Top 110 Mama Quotes

The only music we ever listened to out in the piney woods was Roy Acuff and the Grand Ole Opry. That was the only night of the week I was allowed to lay in the middle of the bed with Mama and Daddy, just long enough to hear Roy Acuff sing; then I had to go back to bed.

I came out at a very early age. I sat my mom down at my 12th birthday party and told her in front of my friends. She said, ‘Baby, mama already knows, and I’m going to love you regardless.’ Once I got my mom’s support, there was nothing else I needed.

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.

Most of the cast and crew on ‘Mama’s Family’ have been together since the ‘Carol Burnett’ days, so we work really well together. It’s like I’m being paid to pretend I’m in show business.

My favorite drive is Highway 101 in California between Los Angeles and San Luis Obispo. I love the 101; Highway 1 is too windy, and 5 is too boring – the 101 is just right. It’s like the Mama Bear of scenic drives.

Sometimes you think you aren’t a good mama; you always feel a bit guilty when you’re a mom. You want to be everywhere.

‘Dear Mama’ is my favorite song from Tupac, man. It touches you, and I think that that’s the most important thing with music.

‘Mama’s Family’ was kind of like everyone’s guilty pleasure.

When you’re riding with your mom, and you’re a kid, you’d listen to ‘Dear Mama’ and the radio friendly records. I used to sneak and listen to Too $hort.

One of the first albums that I remember, rap albums I remember really listening to, was LL Cool J ‘Mama Said Knock You Out.’

I’m tired of people disturbing the peace, getting on the radio and sounding a hot mess. If I can tell what the note really is, why let them go to the note they think it is? I’ve got that mama vibe. I don’t look at it with an ego.

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

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

I’m the biggest mama’s boy ever, and I’m proud to say it.

I’m a sucker for movies about uncommon friendships: ‘Midnight Cowboy,’ ‘Harold and Maude,’ ‘Scarecrow,’ ‘The Last Detail,’ ‘Y Tu Mama Tambien,’ ‘Jules and Jim,’ ‘Rushmore,’ ‘Stand by Me.’

My grandma told me, don’t get into trouble. I know how hard she worked to take care of her own nine kids and my mama’s three. And I just never wanted to hurt her. I never wanted to do something that would embarrass her.

Mama, you know, poor baby, she’d had her family all finished: four daughters and a couple of sons, and suddenly, I arrived in her midlife on Christmas Eve 1922.

Never eat at a Chinese restaurant named Mama Teresa’s Trattoria.

I was not aware of how much I loved ‘Canoa’ until I saw it after doing ‘Y Tu Mama Tambien’ and realized that my voice – over about the story’s historical context – that narrator – came from ‘Canoa’.

I am one of those artists who knows where their money is. I pay my bills; I take care of my mama. I handle my business. I am a businessman. I go to meetings and take care of things, so it’s a lot more than just partying and turning up.

There ain’t nobody I’d rather have alongside me in a fight than my mama with a broken bottle in her hand.

Mama was a natural cook. At harvest time, she would whip up a noontime dinner for the men in the field: fried chicken with milk gravy, ham, mashed potatoes, lima beans, field peas, corn, slaw, sliced tomatoes, fried apples, biscuits, and peach pie.

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.

People couldn’t understand why my mama would have this blind kid out doing things like cutting wood for the fire. But her thing was: He may be blind, but he ain’t stupid.

I adored my grandparents and spent every weekend with Mama and Papa Wicks. They had seven children, so they needed a big house – and it seemed only logical to them to build into their house a pipe organ in a music room with a sixteen-foot ceiling.

I’ve dated a number of ‘mama’s boys.’

Yes, I’m mama’s girl and she’s my world.

I used to have Bible studies at my house. I was in the choir. I was mischievous but also a real mama’s boy. It was a pretty happy childhood.

When ‘Mama’s Family’ was canceled, I was stunned that the phone didn’t ring anymore.

