Top 57 Mamie Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Mamie

#1. East Side, West Side, all around the town,
The tots sang Ring-a-rosie, London Bridge is falling Down;
Boys and Girls together, me and Mamie O'Rorke,
Tripped the light fantastic on the sidewalks of New York.

James W. Blake

#2. All the women that are first born daughters in my family are named Mary, but we've all been given nicknames. I don't know how or why that started, but I'm nicknamed after my great-grandmother, who was Mamie. No one ever calls me Mary, except only if my husband is very serious about something.

Mamie Gummer

#3. I don't have a love life. I have a like life.'
Mamie smiled. She thought how nice that might be, to be peacefully free from love ...

Lorrie Moore

#4. lunch parties that the missus had for her girlfriends. Mamie and Gertie and Peg and Eunice. They were forever saying each other's names. Mamie and Gertie and Peg and Eunice, all the size of her, boasting about the presents their husbands gave them for their birthdays

Edna O'Brien

#5. Mamie told me living rooms were once known as death rooms, back when funerals were a home matter. After mortuaries came into fashion, there was no need for keeping bodies on ice at home, and the death room was rechristened the living room.

Sarah Jude

#6. I had a career. His name was Ike.

Mamie Eisenhower

#7. I feel like I'm a secondary artist, a kind of a conduit for the writer, and if it's a good writer, then I have a great road map.

Mamie Gummer

#8. I have never been a Marilyn Monroe wannabe. I have always been happy in my own skin!

Mamie Van Doren

#9. Raising children with an emphasis on intrinsic rewards is not a technique, a method or a trick to get them to do what the parent wants them to by subtler means, but a way of life, a way of living with children with real respect for their intelligence and for their being.

Mamie Van Doren

#10. If you have to get on your knees and bow when a white person goes past do it willingly.

Mamie Till

#11. L.A. is ... I always feel sort of abducted when I'm there, like I've stepped onto another planet where everyone looks the same.

Mamie Gummer

#12. I never wanted to be a trophy wife. I wanted to make it on my own. I didn't want to depend on a man.

Mamie Van Doren

#13. I have roles in plays that I hope that I'll be able to do one day. I might be doing them at, like, the East Wilton Playhouse in wherever. But I think that Edie Falco ... to get something even resembling her type of roles, that would be amazing.

Mamie Gummer

#14. I've married a few people I shouldn't have, but haven't we all?

Mamie Van Doren

#15. If I do have kids, I can't wait because I'm excited to go back to school to help them with their homework and remember how to do simple math. I think it's about staying curious and not losing the sense of wonder.

Mamie Gummer

#16. A lot of the scripts I read and the characters I get are 'the girl' in romantic films, and I don't know how comfortable I am, or the world is, with me being that.

Mamie Gummer

#17. When people saw what had happened to my son, men stood up who had never stood up before.

Mamie Till

#18. I like the Dodgers because my dad does - wait, no, not the Dodgers. Strike me down! The Yankees. I like the Yankees.

Mamie Gummer

#19. I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.

Mamie Van Doren

#20. I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.

Mamie Gummer

#21. I think everybody needed to know what had happened to Emmett Till,

Mamie Till

#22. Every woman over fifty should stay in bed until noon.

Mamie Eisenhower

#23. I've kind of blocked it out, but a good friend affectionately reminded me that yes, I was a dork. I was not a cool kid in high school.

Mamie Gummer

#24. It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.

Mamie Van Doren

#25. I was an optimistic person, really bossy, gregarious and outspoken.

Mamie Gummer

#26. All I really want to do is plays - and that's a New York thing.

Mamie Gummer

#27. He's the type of man who will end up dying in his own arms.

Mamie Van Doren

#28. I came to Hollywood determined to follow in Jean Harlow's footsteps, but I was determined not to die young. My hope was to endure. And endure I have.

Mamie Van Doren

#29. You do not have to feel good to do good.

Mamie McCullough

#30. I feel like I've been the star of my own show for a while now. I was always putting on shows as a kid, and obviously, my household was really creative.

Mamie Gummer

#31. I was a theater major at Northwestern University and won a role in a play called 'Mr. Marmalade' after I graduated.

Mamie Gummer

#32. Your husband is the boss - and don't forget it.

Mamie Eisenhower

#33. Success consists of a series of little daily efforts.

Mamie McCullough

#34. I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.

Mamie Van Doren

#35. I love the energy of an independent film set. No one is there for the money. Everyone is there 'cause they really want to be there. It makes all the difference in the world. It's without ego and agenda, other than just wanting to fulfill a creative dream.

Mamie Gummer

#36. My favorite charity is the Women's Refugee Commission and the Nomi network.

Mamie Gummer

#37. I don't think I'm ever really going to run the risk of disappearing into a Marvel franchise. I just don't know how I would fit into a catsuit.

Mamie Gummer

#38. Our parents have, by far, the greatest influence on shaping who we are and how we deal with the world.

Mamie Gummer

#39. I studied really hard. But Hollywood never appreciated my talent.

Mamie Van Doren

#40. You do what you can. You have to leave room to grow and make mistakes.

Mamie Gummer

#41. Have you ever sent a loved son on vacation, and had him returned to you in a pine box, so horribly battered and water-logged that someone needs to tell you this sickening sight is your son, lynched?

Mamie Till

#42. With each day, I give thanks for the blessings of life - the blessings of another day and the chance to do something with it. Something good. Something significant. Something helpful. No matter how small it might seem. I want to keep making a difference.

Mamie Till-Mobley

#43. I'd like to learn how to cook. I've hauled around this big, old, heavy Martha Stewart cookbook in my suitcase to Cape Cod, L.A., Paris. I don't know what possessed me.

Mamie Gummer

#44. Be a self-starter. Do it now! When you don't know how to do something, start. Beware of the paralysis of analysis. Be a person of action.

Mamie McCullough

#45. I am pleased that I am able to stand here today and say with a pure heart and meaningful heart that I am against the death penalty. There is no purpose that it serves except to further the damage that death has already done.

Mamie Till

#46. Ike runs the country, and I turn the pork chops.

Mamie Eisenhower

#47. Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and I were so different from each other. I was doing very young movies, and Marilyn, who was ahead of me, was doing a lot of homogenized movies that weren't quite as wild as the ones I was doing. Jayne was more of a character of herself.

Mamie Van Doren

#48. I've never acted my age and I never will. It's just the way I've always been.

Mamie Van Doren

#49. I'd like to keep exploring comedy. I didn't necessarily think of myself as a comedic actress, but it's a lot of fun.

Mamie Gummer

#50. I like how steady the work in television is. Films, they're hard to come by. They're elusive. I've done a couple, independently financed. You do them, and maybe a few people will see them.

Mamie Gummer

#51. My first day on the set of 'John Adams', I was just supposed to fly to Virginia for a costume fitting. But the director figured, why not shoot it, too? So they threw me into a dress that didn't fit, gave me lines I hadn't seen, in a dialect I didn't know, and two screaming, arching infants.

Mamie Gummer

#52. I watched a lot of old television growing up - a lot of Nick at Nite. I watched 'Rhoda', 'Mary Tyler Moore', and 'I Love Lucy.' Growing up, I loved 'My So Called Life' and was devastated when that went off the air.

Mamie Gummer