Mama Said Quotes

#1. Mama said, Dreams are different to real life but important too.

Audrey Niffenegger

#2. Mama said it's probably because of Suzanne, and that you are never the same after a child dies. That made me wonder what she was like before Clover died, because I don't think I really knew my own mother until I had children, and if she was different before, I don't remember.

Nancy E. Turner

#3. Mama said if I didn't stop reading helpful quotes, she was going to come after me with a switch. I said I'd have to help her up from the sofa first.

Lisa Kleypas

#4. Mama said there would be days like this.She never said it would be day after day,after day!~ Unknown

Candace Mumford

#5. Luka had a kind smile and the most beautiful dark-brown eyes. But it was Luka's upper left Iris smudged with a small splash of blue that made our mothers think we were destined to be. Mama said God placed a piece of my eye within his so we would always know we shared one soul.

Tillie Cole

#6. I never drew a picture of anything that was before me but always from fancy, a sure sign of the absence of artistic eyesight; and I illustrated my lack of real feeling for art by a very early speech: 'Mama,' said I, 'I have drawed a man. Shall I draw his soul now?

Robert Louis Stevenson

#7. Mama said there was always a catastrophe coming. Someone's world was always coming to an end. It wasn't our worry to change every ending, only the endings we could

Rob Thurman

#8. When Steven passed away and we moved to stay with Mama, there were white bird feathers scattered around the front yard. When Emma asked about them, Mama said they were small signs from the angels, letting us know they were always close by, watching over us.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#9. One of the first albums that I remember, rap albums I remember really listening to, was LL Cool J 'Mama Said Knock You Out.'

Damian Marley

#10. My voice sounds like I have a cold, all the mucus from my crying lodged in my nose. A train, Mama said. Camille came, and the wind sounded like trains.

Jesmyn Ward

#11. Everyone is in a tribe, and the sooner we realize we are not each unique, like a snowflake - a special, one-of-a-kind person, just like Mama said - the sooner we will make sense of ourselves and the spiritual cul-de-sac we call home. You are likely not unique, particularly special,

Mark Driscoll

#12. Oh, sweet little huggles," Mama said. "Remember what Pampy used to say when he wanted to be brave?

Lenora Riegel

#13. You nasty, you nasty. You
mama said you nasty!

Victoria Scott

#14. After a long pause, Mama said, "Well, I don't know what to say." Daddy checked his watch and marked the time. "It took thirty years, but it was bound to happen sometime.

Molly Harper

#15. Ron Reagan amazingly qualifies as an honest broker. I asked him if he was a mama's boy and he said no, more of a papa's boy. At the same time he was willing to say that his father had many shortcomings and needed to be held accountable.

Eugene Jarecki

#16. Why did Mama say that? Had Papa made her angry again? He made her angry a lot. Gran said it was on account of his "hores." One time Celia asked Nurse what a hore was, and Nurse paddled her and told her that was a bad word. Then why did Papa have them?

Sabrina Jeffries

#17. A wise man once said NOTHING ... He just let her vent, nodded his head and live happily ever after!

Tanya Masse

#18. 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 scared me and shamed me ... (109)

Dorothy Allison

#19. Mama always said barefoot and pregnant was not my style. She knew.

Barbara Kingsolver

#20. That's just it, Eva said with a gleam in her eyes that matched the rhinestones on her glasses, you had to get somebody to teach you, to facilitate. Literacy wasn't like a piece of my mama's lemon cake you handed over to somebody on a plate.

Minrose Gwin

#21. 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

#22. Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'

Oriana Fallaci

#23. But Mama was so mad at the insurance company that even though he used words like "flaming assholes" she didn't realize till later that he was cussing: she said she thought he was quoting the Psalms.

David James Duncan

#24. Mama always said a good family has one heartbeat. No one knows you like the people you live with, and no one will take up your cause to the outside world quite like your blood relatives.

Adriana Trigiani

#25. Mama always said you could tell your friends from your enemies by the ones who didn't say "I told you so.

Penelope J. Stokes

#26. Mama always used to say that love is never lost, even if it's not returned in the way you hope or expect. "Put it on out there," she said. "Lay your heart on the line, and don't be afraid of getting it broken. Broken hearts heal. Guarded hearts just turn to stone.

Penelope J. Stokes

#27. When I was a little baby, my mama she said Son.Travel where you will and grow to be a manAnd sing what must be sung, poor boySing what must be sung.

Hoyt Axton

#28. One fine day as my mother was putting the bread in the oven, I went up to her and taking her by her flour-smeared elbow I said to her, Mama I want to be a painter.

Marc Chagall

#29. Do you think everybody misses somebody? Like I miss my mama?" "Mmmm-hmmm," said Gloria. She closed her eyes. "I believe, sometimes, that the whole world has an aching heart.

Kate DiCamillo

#30. There is more to it than just, you prosper, your enemies fail, said Mama Zouzou.

Neil Gaiman

#31. Oh, Mama," I said. "What if I don't live that long?" My mother didn't hesitate one second. "By hook or by crook, you will. Having children only increases your grip on the world. It's like reading a thriller. You can't put it down because you have to know how the story turns out.

Jo-Ann Mapson

#32. The said Eliza, John, and Georgiana were now clustered round their mama in the drawing-room: she lay reclined on a sofa by the fireside, and with her darlings about her (for the time neither quarrelling nor crying) looked perfectly

Charlotte Bronte

#33. She told me one time that it wasn't the material things in life that mattered. She wouldn't be able to take them with her anyway. She said the only thing that counted was how much love you left behind." She smiled. "Your mama left behind an awful lot of love.

