Quotes About A Mum

#1. I really thought I couldn't be a mum. We had tried several times with IVF,, and it hadn't worked and we'd given up in a way. We both thought, 'You know what, that's that. It's not going to happen - let's move on.'

Gurinder Chadha

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

Jenny Frost

#4. 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

#5. Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.

Tabatha Coffey

#6. I have just been working with Maggie Gyllenhaal, who is also a mum, on a movie called 'Hysteria.' She is everywhere because of the nature of film work. Not that I'm name dropping or anything like that. I have to pinch myself when I remember who I've been working with.

Ashley Jensen

#7. When I'm a mum, I'm not going to be one of those mums who has nannies. Actually, I might have nannies - never say never - but I'm not having someone else raise my kids.

Nicole Scherzinger

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

Orlando Bloom

#9. I wanted very badly to be a mum. I'm a very maternal person. But at the point that I met Emilio I was focusing on a career. I never would have thought that I would get married at 21 and much less be a mum by 23.

Gloria Estefan

#10. 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

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

Jenny Frost

#12. It wasn't through choice that I became a mum at 36. I wanted to be a young mum but things never worked out for me.

Denise Van Outen

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

Abbey Clancy

#15. I definitely want to be a mum. Lots of my friends are having babies, but I don't know quite when to do it. My mum says, 'There's never a right time; you've just got to get on with it'.

Amy Nuttall

#16. My son Beau got very ill when he was just four months old in Majorca. He contracted a really bad case of gastroenteritis. Everything feels so much worse when you don't speak the language, and you need that reassuring conversation as a mum, but you can't have it.

Louise Nurding

#17. I've tried and failed a lot. But I've also tried to be really clear about my brand. It is who I am. I'm a mum, I'm a wife, I'm 44 and from the Midwest.

Cindy Crawford

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

Jamelia

#19. I think of myself as a mum who finds the time to go to work. I have to check myself for baby sick before I walk out of the house in the morning. I am really a mum ... I know I am a great mother.

Kate Winslet

#20. 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

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

Rachel Weisz

#22. Living with a teenage daughter is like living with the Taliban a mum is not allowed to laugh, sing, dance or wear short skirts

Kathy Lette

#23. I'm not scared of snakes, spiders or heights. I have three children; as a mum, you can't be afraid of things like that.

Britt Ekland

#24. I am someone who worries a lot. I'm always worrying 'what if?' Now I'm a mum - there will be worries for the rest of my life, but they're not about me anymore.

Penelope Cruz

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

Tori Amos

#26. I'm just delighted that this woman I love can be a mum again.

Rod Stewart

#27. 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

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

Natalie Massenet

#29. I'm a mum. Cooking is something I have to do. It's something I like to do.

Jourdan Dunn

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

Emilia Fox

#31. 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

#32. In five years' time I'd like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely sooner rather than later. I'd like to have finished my second album too, maybe even my third. I'd like a sound that sticks around that other people are inspired by and that people know is me.

Adele

#33. I would love to be a mum if I'm blessed to have children. My wife and I have those plans.

Abby Wambach

#34. I'm determined not to start dressing like I'm 45 years old now that I'm a mum.

Abbey Clancy

#35. I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.

Samantha Fox

#36. 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

#37. I'm a mum, so my wardrobe consists of sweaters and jeans. As long as I don't leave the house forgetting my jeans, I count that as a fashion success.

Gail Porter

#38. I'm really happy. Really! I think people honestly just want to see me as a mum and married and barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen. And I just want to say, 'Everybody, relax! It's going to happen.'

Jennifer Aniston

#39. To me, a yummy mummy is a mum in her twenties, like Donna Air.

Trinny Woodall

#40. 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

#41. Obviously Victoria and Mel B have become mothers and there is a part of me that wants to be a mum.

Geri Halliwell

#42. 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

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

Kirsty Gallacher

#44. 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

#45. Being a Mum is a big job.

Rita Ora

#46. 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

#47. I could always sing, from a really young age, but my voice was really weird. I used to make my mum turn up the radio every day in our house. She was well into music so I got that from her.

Ellie Goulding

#48. 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

#49. My mum worked as a secretary for Christian Dior. She looked like a movie star.

