Quotes About Mum

#1. I was mainly raised by a working mum who didn't have much time or inclination for making food. So I had three or four basic meals: fish fingers and a tomato; a packet scotch egg and a tomato; pasta with a tin of tomatoes; and extra mild plastic-y cheddar chopped into cubes with bits of cucumber.

Paloma Faith

#2. We lived above my father's launderette. Both my parents ran the launderette, but my father was also a factory supervisor, and my mum worked part-time in an accounts office.

Sanjeev Bhaskar

#3. My dad wrote to me. My mum put him up to it because she got this great idea that hearing from someone I'd never met and who didn't give a fuck about me might cheer me up...

Helen Falconer

#4. I had some music lessons and my mum played every instrument but the guitar,

Brandy Clark

#5. Dad's tiny - his passport picture is a full-length shot. He looks like he just hopped off a key ring. Mum is a different matter, she's a bit of a handful to say the least. I love her more than anyone on this Earth. But she's a monster.

Ricky Hatton

#6. My dad's in banking, my mum manages the American branch of a Swiss vitamin company; they're really busy, but they still come to all my premieres.

Danielle De Niese

#7. They teach you how to handle life in England, but they don't teach you a thing about death. There's no book telling you what to do when your mum or dad dies.

Ozzy Osbourne

#8. 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

#9. I have no problems with buying tampons. I am a fairly modern man. But apparently they're not a "proper" present. "Happy birthday, mum!"

Jimmy Carr

#10. My mum and dad teach, and all my brothers and sisters have been in 'Riverdance' and so forth. So I was forced to become a dancer; it's part of my family history.

Sean Maguire

#11. My mum says I wanted to be a surgeon, but I don't remember that. I think from the time I knew what was happening, I wanted to be a guitar player.

Brian May

#12. The Mum has the temper of a demon with a diaper rash. (Shamus)

Devon Monk

#13. If I honour my needs first, I will be the best wife, the best mum, the best sister, the best friend. I have to come first, because then everyone benefits.

Gisele Bundchen

#14. Tell ya this . . . your dad was smart enough to get your mum. And she didn't make it easy."
"Cadwaladr females never make it easy.

G.A. Aiken

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. It was a fairly happy childhood. My father was working away, and my mum brought up five kids all on her own.

Andy Serkis

#18. I was a loner as a child and happiest at home, launching toy rockets and aeroplanes. When I started causing trouble in my third year at grammar school, Mum was really surprised. My parents sent me to a child psychologist, who suggested I might have Asperger's syndrome.

Gary Numan

#19. I had a very strict upbringing with my dad and was very close to my mum, who was extremely loving.

Tori Amos

#20. I'm a new mum who spends her days making baby food and cooking for her man. And I couldn't be happier.

Rebecca Loos

#21. One of the first houses we lived in was like out of a fairy story. We had a stream that ran through our garden, and we played with the ducks - we locked them in my mum's office, and they pooed everywhere. It was crazy, picking blackberries and mushrooms, rabbits running through your legs.

Emilia Clarke

#22. Controller is so intuitive, even your mum can play.

Shigeru Miyamoto

#23. My mum always used to say to me that, out of her three boys, 'Chris, you were the girl!' I'd speak to her about far more things (than my brothers would) and far more things than she needed to hear about, too. I was a chatty kid.

Chris Hemsworth

#24. My dad died in 1980, and I found out afterwards from mum that my piano lessons, which cost £2 a week, took up nearly a third of his income.

Rick Wakeman

#25. So finally, I can feel a sort of pride in all my family - Mum, Lynn, Corin, Tasha, my cousin Gemma - because, I think how wonderful that this troop of gypsies can carry on telling stories.

Joely Richardson

#26. I don't like cutting my hair. I did that once, and my mum thought I was a boy.

Michelle Yeoh

#27. I don't want to achieve less than my mum and dad.

Tinie Tempah

#28. It's important for me to treat a girlfriend with respect. My mum would be horrified if I behaved any differently - and I have sisters, and would hate for them to be treated badly by guys.

Louis Tomlinson

#29. 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

#30. The feather was a thing, when I was a kid, we used to find feathers around the house, and whenever we found them, my mum used to say it was my nan leaving them around for us to find, so that was quite sweet.

Liam Payne

#31. 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

#32. They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.

Philip Larkin

#33. People can turn into idiots if they're alone for long enough. (Mum)

Fredrik Backman

#34. 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

#35. Kazim-Richards - there's only one. You type it into Google and nothing else comes up. My first names were meant to be Colin Kazim but the registry office got it wrong. There is no-one with that name - not even my mum and dad - just me - I love it!

Colin Kazim-Richards

#36. I nestled into the nook of Mum's arm. Then lay on a cushion on her lap. I fell asleep like that. She's all bones and hard edges. She's never been comfortable, but she's always been there.

Nathan Filer

#37. I believe in the strength and intelligence and sensitivity of women. My mother, my sisters [they] are strong. My mum is a strong woman and I love her for it.

