Welcome to our collection of Mama Quotes! Motherhood is a timeless journey filled with love, sacrifice, and boundless strength. Throughout history, mothers have been celebrated for their unwavering dedication and the profound impact they have on their children’s lives. Whether it’s a tender moment shared between a mother and child or the sage advice passed down through generations, the essence of motherhood is beautifully captured in these quotes.
From heartfelt expressions of gratitude to humorous anecdotes that highlight the joys and challenges of parenting, the quotes gathered here celebrate the unique bond between a mother and her children. Whether you’re a new mom navigating the early days of motherhood or a seasoned parent cherishing the memories of years gone by, these quotes serve as a reminder of the incredible power of maternal love and the importance of honoring the women who shape our lives.
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. Karl Malone
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. George Jones
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. Zora Neale Hurston
When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York’s La MaMa theater company – without my parents! Diane Lane
I can still picture myself riding in the back of a Bronco to a field party after a rainstorm. My mama will kill me for saying this, but my first beer, I was 15 and I didn’t know what to do with it. I thought you were supposed to chug it. So I just downed the whole thing in one gulp. All my friends were like, ‘Duuuuuuude!’ Dave Haywood
I was able to shoot a movie like ‘Tree of Life’ because I had done ‘Y Tu Mama Tambien.’ The camera needed to capture that sense of freedom and joy and life you have when you’re young. Emmanuel Lubezki
I wear a St. Christopher medal. On the back it says: ‘Good luck, good luck, good luck – Mama.’ Dinah Manoff
I love a man who loves his mama, which is one of the many reasons I’m crazy about Justin Timberlake. Gayle King
I’ve never had a very quiet voice. I tried in choir to make it smaller, and it just didn’t work out. And I listened to a lot of soul music when I was growing up on my own accord. But I was mostly into Mama Cass and Gladys Knight, and they all had big voices too; just different than mine. Beth Ditto
When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, ‘One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.’ That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother. Mr. T
My name is Bernard Jeffrey McCullough, but people know me as Bernie Mac. My mama, God rest her soul – she used to call me Beanie. Used to say, ‘Don’t you worry about Beanie. Beanie gonna be just fine. Beanie gonna surprise everyone.’ Bernie Mac
I always say to people, ‘You know, if Romeo and Juliet got married, nobody would care about them.’ Imagine Romeo and Juliet, six kids yelling, ‘Mama, Mama, Papa, Papa!’ Marjane Satrapi
At the end of the day, I mean, I love my father, but I was always a mama’s girl growing up. I’m from the South, so there’s always something about me when I’m just with my girls or even my mother. There’s just a strong connection there. Britney Spears
She’s there for life, but even though it’s hard to date with my mom around, I’m so thankful for it because the person who can’t take Mama Mai is not the person to take me. Jeannie Mai
I bought my dad a bustdown Rolex for Christmas, and I had got my mama kitchen remodeled. My daddy cried, my mama cried, I cried. Latto
My 2-year-old has become my alarm, so on a good day, 7:30 A. M. or 8 A. M. My alarm sounds something like, ‘Mama, where are you?’ Lindsay Shookus
I was raised by my great-great aunt. I was adopted within our family. My mother had me when she was, I think, 15, 16. They tried to get her to have an abortion and she refused. So, my ‘mama’ adopted me, which was really her great aunt, which was really my great-great aunt, who was named Viola Dickerson. I was told that my mother was my sister. Eric Dickerson
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. Robert De Niro
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. James Wolcott
I know Mama Rose is a great role and I love having a chance to do it. Bernadette Peters
If my mama said not to do something, I didn’t do it. Ruby Bridges
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. Dolly Parton
If I’m feeling in a naughty mood, I’ll steal some of Mama’s Creme De La Mer. If I’m feeling in a very naughty mood, I’ll steal some of Daddy’s Creme De La Mer. On the whole though, I’m very low maintenance. Amber Le Bon
I’m like a mama’s boy and stuff. will.i.am
Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong. Barry White
I really worshipped Mama Cass a lot. Mama Cass, who was really fat and she didn’t lose weight. Yeah, she went on diets but for the most part of her life and the better part of her career she was a big person. Beth Ditto
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? Frank Pittman
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. Ray Charles
Momma told me, ‘I’m going to town. Don’t touch the trash in the backyard,’ because we used to burn our trash. So I’m going to do mama a favor. I light the trash and go back inside to watch Ohio State and LSU play. And something said, ‘You know what, at halftime, go check on it.’ And fire is about 8 feet from the back door. Booger McFarland
