Vicki Lawrence quote: "I think the Mama people remember is from 'Mama's Family.' She really turned into a pretty cool character. The sketches from the 'Burnett' show, if people are old enough to remember, were written by writers who all hated their mothers."

We all have somebody that sits down at the Thanksgiving table and says the most outrageous things, a...
VICKI LAWRENCE

I think coming East and doing something like Broadway would probably be a good career move.
VICKI LAWRENCE

We all know him: everybody has an Archie Bunker in their family, so you love to laugh at him, and yo...
VICKI LAWRENCE

When I started on the 'Burnett' show, I was just out of high school, and when we went off th...
VICKI LAWRENCE

The thing that everybody loves about the 'Burnett Show' was that you felt like you were real...
VICKI LAWRENCE

It took me a lot of years on the 'Burnett' show to feel like I had earned the privilege to p...
VICKI LAWRENCE

Most of the cast and crew on 'Mama's Family' have been together since the 'Carol Bur...
VICKI LAWRENCE

People would get Carol Burnett and Vicki Lawrence all mushed together in their brains, and, bless th...
VICKI LAWRENCE

Everybody just told me from the day I went into high school that I looked like Carol Burnett.
VICKI LAWRENCE

Everyone has fond memories of 'The Carol Burnett Show' and the characters we did.
VICKI LAWRENCE

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

Even though I was in close proximity to everything, it never really dawned on me to pursue a career ...
VICKI LAWRENCE

I've always thought George Carlin was brilliant.
VICKI LAWRENCE

It's always good to play tennis with a better player to bring out the best in you.
VICKI LAWRENCE

There's nobody telling Oprah what to do. There's no one telling David Letterman what he can ...
VICKI LAWRENCE

I wanted to study to be a dental hygienist, marry a rich dentist, and hang it up.
VICKI LAWRENCE

I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
VICKI LAWRENCE

Everyone has a crazy old lady in their family like 'Mama.' No one ever comes up to me and sa...
VICKI LAWRENCE

My favorite game shows were 'Password' and '$25,000 Pyramid.'
VICKI LAWRENCE

I feel it is time to lighten up and laugh about things and enjoy ourselves a little bit more.
VICKI LAWRENCE

the end of a show biz legacy.
VICKI LAWRENCE

I played Miley Cyrus' grandma on 'Hannah Montana,' and the first time I was on, they sai...
VICKI LAWRENCE

That old lady was a gift from Carol.
VICKI LAWRENCE

That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
VICKI LAWRENCE

Things have always sort of happened for me. Something else always comes up.
VICKI LAWRENCE

It's my opportunity to say all the things that are politically incorrect. It's all the stuff we're t...
VICKI LAWRENCE

Mama is my chance to be Chris Rock. She says things I would never say. I let her push the envelope.
VICKI LAWRENCE

What I learned was that celebrities come to me with a preconceived notion. They think I'm fun, o...
VICKI LAWRENCE

When I first got an outbreak of hives, I tried everything to find relief. I felt like no one underst...
VICKI LAWRENCE

I am no prude, but when I watch comedy, I ask myself, 'Who wrote this? A teenage boy in the lock...
VICKI LAWRENCE

This country wants to laugh. We want to, and we need to. I'm happy to oblige.
VICKI LAWRENCE

That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
VICKI LAWRENCE

Crime novels, it has been said, show the human psyche under pressure.
VICKI DELANY

Ottawa is a hot spot of Canadian crime writing, with perhaps the greatest concentration of active, i...
VICKI DELANY

The CWC is a professional organization for professional writers. Non-published writers are welcome a...
VICKI DELANY

On a personal basis, when I decided to become a writer, about the last reason I did it was because I...
VICKI DELANY

To be a Jew is a destiny.
VICKI BAUM

Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
VICKI BAUM

You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you.
VICKI BAUM

A woman who is loved always has success.
VICKI BAUM

Remember that life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take ou...
VICKI CORONA

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two hu...
VICKI BAUM

Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
VICKI BAUM

You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you.
VICKI BAUM

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
VICKI BAUM

There are shortcuts to happiness and dancing is one of them!
VICKI BAUM

When photography was invented it was thought to be an equivalent to truth, it was truth with a capi...
VICKI GOLDBERG

