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.

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

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

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

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

Ask yourself constantly Am I treating my fellow citizens as I treat my mum?

My mum says, ‘Go with your first instinct,’ but this can lead to impulse buying!

My mother always spoke to me in English, so it’s technically my maternal language, and it became a kind of private language – I was happy that I could speak in English to my mum and the majority of people wouldn’t understand it.

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.

I’ve always cared about issues, always thought through problems. I don’t know how much that comes from my personality or my mum.

I’m a talker. I don’t bottle things up. I always call my mum or a close girlfriend and try to talk things out.

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.

I speak a little bit of Italian, yeah. I understand more than I speak. I speak more of a dialect; my mum’s from Naples and my dad’s from Sicily, so it comes out little a bit of a cocktail of the Italian language.

And my parents’ separation was tricky. But my mum had always been really honest with me, and treated me like an adult even when I was really young, so I knew they hadn’t been getting on.

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.

I’m not great with money. I’d go crazy if I were left to my own devices. My mum and girlfriend sort it out. I’m not driven by it, but I love to be generous.

Being a mum makes you more aware of how short life is and how important it is to enjoy every minute because you have less time for yourself. A day doesn’t have 24 hours any more – it only lasts 10, or eight. So you learn to get rid of all the parasites. I’m not talking about people, but things that could be toxic for happiness.

Had you been lying all along? Mum gently stroked my hair. I whispered into her shoulder. I can’t go back. Not yet. I can’t leave. And she held my head tight to her chest and wrapped her arms around me. You don’t have to, she said, rocking me. You don’t have to do anything you don’t want to do, not anymore. And I cried.

I come from a family of working women, my mum went to work two weeks after I was born – my parents had no money, there was no choice.

You know what it would just be amazing to be remembered, you know like a mum telling a daughter ‘the boyband of my time, One Direction, they just had fun and they’re just normal guys but terrible, terrible dancers.’

You do need parental guidance and I was in a great position with both my mum and dad. They split when I was a baby but even though I stayed with my mom they were both very much involved in my upbringing.

I was brought up with psychics and tarot cards. My mum was always told I was going to be in a boy band and be famous as a singer.

It’s important for me to treat a girlfriend with respect. My mum would be horrified if I behaved any differently – and I have sisters, and would hate for them to be treated badly by guys.

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!

Acting is something I’ve done since I was six years old, performing for my mum and my family in the living room, and I do it because my heart’s in it.

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

I felt different although my mum kept reminding me it was OK to be different.

Mum would have a panic attack if she had to stand up and give a speech around a table.

I had some difficult times when I first moved to Los Angeles when people would tell me I was saying things wrong. I felt different although my mum kept reminding me it was OK to be different.

We are still so close, David and I. We were at a party the other day at my mum’s house and I was sitting on his lap. We’re very affectionate. And I looked at him and thought after being married for 11 years! We were the only couple who were even near each other at that party. We’re soul mates.

I love to make stories out of license plates on cars about the initials and the numbers – my mum used to do that with me.

You can say whatever you want about me, I’m not really bothered. But when it starts to upset people I care about or I hear about it from my mum, then that’s a problem.

In five years’ time I’d like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely sooner rather than later. I’d like to have finished my second album too, maybe even my third. I’d like a sound that sticks around that other people are inspired by and that people know is me.