Working Mum Quotes

#1. 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

#2. You always have guilt as a working mum, and you overcompensate by buying them loads of things. That was what I was doing, anyway. I've kind of realised now that I'm the best mum that I can be.

Rebecca Ferguson

#3. I had been painting Kate Moss for a long time, both before the time of her crisis and during it. I felt very strongly for her - she's a hard-working mum and it seemed as if suddenly the world turned against her. Holy water cannot help you now is painted in very warm pretty colours ...

Stella Vine

#4. 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

#5. As a working mum, it's really hard to find time in the day to just relax and take a break. I am constantly on the go.

Kirsty Gallacher

#6. I do most of my shopping over the Internet because as a busy working mum I can do the supermarket shop when the kids have gone to bed.

Andrea McLean

#7. A family, like a canoe, must be steered or paddled, or it won't take you where you want to go.

William J Doherty

#8. My poor mum had a lot of problems with me around that time. I was young but I'd been working for years, so if she asked me to clean my room I'd say, 'You can't tell me what to do after I've worked a 12-hour day.' It gave me a power that no one that age should have.

Milla Jovovich

#9. The wise do not investigate such silliness.

Antonin Scalia

#10. My mum was a librarian, and she brought home a lot of interesting books, and we just read and read. I suppose I didn't really think I could be a writer myself until I was working in editing in my 20s and discovered that actually, the books that came in were not very much like published books.

Margo Lanagan

#11. One of my favourite items is a very old jacket - it was my mum's uniform from when she was working 15 or 20 years ago.

Astrid Berges-Frisbey

#12. I always imagined a writer was someone who lived in an attic in Paris, but my mum instilled in me a belief that I could do anything - so I ended up writing my first novel while working nights as a news reporter.

Jojo Moyes

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

Andy Serkis

#14. It was unbelievable, there was the dry-cleaning ticket again. There must be more than one.

Edward St. Aubyn

#15. The things we teach our children are cheerful, pleasant lies: and it is high time that someone has the fortitude to admit it

Vina Delmar

#16. It was a hard time. It was something I would love to erase from my memory.

Rafael Palmeiro

#17. When people see a negative thing about me on a magazine, they're gonna buy it. Every time some site writes something bad, all my followers go on there, and it brings them more traffic.

Justin Bieber

#18. I like Disney Channel a lot, and I also like to watch 'Full House.'

Maddie Ziegler

#19. Mum was always hard-working. She came over from Spain and bought her own council house.

Anton Du Beke

#20. I'm superstitious. I keep mum while I'm working on something.

Steven Pressfield

#21. You can't be a great mum and work the whole time necessarily; those two things aren't ideal. We have an awful lot to work on and to debate about in relation to our working lives, because it isn't working for a lot of people, particularly for a lot of women.

Emma Thompson

#22. What makes me happy is having a really nice day out with my mum, or getting better at something I've been working hard at.

FKA Twigs

#23. I come from a family of working women, my mum went to work two weeks after I was born - my parents had no money, there was no choice.

Lindsay Davenport

#24. When I run on the beach, it's always in slow motion. That's just how I roll.

Amber Heard

#25. Exceptions are the exceptions, and finds are like ants; whenever you see one, you may be sure there are twenty.

Anne Fortier

#26. In my case, I was born to parents who were very young, and I don't think they were entirely ready to have a child. My dad was going to college and working two or three jobs at the same time, and my mum was working and going to school.

Gillian Anderson

#27. Unfortunately I don't have my grandparents, but Mum and I are working quite well together. That's candid, that's frank. Your grandmother is never going to lie to you.

Rose Leslie

#28. From 16 to 21 when I was self sufficient and working in factories. I packed batteries, boxes, and make-up with heroin addicts. I have to thank my mum for kicking me out at 16 and making me stand on my own two feet.

Jay Kay

#29. always carry yourself like you just got best photo in America's Next Top Model even if your life constantly feels like you're on the bottom two.

A. Theodore Steegman

#30. Working in Birmingham for the first time was the best thing, especially as it was round the corner from my mum's house in Harborne!

Kate Ashfield

#31. To be mediocre, when only application and diligence would have netted superiority, is an error akin to sin.

Spencer W. Kimball

#32. 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

#33. I really like my life. I've arranged my life so that I can do what I want.

Warren Buffett