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I made it, Ma - Carnegie Hall. And I didn't have to practice. -- Alan King
In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high. -- Laura Ingalls Wilder
So Pa sold the little house. He sold the cow and calf. He made hickory bows and fastened them upright to the wagon box. Ma helped him stretch white canvas over them. -- Laura Ingalls Wilder
Mary and Carrie and baby Grace and Ma had all had scarlet fever. The Nelsons across the creek had had it too, so there had been no one to help Pa and Laura. -- Laura Ingalls Wilder
As well as being blind, Ma turned out to have the same mental illness that her mother had had. Between 1986 and 1990, she suffered six schizophrenic bouts, each requiring her to be institutionalised for up to three months. -- Liz Murray
Ma was legally blind due to a degenerative eye disease she'd had since birth. This meant she was entitled to welfare, and our lives revolved around the first day of every month when her payment was due. -- Liz Murray
Even the draft dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, most of them... unless they are breaking Canadian laws .. are getting American dollars from Ma and Pa at home to spend here. -- Gordon Sinclair
The first big stars, Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, you know, these were gigantic stars. I even wonder sometimes whether all music actually comes from women, whether the first glimmering of music is a mother soothing a baby. -- Hugh Laurie
When I started, I faced a lot of hardships. People used to call me a Rafi clone because I used to sing my favourite singer's songs. Then 'Sa Re Ga Ma Pa' happened. It gave me a good break. -- Sonu Nigam
I try to listen to over a hundred different songs a day. I listen to every single thing. If you're just listening to pop music, you're just gonna make pop music. I listen to Adele, Yo Yo Ma, Gucci Mane. -- Benny Blanco
Pa did not like a country so old and worn out that the hunting was poor. He wanted to go west. For two years he had wanted to go west and take a homestead, but Ma did not want to leave the settled country. -- Laura Ingalls Wilder
I wasn't strong enough to have an eating disorder. I tried to go anorexic for a good three hours. I ate ice and celery, but that's not even anorexic. And I quit. I was like, 'Ma, can you make me a sandwich? Like, immediately.' -- Meghan Trainor
A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin. -- Laura Ingalls Wilder
Even if you overcome a tremendous challenge and feel the personal victory, it's simply not powerful enough. It may activate your left brain, which says, 'I have achieved,' but it will not activate your more social right brain, which desperately desires to say, 'Look, Ma, I did it!' -- Brendon Burchard
I remember when I was 11, I told my mom, 'One day I'm going to buy you a house.' And she said, 'Boy, don't you be making promises you can't keep.' I was like: 'No, Ma, it's not a promise. I'm going to buy you a house one day.' -- will.i.am
Nobody wanted to believe Jack Ma. -- Jack Ma
Wham, bam, thank you Ma'am. -- David Bowie
Ma'at demands a leader." "Yeah so I've heard. -- Rick Riordan
Ma'am, are you trying to molest me via drivethru? -- Dane Cook
Maybe I'm a human, but I'm a me-and-Ma as well. -- Emma Donoghue
Yo-Yo Ma and Bobby McFerrin together again for the first time. -- Ellen Kushner
Good for you, Ethan." That's what my poor mama would've said. Ma'am. -- Kami Garcia
Ma-ma does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Da-da first. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Ma, I'm just trying to get going on those grandchildren you want. -- Christina Dodd
Dreadful sorry mistress. Ma always said I was too silly to die -- Tamora Pierce
En Ma Fin Est Ma Commencement - In my end is my beginning. -- Philippa Gregory
Oh, Ma, you're looking at all the trees, and I'm not even in the forest. -- Elizabeth Wurtzel
She said, tell me, are you a Christian, child? I said, Ma'am, I am tonight. -- Marc Cohn
Ma was using her for-company voice. Sweet on the outside but with an underlying death threat. -- Eoin Colfer
Ma petite is not a subtle woman. Unless you say it, she will not understand it. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
He [Ma's Tooth] was part of her a minute ago but now he's not. Just a thing. -- Emma Donoghue
Jumped In The Fo' Hit The Juice On Ma Ride I Got Front Back, And Side To Side -- Eazy-E
Ma sex game is stupid, my head is the dumbest, I promise, I should be hooked on phonics. -- Lil Wayne
Ma'am," Magnus said, advancing. "I must counsel you not to exit the carriage while a demon-slaying is in progress. -- Cassandra Clare
Me and Ma have a deal, we're going to try everything one time so we know what we like. -- Emma Donoghue
We can enhance our intelligences, but I am never going to become Yo-Yo Ma, Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, or Pele. -- Howard Gardner
