Quotes About Influence

I inherited depression from my mother's side of the family.

Conversations with my mother, father, my grandparents, as I've grown up have obviously driven me towards wanting to try and make a difference as much as possible.

I am indebted to my mother for the efflorescence of my knowledge.

The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness and industry.

The people who raised me musically are my mother, who is a classically trained pianist, and my stepfather.

My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra.

My mother and father told me I was god. I was a good Italian boy who hung out with the same four guys. I was a little god.

There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother, but next in rank in efficacy is that of the schoolmaster.

All I am I owe to my mother.

I work every day to live up to my mother's model. She was a very proud woman. And she really prepared me to go off into the world as a proud daughter.

Every success is the mother of countless others.

Mothers and grandmothers: these are the people that I admire most, not so much chefs.

When your mother gives you confidence about anything that you do, you carry that confidence with you.She made me believe that I could make someone laugh.

As to my political faith- I have never voted. My father was a Democrat, my mother a Republican, and I am an Episcopalian.

My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.

Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.

My mother was the making of me.

If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.

Moms are as relenless as the tides. They don't just drive as to practice, they drive us to greatness

Fame is rot; daughters are the thing.

This is what it is the business of the artist to do. Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother.

My mother had an amazing life, and she's someone to admire.

Wife-Mother-Actress-Author The world will remember.

I stand on the shoulders of countless people, yet there is one extraordinary person who is my life aspiration. That person is my mother, Celina Sotomayor.