Quotes About Influence

My mother wouldn't even let me read DC Comics.

I'm relentless. My mother says I could sell ice to the Eskimos.

I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical, and I run to a book as a child to its mother.

My daughter has always had a strong sense of her own identity. From the day she was born her father and I were in love with and in awe of her and still are.

My mother was a very wise and strong person.

Greece is the mother of democracy and South Africa is its youngest daughter

When I was in second grade, my mother moved from Miami to this evangelical conservative environment in western North Carolina, two miles down the road from Billy Graham and his wife, Ruth.

I live in Paris but I feel I am a daughter of Europe.

My mother wanted me to be a professor, because I have several people in my family who are professors at university.

My mother used to tell me when I went somewhere, "Please leave your foolishness at home." But how could I do that? It was stuck on me.

I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer herself and I can't remember when I didn't listen to her sing and imitate her.

You can't help but feel a little bit like a mother to the younger cast members.

We all carry our mothers inside us.

They say our mothers really know how to push our buttons - because they installed them

Everyone always says, 'Kristen got 'Panic Room' because she looks like Jodie Foster.' But it was actually Nicole Kidman who was supposed to play my mother.

You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.

There were never any doctors in my family. But my grandparents and my mother had a strong social conscience that was formative.

The most powerful teaching a child will ever receive will come from concerned and righteous fathers and mothers.

There was a certain power beautiful mothers held over their less beautiful daughters.

The one who rules like the mother lasts long.

I most want to be remembered for being as great a mother to James and Lennon as my mum was to me and my brother Jamie.

My mother was a choreographer, so music has always been around.

My father insisted that the boys in my life were directly responsible for my juvenile-delinquent tendencies. My mother, more accurately, assumed that I was the bad influence.

My father has been the real anchor of the family. Hes the one who has always encouraged my mother, my brother and me.