambodia, Thailand, Bali, and Nairobi for my charities: Somaly Mam and Friends to Mankind.

Serinda Swan

#28. It starts when you begin to overlook good manners. Any time you quit hearing Sir and Mam the end is pretty much in sight ...

Cormac McCarthy

#29. And even if it felt like Mam hated me, she had to love me, didn't she? She had to love me, because she was my mam, and Susan was just somebody who got stuck taking care of Jamie and me because of the war.

Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

#30. Has he come armed, then?" she asked anxiously. "Has he brought a pistol or a sword?"
Ian shook his head, his dark hair lifting wildly in the wind.
"Oh, no, Mam!" he said. "It's worse. He's brought a lawyer!

Diana Gabaldon

#31. Mam said I was growing up. I felt that I was dying.

Delia Sherman

#32. What you have learned from experience is worth much more than gold. If you have a house it may burn down. Any kind of possession can be lost, but your experience is yours forever. Keep it and find a way to use it.

Somaly Mam

#33. Sometimes you can learn, even from a bad experience. By coping you become stronger. The pain does not go away, but it becomes manageable.

Somaly Mam

#34. How can you be lonely? You've got yourself, haven't you? If you ever lose yourself, then you'll really be lonely ...

Joseph Delaney

#35. I strongly believe that love is the answer and that it can mend even the deepest unseen wounds. Love can heal, love can console, love can strengthen, and yes, love can make change.

Somaly Mam

#36. Everyone can help, everyone can do one thing. Start by your heart: what you want.

Somaly Mam

#37. I don't feel like I can change the world. I don't even try. I only want to change this small life that I see standing in front of me, which is suffering.

Somaly Mam

#38. Get friends involved. Get the community to take action. Everyone cannot do everything but each of you can do one thing.

Somaly Mam

#39. She was eight years old, with the body of a child, but her spirit was weighed down by an adult suffering.

Somaly Mam

#40. Put anger aside. It is not a solution. Patience and love is a solution. With compassion and action, together we can end slavery.

Somaly Mam

#41. I don't want to go without leaving a trace.

Somaly Mam

#42. A seed is like a little girl: it can look small and worthless, but if you treat it well then it will grow beautiful.

Somaly Mam

#43. Love them. Save them. Give them opportunity.

Somaly Mam