Patsy Kensit

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

Jasmine Guinness

#51. My dad was a different bloke to me and not very nice to my mum, although I never judge him. If you did, you'd become one of those people who is all-consumed by a fault in their past. And I haven't got the time for it.

Martin Clunes

#52. It's funny. I thought she'd live through anything."
Charlie said, "Me too. I figured even if there was a nuclear war, it would still leave radioactive cockroaches and your mum.

Neil Gaiman

#53. His father fell off a window-ledge. No wonder his mum had cheered up.

Nick Hornby

#54. Agatha's mum gives me nice clothes for Christmas, and her dad talks to me about my future like I'm not going to die in a ball of fire.

Rainbow Rowell

#55. Las' time I saw you, you was only a baby," said the giant. "Yeh look a lot like yer dad, but yeh've got yer mum's eyes.

J.K. Rowling

#56. I've been to India a lot, ever since when my mum was in 'Jewel In The Crown.'

Linus Roache

#57. My father was very chic. My mum was always encouraging me. Some parents would say, 'Why don't you be a lawyer, a doctor, or something more important?' They never said that.

Carine Roitfeld

#58. These corners are getting a bit bulky." Mum looks consideringly at the catalog. "Maybe we should fold down if we're not interested in the page.

Sophie Kinsella

#59. 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

#60. Mum was thinking 'bout going back to study creative twatting writing. She had a novel in her, whatever the fuck that meant. She was going to do all the stuff that having me when she was twenty had stopped her from doing. She said I'd made her tits little and taken away her identity.

Caroline Smailes

#61. Mum put me in drama classes when I was about 14. I'd been going on about it for some time, so maybe it was a way to shut me up.

Naomi Watts

#62. As a kid, I was a dancer in Dick Whittington, Snow White and Cinderella. When I was 14, I played Baby Bear. I had a big head on, and you couldn't see my face. My mum was very disappointed.

Sheridan Smith

#63. I've got a dad thanks. Your just the jerk who knocked up my mum and left her to figure out what to do with a son who likes setting things on fire. - Adam Vasic

Kelley Armstrong

#64. There's a pounding at the bedroom door, followed by my mum's voice. "I know your in there, you little shit, and I'm giving you two minutes to shut it down, get dressed, and get out of there."
We look at each other in the mirror and laugh as we simultaneously say. "Busted.

Georgia Cates

#65. I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.

Hailee Steinfeld

#66. My brother's researched our early family history. He found a letter from a fella who said he used to be in love with my mum.

Paul McCartney

#67. Mum doesn't like it when I mention that Dad's a better cook than her. He was born in Spain and spent eight years in Portugal and is exceptional at lots of cuisines.

Paloma Faith

#68. My mum died when I was 14. That is a kind of strange age to lose a mother. John lost his mum when he was 17.

Paul McCartney

#69. [My mum] was always like that: grateful for life itself. Her glass was not only half full, it was gold plated with a permanent refill.

Sarah Winman

#70. Mum would have a panic attack if she had to stand up and give a speech around a table.

Lily James

#71. My mum's really short so she always wears really tall heels, and I used to steal them and now it's just a part of my everyday life.

Taylor Momsen

#72. I can still remember my mum (a voracious, if not discriminating, reader - I have seen everything from the sublime to the ridiculous by her bed, from Ian Rankin and Elmore Leonard to Barbara Cartland and James Patterson) taking me to get my library card when I was four and not yet at school.

John Niven

#73. In hindsight I can see that my love for the arts began by watching my father and his colleagues perform on stage in Jamaica, and running a muck among the exhibits of fabulous Jamaican art at the National Gallery while mum was upstairs curating.

Michael Hyatt

#74. My mum is a big collector of art.

Agnes Obel

#75. I feel like a semi-single mum.

Elizabeth Hurley

#76. I was away a lot on 'Countdown' when the children were young and I couldn't have done it without Mum's help. Because she was at home running all of that, I never had to worry about them.

Carol Vorderman

#77. Dad was a very gentle, sweet man. Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family. She ran the roost with a steel fist, but at the same time there was respect and love for her.

Tony Scott

#78. My parents were very well-off, but we didn't have a crazy-huge house. We didn't have thousands of workers and staff; it was just my mum doing the majority of the housework. We didn't have nannies. I wasn't brought up in any sort of extravagant way.

