Mama Told Me Quotes

#1. But Mama told me it's not the color of a person's uniform that makes him a good man or a bad one. It's what's in here.

Kim Fielding

#2. My mama told me in college, 'I love you, and you're God's child, but natural beauty will only take you so far.'

Robin Roberts

#3. I always thought it was a goat that kicked me over the fence. My mama told me the other day it was a cow. Now I'm sort of scared of both.

Kelsea Ballerini

#4. When I was a baby, my mama told me son, always be a good boy, don't ever play with guns. But I shot a man in Reno.

Johnny Cash

#5. My mama told me don't trust no white boy, even a pretty one. I'm thinkin' a pretty white boy with wings explodin' up from the ground in a mess of blood and ugly-ass bird things is double trouble. - Kramisha (Ch 5)

P.C. Cast

#6. My mama told me I was already in a hurry as a child. I even had measles and chicken pox at the same time

Muhammad Ali

#7. Before you ask some girl for her hand now, keep your freedom for as long as you can now. My Mama told me, you better shop around.

Smokey Robinson

#8. There are three ways of bettering yourself in the Pirates' Confederation, Mama told me once: murder, mutiny, and marriage.

Cassandra Rose Clarke

#9. My mama told me when I was young we're all born SUPERSTARS!

Lady Gaga

#10. 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 like the flick of a switch. Well my mama told me there'll be days like this.

Van Morrison

#11. Now up and atom it's on, I was raised to be strong, and mama told me be a thug since the day I was born. The fame was a plot to try a change me, and what's strange is nobody knew my name.

Tupac Shakur

#12. She slid a look toward him, one edge of her mouth tilting up. "My Mama told me to watch out for boys like you."
"Your Mama was right," his voice dropped an octave, "but I am not a boy.

Mary Jane Hathaway

#13. Grandma told me Mama was once caught by the Principal for writing in the front of her book, "In Case of Fire, Throw This in First." I have never had so much respect for Mama as the day I heard this.

Erma Bombeck

#14. Mama always told me not to look into the sights of the sun. Oh, but mama, that's where the fun is.

Bruce Springsteen

#15. 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

#16. 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 Willie, Mama died when she heard what Daddy did to Sister.'" She raised me up to be a Southern writer, but it wasn't easy.

Pat Conroy

#17. Every inch of you is perfect from the bottom to the top. My mama, she told me don't worry about your size. She says boys like a little more booty to hold at night. Yeah I won't be no stick figure silicone Barbie doll, so if that's what you're into then go ahead and move along.

Meghan Trainor

#18. Mama never told me I had a father.

Emily Bronte

#19. Get in the fucking car. You're a mean drunk.
You haven't seen me mean, mama's boy!
I told you we're close!
Yeah, so are me and my asshole! Doesn't mean I'm going to call it twice a day!

Jamie McGuire

#20. 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

#21. Thank God. Another fuckin' dick in the house. Gettin' tired of all those fuckin' Barbies," he told me, a huge grin on his face. "We got a boy, Mama.

Nicole Jacquelyn

#22. 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

#23. Remember what your mama told you about honey and vinegar: Be nice, and you'll catch more flies, if nothing else.

Cassandra King

#24. Your mama finds you like that, she's going to pitch a fit."
"The only way she'd find out is if you told her I'd come out here with you, and then she'd be too angry at you to yell at me."
"Guess we're partners in crime, then.

Jodi Picoult

#25. Mama always told me, be careful what you do, don't go around breaking young girls hearts.

Michael Jackson

#26. Mama wanted me to be a preacher. I told her coachin' and preachin' were a lot alike.

Bear Bryant

#27. 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

#28. De girl baby ain't born and her mama is dead, dat can git me tuh spend our money on her. Ah told yo' before dat you got de keys tuh de kingdom. You can depend on dat.

Zora Neale Hurston

#29. A sloth once whispered in my ear and told me that when he is clinging to branches he closes his eyes and imagines that he's still a baby holding on to his mama.

Ann Burton

#30. 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

#31. I told Mama and Savannah about Ruben's proposal. That got us to talking about marriage and we laughed and cried some, and missed Papa, and it felt good to belong to each other. I don't feel as lonely today as I have in months. At least I know there are other women around me.

Nancy E. Turner

#32. Everything I've done in my career is a result of growing up in rural Oklahoma, because if I hadn't had the training from Mama and Daddy to work hard, to do what I'm told, to take directions, to mind and to do a good job at anything I set out to do, then I wouldn't be where I am today.

Reba McEntire

#33. the English explorer Richard Burton told the story of an Englishman finding his new wife unconscious on the marital bed, having chloroformed herself. She had pinned a note to her nightdress which read: 'Mama says you're to do what you like.

Sam Miller