You will always be your child's favorite toy
VICKI LANSKY

It was just everyone in fellowship together.
VICKI SHARP

When Justin died and we got the call offering the carriage, I immediately asked for Mike.
VICKI BOSLEY

Brian has a complete game. He serves extremely well. His ground strokes are excellent, volleys are s...
VICKI BROWNING

They hadn't eaten for three days when we got to them. They had no blankets, nothing. They were sleep...
VICKI CINTRA

Mark was inside, in a small bathroom by the entry,
VICKI CROMPTON

We do anticipate his return, but we don't have a timetable.
VICKI FLOTTA

We wanted a first-degree murder conviction, and now we have no other appellate issues which could ca...
VICKI MONROE

We want to build networks with physicians and find collaborative physicians who understand we aren't...
VICKI MCMAHON

The deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman is pity.
VICKI BAUM

What I like about Hollywood is that one can get along by knowing two words of English -- SWELL and L...
VICKI BAUM

It was the perfect mix of ingredients for West Nile.
VICKI KRAMER

We hear all the time when we go up to the Hill and start talking to congressmen that they don't hear...
VICKI ARROYO

The picture they paint ? much higher sea levels with mind-boggling implications for entire communiti...
VICKI ARROYO

We're going to need all forms of energy production, including more coal and nuclear. Despite the Bus...
VICKI ARROYO

The report represents a pragmatic and meaningful action plan to reduce emissions.
VICKI ARROYO

Voluntary programs that are aimed at reducing emissions...are offset by the growth because there are...
VICKI ARROYO

As of now, we don't even have required reporting in this country of greenhouse gas emissions. The pr...
VICKI ARROYO

It is going to be a piecemeal approach, people are not going to know what their regulatory commitmen...
VICKI ARROYO

What we propose is changing that to a greenhouse gas focus program and having cars and light trucks ...
VICKI ARROYO

Improving energy efficiency is the easiest thing that we could do and companies tell us cost savings...
VICKI ARROYO

This study underscores the need to take swift, meaningful actions at home and abroad to address clim...
VICKI ARROYO

There is nothing on God's green earth that someone won't complain about including both God and green...
VICKI MYRON

There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.
VICKI BAUM

Marriage always demands the finest arts of insincerity possible between two human beings
VICKI BAUM

It looks insurmountable but I think we have a great team. I can't say that there's been any issue we...
VICKI FLOTTA

To be a Jew is a destiny
VICKI BAUM

Americans used to be 'citizens.' Now we are 'consumers.
VICKI ROBIN

Sprint does not just want to treat the enterprise like a big wireless consumer. Endpoint access must...
VICKI WARKER

Dewey sent him, I thought, when I saw those eyes.
VICKI MYRON

When I first got it, it meant nothing to me because I knew nothing about the mines. But when I looke...
VICKI SHARP

Piano Man put up a fight but his resistance was futile. Hell hath no fury like a drunken girl at her...
VICKI LESAGE

I've never understood people who just go out for one drink. Once I have one drink, I want all the dr...
VICKI LESAGE

We're getting a lot of people from South Louisiana.
VICKI CANNELLA

We're swapping what is working and what is not working.
VICKI KRAMER

You need to talk about it, because in my daughter's case, everyone was silent. No one spoke up, so t...
VICKI CROMPTON

Brian had a couple of tough breaks in the first set and that sort of changed the momentum. But I thi...
VICKI BROWNING

A woman who is loved always has success
VICKI BAUM

Some become psychotic when they quit using. Because of those withdrawals, these patients need proper...
VICKI CANNELLA

We're just trying to provide a healthier alternative to going home and sitting on the couch.
VICKI FLOTTA

I'm still not worried about walking under ladders. It's actually been pretty neat to see how we've p...
VICKI FLOTTA

I asked the juvenile be placed in the juvenile version of prison. It's a locked facility.
VICKI MEYER

The Chicken Clucking Contest is a hoot.
VICKI MORESE

Justin was sad, but he thought it was so neat. He was in awe of it, and that's what I wanted for him...
VICKI BOSLEY

If there’s one thing I learned in Alanon, it’s that you got to face the music because it just gr...
VICKI COVINGTON

