Quotes About Mammy

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

Mammy Oaklee

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

Natasha Leggero

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

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

Viola Davis

#9. 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

#10. 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

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

Khaled Hosseini

#12. 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

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

Hattie McDaniel

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. In some ways I think it would be very dignified if I went away for twenty years and then wrote my fourth book.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#19. It is more important to be of service than successful.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

#20. I was bullied a lot because I was a midget in this land of giants I lived in. Sometimes, my only weapon was whatever I could throw. I couldn't be held responsible. I didn't choose the short life; the short life chose me.

Nicole Banks

#21. Meditation simply means a state of no-thought, awareness without the process of thought, just pure, mirror-like awareness, with no thoughts passing in the mind.

Rajneesh

#22. I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.

Loni Anderson