Tom Hiddleston

#38. It's great hearing stories of my mum growing up in Brooklyn, then moving to Florida, having me and growing up with this eccentric, fun family. Although I don't eat a lot of Italian things, because I'm vegan. I was raised on meat and cheese, so I've had enough for anyone's normal life span.

Ariana Grande

#39. I love Karl Lagerfeld. I worship him. I was brought up in Paris, and my mum used to wear a lot of Chanel. I love the brand.

Emma Watson

#40. When I was really young, my mum used to make my clothes - I hated that. I liked the way boys dressed - I still do. I wanted to wear what they wore.

Alison Mosshart

#41. My father was having an affair with a 16-year-old when Mum was pregnant with me. She found out when I was three weeks old and left, not surprisingly.

Carol Vorderman

#42. Ben told me that Tom had just spoken on the mobile to Alice and according to Tom she didn't say anything about falling over at the gym and she sounded "Just like Mum except maybe ten to fifteen percent grumpier than usual." I think he's learning percentages at school right now.

Liane Moriarty

#43. I haven't been baptised. My dad's not in the church and is not a religious person. My mum is more spiritual - she does Thai-chi and goes to Stonehenge and things like that. I'm proud to be pagan. Finland is not really a religious country. I'm still looking for my god.

Ville Valo

#44. The boy's bravery solidified something in Thomas's heart. He loved the kid. He loved him as if they had the same mum.

James Dashner

#45. Journalists have always written that my mum said that I punched a hole through my cot when I was three years old. I don't remember doing that, and I think it was more that I was very energetic.

Frank Bruno

#46. 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

#47. My mum used to work for the Chanel store in Paris, so for me, I've always been very familiar with the brand because of her. I remember when I was very, very, little, our flat had Chanel shoe boxes, makeup, and some jackets.

Astrid Berges-Frisbey

#48. Eventually, I manage to cheer Mum up by allowing her to go through my wardrobe and criticize all my clothes ...

Helen Fielding

#49. My mum was no pushy parent. She would drop me off for auditions when I was in my teens at the Lyric Theatre, then give me my bus fare and say she would see me later at home. She wasn't hanging around in the wings geeing me on. I had to do it on my own; it was up to me.

Rachel Tucker

#50. I'll fix it up with Mum and Dad, then I'll call you. I know how to use a fellytone now - "
"A telephone, Ron," said Hermione. "Honestly, you should take Muggle Studies next year ...

J.K. Rowling

#51. I think Mum's got a second cousin who's an accountant, but we never talk about him.

J.K. Rowling

#52. It's so far up your street it's got its tongue through your letter-box.

Mum could never quite get the hang of conspiracies.

Adam Mars-Jones

#53. I had the best of both worlds when I was a kid. I'd spend a quiet week with my mum, then I'd go to my dad's property in the Adelaide Hills, where there were all these kids and animals running around.

Teresa Palmer

#54. Mum insists on calling Sat Nav "the Talking Map," like she's a medieval peasant who believes in witchcraft.

Marian Keyes

#55. I think my parents did want me to go to university just in case, but neither my mum or dad went to uni, so they couldn't talk.

Eliza Doolittle

#56. I was fourteen, watching 'The Princess Bride' for the 254321th time, captivated by Wesley and Inigo dueling on the cliff-top. I had never held a sword in my life, but I phoned my mum and said, 'I want to learn to fence!'

V.E Schwab

#57. I feel very warm towards Mum and Dad for giving us the independence they did. My childhood, and the fact we didn't have a TV, gave me a boundless imagination.

Dido Armstrong

#58. My mother worked in advertising and my father was a journalist. But they split up when I was three and I grew up in a single-parent family. My mum brought my brother and I up.

Felicity Jones

#59. 'To Kill A Mockingbird' is one of my favourite novels, my mum brought me up reading it, and it never fails to move me.

Jessica Marais

#60. Do you know who we are Mum?" And at that moment I just look into her blue planets for eyes, and she says, "We are Daughters of Song, Mama." And at that I jump up with new life, pick her up, and say, "Now let's go play"_

Tori Amos

#61. My mum told me that grown-ups don't like teenagers, which is the last thing you want to hear when you are one yourself!

Ella Eyre

#62. I grew up being very interested in Greek mythology because my mum read to my sister and I.

Isabel Lucas

#63. Mum and Dad always wanted me to do whatever I was happy doing. I nearly went to art college at 16, but decided to do a BTEC in performing arts.

Stephen Graham

#64. I grew up in a very political household. My mum used to shout at the television. At Mrs. Thatcher.

Cherie Lunghi

#65. I like bringing the girls on set, but if I can't do that then the next day I feel I have to be uber-mum to make up for it. Then I'm exhausted and feel like I'm running in fumes.

