Quotes About Influence

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

I learned more about Christianity from my mother than from all the theologians in England.

There ought to be a hall of fame for mamas / Creation's most unique and precious pearl / And heaven help us always to remember / That the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years.

A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters.

The Clan Mothers ran everything and had the last word. I think that's the answer.

A Mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually VACCINATES her daughter against low self-esteem.

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.

The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner.

My dream was to play football for the Oakland Raiders. But my mother thought I would get hurt playing football, so she chose baseball for me. I guess moms do know best.

Because wherever I am today, I still owe it to God and I owe it to two men - the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X and of course, two very special women, my mother and my wife.

Education is the mother of leadership.

I think I got him hooked on climbing when I gave a slide show at Darmouth. So there's probably another mother out there who hates me.

I played with dolls until I was 15. My mother encouraged it because my older sister got married when she was 15, so Mom thought that the longer I stayed with dolls, the better.

My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist.

It was my mother who gave me my voice. She did this, I know now, by clearing a space where my words could fall, grow, then find their way to others.

Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully

For I am my mother's daughter, and the drums of Africa still beat in my heart.

I don't see myself as a role model; people should look to mothers and sisters as role models.

Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was raised in the confines of his mother's home.

Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.

Give me an educated mother, I shall promise you the birth of a civilized, educated nation