Mum And Dad Quotes - Page 2

• My mum and dad ran a family cafe in Sligo for 35 years and worked long hours. We grew up in a very hard-working family and had a lovely atmosphere, as we lived above the restaurant. It definitely made me want to work hard, whatever I chose to do. As the baby of seven kids, I was definitely a bit spoilt.

  Shane Filan

  Baby, Dad, Kids

  "Westlife singer Shane Filan on life after his £18m bankruptcy". Interview with Lorraine McBride, www.telegraph.co.uk. August 19, 2013.

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• 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.

  Noel Fielding

  Uncles, Dad, Mum

  "The Weird World of Noel Fielding". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 2, 2016.

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• The chief attraction of the opposite sex for all of us, old and young, men and women: we need someone to save us from the sympathetic smiles in the Sunday-night cinema queue, someone who can stop us from falling down into the pit where the permanently single live with their mums and dads.

  Nick Hornby

  Sex, Dad, Fall

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.152, Penguin

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• My mum and dad used to make me stand up at dinner parties and sing to their friends. I had this conservatory in my house - three steps went to up to kind of a raised part of our kitchen. I used it as the stage. Every night after school I used to download backing tracks of songs I loved and perform to myself. My mum was trying to cook and I was pretending I was at the O2 arena.

  Sam Smith

  Song, Dad, Party

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My dad is Greek and my mum Jamaican. My grandparents brought me up for most of my childhood, but I saw my mum and dad all the time.

  Lianne La Havas

  Dad, Grandparent, Childhood

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• I've got a really great family round me, two sisters and an older brother and my mum and dad. Everybody's equal.

  Nicholas Hoult

  Brother, Dad, Two

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• In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.

  Gary Kemp

  Dad, Thinking, Important

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• 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

  Dad, Names, Office

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• I may not be loud but that doesn't mean I'm not strong within myself. My mum and dad instilled in me to stand up for what I believe in - and I do.

  Leona Lewis

  Strong, Dad, Believe

  Now Magazine, July 2008.

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• My mum and dad have always enjoyed life, and it's something that's been instilled in me. I wake up in a good mood most mornings.

  Rafe Spall

  Morning, Dad, Wake Up

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• 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

  Country, Dad, Book

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• It's not work, it is more of a passion. It is so much fun and it is really makes you feel great at the end of the day. You feel like you are really after doing something good and you are after accomplishing something. Acting is one of these things that I can't really describe - it's just like, why do you love your mum and dad? You know, you just do.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Fun, Dad, Love You

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Before, I guess, mum and dad were everything, but now, in my case, I had two new girls and all of a sudden they're completely dependent on you and there's a third generation. It's a funny shift all of a sudden. You have the babies, you have yourself and then you have your parents.

  Roger Federer

  Girl, Baby, Dad

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

  Abbie Cornish

  Dad, Kids, Wales

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• I get on fine with my mum and dad, but if they want to see the grandchildren, they come to me.

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson

  Dad, Grandchildren, Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I watched Italia '90 with my Mum and Dad and my brother, you know, leaping around the house when the penalties were on... It would be great to be part of that, to have that kind of impact.

  Steven Gerrard

  Soccer, Brother, Dad

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I know exactly where I've come from, I know exactly who my mum and dad are.

  Christopher Eccleston

  Dad, Mum, Knows

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Dad, Home, Looks

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• Ours was a very progressive Protestant family, but my parents were God-loving rather than God-fearing. We went to church, and I still go with my mum and dad when I return home - it's a family thing. I played flute in my dad's marching band, but I had an integrated upbringing. We had a lot of Catholic friends.

  James Nesbitt

  Dad, Home, Parent

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Dad, Giving, Imagination

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• But while mum and dad were incredibly caring, it was also a very chaotic household where everyone fought about everything. So I know what it's like to internalize all that chaos.

  Dave Eggers

  Dad, Caring, Chaos

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• I don't know what's going on with Mum and Dad, but it's weird. Mum keeps asking Dad to do things and he keeps doing them Unfotunately, she hasn't said 'Hand over your money and make your way to Europe!

  Louise Rennison

  Dad, Hands, Europe

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• Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and I had a library card when we could pass off something as a signature, and all of us would come with an armful of books.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Morning, Dad, Book

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• Somewhere along the way, without me even noticing, I grew up Alex. For once, I couldn’t take advice from anyone around me about what I should or shouldn’t do. I couldn’t go running to mum and dad and I can’t compare my marriage to anybody else’s, we all follow our own rules.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Running, Dad, Advice

  Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• I've never tried to find my real parents. I'm very grateful to my mum and dad for adopting me - they're completely incredible people. It was my dad who encouraged me to question everything, to forge my own path, to think, to read. I always felt it was my right to question everything.

  Dan Stevens

  Dad, Real, Grateful

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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