Everyone thinks I'm Jewish. I'm not. Last year I got a call: "Happy Hanukkah." I said "Ma, I'm not Jewish. -- Joy Behar
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Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools, I've got nothing, Ma, to live up to. -- Bob Dylan
We choose to believe in Ma'at. We create order out of chaos, beauty out of ugly randomness. That's what Egypt is all about. -- Rick Riordan
You know who you belong to Jack? - Yeah. Yourself. - He's wrong, actually, I belong to Ma. p. 261 Room by E Donoghue -- Emma Donoghue
Ma's still nodding. "You're the one who matters, though. Just you." I shake my head till it's wobbling because there's no just me. -- Emma Donoghue
a parting is sadder than a death, Ma always said, for two people are dead to one another and yet go on living ... -- Caroline Pafford Miller
Once you meet an entrepreneur like Jack Ma, you just want to make sure you bet on him. It's not a hard decision. -- Jerry Yang
A TREAT. FASCINATING. Director Lipes is a classic cinÃ©ma vÃ©ritÃ© practitioner in the mold of Albert Maysles and Frederick Wiseman. -- Kenneth Turan
Ma wrong about one thing. When I was girl, she only talk about love in the marriage. [] Nobody tell me what make real marriage--respect. -- Thrity Umrigar
Ma wrong about one thing. When I was girl, she only talk about love in the marriage. [...] Nobody tell me what make real marriage--respect. -- Thrity Umrigar
You can't write about a horrible restaurant - if it's a Ma & Pa restaurant no one wants to see you kick Ma & Pa in the chops. -- Robert Sietsema
So che non dovresti voler avere niente a che fare con me. Non te ne faccio una colpa. Ma tu sei l'unica, Scarlet. Sarai sempre l'unica. -- Marissa Meyer
I'd like a hamburger and a coke, please. / Sir, we don't serve negroes here. / Ma'am, I don't eat negroes. I'd like a hamburger and a coke. -- Joseph Lowery
Ma sighed gently and said, "A whole year gone, Charles." But Pa answered, cheerfully: "What's a year amount to? We have all the time there is. -- Laura Ingalls Wilder
My daddy left home when I was three and he didn't leave much to Ma and me, just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze. -- Johnny Cash
(Da) Sorry, Son, what was that? I was too busy ignoring you.(Later) Sorry, Son, I missed that, Ma said. Ignoring you can be a full-time job. -- Brian Farrey
Hi, Mom"Yes, I know my heart rate's dangerously elevated. That sound? I'm being shot at, Ma. Gotta go now. Love you much. Hugs and kisses. (Devyn) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Tiananmen Square in early 1989 attracted many dreamers like Ma Jian, who returned from Hong Kong to a one-room shack in Beijing in order to join the student protests. -- Pankaj Mishra
A tip for increased sales or in situations of life or death: Try to always refer to the lady as Miss. or Ms. Using the term: Ma'am could piss her off. -- Ginnetta Correli
Quando cerchiamo di ingannare gli altri, a volte ci riusciamo, a volte no. Ma quando cerchiamo di ingannare noi stessi le nostre percentuali di successo sono eccezionali e in continua ascesa. -- Haim Shapira
My ma says You can't unspill a stew." "She also says Undoing a wrong is greater than doing a right." "You know, Ma is very good at saying two things at once. -- Shannon Hale
Unlike the phone system, the Internet has no Ma Bell or FCC to mandate new policies for the entire system. Not even Microsoft can make us all upgrade our routers. I think. -- Paul Boutin
There would be brilliant songs, but, as [Bob] Dylan admitted on the recent Martin Scorsese documentary about him (No Direction Home), the specific muse that inspired "It's Alright Ma" would not return. -- Bob Dylan
Ma, sooner or later there comes a point in a man's life when he's gotta face some facts. And one fact I've got to face is whateverit is women like, I ain't got it. -- Paddy Chayefsky
An old battleax of a woman said to Winston Churchill, "If you were my husband I would put poison in your tea." Churchill's response, "Ma'am if you were my wife I would drink it. -- Winston Churchill
An old battleax of a woman said to Winston Churchill, "If you were my husband I would put poison in your tea." Churchill's response, "Ma'am if you were my wife I would drink it. -- Winston Churchill
Ma'am," Augustus said, nodding toward her, "Your daughter's car has just been deservingly egged by a blind man. Please close the door and go back inside or we'll be forced to call the police. -- John Green
I am well in body although considerably rumpled up in spirit, thank you, ma'am,' said Anne gravely. Then aside to Marilla in an audible whisper, 'There wasn't anything startling in that, was there, Marilla? -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
I don't like talk and I don't like talkers. Like Ma Barker. That's what she always said, 'Ma Barker doesn't like talk and she doesn't like talkers.' She just sat there with her gun. -- David Bowie
