Quotes About Influence

There are many ways to be a mother. I have a lot of young actors I mentor, and my nieces and my nephews need a lot of love.

In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones.

No one in the world can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right. She may scold you for little things, but never for the big ones.

My mother gave me my drive but my father gave me my dreams.

My mother wanted to name me Jackie or Jacqueline but she got to name my sister and my brother, so my dad and my brother insisted on naming me. And they were big fans of 'The Little Mermaid.'

My mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie.

I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.

My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.

My daughter is in love with Adele. She listens to her every day. To see someone with that much passion and soul move a 9-year-old is amazing and it's magical.

Mother loved dance so much that she thought (ballerina) Margot Fonteyn should be the president.

The mother-in-law is the centre of a family.

An uncle gave me a side drum and my mother decided I should have lessons.

Look, I've always been a confident bloke. I'm grateful to my mother for that.

The kind of power mothers have is enormous.

You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of the family.

The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards.

All that I am my mother made me.

My mother was and will always remain my greatest hero.

Writing stories has given me the power to change things I could not change as a child. I can make boys into doctors. I can make fathers stop drinking. I can make mothers stay.

My mother would tell me that the shortest cut to purification after the unholy touch was to cancel the touch by touching any Mussalman passing by.

Power doesn't have to be on such a big scale for powerful things to occur. Within your own home, you can be a powerful woman as a mother, influencing your children's lives.

Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me.

I'm a different person. I don't want to be titled as Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain's daughter. I want to be thought of as Frances Cobain.

When I think about who influenced my life the most as a Leader, I think of my Mother. She, more than anyone, taught me how to lead with love.