Mama Quotes

I've just built a studio in my mama's old bedroom, which I thought was fitting; she died last year. We've recorded nine songs recorded in there already; we're sort of just chipping away.

I know if mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.

Of course, I will continue to share my favorite Southern recipes, just like my mama, grandmother and family shared with me over the years. And now, I'll be adding a little bit of a lighter touch to some of these wonderful dishes.

Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.

My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'

I've dated the sweet mama's boy, the musician rocker, the struggling artist - basically a lot of people without jobs.

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.

I really didn't have an interest in being in the kitchen until after I was married, when I was 18. It didn't take me long to realize that Mama was not going to show up at my house every day and cook.

But Patsy, she was a great, great girl. And Brenda Lee is a wonderful person, and her mama Grace. I've known those folks for years and years and years.

If a man loves you... he's willing to profess it. He'll give you a title after a while. You're going to be his lady, his woman, his fiancee, his wife, his baby's mama, something.

Mama is slowly getting better. So many people are so fond of her.

My mama told me in college, 'I love you, and you're God's child, but natural beauty will only take you so far.'

I've dated a number of 'mama's boys.'

Growing up, I had a very busy social life. It wasn't until I was a sophomore in high school that I asked Mama if I could come into the kitchen and have her teach me how to cook something.

I spent lunchtime in a grave during the filming of 'Bloody Mama.' When you're younger, you feel that's what you need to do to help you stay in character. When you get older, you become more confident and less intense about it - and you can achieve the same effect.

If my mama and daddy would've stayed together, one of them would've been dead, and the other would have been locked up for it.

I didn't have a mother; I had a mama. I measure other women by the stature of my mama.

I do not want to die being known for doing baby mama DNA tests on my show.

We know how powerful our mother was when we were little, but is our wife that powerful to us now? Must we relive our great deed of escape from Mama with every other woman in our life?

You loan your friend money. You see them again, they don't say nothin' 'bout the money. 'Hi, how ya doin'? How's ya mama doing?' Man, how's my money doin'?

I'm a mama's boy above all.

I am very thankful and blessed to have a healthy and happy baby boy and baby mama.

I don't know what my label is. I just think of myself as a plain forward. I like to think I have some finesse to my game, but inside the paint is where men are made. If you can't play there, you should be home with your mama.

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

I know Mama Rose is a great role and I love having a chance to do it.

Maybe I should quit the business. There's no one left for me to love. Mama's dead. Mr. Burns couldn't care less about me. What's left?

I think I'm a mama's boy who wanted to be a hockey player, who failed, and had to become a singer. I think that I'm a generous, impatient, kind, jerk.

I asked the producers when I was doing 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' if they could give me a VHS recording of the film that I could show to my family, because in Mexico and Latin America, when you do a film, you don't expect anybody to see it, especially not in the cinema.

When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!

You know, nobody can ever cook as good as your mama.