My grandma once told my mama, ‘The kid’s walking crazy around the cornfield, talking to himself.’ I was calling ballgames. Keith Jackson
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. Ronnie Dunn
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. Stevie Wonder
I went from broke and homeless sleeping on couches. Couldn’t even figure out what I was doing in Los Angeles. Now, I’m paying my own bills. I’m about to move my mama in with me at 19. I’m on tour now, and this is all off of one mixtape. Kehlani
‘Y Tu Mama Tambien’ is one of the first unrated movies to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. But many video stores won’t take a movie that’s not rated, so I had to make the movie an R. Alfonso Cuaron
I caught a lot of flak for being a young mama. Fantasia Barrino
My mama loved books; I became fascinated by the wonderful stories that came out of these things she held in her hand – and started to make them up myself. Wilbur Smith
Rock ‘n’ roll offered me a platform to speak what I felt. It also offered me a platform to support my mama and my brothers and sisters – twelve children. Little Richard
I know if mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy. Jeff Foxworthy
I think my performance in ‘What’s Love Got to Do With It’ was powerful. I was so unafraid and confident. You know, it was the first mother of black Hollywood. I was Tina Turner’s mama. That’s what started it all. I had fallen in love right before that movie, and I had absolutely no fear in me. Jenifer Lewis
Every child is completely different. My two boys are opposites. Camden was such an easy baby. Jaxon is more of our rebel wild child, but he’s also a mama’s boy. Kristin Cavallari
I was a mama’s girl. So when I had to go to Korea without mom, I felt that I had to take care of myself now. I was 14, such a kid. I didn’t speak any Korean. I only knew how to say ‘hello,’ so it really was a new start. Lisa
I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama’s boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental nature of her task. It will take a crowbar, two bulldozers and half a dozen Molotov cocktails to pry my Oedipus and me loose from one another. Ayelet Waldman
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’. Alfonso Cuaron
My lady, my mama, my grandma, everybody think I’m crazy. Rod Wave
I’m a mama’s boy. Tyler Hoechlin
You know, nobody can ever cook as good as your mama. Paula Deen
I got three whippings a day from my mama. Evander Holyfield
She’s definitely an angel sent from above. How can that not rub off on a man? What can I say? I’m a mama’s boy. Brantley Gilbert
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. Paula Deen
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. Ava Gardner
My dear Mama, you are definitely the hen who hatched a famous duck. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
My mama just accepted everybody with open arms. Everybody knew her. Quavo
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. Betty Wright
You play a ‘lowdown dirty shame slow and lonesome, my mama dead, my papa across the sea I ain’t dead but I’m just supposed to be’ blues. You can take that same blues, make it uptempo, a shuffle blues, that’s what rock n’ roll did with it. So blues ain’t going nowhere. Ain’t goin’ nowhere. David Edwards
I’m the wife. I’m the mom. I’m the friend. And, you know, my friends call me ‘Mama T,’ or ‘Dr. T,’ and that’s, guess, what I am – the Mama T and the Dr. T. That’s who I am. Teresa Heinz
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. Stephen Stills
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. Big Freedia
Everything I’ve done in my career is a result of growing up in rural Oklahoma, because if I hadn’t had the training from Mama and Daddy to work hard, to do what I’m told, to take directions, to mind and to do a good job at anything I set out to do, then I wouldn’t be where I am today. Reba McEntire
I’m just one woman away, my mother, from being the same as Mike Tyson. I would’ve ended up like him if my mama had not been so tough and strong. A lot of people, including Mike, don’t know I came from the ghetto. They think I’m too nice and proper. But that’s the way my mama raised me – to look people in the eye and respect them. Evander Holyfield
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. Future
In every advanced mammalian species that survives and thrives, a common anthropological characteristic is the fierce behavior of the adult female of the species when she senses a threat to her cubs. The lioness, the tigress and the mama bear are all examples. Marianne Williamson
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’? Chris Tucker
My mama whupped me away from the penitentiary. Eddie Griffin
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. Paula Deen
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. Michael Buble
I’m the biggest mama’s boy ever, and I’m proud to say it. Jayson Tatum
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. Mel Tillis