We no longer live life. We consume it.
VICKI ROBIN

If you live for having it all, what you have is never enough.
VICKI ROBIN

The dreams we had of finding meaning and fulfillment through our jobs have faded into the reality of...
VICKI ROBIN

He's always there. You never have to ask him twice to do something. He's just a great kid. He's aggr...
VICKI BROWNING

These are new programs, new dollars, ... They do not pay for operating expenses. Not one dollar, not...
VICKI LUTZ

There are some people in this world who can emotionally disconnect like a light switch. It’s like ...
VICKI PERRY

Everything about Avalanche Days is geared to being family-friendly.
VICKI BAUMANN

I don't think it's a secret that this direct spending from our tourists trickles down.
VICKI CIMINO

John's extensive knowledge of the group meeting market, and his wide and varied experiences in the h...
VICKI DENFELD

[Clutter is a problem buyers have trouble looking past.] Everything should be crisp, clean and very ...
VICKI FAZZINI

I think people were promised they would be able to get all their drugs they require. But they weren'...
VICKI GOTTLICH

Parents need to know what predators can easily find out online about their children.
VICKI IKELER

He's swimming faster in practice than last year.
VICKI KOBEL

101 Ways to Be a Special Dad
VICKI LANSKY

Having heard about this, my biggest concern is that we should go back and look at all of the project...
VICKI PHILLIPS

We have raised $7 million for the Boca project. However, costs of the project have gone up, so we re...
VICKI PUGH

The girls have been working very hard this summer. They've gone through two-a-day practices and they...
VICKI RITCHEY

They will be forced to hitchhike to other states, jeopardizing their own safety. Some of them talk a...
VICKI SAPORTA

One of the reasons for the move is to be a bit closer to an area where more members of the mining in...
VICKI VELTKAMP

The potential is huge, considering that 55% of the U.S. population subscribes to a mobile phone.
VICKI WARKER

That's a staggering amount of risk for companies. Their networks are exposed.
VICKI WARKER

I loved the story but also enjoyed the format of the book, which includes e-mail messages.
Jan...
VICKI M. TAYLOR

Food stall owners reach out with menus, calling out their dinner selections like midway prizes
VICKI ALAYNE BRADLEY

In spite of the Depression, or maybe because of it, folks were hungry for a good time, and an evenin...
LAWRENCE WELK

My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I did...
LAWRENCE WELK

One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers...
LAWRENCE WELK

Many times I wondered if I were truly carrying out God's plan for my life.
LAWRENCE WELK

Sounds always fascinated me.
LAWRENCE WELK

The first time I try anything is invariably not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly.
LAWRENCE WELK

The ones the listeners loved most of all in those early years were the four Lennon girls who became ...
LAWRENCE WELK

When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the count...
LAWRENCE WELK

Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or...
LAWRENCE WELK

It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair.
LAWRENCE WELK

For a while we had trouble trying to get the sound of a champagne cork exploding out of the bottle. ...
LAWRENCE WELK

Night after night I could feel the chills go up and down my spine, they played so well.
LAWRENCE WELK

The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh... was the place where Champagne Music was born.
LAWRENCE WELK

If they can't hum it after we play it, it's not for us.
LAWRENCE WELK

This is the best biography by me I have ever read.
LAWRENCE WELK

I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly.
LAWRENCE WELK

If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the mone...
LAWRENCE WELK

Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.
LAWRENCE WELK

One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.
LAWRENCE WELK

I just wrote a book, but don't go out and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finishe...
LAWRENCE WELK

I have a tremendous desire to learn, and to grow, and to develop whatever I have that will make for ...
LAWRENCE WELK

Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI

The internet to me is kind of like a black hole, and I never really go on it.
JENNIFER LAWRENCE

I am not a politician; I've never run for anything in my life. I'm an economist. I'm a b...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW

The E.U.'s tax and regulatory policies, climate-change and welfare spending, and free immigratio...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW

Wars breed unfairness, just as they breed collateral damage.
LAWRENCE KUDLOW

We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not kn...
D.H. LAWRENCE

We were endowed by our Creator with the inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happi...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW

Let's bring in Donald Trump. He wants to lower taxes across the board for individuals and large ...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW

