My Mum Taught Me Quotes

#1. My Mum taught me great manners. And she always told me that you can be or do whatever in life, as long as you don't hurt anyone and you're happy. My Mum's great; I adore her.

Colin Farrell

#2. My mum taught me to knit when I was a child, and I turn to it, for some weird reason, when I'm feeling depressed.

Jo Brand

#3. My mum taught me that bodies are bodies, and they come in all shapes and sizes - we should be free about that. My legs are a bit dangly, and my knees point inwards. Everyone has insecurities, but I try not to focus on them. It's important to be confident with what you've got.

Eliza Doolittle

#4. My mum taught me that redheads shouldn't wear pink, red or orange, but if you choose the right shade, such as a bright orange or a cherry red, it can look fabulous.

Jane Asher

#5. From as young as I can remember, I always wanted to be a singer ... My mum taught me 'Going Down the Garden to Eat Worms' for a competition when I was about 4.

Katherine Jenkins

#6. My mum taught me always to see the funny side of things.

Michelle Dockery

#7. My mum taught me to always make sure you protect your skin with SPF. I always make sure I put my St. Tropez SPF on my face every morning, no matter the weather, before I go out of the house.

Abbey Clancy

#8. My mum taught me to have a soul.

Stella McCartney

#9. Laugh at yourself - a lot. My mum taught me not to take myself too seriously.

Michelle Dockery

#10. My mum taught me how to read before I went to kindergarden, I always thought that being able to read provided lightness, help to dispel darkness, ignorance and stupidity.

Michael Moore

#11. Something my mum taught me years and years and years ago, is life's just too short to carry around a great bucket-load of anger and resentment and bitterness and hatreds and all that sort of stuff.

Kevin Rudd

#12. Mum and Dad were very much friends and up for life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up; they just taught me to be me.

Kate Winslet

#13. Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing. To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it. To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art.

Charles Bukowski

#14. I am glad I am rooted to the world of genuineness and simplicity It couldn't be taught in school or college it comes from my very special mum.

Nigar Siddiqui

#15. She was wearing a skirt and a big-shouldered jacket of a royal blue that was fashionable in France, a blue-and-white-striped silk blouse, and electric-blue lizard pumps with white calf caps on the toes.

Tom Wolfe

#16. I had a pretty regular childhood, with a rad mum who taught me to love reading and thinking and laughing, and (as far as I was concerned) a regular dad who drove trucks for a living and did radio interviews on weekends and got stopped in the street a lot when we went out.

Brooke Fraser

#17. My mum was a dancer when she was a kid. Then my parents met and eventually had an art gallery; my dad taught himself how to frame pictures, and then he was a curator at an art gallery in the city I'm from. I'm an only child.

Ari Millen

#18. I'm Catholic and Mum taught me the comfort that you can get from going to church. But I'm an a la carte Catholic. I love all the pomp and ceremony of it.

Patsy Kensit

#19. We start to feel not good enough and we withdraw our hearts energy and sensor our authentic expression, and that hurts!

Agapi Stassinopoulos

#20. You're the shuckiest shuck-faced shuck there ever was.

James Dashner

#21. I am not a hero."
"Maybe not, but you get the job done.

John G. Hemry

#22. Nothing that could fit on this page, or a hundred of these pages, would possibly accommodate all the things I should say to you, all the things you deserve to hear.

Anthony Doerr

#23. I don't remember where I was before I was born, why should I be worried about where I go after I die?

Douglas Coupland

#24. My mum's an opera singer: I grew up watching her get swept up in music and transform herself into characters. She taught me that music is a lifelong journey, and that with every day and every song and every gig you learn something new.

Katie Noonan

#25. I do a lot of work with the Dyslexia Institute because, for people with dyslexia who do not have parental support, it is a huge disadvantage. I was fortunate because my Mum was a teacher and she taught me to work hard.

Susan Hampshire

#26. Mum always taught us that compassion and kindness were the most important things in life, that it was better to be kind than right.

Rebecca Gibney

#27. Sometimes love does not look like what you had in mind.

Anne Lamott

#28. I'd love to look like my mum when I am her age. She taught ballet for years, and my attitude to exercise and fitness has definitely been influenced by her. She's 84 now, and I've watched how well she has aged, and a lot of that is to do with her fantastic posture.

Sarah Parish

#29. I'm the wind beneath your wings

Kody Keplinger

#30. The truth about nature we discover with our brains. The truth about religion we discover with our hearts.

Blaise Pascal

#31. Fucking hell. Shit, sorry. I keep swearing - " "If you're calling that swearing, Mum will teach you to do it proper," Riley drawled. "You're not even close to what she taught me in kindergarten so I could shock the nuns.

Rhys Ford

#32. My mum has always been quite free-spirited, and she has taught me a lot. I think that is probably why I have the sort of mind that I do.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

#33. My mum fought for feminism in her day so instilled in me the importance of equality. She taught me so much about women.

Chris Evans