Mama Tried Quotes

#1. Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.

Barry White

#2. 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

#3. As weird and awful and terrible as it may seem to be yourself sometimes, it will always reward you.

Jenna Marbles

#4. Mama gave birth to a hell raising heavenly son. See the doctor tried to smack me, but I smacked him back.

Tupac Shakur

#5. Home isn't a place, its a feeling

Cecelia Ahern

#6. Have confidence in yourself - don't let yourself be used.

Sakena Yacoobi

#7. Faith is the complete reliance on the power and goodness of Spirit and the firm belief that you are always connected to this goodness. Always affirm your faith and not your doubt.

Wayne Dyer

#8. I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.

Alex Kapranos

#9. Unfortunately, JNI seems to be a dark art reserved for the initiated.

Karim Yaghmour

#10. Yesterday the IRS announced that obese Americans are entitled to certain tax breaks. Apparently, under the new rules, you're allowed to claim two or more chins as dependents.

Conan O'Brien

#11. What essence is to generation, that truth is to belief.

Plato

#12. So much pressure in this life of mine, I cry at times, I once contemplated suicide and woulda tried, but when I held that nine, all I could see was my mama's eyes, no one knows my struggle, they only see the trouble, not knowing it's hard to carry on when no one loves you.

Tupac Shakur