We were a spiritual family. My mother always told me, 'People hated Jesus Christ, so why should you worry about them?' Once she put it in that perspective, I was like, 'You're right, Ma.' -- Anthony Anderson
I tried to go anorexic for a good three hours. I ate ice and celery, but that's not even anorexic. And I quit. I was like, 'Ma, can you make me a sandwich? Like, immediately.' -- Meghan Trainor
I guarantee if people keep mm..supportin' me....Just buying my records, goin to my concerts, just supporting me..I'ma keep givin' money....Like Makaveli, every time it go platinum, I'm putting money up for community centers. -- Tupac Shakur
Jordan couldn't keep the smile off her face. "Yeah, I like this guy. He rescued me from a crazed man with a gun, he makes me laugh, and he calls his mother Ma. I'd say he's a keeper. -- Julie James
I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent. -- Madeleine Peyroux
Maybe, standing next to the obelisk of Ma'at, surrounded by the Sea of Chaos, we both realized that restraining ourselves from vengeance is what made us different from Apophis. Rules had their place. They kept us from unraveling. -- Rick Riordan
Mais ma femme, est-ce que je l'aime? Ce n'est pas que je l'aime, c'est autre chose que je ne sais comment t'expliquer [...] Est-ce que j'aime mon doigt? Je ne l'aime pas, mais essaie un peu de me le couper..." -- Leo Tolstoy
The passing of Marxism-Leninism first from China and then from the Soviet Union will mean its death as a living ideology ... . For while there may be some isolated true believers left in places like Managua, Pyongyang, or Cambridge, MA ... -- Francis Fukuyama
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Once I slapped a rapper with mace, Then I spit acid in his face, after he rinsed his eyes, no wait... I actually grew five times my size, grabbed Ma$e by the thigh and slapped a rapper with him. -- Pharoahe Monch
The sciences of only one nation, the Greeks, have come down to us, because they were translated through Al-Ma'mun's efforts. He was successful in this direction because he had many translators at his disposal and spent much money in this connection. -- Ibn Khaldun
Ma-a-a-n-I'm very excited to put my heart into somethin' that's 100% Swizz Beatz. I usually work behind the scenes, and I did that for 10 years, and now I'm ready for the forefront... and [to] really get the legacy moving to another level. -- Swizz Beatz
Goodbye, Room." I wave up at Skylight. "Say goodbye," I tell Ma. "Goodbye, Room." Ma says it but on mute. I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened. Then we go out the door. -- Emma Donoghue
Southern gentleman," he said aside to him in ArabicDo you wish for me to continue this for you?"Caine's temper shifted to a low simmer in his chestYour way takes too long.""Ma'aleyk, and your way hurts my ears," he argued." -- V.S. Carnes
I was first introduced to August Wilson in the 80s when Charles Dutton did Ma Rainey and James Earl Jones and Courtney Vance did Fences. I've long considered August Wilson to be one of the five greatest playwrights in American history. -- Denzel Washington
Of all the soul divas, Gladys Knight was the one for me. Knight's always been about tone and heart, none of the big showboating or extraneous doodling. She nailed a melody and only played a little around the edges like Ma Staple. -- Alison Moyet
Ma'am, I'm not tryin' to be sexy. Ah didn't have any clear idea of trying to sell sex. It's just my way of expressin' how I feel when I move around. It's all leg movement. I don't do nothin' with my body. -- Elvis Presley
The first time I saw my wife, Marjorie, I was doing stand-up in Memphis, and she was sitting in the front row. Afterward, I walked up and said, 'Ma'am, I'm going to marry you one day.' And 15 years later, I did. -- Steve Harvey
This is the work of NÃ¢ma-Rupa - name and form. Everything that has form, everything that calls up an idea in your mind, is within Maya; for everything that is bound by the laws of time, space, and causation is within Maya. -- Swami Vivekananda
Je ne me suicide pas parce que j'ai envie de partir. Quand on a envie de quelque chose on est sauf. Je ne pars pas parce qu'une fois partie je n'aurais plus envie de rien et qu'il faudrait que je m'extermine. Ma logique m'effraie. -- Réjean Ducharme
I think about Old Nick carrying me into the truck, I'm dizzy like I'm going to fall down. "Scared is what you're feeling," says Ma, "but brave is what you're doing." "Huh?" "Scaredybrave." "Scave." Word sandwiches always make her laugh but I wasn't being funny. -- Emma Donoghue
She thought to herself, "This is now." She was glad that the cozy house, and Pa and Ma and the firelight and the music, were now. They could not be forgotten, she thought, because now is now. It can never be a long time ago. -- Laura Ingalls Wilder
Any artist that's as serious about making music as I am, I'm cool with that. But if you tellin' me, "Man, send me a verse and I'ma send you a verse." No. That's not collaborating. We don't know each other and I'm serous about this music. -- Kevin Gates
