Being A Mum Quotes

#1. I love being a mum but I do love to work too.

Jenny Frost

#2. I'd gone from being a mum to all of a sudden having people fussing and overly pampering me. It can easily change you.

Rebecca Ferguson

#3. Being a mum is something that's never bothered me too much. I have never felt a strong need to have children, but I am not averse to it either.

Julia Sawalha

#4. Being a Mum is a big job.

Rita Ora

#5. In a broken marriage, it can be challenging and tough to get that work/life balance. I love performing but I also love being a mum, and I hate having to choose between them.

Toni Braxton

#6. I try to balance it out on the whole. Being a mum is always the priority. Next, it's taking care of yourself. Right now, I get to only work two days a week - it's a dream. I can't imagine how hard it is for mothers who work 40 hours a week.

Marcia Cross

#7. I think being a mum gives you extra qualities. I'm more feisty, fiercely protective and less selfish. The main trait I want to instill in my kids is kindness. I think it's the most important thing. If you're kind, you'll go a long way.

Rebecca Ferguson

#8. I take my hat off to mums who have lots of kids. Anyone that says being a mum isn't a full-time job has obviously never had any.

Ashley Jensen

#9. Being a mum is the best thing that has ever been given to me in my life.

Emilia Fox

#10. For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.

Rachel Weisz

#11. I really, really love being a mum and I absolutely love being a singer so I couldn't be happier.

Jamelia

#12. I love being a mum. Sophia is so funny and has a great personality.

Abbey Clancy

#13. Being a mum has made me a lot more responsible, it's not just me anymore. But it's also brought me the most joy ever!

Nicole Appleton

#14. Being a mum changed me for the better.

Jenny Frost

#15. Attraction doesn't stop when a child is born. It's the opposite. Being a mum and dad makes you even sexier.

Orlando Bloom

#16. To be happy, to make other people happy, to get into movie production more and probably to give some other people the chances that I had, to carry on enjoying being a mum and never to stop having flowers bought for me. I've still got a long way to go.

Sharon Stone

#17. I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.

Natalie Portman

#18. I most want to be remembered for being as great a mother to James and Lennon as my mum was to me and my brother Jamie.

Patsy Kensit

#19. I wanted to make a point of basing myself at home, being close to my family. I'll never be able to repay Mum and Dad for what they did, but at least they know they'll never have to work another day. I'll do whatever it takes to look after them.

Rory McIlroy

#20. My mum and dad were speaking all the time about, 'In Sudan we do this,' and 'In Egypt we do that,' so I was very aware of cultural differences. I was confused growing up; it gave me a feeling of being an outsider watching others. But I think this is good for a writer.

Leila Aboulela

#21. I deliberately went to boarding school. It was my choice. My mum was abroad and I wanted to wean myself off being dependent. It was a very important time for me to be able to create my own individual, independent life; just as a way of growing up.

Alice Englert

#22. I was never a girl that dreamt of being a princess and I never dreamt about my wedding day. I hated pink and I hated fairies. I only liked hanging out with boys. I remember throwing a tantrum if my mum put me in pink. I wasn't a particularly girly girl.

Emily Blunt

#23. My overwhelming memory of being a child is the huge amount of love I felt for my mum. She was my everything, because she was both my mum and my dad.

Gerard Butler

#24. My heart is in South Africa, through my mum. My mum being from here, me spending a lot of time here as well, I feel most connected to this part of the world.

Roger Federer

#25. Someone like my mum would say, Oh, you're just a kid, you don't know what love is.But I didn't think of anything else apart from being with Alicia, and the only time I felt like I was where I wanted to be was when I was with her. I mean, that may as well be love, mightn't it?

Nick Hornby

#26. As a child, I'd help my mum cook, and it was ridiculous - she had the correct gadget or utensil for everything. 'Stop! Don't use that, I have exactly the right utensil.' After I left home, I survived on cup-a-meals and never saw myself as being like her. Now I've become her.

Kelis

#27. My father died in France, and my sisters and I went over with my mum to bring back his body. I remember going to the funeral parlour in France and being given a laminated menu of coffins, and thinking, surely there is an ice cream at the back of here!

