Quotes About Influence

Motherhood is all-encompassing, and in a way, as the mother, you're the star of the household.

My mother was the biggest influence on me, without question.

[Barack Obama] and Michelle, in my heart, this is my personal feeling, epitomize what my mother and my father were. They are community organizers on a global level.

My mother never asked me to do anything she wouldn't do herself. She always taught by example.

I'd like to believe there's a little of Hitler and Napoleon in me. Even if I try, I can't be as selfless as Mahatma Gandhi and Mother Teresa.

By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfect man.

I wasn't paraded around for sale at all. My mother wasn't into that.

I wasn't Barbie-obsessed. I think my mother might have been my Barbie.

My writing is definitely influenced by and speaks to African-Americans because that is who I am. I'm black. I'm a black woman. I'm a black mother, wife, churchgoer, etc. I am the legacy of slavery.

My mother is more of an adviser. I followed everything she did when I was younger, because I looked up to her so much.

I made the wrong choice ," I whispered. My mother shook her head. "A child should never have to choose.

My mother wasn't strong like my aunt. She was just very passive.

I didn't think it was fair to my music to label me as the daughter of somebody - I didn't think it described me very well and I didn't think it had anything to do with my music.

I think I am a good role model, and a lot of mothers come up to me and they're really happy, and I think if any girl follows their dreams then anything can happen to them.

My mother gave me a ukulele at age eight, and I sang the popular tunes of the day.

I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet.

My mother would take me to jazz concerts in the park and everybody was smoked out. She gave me the intro and then she forced me to play an instrument to keep me out of trouble.

I never had children, never even thought I would have children. Now I have 152 daughters; expecting 75 more next year. That is some type of gestation period.

My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.

My father is an atheist. My mother is Buddhist. They encouraged my siblings and me to take the best part of other religions to make our own belief system.

The way you would know if someone is famous in the art world is that you would ask your mother. My mother knows who Picasso was. She knows who Warhol was.

Mothers, wives and maids, These be the tools with which priests manage men.

She was a genius, my mother.

My mother's gifts of courage to me were both large and small. The latter are woven so subtly into the fabric of my psyche that I can hardly distinguish where she stops and I begin.