Virginia Gaffney

#34. Despair all ye mortals," he said in a voice of doom. "the mama approacheth

Lexi George

#35. My mamma says I shouldn't go on the other side ... My mama says the same thing. But she never said nothing about sitting on it

Jacqueline Woodson

#36. Yo mama so ugly even Hello Kitty said good bye.

Jess Franken

#37. Look, as my mama always said, 'One monkey don't stop no show.

Terry McMillan

#38. You know how Van Nuys got its name? Well, one day my little old Jewish mother was visiting me, and I took her to the top of the Hollywood Hills and had her view the valley below just at sunset. Well, mama, what would you call that? And she said, Ver nize.

Joey Bishop

#39. She can't make me," Gansey said.
"She doesn't have to," Ronan sniffed. "Mama's boy."
"Dream me a solution."
"Don't have to. Nature already gave you a spine. You know what I say? Fuck Washington.

Maggie Stiefvater

#40. Then he gave a sad little smile. "Yo Mama better watch his back," he said.

Gayle Forman

#41. Mama says the Beardsleys follow her around like dogs, but they don't. They follow her like tame wolves.
I thought Ian said it wasn't possible to tame wolves.
It isn't.

Diana Gabaldon

#42. Mama always said that if it can't rain on you, you're indoors.

Bum Phillips

#43. Just ignore him," Dixie said. "He's incorrigible."
"No way, mama. Encourage me all you want.

Lucia Berlin

#44. Mama always taught her children that words were pretty, but anyone can talk. She said, pay attention to that man or woman who acted, who did, who performed. She taught us to trust in thing we could see, not that we heard.

Pat Conroy

#45. Finally he said, "I am sorry for it. His mama didn't teach him right."
My mama didn't teach me right either, I thought, and I don't act that way. I kept rocking.

Jennifer Echols

#46. My mama always said, You can always ask. The worst they can do is say no. But I don't think Mama was thinking about revenge and murder when she dealt out that piece of homespun advice

Catrina Burgess

#47. Mama often said that no one is ever really entirely unhappy. I agreed with her here in my prison, when the sky took on so many colours and the light of a new day gradually flowed into my cell. Because

Albert Camus

#48. Sunny likes me, Mama, she had said that night at dinner after he'd been sent from the table for making his napkin into a hand puppet and refusing to make the hand puppet be quiet.

Anna Quindlen

#49. Mama is beautiful," I said.
"Mama is strong," he said. "Beauty comes and goes. Strength, you keep forever.

Lawrence Hill

#50. Can you help me move those tables against the wall?" Mama pointed to five tables in the back corner. "The funeral home said they needed four feet of clearance all the way around.

Katie Graykowski

#51. Grief sounds like a bad thing," I said, frowning. "Why don't you and Naha and Mama get rid of it?" "That would require removing love from existence.

N.K. Jemisin

#52. It's just that the last thing Adam ever said
to me.......I remember it all so clear....'Can you go with me, Jordy? I'm not so
scared when you're with me.' And then they wouldn't even let me be with him
when he......when he....... He was so scared, Mama. I wasn't there.

Grasshopper

#53. Most of us need a good ride on the Sin Wagon, and if I were to meet a man who was better looking than say, Yoda, I might treat him to some Serta hospitality. I'd like to have said this to Mama but could not because she is certain that a real Southern lady doesn't enjoy the business at hand.

Susan Reinhardt

#54. Good for you, Ethan. That's what my poor mama would've said. Ma'am.

Kami Garcia

#55. Mama always said, dying was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn't.

Tom Hanks

#56. She can have them, Mama, she said, like somebody used to never winning anything, or having anything reserved for her.

Alice Walker

#57. You don't have to walk me back. I live down the hall." She smiled up at him.
"My mama didn't raise me like that," Paul said, opening the door.
"Actually, your mama has some sense, and would say, 'She lives twenty feet away,' but suit yourself," Mrs. Olivier said.

Mary Jane Hathaway

#58. Outside, in the hallway, my mother stopped. She pressed both hands to her chest, closed her eyes, and said under her breath, 'It's so bitter.'
'What, Mama?'
'Old age.' [p. 187]

Siri Hustvedt

#59. I'm ashamed, this is my mama. No matter how fly my braids is, how I grease my skin, scalp, no matter how many jew'ries, this is my mother. -Said by Precious Jones in Push

Sapphire.

#60. If you find him," she whispered, "when you find my father - give him this." She bent and kissed me, fiercely, gently, then straightened and turned me toward the stone. "Go, Mama," she said, breathless. "I love you. Go!

Diana Gabaldon

#61. I said the first thing that came into my head unfortunately. "Save the drama for your mama " I told her just like an eleven-year-old.

Charlaine Harris

#62. At last, her mother and sisters exited the station and came to stand next to her. "Mama," Hattie said. "I'll never go back. Never.

Ayana Mathis

#63. You are the greatest wife of all times and I love you so much more' said my husband, Jeremiah Nii Mama Akita

Lailah Gifty Akita

#64. He'd say, "If my mother was here, I wouldn't be like this." We'd say, "Shut up boy, you're not in your mama's house no more." We said that a lot. As children, seven or eight years old, we know nothing about the world, just that we were not in mama's house no more.

Alephonsion Deng