Mum Quotes - Page 26

• My mum was never too keen on TV, so we kids all went to the library and got books out. Right from the start, I loved the works of Mark Twain. Every time I read about Tom Sawyer, I'd go out and do something low-level naughty, just like him.

  John Grisham

  Book, Kids, Naughty

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• I haven't had any bad jobs. I was a hairdresser before and that's it. I still cut my family and mates' hair when they want a trim. If I go up to Scotland to see my mum, I know she'll say, 'Bring your scissors!'

  Sharleen Spiteri

  Jobs, Cutting, Scotland

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Even in Australia I'd say 80 percent of our television was American. I grew up watching Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Twilight Zone. I used to sit with my mum when I was just nine years old, trying to guess what the twist would be. I love that kind of thing.

  Jacki Weaver

  Twilight, Years, Australia

  "Jacki Weaver, America’s Sweetheart". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 2, 2014.

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• Most people hate that their mum has a Facebook page, but I love that my mum does.

  Miley Cyrus

  Hate, People, Doe

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• My brother's researched our early family history. He found a letter from a fella who said he used to be in love with my mum.

  Paul McCartney

  Brother, Letters, Used

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• My mum died when I was 14. That is a kind of strange age to lose a mother. John lost his mum when he was 17.

  Paul McCartney

  Mother, Age, Strange

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• My mum says I wanted to be a surgeon, but I don't remember that. I think from the time I knew what was happening, I wanted to be a guitar player.

  Brian May

  Player, Thinking, Guitar

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• 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.

  Callan McAuliffe

  House, Swagger, Allowance

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• I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for my Mum. I know I've got Irish blood because I wake up everyday with a hangover.

  Noel Gallagher

  Drinking, Hangover, Blood

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• Mum always taught us that compassion and kindness were the most important things in life, that it was better to be kind than right.

  Rebecca Gibney

  Motivation, Kindness, Compassion

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• 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.

  Naomi Watts

  Drama, Class, Way

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

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• It was my Mum who got me into singing properly - she knew I had to do something with my voice because she knew I was talented. She was the one who pushed me into joining a choir all those years ago, when I was about 12. I remember she told me to start with the choir and just see where it took me.

  Susan Boyle

  Voice, Years, Singing

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• Hedwig didn't return until the end of the Easter holidays. Percy's letter was enclosed in a package of Easter eggs that Mrs. Weasley had sent. Both Harry's and Ron's were the size of dragon eggs, and full of home-made toffee. Hermione's, however, was smaller than a chicken's egg. Her face fell when she saw it. "Your mum doesn't read Witch's Weekly, by any chance, does she, Ron?" she asked quietly. "Yeah," said Ron, whose mouth was full of toffee. "Gets it for the recipes." Hermione looked sadly at her tiny egg.

  J. K. Rowling

  Easter, Home, Holiday

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

  Dominic Monaghan

  Gun, Broccoli, If I Could

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There were many ways of not burdening one's conscience, of shunning responsibility, looking away, keeping mum. When the unspeakable truth of the Holocaust then became known at the end of the war, all too many of us claimed that they had not known anything about it or even suspected anything.

  Richard von Weizsaecker

  War, Responsibility, Holocaust

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• My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Dad, Hard, Mum And Dad

  "Benedict Cumberbatch: 'Sherlock,' Smaug And Spying". Interview With David Greene, www.nhpr.org. May 4, 2012.

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• My mum always used to buy a record every Friday.

  Elton John

  Friday, Records, Used

  "Elton John: soundtrack of my life". Interview with Leah Harper, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2013.

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• I was 14 when I started modeling. At the end of that first day my mum said, 'If you want to do this, you're on your own because I'm not traipsing around London ever again like that. It's a nightmare.'

  Kate Moss

  Want, London, Firsts

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

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• I was eleven when my father left, so neither of us really knew our fathers. I’d met mine of course, but then I only knew my dad as a child knows a parent, as a sort of crude outline filled in with one or two colors. I’d never seen my father scared or cry. I’d never heard him admit to any wrongdoing. I have no idea what he dreamed of. And once I’d seen a smile pinned to one cheek and darkness to the other when my mum had yelled at him. Now he was gone, and I was left with just an impression—one of male warmth, big arms, and loud laughter.

  Lloyd Jones

  Dad, Laughter, Children

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• I remember when I got to 16, my mum was like, 'No, now you've got to go and get a proper job. We've indulged you long enough.' I don't think they ever thought I was going to be successful in entertainment at all.

  Kelly Brook

  Jobs, Successful, Thinking

  "Kelly Brook" by Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2009.

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• Being busy with work, and as a mum, I'm a big fan of online shopping.

  Kirsty Gallacher

  Shopping, Fans, Busy

  "Kirsty Gallacher: The last five things I bought" by Dinah Turner, www.mirror.co.uk. April 14, 2012.

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• The depression belongs to all of us. I think of the family down the road whose mother was having a baby and they went around the neighborhood saying, "We're pregnant." I want to go around the neighborhood saying, "We're depressed." If my mum can't get out of bed in the morning, all of us feel the same. Her silence has become ours, and it's eating us alive.

  Melina Marchetta

  Depression, Mother, Baby

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.75, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Cumberbatch - it sounds like a fart in a bath, doesn't it? What a fluffy old name. I can never say it on a Monday morning. When I became an actor, Mum wasn't keen on me keeping it.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Monday, Morning, Names

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

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• I feel like the feminine has been a little undervalued. We all have to get our own jobs and make our own money, but staying at home, nurturing, being the mother, cooking — it's a valuable thing my mom created. And sometimes, you need your knight in shining armor. I'm sorry. You need a man to be a man and a woman to be a woman. That's why relationships work.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Mother, Jobs, Sorry

  "Feminist Dogma Bites Kirsten Dunst" by David Limbaugh, www.newsmax.com. April 18, 2014.

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• I don't want to be a great chief executive without being a great mum and a great wife.

  Angela Ahrendts

  Wife, Want, Chief Executives

  "Why women over 50 should be listened to....in all walks of life" by Alison Phillips, www.mirror.co.uk. September 11, 2013.

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