Well", Fang said, mimicking a thick Southern drawl. "I must say its mighty nice of them Daimons to clean up after themselves when you kill them" He held his hands up to them. "Look Ma, no mess." "Does Fang have an off switch?" Talon asked Vane. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Safety was not a big thing when I was growing up. A seat belt was something that got in the way: 'Ma, the seat belt is digging into my back.' 'Stuff it down into the seat. And roll those windows up, you're letting the smoke out' -- Margaret Smith
When I was four I thought everything in TV was just TV, then I was five and Ma unlied about lots of it being pictures of real and Outside being totally real. Now I'm in Outside but it turns out lots of it isn't real at all. -- Emma Donoghue
When I was 12 years old, or however old I was when Bringing It All Back Home came out, I'd just skip back and forth endlessly between 'Subterranean Homesick Blues' and 'It's Alright, Ma' and 'Mr. Tambourine Man,' and now my Dylan roots are showing big time. -- Rodney Crowell
Even if you overcome a tremendous challenge and feel the personal victory, it's simply not powerful enough. It may activate your left brain, which says, 'I have achieved,' but it will not activate your more social right brain, which desperately desires to say, 'Look, Ma, I did it! -- Brendon Burchard
This earthly life is a battle,' said Ma. 'If it isn't one thing to contend with, it's another. It always has been so, and it always will be. The sooner you make up your mind to that, the better off you are, and more thankful for your pleasures. -- Laura Ingalls Wilder
Ah, well.â? He smiled-another one of those devastatingly intoxicating smiles that did unreasonable things to her body temperature and respiration. With a nod and a respectful, â??Maâ??am,â? he left her in the middle of the room. Feeling like sheâ??d been hit by a tank. -- Cindy Gerard
Without internet, there would have been no Jack Ma, and no Alibaba or Taobao. -- Jack Ma
My ma is an economist. My dad is a software engineer. -- Suraj Sharma
I'm inspired by my master's movie 'Kerd ma lui,' Bruce Lee's 'Fists of Fury,' and Jackie Chan's 'Police Story.' -- Tony Jaa
Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest ma to do. -- Jean de la Bruyere
After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics. -- Vernon L. Smith
Bowling is all physics and energy distribution. It's F = ma. So it is actually one of the most science-y sports, because it literally is just a ball and a surface and objects to knock down. -- Chris Hardwick
I spent two years in Palo Alto - what an awful, suffocating place for those of us who don't care about yoga, yogurts and start-ups - and now I have moved to Cambridge, MA - which, in many respects, is like Palo Alto but a bit snarkier. -- Evgeny Morozov
I did business the same way President Lee did, and from what I read in the papers, the same way President Ma has done. But I have been charged for misuse and misappropriation. People need to learn at the most basic level that valid charges have not been brought against me. -- Chen Shui-bian
In Search of Excellence' - even the title - is a reminder that business isn't dry, dreary, boring, or by the numbers. Life at work can be cool - and work that's cool isn't confined to Tiger Woods, Yo-Yo Ma, or Tom Hanks. It's available to all of us and any of us. -- Tom Peters
Quite a few musicians came to our house. And my ma took me to hear many more, hoping to encourage in me a love of music. But she wouldn't consent to my having music lessons, for she feared I might end up as she had done - unable to play except from paper. -- Mary Lou Williams
My ma and pa are both very artistic, so I suppose it's in my blood. But my ma's the one who was into theater and such. I owe my love of it to her. If she didn't drag me to small community workshops when I was a wee little lad or exposed me to anything artistic for that matter, I wouldn't be who I am today. -- Grey Damon
Hey ma, your bad boy did good! -- Rocky Graziano
Three years? That's a thousand tomorrows, ma'am. -- Karen Kingsbury
I'ma make you feel like a virgin again. -- Tyga
That roads are for journeys, ma'am, not destinations -- Margaret Landon
I am sincere, ma petite, even when I lie. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
If you want to ma history make a difference. -- Kevin A. McKoy
tht's why u mst never forget ma sister jodie -- Jacqueline Wilson
Growing up,I came up with this name: I'ma Cablinasian. -- Tiger Woods
What, no Power Rangers Band-Aids ?" "Shut up, Garett." "Yes, ma'am. -- Cindy Gerard
Nothing is certain, ma petite, not even death." - Jean-Claude -- Laurell K. Hamilton
Took an oath, I'ma stick it out to the end. -- Rihanna
Some wish that I was gone, cause they know I'ma win... -- O.C.

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