Good Mum Quotes

#1. Tanzie knew Nicky was thinking what she was thinking - that Mum had finally gone mad. But she had read somewhere that mad people were like sleepwalkers - it was best not to disturb them. So she nodded really slowly, like this was all making good sense.

Jojo Moyes

#2. I went to school because I was supposed to. I did pre-med because my mum thought it was a good idea.

Fred DeLuca

#3. 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

#4. Mum, who had been a dancer with a small ballet company before she got married, was full of encouragement. She didn't say, 'This is really good, you should do this', She just encouraged us to do whatever we liked.

Dannii Minogue

#5. My mum and dad have always enjoyed life, and it's something that's been instilled in me. I wake up in a good mood most mornings.

Rafe Spall

#6. My mum would like to see me on the cover of 'Good Housekeeping' demonstrating children's toys with some nice lipstick on.

Tracey Ullman

#7. My mum had this idea I was going to be this long-haired hippie playing guitar and bought me one when I was 13, but my little brother picked it up instead and was such a natural, he kept it! Io Echo is a band my brother now plays in; they're really good.

Liberty Ross

#8. My mum told me to work hard. Insisted that if I did, I'd make a good life for myself. But all my hard work had gotten me dead, tortured, re-dead, kicked out of heaven, re-alived, and now squatting in the bushes behind a morgue.

Devon Monk

#9. in town. She confronted him and he protested too much for her comfort. Mum had very good intuition, and her suspicions were soon confirmed.

Eileen Rockefeller

#10. 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

#11. We can give her a lift, can't we?' He said. 'Mum always gives people lifts. She says it's good karma'.

Jo Verity

#12. I feel like I'm back in business now, and I'm managing pretty well as a single mum. I've proved to myself I can do it. You come out the other end and think, 'Wow, I'm pretty good at this!'

Donna Air

#13. My mum translated this in her head to "witchfinder," which was good because like most West Africans, she considered witchfinding a more respectable profession than policeman.

Ben Aaronovitch

#14. My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that's a good grounding for a balanced life.

Alan Cumming

#15. I don't feel I'm as good a mum as my mum was.

Tori Amos

#16. On her Slave For You video: It's a very sensual video so I thought it was a good reflection of the song. My Mum thought it was ... different.

Britney Spears

#17. I'm a what?" gasped Harry.
"A wizard, o' course," said Hagrid, sitting back down on the sofa, which groaned and sank even lower, "an' a thumpin' good'un I'd say, once yeh've been trained up a bit. With a mum an' dad like yours, what else would yeh be?

J.K. Rowling

#18. I don't want a flashy car, just something that would allow me to stop using the Tube. And it would be good not to have to rely on my mum all the time, particularly when I have to listen to her singing in her car.

Andy Murray

#19. I remember Mum repeatedly telling us we had good hearts and good brains. When she said that we'd say 'thanks' and it might have sounded as if we were thanking her for seeing us that way but actually we were thanking her for giving us whatever goodness was in us.

Helen Oyeyemi

#20. I haven't been so sure of anything since the time Mum asked me if I absolutely, definitely, certainly thought it was a good idea to practise doing cartwheels inside the house.

Joshua Donellan

#21. Mum says be careful of boys who never take anything seriously. Dad says a boy needs a good sense of humor to get through his love life. Jazz says my dad must need a sense of humor to get through his love life if he's living in the shed

Cath Crowley

#22. I think my mum wanted me to join the army or something, or become a surveyor - something with good career prospects.

Andy Serkis

#23. My mum and my dad have really good taste in movies. My gran would tape them off the TV and write notes about them, rating them.

Domhnall Gleeson

#24. Mum was very cool. Even though she came from a pretty affluent family, she was cool. She was really good, a very normal person.

James McCartney

#25. Trust me, baby, you weren't that good. I was just a better actress than you were actor. (Zephyra to Stryker)
Ew! No offense, Mum, I don't want to know who you've slept with. Kill the sexual bantering and him before I go deaf from it. (Medea)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#26. I had a grungy period and looked like a tramp for a very long time - my mum really hated it! I destroyed her entire '70s wardrobe by putting studs into everything - I thought I was really cool. But it's good to experiment - I even had dreadlocks at one point.

Clemence Poesy

#27. I still take advice from my mum on what clothes look good on me. I used to listen to her a lot more, but I've started to choose my own things from time to time.

Rafael Nadal

#28. Mum was an absolutely determined woman. She was determined I would have a good education, and they went without all sorts of things to ensure it.