Rachel Joyce

#28. Despite my mum being from a small village in the middle of a forest, I'm not a country person. I don't like my bacon sandwich to be curiously snuffling at my fingers. But sometimes being police means holding your breath and fondling a pig.

Ben Aaronovitch

#29. Being busy with work, and as a mum, I'm a big fan of online shopping.

Kirsty Gallacher

#30. I'm very sensitive. Because my mum was my primary emotional caregiver growing up, I found myself being pinned into dresses, darting her dresses, choosing her high heels for the evening or what to wear. I'm very much a mommy's boy.

Tom Hardy

#31. I admire my mother for being a single mum. It's ridiculously hard.

Holliday Grainger

#32. I've done so many unpredictable things and so profoundly. Even the people who want to go against me, are afraid to go against me. They've been wrong so many times. A lot of them are just being mum right now. They must feel I can still do things.

Bernard Hopkins

#33. Being a parent is a life sentence. From the day that kid is born until the day you die. And then some. Mum, there is nothing to forgive. You gave me life. And, hey, you're not crazy anymore. Everybody thinks I am. Real funny, mum.

Christopher Titus

#34. Four lines, and the world went quiet.
I'm sorry for telling everyone about your mum, read the first line.
I miss being your friend, read the second.
Are you okay? read the third.
I see you, read the fourth, with the I underlined about a hundred times.

Patrick Ness

#35. I hope I'm very similar to my mum because she is a fantastic mother. She was driven as well as being incredibly protective and caring, and I think that is important.

Sarah Parish

#36. Being mum is a number one job. That takes priority.

Jasmine Guinness

#37. I was a mixture of being incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old, but then I stopped growing. I lived with my mum and dad till I was 30.

Helena Bonham Carter

#38. In Madrid, there's a big street in the centre called Callao. I remember being there with my mum and pointing to one of the big film posters and saying, 'I want to be up there.' That was my dream, and I got it.

Maria Valverde

#39. I still think of my mum as being kind of a dork - a cooler one, but still a dork.

Georgia Jagger

#40. I love being in London, where I live, for the shops, the bars and the clubs - but I equally enjoy going to my mum's house in Ayrshire and being able to sit on a cliff by the sea.

Neve McIntosh

#41. My mum is incredibly leftwing, and my dad was quite rightwing - no surprise they didn't stay together - and so I had two very conflicting political opinions as a child, neither of which I was interested in taking any notice of, being a sort of little reprobate.

Nick Love

#42. I always wanted to be a writer, from being a little kid onwards. My dad and my mum both had phases when that was what they did.

Kristin Gore

#43. We are still so close, David and I. We were at a party the other day at my mum's house and I was sitting on his lap. We're very affectionate. And I looked at him and thought after being married for 11 years! We were the only couple who were even near each other at that party. We're soul mates.

Victoria Beckham

#44. I've always said that kids should enhance your life, not hinder your life, so I just try to make the most out of being with my kids. You have to have a life for yourself somewhere in the mix of being a wife and mum.

Melanie Brown

#45. I don't want to be a great chief executive without being a great mum and a great wife.

Angela Ahrendts

#46. I don't want to be a great executive without being a great mum and a great wife. I don't want to look back and say I wish I had done things differently. 'Balance' is a really big word for me.

Angela Ahrendts

#47. I found it hard being a full-time mum and take my hat off to anyone who can do it.

Laura Fraser

#48. I remember sitting at the end of my mum's bed being fascinated by her ritual of getting dressed. It was a very methodical and considered process. I suppose you could say she was my first real muse.

Matthew Williamson

#49. I never really was good at being a family general man, really. I hardly ever spent any time with my mum and dad whatever, really, or brothers or sisters. We just really didn't get along. I was pretty much like the black sheep of the family, to be honest.

Andrew Chan

#50. People always ask is it hard being an entrepreneur and a mum, and the answer is 'yes.'

Natalie Massenet

#51. I'm just like any other regular mum; cooking, cleaning, wiping butts, picking up after kids, being a wife and helping the kids with their homework. Mind you, I'm terrible at maths. I can't even do my six-year-old's maths homework with her.

Gwyneth Paltrow