Best 83 quotes in «mum quotes» category

The air in my home is heavy with my mom's unhappiness. And her exhaustion. And her sheer dissatisfaction with her life. And I hate it. I can be up in my room when she's in the kitchen below and I feel her despair seeping up through the floorboards. You can hear her banging pots and pans or cursing the vacuum cleaner

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.

If I could uninvent anything, I would uninvent Hitler's mum, guns and broccoli.

We all have a reason for living I am blessed mine has two eyes a heartbeat and calls me mum.

What's this one, Mum? There's no return address, and there's like, five stamps on it. Who's it from?" Leaning forward to get a closer look at the stamps, I didn't notice the fleeting look of immense sadness pass over her face. "Oh it's nothing, darling." I raised my eyebrow at her. She sighed. "An overseas friend. You wouldn't know her." And before I could ask what 'her' name was, Mum had left the room.

When someone gives you advice, just ask them to give it in writing and they will either keep mum or will run from there.

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.

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

I couldn't live without my music, man. Or me mum.

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!'

We have to do it for my mum's sake. Because I'm hoping that the last sorry will be to her.

A lot of the time, the way it's portrayed is that I only see women in a sexual way. But I grew up with just my mum and sister, so I respect women a lot.

And that's my honour, that's what my goal is, to always keep my mum's name ringing, because I know what sacrifices she went through for me.

He nods. "My mum has one just the same and you have no idea how disturbing it is that it's turning me on.

I always knew mum loved me - tough, look-after-yourself love, as if she knew she wouldn't always be there.

I came out of my mum's stomach going, 'I want to be an actor!'

I love samosas filled with mincemeat. My mum makes really great ones.

I had a somewhat frenetic childhood because my mum and dad split up when I was five, and then my mum remarried.

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

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!

I'm definitely someone who likes to fly by the seat of her pants. My mum always prays for the best.

I'm one of five kids and we lived on a massive farm in New South Wales with my mum and dad.

I'm not vicious really. I consider myself to be kindhearted. I love my mum.

I'm not great with money. I'd go crazy if I were left to my own devices. My mum and girlfriend sort it out. I'm not driven by it, but I love to be generous.

I'm part Maori. My mum's Maori, and she raised me. And my grandma, she's Maori.

I think my mum has the foulest mouth of anyone I've ever met.

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

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

My dad lived till he was 78, my mum was in her 80s, and I've got two uncles who are in their 90s now.

Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family.

My commitment is to my kids and my mum and I'm having a whale of a time.

My dad is a doctor, a professor of psychiatry, and my mum is a psychotherapist.

My dad was a geologist and my mum was a nurse who directed amateur theatrics.

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

My family was never cultural in that we never went to see plays, my mum wasn't very into films.

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

My mum and my dad are the sweetest couple.

My mum calls my temper 'Devilman.' They say you calm down with age, but I don't know. It never goes away.

My mum and dad are both really funny. My granddad's really funny, my uncle's really funny, everyone's really funny. You have to be quick, otherwise you get roasted. Everyone takes the piss quite a lot. You have to be really sharp.

My mum called me scatty because I could never sit still. But there was no sense I was suffering from a medical condition as such.

My mum reads every script before I go for it.

My mum taught me to have a soul.

My mum used to say to me, 'Spit on yer 'ands and take a fresh 'old.' Keep going even if you have setbacks.

My heart is in South Africa, through my mum. My mum being from here, me spending a lot of time here as well, I feel most connected to this part of the world.

My mum never understood how much I earned. When I told her I earned a million pounds a film, she said, 'How much is that?'

My 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.

My mum actually gave up work to look after my child, which is so touching.

My mum raised us on classic movies and a lot of musical theatre.

My mum used to say to me, 'you can't have fun all the time,' and I used to say, 'why not?'. Why... can't I have fun all the time?

My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.