Losing a parent is a hard thing... I often sit here and think it would be great if mum and dad were… — Wayne Swan Copy Share Image
Any woman can give birth to a baby but it takes a real woman to step up and be a mum. Any… — Sarah Moores Copy Share Image
I built up a knowledge of 1960s and '70s British films because my dad used to work nights, and I'd sit up… — Nick Moran Copy Share Image
Someone from Manolo Blahnik went into my shop and said: 'These shoes are not vegetarian.' That's the highest compliment, because you just… — Stella McCartney Copy Share Image
I hope I'm very similar to my mum because she is a fantastic mother. She was driven as well as being incredibly… — Sarah Parish Copy Share Image
Being a mum is something that's never bothered me too much. I have never felt a strong need to have children, but… — Julia Sawalha Copy Share Image
Becky! Love!" Mum has pushed her way through her dancing guests to reach me. "What's wrong? Has labor started?" Honestly. My family… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
My brother thinks it is very, very bad that I left Islam. My half-sister wants to convert me back; I want to… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
In Birmingham, Manchester or Liverpool there are white gangs that share the same backgrounds - they come from broken homes, completely dysfunctional,… — Iain Duncan Smith Copy Share Image
So, like I asked, what’s with the nightie?” “It smells like what I always think mothers smell like,” I tell him honestly,… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
I went to university and studied English literature, and I forgot about music. I was gonna be a journalist. But then I… — Jessie Ware Copy Share Image
My mum had this idea I was going to be this long-haired hippie playing guitar and bought me one when I was… — Liberty Ross Copy Share Image
From quite early on, I had this idea of compartmentalized identities - 'this is how you are when you are with your… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
I never really was good at being a family general man, really. I hardly ever spent any time with my mum and… — Andrew Chan Copy Share Image
And what about you? You must be some kind of beardless dwarf?" "I'm not a dwarf! I'm a girl. And actually I'm… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The only thing my mum could afford growing up was to be able to look after me and my brother so the… — John Newman Copy Share Image
My dad is a minister, and my mum is a worker with the less fortunate and the disabled. They're Nigerian natives. Their… — John Boyega Copy Share Image
I don't want to be a great executive without being a great mum and a great wife. I don't want to look… — Angela Ahrendts Copy Share Image
I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal… — Samantha Fox Copy Share Image
My Mum taught me great manners. And she always told me that you can be or do whatever in life, as long… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
My attitude towards money is because of my mum and dad. My parents have always worked full time and I've always had… — Amy Childs Copy Share Image
I have no problems with buying tampons. I am a fairly modern man. But apparently they're not a "proper" present. "Happy birthday,… — Jimmy Carr Copy Share Image
In Madrid, there's a big street in the centre called Callao. I remember being there with my mum and pointing to one… — Maria Valverde Copy Share Image
Cumberbatch - it sounds like a fart in a bath, doesn't it? What a fluffy old name. I can never say it… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
It would be nice if I did have a good relationship with my family, and yes, part of me longs to have… — Heather Graham Copy Share Image
The kids think we're wacky. Mum and Dad are in showbiz - they don't know any other way. They've grown up travelling… — Deborra-Lee Furness Copy Share Image
I've never once heard my mum shout and she's 83 now. She's incredible. She's very, very happy, slightly eccentric but loves laughing,… — Carol Vorderman Copy Share Image
Mum was a tremendous Anglo-Catholic. Very impressive, actually. She made me go to church for years - I still don't want to… — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
When you're a child, you take things for granted. For instance, my mum didn't have a lot of money, but I went… — Holliday Grainger Copy Share Image
Everyone told me I could sing from about the age of ten. My mum was always telling me. But I was so… — Dionne Bromfield Copy Share Image
My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I had the most reversed education possible. Every parent wants their son to be a businessman, respectable - me, it was the… — David Guetta Copy Share Image
I asked my mum, who's a very clever psychotherapist, and she says that kids love stories about death; they need it, they… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
My parents got divorced. Early and ugly. My mum was nuts so I lived with my dad. We used to play a… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
I was around 15 when I first wanted to compete in an Olympics. I even remember the first time I got to… — Jessica Ennis Copy Share Image
When I was ten, I saw 'Grease' on stage and thought: 'I want to be part of that; it looks like so… — Michelle Ryan Copy Share Image
I lived in Peckham for the first 12 years of my life and then my mum and dad decided they really didn't… — Tinie Tempah Copy Share Image
Luke was a little boy in a growing body that felt pain and sadness and fear for his mum, and he always… — Rosie Batty Copy Share Image
I was 14 when I started modeling. At the end of that first day my mum said, If you want to do… — Kate Moss Copy Share Image
When I was younger, my mum used to put fresh flowers in bath water instead of rubber ducks, and since then I… — Virginia Hey Copy Share Image