There is a natural partnership between State and Commerce, and the American business community to wo...
LAWRENCE EAGLEBURGER

And when I'm on set, I'm just thinking about the script and of working. I think I've sta...
JENNIFER LAWRENCE

There were probably about five games in my career where everything was moving in slow motion and you...
LAWRENCE TAYLOR

On economic policy, Pence has held to the key building block of growth. He is a budget hawk who vote...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW

Plot is what happens in your story. Every story needs structure, just as every body needs a skeleton...
CAROLINE LAWRENCE

And I tell ya, when I sit in that sound booth and started reading the script and starting to get int...
LAWRENCE TAYLOR

In the 1980s and 1990s, radical change in economic policies fostered by Ronald Reagan and Margaret T...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW

Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign hi...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI

Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your hear...
LAWRENCE BIXBY

Lucifer spoke thus. Pride took him from heaven, though he sat at God's right hand.' Her voice grew f...
MARK LAWRENCE

Yes, there should be tough border security. Yes, there should be foolproof ID cards, with biometrics...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW

Great innovators like Thomas Alva Edison, Henry Ford, and Andrew Carnegie didn't rely on governm...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW

We’ll have to get you a sword,” I said. “When funds allow.”
Snorri shook his head. “A...
MARK LAWRENCE

Those were great big angry men with sharp swords actually wanting to cut pieces off me. It’s not u...
MARK LAWRENCE

It's shame that gets us killed. Shame is the anchor, the heaviest burden to carry from the battlefie...
MARK LAWRENCE

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.
LAWRENCE DURRELL

Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095 As for the miseries and sins he heard of da...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

Lift up your heart to Him, sometimes even at your meals, and when you are in company; the least litt...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bi...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

Commemoration of Rose of Lima, Contemplative, 1617 Lift up your heart to Him, sometimes even at ...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

The sorest afflictions never appear intolerable, but when we see them in the wrong light: when we se...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thér...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942 I have quitted all forms of devotion and set p...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

He said: that it was a Great delusion to think that the times of prayer ought to differ from other t...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379 You will tell me...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203 Use yourself then by deg...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

He had no qualms; "for", said he, "when I fail in my duty, I readily acknowledge it, saying, 'I am u...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual walk wit...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

[He said] that it was a great delusion to think that the times of prayer ought to differ from other ...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

One way to recall the mind easily in the time of prayer, and preserve it more in tranquility, is not...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066 [He said:] That all possible kinds of mortification, if they ...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

Feast of Thomas the Apostle Good when He gives, supremely good; Nor less when He denies: Afflictio...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness o...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

Youth and patience are foreign to one another.
R.J. LAWRENCE

It's easier to be wise for others than for yourself.
R.J. LAWRENCE

Every generation welcomes the pirates from the last.
LAWRENCE LESSIG

If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI

Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not...
D.H. LAWRENCE

[in the true mad north] of introspection,
where 'falcons of the inner eye'
dive and die, g...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI

A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
D.H. LAWRENCE

The time of business does not with me differ from the time of prayer, and in the noise and clatter o...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake u...
T.E. LAWRENCE

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
LAWRENCE DURRELL

Music is only love looking for words.
LAWRENCE DURRELL

Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.
LAWRENCE DURRELL

If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there ...
MARTIN LAWRENCE

Wearing overalls on weekdays, painting somebody else's house to earn money? You're working class. We...
LAWRENCE SUTTON

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love l...
LAWRENCE DURRELL

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
LAWRENCE DURRELL

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in...
LAWRENCE DURRELL

Don't set compensation as a goal. Find work you like, and the compensation will follow.
HARDING LAWRENCE

It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdy that you can ...
LAWRENCE DURRELL

Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your hear...
LAWRENCE BIXBY

Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British wha...
LAWRENCE DURRELL

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.
LAWRENCE DURRELL

No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
LAWRENCE DURRELL

I think the Mama people remember is from 'Mama's Family.' She really turned into a pretty cool character. The sketches from the 'Burnett' show, if people are old enough to remember, were written by writers who all hated their mothers.

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I think the Mama people remember is from 'Mama's Family.' She really turned into a pretty cool character. The sketches from the 'Burnett' show, if people are old enough to remember, were written by writers who all hated their mothers.

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