Marcia Cross

#66. I hope I'm going to act for the rest of my life. What scares me is that if I get a big head, my mum said she would take me out of the business instantly - and if you knew my mum, she would do it!

Daniel Logan

#67. I've definitely done something that's made my mum and dad forever proud.

Tinie Tempah

#68. I said to Mum, Vati is very very like David Beckham, isn't he? Apart from being porky, heavily bearded and crap at football.

Louise Rennison

#69. If she's a flapper," mused the sergeant, wiping Passionate Rouge lipstick off his blameless mouth, "then I'm all for 'em, and I don't care what Mum says.

Kerry Greenwood

#70. When you watch your mum and dad sing and they're happy and it brings them joy, it is then a natural choice to go where the joy is. Music was always that place in our family.

Julia Stone

#71. Mum's mobile was the most immoblie cell phone in the world. It often lived on the top of the bookshelf closest to the front door. It was there so she'd see it before she left the house. The trouble was, Mum was alwayd leaving the house in a mad rush and the mobile stayed put.

Catherine Bateson

#72. As my mum still candidly says, I was the runt of the litter.

Nick Moran

#73. And being that happy makes me feel guilty. Because I shouldn't be. Not while my mum is feeling the way she is. How I can dare to be happy is beyond me, and I hate my guts for it.

Melina Marchetta

#74. As a kid I'd lie awake at night and convince myself that a meteor was about to hit the Earth. It's my fatalistic streak, which I've inherited from my mum. I firmly believe something cataclysmic is going to happen in my lifetime and I have to be prepared to run for my life when the time comes.

Ellie Goulding

#75. 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

#76. 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

#77. I always dedicate my goals to my mum. I lost her a couple of years ago. She was my biggest supporter and is always with me.

Frank Lampard

#78. They fuck you up, your mum and dad? No, that wasn't it at all. Well, they did do that, perhaps, but they also allowed you to become the person, and the writer, that you had it in you to be.

Salman Rushdie

#79. light. "I'll ring Malcolm's mum's croft and have him

Allie Mackay

#80. My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.

Vanessa Paradis

#81. Mum once told Dad that vices are only vices when looked at through the frame of society.

Maggie Stiefvater

#82. 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

#83. I'm not great at dealing with death, I have to say. I find death very hard: my mum, my dad, Sid Vicious. I'm not a monster; I feel it and it scares me. One death at a time, please, is all my heart will bear.

John Lydon

#84. So for years I kept mum about my passion for needle arts.

Deborah Norville

#85. Mum, Vitali just sent me a text, would you pass me a new pair of panties.

David Haye

#86. Mum handed me back my engagement ring and I slipped it on. I found the weight of it around my finger comforting, as it Todd was holding my hand.

Rosamund Lupton

#87. 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

#88. Mum wasn't at all religious, but she thought that going to the theatre was as important a ceremonial, communal experience that a person could have.

Hayley Atwell

#89. I never had any plans to become a producer when I was a kid. I wanted to be a DJ, like most other kids at the time. Then my mum bought me a Casio keyboard and I started to sample sounds that I liked.

Timbaland

#90. Spoiled?" Mum cuts her off with a laugh. "Nonsense! There's nothing wrong with Minnie, is there, my precious? She knows her own mind!" She strokes Minnie's hair fondly, then looks up again. "Becky, love, you were exactly the same at her age. Exactly the same.

Sophie Kinsella

#91. Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about 'Wind in the Willows' and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought - you know about 'The Wind in the Willows.'

Terry Pratchett

#92. Here she is," her mum said, cooing at the baby, "my special girl."
"Oh, cheers," Valkyrie said, rolling her eyes.

Derek Landy

#93. Mum and Dad split up when I was nine. We upped and moved from London to Sussex, and suddenly I went from an urban life to nothing in the countryside - with a new father and new life.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

#94. I got into hip hop from my uncle; he was always playing us Kool G Rap and Big Daddy Kane. He was a bad boy, and my mum was not really happy that I was hanging out with him.

Estelle

#95. My mother always spoke to me in English, so it's technically my maternal language, and it became a kind of private language - I was happy that I could speak in English to my mum and the majority of people wouldn't understand it.

Lou Doillon

#96. I was a barmaid for my mum for years, as we lived above a pub. I still can't hear the Heartbeat theme tune without breaking into a cold sweat, as it used to start at the same time as my shift.

Sara Cox

#97. My mum never told me that I was beautiful when I was a kid - and I didn't read magazines or watch MTV, so I had no real consciousness about it all.

Cameron Russell

#98. My mum always used to say you couldn't see where you were going until you'd come to terms with where you'd been.

Garrett Leigh

#99. It's not easy for you, Dad
You seek your own space
You slope off to watch telly
But still see (Mom's Mum's Mam's) face

John Walter Bratton

#100. I'm sure my mum was a huge influence on my wanting to be an actress: just seeing her doing it, seeing her love it, caring about it. Invest in something, take it seriously and be so wonderful.

Hattie Morahan