Quotes About Influence

My mother, Dr Nalini Dutta. She was and will always be my everything.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

My father Baldev Pathak was a Punjabi, and mother, Dina Pathak, a Kathiawadi Gujarati.

The very, very beginning is that my mother and father were aviators.

Although my mother and father were both completely legit, it was all around me, this crime and licentiousness.

Growing up, my mom was my mother and father figure. She was my role model. I looked up to her. She was all we ever needed.

We are all anxious to be accepted. But if you have a strong mother and father who tell you that you don't have to dress a crazy way, or hang out with people who are looking for trouble in order to be loved and accepted, then half the battle is over.

My dear Mama, you are definitely the hen who hatched a famous duck.

I think that what I do, in terms of how I craft my words rhetorically, is fairly simple stuff. I don't mean that to denigrate myself. I mean that in the sense of, when I write, the person that I keep in mind is my mother-in-law.

Both my mother-in-law and Rajiv made it easy for me. I feel very Indian and am not conscious of being an Italian in India.

For me, having a baby was never going to be timed randomly. I wanted to have mine while I was on 'Scandal.' Kerry Washington is one of my best friends, and I've gotten to watch her go through motherhood. I also have the greatest female boss in Shonda Rhimes, who is a mother of three and a huge advocate for women.

I never thought of myself as a role model, but I've had so many messages from girls, women, mothers saying I was an inspiration.

Mothers don't let your daughters grow up to be models unless you're present.

I know what I want to look like. I don't want to look trashy. I want mothers to be able to look at me and not have to close their kids' eyes!

I distinctly remember being very young, sixth grade maybe, and being at a party and hearing the mothers discuss the children. And the mothers said, 'Well, it's very clear who's the leader in the group.' And they were talking about me!

So many gay men are mothers to so many young people, me included. I've had gay men who were more mother to me than my own mother ever was.

I have fielded mothers, whose empowerment can bring the real double engine growth.

Cate Blanchett. Judi Dench. Helen Mirren. Everything about them. Even their fashion choices. They're so with it and cool and women I admire. They take chances. They're chameleons. Everything that they do. They're also amazing mothers.

I feel we children learn all the good things from our mothers. They are simply the best.

I have two mothers - Maa and cinema, so I am grateful to Bollywood for giving me a lot.

Majority of men are momma's boys. A lot of them do believe that nobody can love them more than their mothers.

I've never chased money. It's always been about what I can do to motivate and inspire people.

It benefits us all to motivate others.

I'm very humbled by the fact that I do have so much to say, and I just hope that my walk, my honesty, will make a difference for people and maybe motivate them.