I caught a lot of flak for being a young mama.

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

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

Got your mama and sister dabbing.

Grandma and Mama showed me that you always have to give as much as you can, no matter what.

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.

I lived in an atmosphere where Mama brought 60 Basque refugee children to England during the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s.

The character of ‘Mama’ is so ambitious in a way that everything I did was always on the verge of being almost funny. So you have to be very careful with that. It’s that sort of face that you don’t usually see in horror.

I’m a mama’s boy above all.

Mama was a country woman with a whole lot of common sense. She understood what most of our neighbors didn’t – that I shouldn’t grow dependent on anyone except myself. ‘One of these days, I ain’t gonna be here,’ she kept hammering inside my head.

I was once trying to find a song to fit Nicki Minaj’s ‘Hey Mama.’ But nothing worked out. Sometimes, you can’t help it.

My mama’s been supportive since day one.

At the end of the day, I’m talented, and there’s only one Lil Mama.

My favorite memory was tubing with Mama Mai. We had never done it before, and we told the guy driving to go as fast as the boat could take us.

Nazare loves me! I said God loves surfers, but Mama Nazare definitely loves me.

It’s a cliche, but Americans are puritanical. In their movies, they are scared of sex, but they overindulge in violence. I could have cut a G-rated version of ‘Y Tu Mama Tambien’ that would have pleased the American ratings board, but it would have been five minutes long.

I was such a mama’s boy that no one imagined that I could come into the film line. She wanted me to do a bank job.

My first film was a movie shot in 1974. I was 18 on that movie set. It was called ‘Big Bad Mama.’ I turned 19 on the next movie I worked on, which was a black ‘Blazing Saddles.’ I worked in the art department. It was called ‘Darktown Strutters.’

Don’t get me wrong. There’s always situations where when it gets bigger than me, it’s time to go talk to mama and daddy and God.

I have to be more modest now that I’m a mama, but I loved those days when I could really wear what I wanted to. I do love crazy shoes and clothes. But I mean, come on, I’m 38, so even if I like a dress of Betsey Johnson, I have to say, ‘Stop it. Go for Chanel!’

As a kid, I was always inspired by the comedy of Carol Burnett. I loved Dick Clair and Jenna McMahon’s ‘Mama’s Family’.

I got three whippings a day from my mama.

Papa is a very chilled out person. He was very supportive from the beginning. I think Papa helped ease Mama into the idea of me acting. He told her that she seems passionate about it. He was very cool about it.

Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it’s my chance to be Chris Rock.

Republicans: steely, rational, paternalistic, respectful of authority, easy to herd, the party of No. Democrats: sugary, emotional, idealistic, yearning for novelty, hard to marshal, the party of Oh Yeah, Baby, Make Mama Feel Good.

I adore my girls and I’m so proud of them. So proud to be their mama.

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

You can’t do more mama than Italian Jewish mama.

I played Big Mama in ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ when I was 20 years old at the University of Michigan.

My own grandmother went to great lengths to make sure I knew simple things like how and when to open the door for a lady. And the best thing my mama taught me was to pray.

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

My mama never wore a pair of pants when I was growing up, and now that’s all she wears. It was so funny for me when I first started seeing Mama wear pants. It was like it wasn’t Mama. Now I’ve bought her many a pantsuit because she just lives in them.

My childhood ambition was to become a Tooth Fairy. And I do talk about that in my book ‘Is You Okay.’ My mama always told me to say I wanted to be a corporate lawyer, and today I am much closer to being a Tooth Fairy than I ever was a Corporate Lawyer… so hah hah hah hah.

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

In the South, I think, food mirrors our lives. When I was growing up, no matter what you were grieving or celebrating, my mama would be at the door with a cake or a pie.

Basketball is very important to me. But I know I can make an impact on this world in many other ways. I know I can be many other things. And of course, one of them is still being a mama’s boy.