Quotes About Influence

I would say that my mother is the single biggest role model in my life, but that term doesn't seem to encompass enough when I use it about her. She was the love of my life.

We lived in a real rough place but my mother kept me straight.

How vital are mother's influence and teaching in the home-and how apparent when neglected!

My grandmother I admired even more [than mother]. She was an Irish lady and a very kind-hearted person. She had a lot of talent, she painted extremely well. She was quite a strong factor in my life.

My mother made a brilliant impression upon my childhood life. She shone for me like the evening star.

When your father directed your mother in 'Orpheus Descending,' the kid's going to be a theater nerd.

my mother always found me out. Always. She's been dead for thirty-five years, but I have this feeling that even now she's watching.

Men often marry their mothers.

Speech is the mother, not the handmaid, of thought.

There are a lot of things my mother taught me and helped me and disciplined me and made sure I stayed on the right track. And there are a ton of things that only my father could have taught me.

All of my life people have thought of me as Bing Crosby's daughter. Now they'll remember me as the person who shot J.R.

The little boy who goes to the store and forgets what his mother sent him for, will probably grow up to be a congressman.

Primary (the LDS Church's Sunday school for children) is where you go to do with somebody else's mother the things you would do with your own mother if she weren't so busy teaching Primary.

My mother was really my partner in every project that I had. She was just the great enabler of my dreams.

Money is the mother's milk of everything, and it certainly is the mother's milk of politics.

My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mother's into reading and poetry. I suppose the thing I owe them most is my confidence.

My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.

A mother of a one-year-old boy is a movie star in a world without critics.

I think it's really important for my daughter to see her parents being physically fit and for that to be a part of her life. The examples we set for her will stay with her the rest of her life.

God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.

When I was a young man, my mother said to me, 'You can't be a communist without being a militant atheist.' So I had to be a militant atheist because I wanted to be a communist.

I was in film before I was on stage. I started acting when I was like 12. But, no, I think my mother indoctrinated me very early.

I hope people have pulled something about me and said "Hey Mr. T loves his mother, hey Mr. T ain't no dummy, hey Mr. T never grabbed his crotch," when you're talking about Hip-Hop culture.

My mother was always the one with the dark, really filthy sense of humor. She was a vulgar woman. She used to tell me to do comedy before I even tried it. She was always up for any gag.