Quotes About Influence

I'm inspired by my family, especially my mother.

The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French.

France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws (Les Regrets)

But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.

You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

My mother could make anybody feel guilty - she used to get letters of apology from people she didn't even know.

People make the world go, and Mothers make people, so they lead the dance.

My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer.

The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what is is - the source.

Men are what their mothers made them. You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckabuck why it does not make cashmere as to expect poetry from this engineer or a chemical discovery from that jobber.

Indeed, most magicians catch the bug as kids. My first audience was my family in Long Island. My first 'assistant' was my mother, whom I levitated on a broom in our living room.

Who can ever measure the benefit of a mother's inspiration?

A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.

I'm concerned about the insidious influence of the media's bad messages that undermine the lessons parents try to instill in their sons and daughters.

Behind every successful person, stands a very successful mother-in-law.

You come home to find your 17-year-old daughter engrossed in a book. Which would delight you more - if it were 'Twilight' or 'Middlemarch?'

My mother was a first-grade teacher, so I credit her with this lifelong intellectual curiosity I have, and love of reading and learning.

My mother wanted me to be friends only with children she considered socially suitable.

My father really was not the dominant person who raised the family, it was my mother who raised the family.

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.

I was named after Yul Brynner because my mother had an infatuation with him. Who the hell names a Cuban kid Yul? Talk about a torturous childhood.

Mama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live.

No mother who stands upon low ground herself can hope to place her children upon a loftier plane. They may reach it, but it will not be through her.