A Quote by Russell Howard

I spent a lot of my childhood sat on a wall thinking, waiting for my mum to pick me up.

Russell Howard

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Childhood Lot Me Mum Pick Pick Me Pick Me Up Sat Spent Thinking Up Waiting Wall

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Russell Howard
English - Comedian
Born: March 23, 1980

My mum and dad are pretty amazing chefs and they spent most of my childhood cooking really extravagant things for my sister and me.

Jake Gyllenhaal

I told my mum recently, when I used to envisage my adulthood, it was just me working at a corner shop that mum and dad could drive me to and pick me up from. I couldn't ever imagine living on my own and having a job that I wanted to do. Because I never saw it.

Rosie Jones

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.

Lianne La Havas

For me, writing something down was the only road out...I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive. When I ran out of books I made up my own. At night, when I couldn't sleep, I made up stories in the dark.

Anne Tyler

My mum always had fun on shoots, but afterwards, she would pick us up from school and make dinner. I had a pretty normal childhood.

Julia Restoin Roitfeld

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.

Brooke Fraser

When you're young, no one cares who your parents are, although Mum would arrive to pick me up in her full hair and make-up and fur, and I used to say, 'Can't you just dress normally, like all the other mums?' I wanted her to blend in more, but I've always been really proud of Mum - as proud as she is of me.

Georgia May Jagger

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

Mark Ronson

My dad's a history buff, and I spent a lot of time on Hadrian's Wall. I became fascinated by the idea of what was so terrifying up there that the Romans built a 60-mile long, 30-ft-high stone wall to keep it out.

Neil Marshall

I spent a lot of - too much of - my childhood watching movies and thinking about movies.

Gillian Flynn

Roman history was kind of unavoidable where I was growing up. It was everywhere - all the place names and ruins and forts. My dad's a history buff, and I spent a lot of time on Hadrian's Wall. I became fascinated by the idea of what was so terrifying up there that the Romans built a 60-mile long, 30ft high stone wall to keep it out?

Neil Marshall

Mum eventually graduated with a City & Guilds certificate that hung proudly on our living room wall throughout my childhood.

David Lammy

I have spent probably years of time waiting in studio lounges - waiting on a mix, waiting on my time to sing, waiting on, waiting on, waiting on. That's just the nature of life.

Amy Grant

My mum was a children's librarian, so I spent a lot of time in the library. My reading life, because of my mum's work, was evenly split between American, Canadian, Australian and British authors.