Quotes About Influence

As far as Rap goes Tupac was my favorite, I used to sing some of his songs in my set before I ever met his dad.

My mom is my heart. She was a rock for me even though she was not around as much as dad.

My mother and dad played the fiddle and the guitar.

Dad loved movies and I grew up with British comedy. My ultimate favourite is Peter Sellers.

I have a real no-nonsense dad who taught me how to be resilient at a very young age.

Dads are the leaders in their homes, and our kids need leaders.

I'll probably always be 'Timothy Spall's son' and it's something I'm proud of. Maybe one day as well as that, they'll say of Timothy Spall that 'He's Rafe Spall's dad'.

You know, you always want to just do your own thing - I mean some people want to be exactly like their parents - Ibut I wanted to do my own thing and I ended up doing a kind of mix of my mom and dad.

Between my mom and dad, I would hear a lot of Earth, Wind, and Fire. My mom loved Chaka Khan, so that was on in the car a lot.

I am my father's son. My sticking to my guns and doing it my way, and standing firm - that's definitely from him. And the music side, I was so lucky to have a dad that was as cool as he was.

I wanted to be a teacher. My dad was a teacher.

My mom and dad would take me all over. One night we'd be at the Apollo watching James Brown, and then I'd be at the Joffrey Ballet. It was that kind of scene.

My Mom and Dad had six kids, and four of the six were going down the same road I was.

It is not that you give birth to a child that matters most. Rather, it is what you birth into them.

My Dad is my hero.

People are buying only one thing from you: the way the engagement (hiring you, working with you, dating you, using your product or service, learning from you) makes them feel.

Like the bee its sting, the promiscuous leave behind them in each encounter something of themselves by which they are made to suffer.

If I seem better than you, you like me more. If you feel you have no chance with me, you like me more.

Death will destroy my body, but my creatures will keep on living ever after, in the years to come.

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

The death of rock was not a natural death. Rock did not die of old age. It was murdered.

I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.

Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.

It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It's what you leave behind you when you go.