Mammy's Quotes

#1. a mammy's boy who never married and who keeps a shotgun in case of trespassers, but loves his trees, loves his woodland, and honors a covenant set down by his great-uncle, which was that no tree should ever be wantonly cut down.

Edna O'Brien

#2. She would never leave her mark on Mammy's heart the way her brothers had, because Mammy's heart was like a pallid beach where Laila's footprints would forever wash away beneath the waves of sorrow that swelled and crashed,

Khaled Hosseini

#3. In the excitement of trying on dresses she had forgotten Mammy's ironclad rule that, before going to any party, the O'Hara girls must be crammed so full of food at home they would be unable to eat any refreshments at the party.

Margaret Mitchell

#4. In Africa, there is much confusion ... Before, there was no radio, or other forms of communication ... Now, in Africa ... the government talks, people talk, the police talk, the people don't know anymore. They aren't free.

Youssou N'Dour

#5. As a kid, you dream of winning the Stanley Cup. As you get older, you understand the importance of winning the Olympics.

Joe Sakic

#6. If we don't start playing better on defense, it's going to be hard. We can't just sit there and win shootouts.

William Thomas

#7. My dream part would be to play Mitt Romney's sarcastic black maid. We could call it 'Mammy & Me.'

Natasha Leggero

#8. Scarlett tells Mammy: "I'm too young to be a widow." She weeps to her mother: "My life is over. Nothing will ever happen to me anymore." Her mother comforts her: "It's only natural to want to look young and be young when you are young."

Vivien Leigh

#9. Laila remembered Mammy telling Babi once that she had married a man who had no convictions. Mammy didn't understand. She didn't understand that if she looked into a mirror, she would find the one unfailing conviction of his life looking right back at her.

Khaled Hosseini

#10. I believe it's fine to give up books even after a page; there's so much to read in the world that will delight you, so why should you work against the grain?

Hilary Mantel

#11. who wishes to fight must first count the cost

Sun Tzu

#12. Her manners had been imposed upon her by her mother's gentle admonitions and the sterner discipline of her mammy; her eyes were her own.

Margaret Mitchell

#13. I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish,

Viola Davis

#14. We are suspicious of grace. We are afraid of the very lavishness of the gift.

Madeleine L'Engle

#15. This Great God, Like a mammy bending over her baby, Kneeled down in the dust Toiling over a lump of clay Till He shaped it in His own image.

James Weldon Johnson

#16. You know, one wonderful thing that came out of my Enquirer experience is that, in my case, it was ruled tabloids are magazines. Which means they didn't have the protection that a newspaper has.

Carol Burnett

#17. We were raised right in the heart of the Bogside. Everything was so bad at the time that Mammy would bring us to the pantomime, circus, concerts because we were so confined at home.

Bronagh Gallagher

#18. You have to call me Master." "Master?" "That's the tradition," said Nightingale. I said the word in my head and it kept on coming out massa.

Ben Aaronovitch

#19. Mammy was now the curator of their lives' museum and she, Laila, a mere visitor.

Khaled Hosseini

#20. Everyone knows how we white people feel, the glorified Mammy figure who dedicates her whole life to a white family. Margaret Mitchell covered that. But no one ever asked Mammy how she felt about it.

Kathryn Stockett

#21. Playing the Mammy of Miss Leigh was just about the biggest thrill I've ever had.

Hattie McDaniel

#22. If I'd played Mammy, I'd of told Scarlett to stick those green draperies up her white little pooper. Make her own damn man-catching dress. -Minny

Kathryn Stockett

#23. Been here sooner," growled Wolfe, calling the pack off with a quick gesture. "But that bitch tied me up. Had to wait for the dogs to gnaw through my ropes.

Richelle Mead

#24. My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am grateful.

Hattie McDaniel

#25. Tomorrow gives a beck'ning hand
I turn my face away; I'll not invite her to my home
I only love Today.

Phil Jackson

#26. I liked movies so much that they became an obsession. I am still trying to kick the habit.

Christoffer Boe

#27. ALL EXCUSES must be FOUGHT by taking ACTION against the THOUGHT. ~ Author Mammy Oaklee

Mammy Oaklee

#28. In playing the part of Mammy, I tried to make her a living, breathing character, the way she appeared to me in the book.

Hattie McDaniel

#29. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of beat.

Ralph Waldo Emerson