Joan Kirner

#29. In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.

Gary Kemp

#30. My mum always says work goes in waves: you have a good spell and then it dips.

Nicholas Hoult

#31. My mum and my dad they both like to sing they have really nice voices and my sister and my brother actually they are good singers too. I've been really blessed actually more than most to have a really good people around me.

Lana Del Rey

#32. If you love somebody, you love them. My parents had a 25-year age gap between them and my mum was the breadwinner, my dad the house husband. I'm a strong believer that a good relationship can work, whatever the situation.

Katherine Jenkins

#33. I like fashion. My mum was a dressmaker, believe it or not, so the consequence of that was that all my clothes were homemade, and I looked like a terrible mess until I was old enough to buy my own. But I love good tailoring.

Jason Statham

#34. Your private life should be private. I reckon that's a good thing that you talk about your work and you talk about what you're doing, but without having to go into how your brother's been and how your mum's been because none of that's really relevant.

Keisha Castle-Hughes

#35. It would be nice if I did have a good relationship with my family, and yes, part of me longs to have a mum and dad who love and accept me for who I am. But if they never do, it's OK.

Heather Graham

#36. Because I see my mum and dad as such amazing friends, I think I'll be a really good dad.

Gareth Gates

#37. Trust your judgment, baby witch. No one else's. You've got good instincts for someone flakier than my mum's pie crust. (Leprechaun to Rachel)

Kim Harrison

#38. I'm not an interior designer - I'm a normal working mum who wants her house to look good and doesn't need a man to do it for her.

Andrea McLean

#39. They fuck you up, your mum and dad', and if you're planning on writing that's probably a good thing. But if you are planning on writing and they haven't fucked you up, well, you've got nothing to go on, so then they've fucked you up good and proper.

Alan Bennett

#40. I think, you know, we entered the 'The X Factor' in the U.K., and you kind of want someone who knows what they're talking about to tell you if you're any good or not instead of just your mum saying that you like it when you sing.

Harry Styles

#41. I'm the joke of the family with cooking because I've never done it - primarily because I've been surrounded by people who are so good at it. Mum's brilliant. Boyfriends have always been good at it. I'm waiting for my inner chef to be released.

Emilia Fox

#42. My aunt put my cousins into a children's modelling agency, then my mum did it with us. Me and my sister got a few TV adverts, which was good pocket money. A director saw photos of me and asked me to do a short film.

Sullivan Stapleton

#43. .'If things get on top of you', my mum always used to say, 'have a good cry.'.

Chris Ryan

#44. I have a good shopping relationship with my mum. She lets me buy, and she spectates. I take advice from her, and I give it, too.

Louise Nurding

#45. A wizard, o' course," said Hagrid, sitting back down on the sofa, which groaned and sank even lower, "an' a thumpin' good'un, I'd say, once yeh've been trained up a bit. With a mum an' dad like yours, what else would yeh be? An' I reckon it's abou' time yeh read yer letter.

J.K. Rowling

#46. I never wanted for anything. We went to Ireland for holidays every year. I was 14 when we first went to Italy. My mum was determined I was going to go to a good school. My mum was an absolute grafter. A real grafter. I got my work ethic from her.

Imelda Staunton

#47. I swallowed. "Mum, you're not going to get divorced, are you?" Her eyes shot open. "Divorced? I'm a good Catholic girl, Louisa. We don't divorce. We just make our men suffer for all eternity." She waited just for a moment, and then she started to laugh.

Jojo Moyes

#48. My family were great story-tellers. My mum was one of 12 and they were all fighting to tell stories. You have to tell a good tale or no one is going to listen. You have to make it entertaining and interesting. That's how I learned to tell stories.

Denise Mina

#49. My mum was very good at making me take up musical instruments, so although there was no popular music she made me learn the recorder when I was three, the violin when I was five and the piano when I was seven. I took up the guitar myself when I was 14.

James Blunt

#50. My mum had a very strong moral code, which I kind of came with. I never really had to be told what was right or wrong - I knew. I was very mature from early on and I was a very good girl, so she never had any trouble with me.

Gloria Estefan

#51. Problems are like top trumps. I have a pretty good card: Adulterous Mum. But Jordana's is still better: Tumour Mother.

Joe Dunthorne

#52. I know I can count on my mum and brother to be there for me through good and bad times.

Bindi Irwin

#53. A coach told my mum I had talent and I would make a very good skater.

Kim Yuna