Mum Quotes - page 5

Well, when I was nine years old, Star Trek came on, I looked at it and I went screaming through the house. 'Come here, mum, everybody, come quick, come quick, there's a black lady on television and she ain't no maid! (Whoopi Goldberg)
I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination. View quote
Andrew Motion
Yet those who govern us as if were infants expect us to be grateful that at least we live in 'a family'; a family, moreover, patterned on the ideal by the example of the Windsors. A beaming gran, a dutiful mum, a stern and disciplined father, and children who are ... well, all analogies based upon family break down somewhere. The analogy between family and society, as it happens, breaks down as soon as it is applied. The 'United Kingdom' is not a family and never was one. (Not even Orwell, with his image of poor relations, rich relations and 'the wrong members in control', could make it stick.) It is is a painfully evolved society, at once highly stratified and uniform and very fluid and diverse, which is the site of a multitude of competing interests. View quote
Christopher Hitchens
I have scary eyes. I look like the guy in 'American History X,' yes. I remember coming home from school and asking my mum if I could get an eye transplant, and of course she declined. View quote
Timothy Ferriss
Listen here, baby And stop acting so crazy You say your mum ain't home, it ain't my concern, Just play with me and you won't get burned. I have only one itching desire: Let me stand next to your fire. View quote
Jimi Hendrix
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. View quote
Sharon Stone
Mother stands for comfort. Mother will hide the murderer. Mother hides the madman. Mother will stay mum. View quote
Kate Bush
I think there is a total equality for me between painting a literary figure or Kate Moss or my Mum or a dog or a bird. To me, they are all absolutely equal. View quote
Stella Vine
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... View quote
Stella Vine
I do chores around the house, but I don't get an allowance for them. I wash the dishes and sweep the floor... I'm sweeping the floor quite a lot, and my mum always expects me to get a broom and swagger it across the floor all the time. View quote
Callan McAuliffe
Personally, I had a great education. My mum was a trained teacher, a Montessori teacher, and I know that I could not have written 'Eragon' if I had gone into a public school system because I would have just been too busy attending classes and doing homework - I wouldn't have had the time to write. (Christopher Paolini)
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. View quote
Melina Marchetta
I'm just delighted that this woman I love can be a mum again. View quote
Rod Stewart
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. View quote
Cindy Crawford
My mum was a music teacher. I've got three sisters, and we all played instruments when we were kids. View quote
Tom Ellis
My mum is incredibly intelligent. View quote
Philip Seymour Hoffman
My mum and I are, in many ways, quite similar. We're both creative, gregarious, and energetic. View quote
Hugh Jackman
I get on fine with my mum and dad, but if they want to see the grandchildren, they come to me. View quote
Aaron Taylor-Johnson
My dad is a doctor, a professor of psychiatry, and my mum is a psychotherapist. View quote
Ben Barnes
My mum was raised Jewish, my dad is very scientifically minded, and my school was vaguely Christian. We sang hymns in school. I liked the hymns bit, but apart from that, I can take it or leave it. So I had lots of different influences when I was younger. View quote
Ben Barnes
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)
My mum and I do cardio kickboxing classes together. View quote
Vanessa Hudgens
Here she is,” her mum said, cooing at the baby, "my special girl.” "Oh, cheers,” Valkyrie said, rolling her eyes. View quote
Derek Landy
My mum raised us on classic movies and a lot of musical theatre. View quote
Jake Gyllenhaal
My mum and dad are pretty amazing chefs and they spent most of my childhood cooking really extravagant things for my sister and me. View quote
Jake Gyllenhaal