Petra Stunt

#79. La Mancha is a very macho, chauvinistic society. I saw very clearly that my life had to be in Madrid, and I liberated myself from my mum and dad after high school.

Pedro Almodovar

#80. You don't give your mum enough credit for raising you, Elle. Look at you. Teenage sweetheart with a sugar shell and strychnine centre. We might as well finish speaking the truth now.

Shirley Marr

#81. Where I'm from, people aren't quick. A girl once asked her mum, 'Can I have a Cadbury's Creme Egg?' The mum said, 'No, you can't Danielle, I've already told you, darling - bird flu!'

Tom Deacon

#82. My mum was critical in getting me to recognise very early on that although what I was doing was pretty serious, quite selfish, and probably to most people pretty obsessive, there actually was more to life than running quickly twice round a track.

Sebastian Coe

#83. I read a lot of research notes about the countries I visit, and my mum and dad bought me a Kindle, but I'm still getting to grips with it. I prefer paper books.

Ross Kemp

#84. I've had to ban my mum from coming to see me play. She gets so nervous before any show. I've always got a few nerves but she's so much worse than me. You'd think she'd be able to handle that kind of situation. After all, she is a concert pianist.

Birdy

#85. 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

#86. Mum had a job fitting upholstery into cars, but, in the evenings, she worked as a seamstress.

Bruno Tonioli

#87. Up until the age of 12, I went to dog shows every weekend. Mum showed beagles. It's a really competitive and eclectic world filled with characters who wear interesting outfits - similar to 'Toddlers & Tiaras,' but with dogs.

Rebel Wilson

#88. When I left home, my mum said "Don't forget to write", I thought, "That's unlikely" ... It's a basic skill isn't it ...

Tim Vine

#89. Mum just laughed gleefully at his mounting frustration, like the villainous matriarch in a Roald Dahl story. I suspect a TV guide would describe her idea of comedy as 'dark', or, at very best, 'alternative'.

Matthew Crow

#90. As a child in Sydney, my German Mum and my Austrian Dad would spontaneously tell me stories about what they saw and what they did as children. It was like a piece of Europe coming into our house ... Those stories led me to my writing.

Markus Zusak

#91. When two people break up, it's all about them; they can't see anyone else. And the people getting smashed to bits are the kids. Then you're getting torn - your mum wants you, your dad wants you. You just get shredded. It has a long-lasting effect as well.

Vinnie Jones

#92. Mum," said Christopher. "It's a demon. I don't think a poker will hurt it."

"It will where I'm going to put it," said Mrs. Mayer.

John Connolly

#93. At home in Ghaziabad, everyone is a pure vegetarian. In fact, when I want to cook non-veg there, my mum shoos me out on the terrace where I have my cooking utensils. I'm told categorically that whatever non-veg or egg, etc., that I have to cook, I should do upstairs and not enter her kitchen at all.

Suresh Raina

#94. I was brought up with psychics and tarot cards. My mum was always told I was going to be in a boy band and be famous as a singer.

Lee Ryan

#95. I'm a bit of a feminist and I carry a machete! (Laughs) I try to be a strong female. I think it's important. My mum is my idol in life. She's a very strong woman. I think it's important for women to be strong and intelligent and hold their own.

Kaya Scodelario

#96. My dad's family were political and he was always a theatrical creature, whereas my mum is really musical and her father was the touring pianist with Nat King Cole. My family was an explosive mixture of politics, religion and music - no wonder I turned out how I did.

Grace Jones

#97. If you remember yourself, you will remember me. I am always a part of you. I am your mother.

Emma Michaels

#98. I don't know much about only children. I was the middle one of three, and if ever I was alone with mum and dad, it was a rare moment.

Elizabeth Hurley

#99. Hagrid howled still more loudly. Harry and Hermione looked at Ron to help them.
'Er-shall I make a cup of tea?' said Ron.
Harry stared at him.
'It's what my mum does whenever someone's upset,' Ron muttered, shrugging.

J.K. Rowling

#100. The kids think we're wacky. Mum and Dad are in showbiz - they don't know any other way. They've grown up travelling all over the world and are getting a worldly education. My son is 12 and he can speak eloquently on religions and cultures.

Deborra-Lee Furness