My mama loved me more than anybody ever did. George Jones
On September 22, 2002, my mama, Buhlar Hinton, died. When the guards told me, I gave up. She’d been deteriorating for a long time – I believe she died of a broken heart. Anthony Ray Hinton
‘Gypsy’ is the ultimate stage-mother story: Mama Rose is the one who should have been a star; she’s the one with the talent. But she chose to have kids and put her dreams into them. The musical shows the power of showbiz and how much it can mean to someone. Matthew Bourne
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. Coretta Scott King
My mama didn’t want me; my daddy wasn’t there. So there were a lot of insecurities and low self-esteem. Kirk Franklin
I played Big Mama in ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ when I was 20 years old at the University of Michigan. Margo Martindale
Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does. Johnny Cash
Keep going. Grind for what you want. Pray. Listen to your mama. Gunna
The way I make something out of nothing, I got that from my mama. That’s 100% her. DaBaby
‘Mama I’m Coming Home’ is one song that I think is incredible. One of his best songs ever written. Lemmy wrote the lyrics to that. Robert Trujillo
Calling Michelle ‘Obama Barack’s baby mama?’ Tell me, is that acceptable? But the Obamas aren’t the only targets. Fox’s pattern of race-baiting and fear-mongering regularly focuses on black leaders, black institutions and ordinary black people. Nas
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. Shannon Sharpe
I feel 95 per cent of Indian boys are mama’s boys and a few of them couldn’t come out of their mother’s shadows. Salman Khan is one of them. I feel one of the reasons he is unable to find a soul mate is he looks for his mother in every girl. Farah Khan
My mama always used to tell me: ‘If you can’t find somethin’ to live for, you best find somethin’ to die for.’ Tupac Shakur
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. Woody Harrelson
You’ll never see me in an airport without a DDP YOGA shirt. It says, ‘It Ain’t Your Mama’s Yoga’ on the back and ‘DDP YOGA’ in the front. Every time I walk around, people see the shirt, and it makes them smile. Diamond Dallas Page
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? Bobby Darin
I’ve dated a number of ‘mama’s boys.’ Gabrielle Union
It’s never a question of skin pigmentation. It’s never a question of just culture or sexual orientation or civilization. It’s what kind of human being you’re going to choose to be from your mama’s womb to the tomb and what kind of legacy will you leave. Cornel West
I do get kind of jealous when I see women with children but look at Angelina Jolie, she is like a super mama and proof that you can have a career and a family. Victoria Silvstedt
I’ll get depressed out on the road simply because I’m not being the mama that’s cooking supper every night, or that’s fixing my husband’s plate and my baby’s plate. You miss those things, and I miss them. Ashton Shepherd
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. Gael Garcia Bernal
I often feel like I could fall off the face of the Earth. As long as ‘Mama’ was around, nobody would really miss me. People really think of her as an actual person. People all the time see me and ask, ‘Where’s Mama?’ Like she should be with me. Vicki Lawrence
There is nobody else, on the entire earth, like Mama Mai. Nobody who thinks like her, says what she says, or drags you into the trouble she does. It’s the most exhilarating and fun time of anyone’s life. Jeannie Mai
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. Alfonso Cuaron
Some people ask me whether I’m a ‘mama’s girl’ or a ‘papa’s girl.’ I’m nobody’s girl. My brother clings to our parents; I’m the one shoving them out the door. Hayden Panettiere
If black lives matter, then why is it that black women are more than five times as likely as a white woman to have an abortion? I think the womb that brings forth the black life should matter… Because black lives absolutely matter, what about the babies in that womb? What about that mama? Alveda King
There ain’t nobody I’d rather have alongside me in a fight than my mama with a broken bottle in her hand. Hank Williams
I loved doing ‘The Family’ with Eunice and Mama. They were very interesting because there were no jokes written into those sketches. It was all character-driven. And sometimes it got a little heavy. Carol Burnett
I remember li’l ol’ Hank Jr. – he was just a baby back in them days, you know – but he used to hang around. His mama would bring him around. He was just a natural. Mel Tillis
It’s horrible dating with Mama Mai! She is nosy. When I was a kid she would be the first one eavesdropping on my phone calls: ‘Hello? Who you call for? Huh?’ Jeannie Mai
I wouldn’t want to do a ‘Maury Povich’ show. Baby daddy! Who’s your daddy? Who’s your mama? I wouldn’t want to do that kind of show. NeNe Leakes
A lot of street dudes, you know their grandma go to church every Sunday. A lot of people in the pen, a lot of that come from them running away from that. They seen they grandma always going to church, mama always going to church, but they still struggling. This the reality of some peoples’ life. Roddy Ricch