Mum Quotes - Page 18

• Mum had a job fitting upholstery into cars, but, in the evenings, she worked as a seamstress.

  Bruno Tonioli

  Jobs, Car, Upholstery

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• My mum, a strange creature from the time when pickles on toothpicks were still the height of sophistication.

  Renee Zellweger

  Funny, Height, Pickles

  "Fictional character: Bridget Jones". "Bridget Jones's Diary", m.imdb.com. 2001.

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• I was away a lot on 'Countdown' when the children were young and I couldn't have done it without Mum's help. Because she was at home running all of that, I never had to worry about them.

  Carol Vorderman

  Running, Children, Home

  "Carol Vorderman: My family values". Interview with Nick McGrath, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2011.

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• I remember coming home from school one time and saying very calmly to my mum, 'I'm not going any more. It's a waste of time. I gotta get going with this music thing. School's getting in the way.' It freaked her out.

  Kid Rock

  Home, School, Way

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• The divorce is a regret of mine and my mum thinks that we should have stayed together. He's now remarried so there's no chance of us getting back together.

  Carol Vorderman

  Regret, Divorce, Thinking

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• My childhood favourite is mum's shepherd's pie, Yorkshire pudding and roasted potatoes. I remember coming home from school and going to the kitchen to help her. It's because of her that I discovered my love for cooking.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Home, School, Pie

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• 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

  Father, Years, Three

  "Carol Vorderman: My family values". Interview with Nick McGrath, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2011.

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• One day Mum saved up for this exciting new thing - a frozen chicken. She cooked it on the Sunday and we all sat around waiting for it, but there was a terrible smell from the kitchen. She didn't realise that the giblets were in a plastic bag inside it. We just ate vegetables and she cried and cried.

  Carol Vorderman

  Sunday, Smell, Vegetables

  "Carol Vorderman: My family values". Interview with Nick McGrath, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2011.

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• My mum's parents were from Ireland, my dad's mum was American-Irish.

  Dominic West

  Dad, Parent, Ireland

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Listen, everything I did in my childhood was competitive. Everything we did my dad made it into a game to win. We used to drive my mum nuts.

  Lee Westwood

  Dad, Winning, Nuts

  "Lee Westwood: the secret toughness of a natural No1". Interview with Anna Kessel, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2010.

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• 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

  Baby, Men, Cooking

  "Rebecca Loos says being a new mum is better than having affairs with footballers" by Jody Thompson, www.mirror.co.uk. February 23, 2010.

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• I built up a knowledge of 1960s and '70s British films because my dad used to work nights, and I'd sit up with my mum and watch films - 'How I Won the War' and the films of Richard Lester, Karel Reisz and John Schlesinger.

  Nick Moran

  Dad, War, Night

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

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

  Nick Moran

  Runts, Stills

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

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• Roses are my favourite flower, and my mum always grew a lot of them.

  Hayley Mills

  Flower, Rose, Favourite

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• My mum Mary was always a bright, confident and fiercely independent lady.

  Kevin Whately

  Independent, Mary

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• I don't believe in regretting - one should try to move on. My mum was good at that. She was deeply in love with my father, and he died when I was nine. She remarried, and her second husband died, too. I saw the grieving process she went through. My mother had this way of moving on. It was a fine trait.

  Robert Winston

  Mother, Regret, Husband

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

  Ben Barnes

  Dad, Doctors, Professors

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• My mum has told me that I have to work with Antonio Banderas just so that she can meet him and try and marry him.

  Kaya Scodelario

  Trying, Antonio

  "Discovery: Kaya Scodelario" by Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 14, 2011.

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• If there is some sort of trouble at home, kids don't think that James Bond is going to come save their mum from their dad, or their dad from their mum. They don't think, "Bond is going to come and save me." Superman is a different sort of idealized figure.

  Henry Cavill

  Dad, Home, Kids

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2013.

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• Well, my mum's been a tennis coach - she coached me till I was 12.

  Andy Murray

  Tennis, Wells, Coaches

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

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• I have never been insecure, ever, about how I look, about what I want to do with myself. My mum told me to only ever do things for myself, not for others.

  Adele

  Insecure, Looks, Want

  "Adele: 'I have all the say; I have power over everything I do'". www.dailymail.co.uk. February 13, 2009.

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• Sometimes you look back at girls you spent money on rather than send it to your mum and you realise witchcraft is real

  Robert Mugabe

  Girl, Real, Looks

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• For many Sudanese, it's for strength they choose to be Christian rather than Muslim. My mum was a Muslim but she became a Christian later.

  Emmanuel Jal

  Christian

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• My mum has always said I am too hard on myself. But I have always been like that and it has always helped me. After matches I focus only on what I did wrong. Never what I did well.

  Cesc Fabregas

  Focus, Said, Wells

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

  Lesley Garrett

  Persistence, Used, Spit

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