Mauma Quotes

#1. You come from your mauma, you sleep in the bed with her till you're near twenty years grown, and you still don't know what haunches in the dark corners of her.

Sue Monk Kidd

#2. Mauma came down with a limp. When she was in her room or in the kitchen house for meals, she didn't have any trouble, but the minute she stepped in the yard, she dragged her leg like it was a dead log.

Sue Monk Kidd

#3. I have knots in my years that I can't undo, and this is one of the worst--the night I did wrong and Mauma got caught

Sue Monk Kidd

#4. That was the thing mauma and I loved, our time with the quilts.

Sue Monk Kidd

#5. The shape she loved was a triangle. Always black. Mauma put black triangles on about every quilt she sewed.

Sue Monk Kidd

#6. I heard mauma say, I don't spec to get free. The only way I'm getting free is for you to get free.

Sue Monk Kidd

#7. And a true brass thimble. Mauma said the thimble would be mine one day. When she wasn't using it, I wore it on my fingertip like a jewel.

Sue Monk Kidd

#8. When mauma saw my raw eyes, she said, Ain't nobody can write down in a book what you worth.

Sue Monk Kidd

#9. Mauma told me, It gon be hard from here on, Handful.

Sue Monk Kidd

#10. I was shrewd like mauma. Even at ten I knew this story about people flying was pure malarkey. We weren't some special people who lost our magic. We were slave people, and we weren't going anywhere. It was later I saw what she meant. We could fly all right, but it wasn't any magic to it.

Sue Monk Kidd

#11. There was a time in Africa the people could fly. Mauma told me this one night when I was ten years old. She said, Handful, your granny-mauma saw it for herself. She say they flew over trees and clouds. She say they flew like blackbirds. When we came here, we left that magic behind.

Sue Monk Kidd

#12. Don't be telling me
can't be done. That's some god damney white talk, that's what that is.

Sue Monk Kidd

#13. If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.

Lana Del Rey

#14. A prayerless Christian is like a bus driver trying alone to push his bus out of a rut because he doesn't know Clark Kent is on board.

John Piper

#15. To understand the language of love and peace, listen to the silence.

Debasish Mridha

#16. Ugh, I swear I'd rather stab myself in the eye with a spoon repeatedly than be nice to some idiot, which means pretty much anyone I come in contact with. Damn, I'd be stabbing my eye a lot.

Quinn Loftis

#17. I welcome the blizzard, with its ferocious winds and deep, drifting snow. This may be enough to keep the real wolves, also known as the Peacekeepers, from my door. A few days to think. To work out a plan. With Gale and Peeta and Haymitch all at hand. This blizzard is a gift.

Suzanne Collins

#18. Being overweight and obesity are major risk factors for many chronic diseases for South Dakotans of all ages. When people are overweight or obese, they have more health problems and more serious health problems, in addition to higher health care costs.

Mike Rounds

#19. I've never seen an obese person who has said, 'I am well in my mind.' Happiness stops food being a compensation.

Pierre Dukan

#20. See me. See the real me. See my nightmare with me." ~ Andrew

E. Mellyberry

#21. When we have that scene where I shoot that huge machine gun, my first thought was "Why does anybody want this? What is the point of something like this?" I know some people feel powerful or whatever and I'm just like, " I feel like I want nothing to do with this."

Zach Gilford

#22. If you're female, and you want to express your femininity, you're actually demonized in the 'Free To Be ... You And Me' generation.

Jill Soloway

#23. With those people, I'm very far apart, because I believe that government access to communications and stored records is valuable when done under tightly controlled conditions which protect legitimate privacy interests.

Dorothy Denning

#24. During the 1970s and 1980s, Congress distributed more than $60 billion to cities to make sure that what goes into toilets, industrial drains and street grates would not endanger human health.

Charles Duhigg

#25. The stagnation of the Japanese economy in the past 20 years is eloquent testimony to the fact that government usually gets it wrong. Sometimes it makes the wrong decision because it fails to anticipate the market (as Japan did when it downplayed laptop computers and stressed mainframes).

Dick Morris