Browsing Topic Best Mum Quotes

The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.

No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother’s love.

A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

My mum still wonders when I’ll get a real job. These are the questions we discuss at our family dinners.

My sons have to learn that you take the rough with the smooth and they’ve seen a lot of smooth in the years that they’ve been around. They didn’t see the early years. But both my mum and myself are actors and we constantly tell them it’s not easy. But they understand that.

I deliberately went to boarding school. It was my choice. My mum was abroad and I wanted to wean myself off being dependent. It was a very important time for me to be able to create my own individual, independent life; just as a way of growing up.

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

I was an accident – my mum was only 16 when she had me.

In my country, families are raised as though they are one. Although I am from the Dinka tribe, my parents didn’t raise us as the Dinka tribe. They raised us as the Wek family, in the way they believed their children should grow up. So when you leave, the first thing you think is the ones you left behind. It’s natural to help them in any way you can. I found a way to support myself rather than asking my Mum to give me money. I would work before school and send money back to pay for their rent and food.

My brother thinks it is very, very bad that I left Islam. My half-sister wants to convert me back; I want to convert her to Western values. My mum is terrified that when I die, and we all go to God, I will be burned.

I can remember hearing the theme tune to Dallas when I was supposed to be in bed. I would sneak down and try to watch it through the banisters. My mum loved that show.

Singing was always quite a private thing… I don’t think my own mum even heard me sing until after I signed with Sony just out of high school!

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

Well, my mum’s been a tennis coach – she coached me till I was 12.

My grandfather was a lawyer, my dad was a lawyer, my mum was a lawyer, I got an uncle who’s a lawyer, I got cousins that are lawyers.

My dad never decided what he wanted to do; at times he fought in the army, was a teacher, a boxer, a light engineer, and a then a publican. My mum was a traditional housewife and mother. They showed my brother and I unconditional love.

I take my hat off to mums who have lots of kids. Anyone that says being a mum isn’t a full-time job has obviously never had any.

Mum’s a musician. She plays piano and has a beautiful voice, so she understands the creative need. Mum lights up when she sees me. Her cheeks go pink – she’s all over me, pulling my hair, pinching my cheeks.

Dulwich College takes me back after seventy years: My Mum must have written one hell of a sick note!

I had a pretty regular childhood, with a rad mum who taught me to love reading and thinking and laughing, and (as far as I was concerned) a regular dad who drove trucks for a living and did radio interviews on weekends and got stopped in the street a lot when we went out.

Although you might have to creep about at night and lie to your mum it’s actually one of the more honest art forms available. There is no elitism or hype, it exhibits on the best walls a town has to offer and nobody is put off by the price of admission.

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

It is difficult to undo our own damage, and to recall to our presence that which we have asked to leave. It is hard to desecrate a grove and change your mind. The very holy mountains are keeping mum. We doused the burning bush and cannot rekindle it; we are lighting matches in vain under every green tree.

My mum is my beauty icon, because she represents what I think beauty is.

I was 13 when I first saw my mum’s films. There were these boys who said to me, ‘Your mum makes sexy films,’ and I said, ‘She doesn’t.’ Then I watched them and my mum makes sexy films! I’m a huge fan of my mum.

I have a dirty mouth sometimes, and I’m very liberal, and that doesn’t always go down well in the film industry – especially when you’ve got to appeal to mums and daughters.

Mum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and ’90s to make sure the school bills were paid.

It’s great hearing stories of my mum growing up in Brooklyn, then moving to Florida, having me and growing up with this eccentric, fun family. Although I don’t eat a lot of Italian things, because I’m vegan. I was raised on meat and cheese, so I’ve had enough for anyone’s normal life span.

Well, I’d never done an animated movie before, which is why I was so excited about doing it. It was one of the little boxes as an actor that I wanted to tick off. I wanted to do an animated film. So, after my mum got over the fact that I was never going to play Shrek’s sister, this was the nearest I was going to get!

Growing up, others girls wanted to dance and help their mums with the cooking. I liked to play soccer with the boys. Or I’d be off on my own, tilting mirrors towards the sun in order to burn armies of ants. That was my idea of fun.