Mum And Dad Quotes

• I lived in Peckham for the first 12 years of my life and then my mum and dad decided they really didn't want to bring up their children there. So they saved up money and bought a house in Plumstead, semi-detached, three bedrooms.

  Tinie Tempah

  Children, Dad, Years

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

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Dad, Mum, Hard

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

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• Both Mum and Dad were converts to Catholicism, and normally if you convert to Catholicism you have thought about it more than someone who just grew up with it, taking it for granted.

  Tony Abbott

  Dad, Granted, Grew Up

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

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• Oh God. valentine's Day tomorrow. Why? Why? Why is (the) entire world geared to make people not involved in romance feel stupid when everyone knows romance does not work anyway. Look at (the) royal family. Look at Mum and Dad.

  Helen Fielding

  Dad, Stupid, Valentine

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• I don't want to achieve less than my mum and dad.

  Tinie Tempah

  Dad, Want, Achieve

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• Harry, despite your privileged insight into Voldemort’s world (which, incidentally, is a gift any Death Eater would kill to have), you have never been seduced by the Dark Arts, never, even for a second, shown the slightest desire to become one of Voldemort’s followers!” “Of course I haven’t!” said Harry indignantly. “He killed my mum and dad!” “You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!” said Dumbledore loudly.

  J. K. Rowling

  Art, Dad, Dark

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• What's that?" he snarled, staring at the envelope Harry was still clutching in his hand. "If it's another form for me to sign, you've got another -" "It's not," said Harry cheerfully. "It's a letter from my godfather." "Godfather?" sputtered Uncle Vernon. "You haven't got a godfather!" "Yes, I have," said Harry brightly. "He was my mum and dad's best friend. He's a convicted murderer, but he's broken out of wizard prison and he's on the run. He likes to keep in touch with me, though...keep up with my news...check if I'm happy.

  J. K. Rowling

  Running, Uncles, Dad

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• I'll fix it up with Mum and Dad, then I'll call you. I know how to use a fellytone now - " "A telephone, Ron," said Hermione. "Honestly, you should take Muggle Studies next year.

  J. K. Rowling

  Dad, Years, Muggles

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• Assuming I survive our hunt for the Horcruxes, I’ll find Mum and Dad and lift the enchantment. If I don’t – well, I think I’ve cast a good enough charm to keep them safe and happy. Wendell and Monica Wilkins don’t know that they’ve got a daughter, you see.

  J. K. Rowling

  Daughter, Dad, Thinking

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• He was my mum and dad's best friend. He's a convicted murderer, but he's broken out of wizard prison and he's on the run. He likes to keep in touch with me, though...keep up with my news...check if I'm happy.

  J. K. Rowling

  Running, Dad, Humor

  "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban". Book by J. K. Rowling, July 8, 1999.

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• Barry, you're over thirty years old. You owe it to your mum and dad not to sing in a group called Sonic Death Monkey.

  Nick Hornby

  Dad, Years, Monkeys

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.314, Penguin

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• I've definitely done something that's made my mum and dad forever proud.

  Tinie Tempah

  Dad, Forever, Done

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• When you watch your mum and dad sing and they're happy and it brings them joy, it is then a natural choice to go where the joy is. Music was always that place in our family.

  Julia Stone

  Dad, Joy, Choices

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My attitude towards money is because of my mum and dad. My parents have always worked full time and I've always had that work ethic in me.

  Amy Childs

  Attitude, Dad, Work Ethic

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I've been so lucky to have my mum and dad because they've worked to give my brother and I everything. We're not spoilt children.

  Amy Childs

  Brother, Children, Dad

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I had a somewhat frenetic childhood because my mum and dad split up when I was five, and then my mum remarried.

  Mark Ronson

  Dad, Childhood, Splits

  "Mark Ronson: My family values" by Nick McGrath, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2011.

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• I never really was good at being a family general man, really. I hardly ever spent any time with my mum and dad whatever, really, or brothers or sisters. We just really didn't get along. I was pretty much like the black sheep of the family, to be honest.

  Andrew Chan

  Brother, Dad, Men

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• I was lucky, I had support from Mum and Dad - they said as long as you work hard, anything is possible. I never thought past those two things - that I liked living in imaginary worlds and that it is possible to do that for a living.

  Harry Treadaway

  Dad, Hard Work, Past

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

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• Killing time in the precinct, I find a copy of one of my early volumes in a dump-bin on the pavement outside the charity shop. The price is 10p. It is a signed copy. Under the signature, in my own handwriting, are the words, "To mum and dad".

  Simon Armitage

  Dad, Signatures, Handwriting

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• I love money, and I love movement. I like what it has let me do for my family. I have paid off my mum and dad's mortgage, I've bought them two BMWs, they can have anything they want. I am buying a fleet of cars for myself. I have unemployed my sisters, they don't need to work, don't need to worry about a thing.

  Conor McGregor

  Dad, Bmw, Two

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• Children are all unique, so when you're blending families it's really important to get to know each individual child... Being a stepparent can be a really incredible opportunity. Sometimes children pay attention and listen to someone who's not their blood parent. Sometimes I notice how my son Milo learns things from my best friends and people that have been around him, his grandparents and so on, in a way he can't from his own mum and dad. It takes a village!

  Liv Tyler

  Dad, Children, Son

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• I'm very, very close to my mum and dad. My mum is only nineteen years older than me, so she could be my older sister, which is really nice.

  Luke Evans

  Dad, Nice, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm an only child. My mum and dad are six in each family. They're both twins, and they only wanted one. I always say to them though that they're lucky - it could have all gone wrong.

  Luke Evans

  Children, Dad, Only Child

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I make time to exercise at least four times a week. I mix up running, yoga, barre classes, and rock-climbing to get a full workout. I also follow my mum and dad's nutritional advice and eat a variety of colors on my plate. Plenty of fruit and vegetables.

  Rose McIver

  Running, Workout, Dad

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• The first four months of my life were spent in care, before I was adopted by my wonderful parents - my mum and dad - Ernie and Christine. They went on to adopt my sister, who is profoundly deaf, and invested both of us with a love and support that informs everything I do today.

  Michael Gove

  Dad, Parent, Support

  "Michael Gove В has 'no charisma' but insists he is the 'change candidate' and will spend ВЈ100m a week on the NHS" by Christopher Hope, Kate McCann Cristina Criddle, www.telegraph.co.uk. July 1, 2016.

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