Quotes About Inspiration

It was my mother who gave me my voice. She did this, I know now, by clearing a space where my words could fall, grow, then find their way to others.

Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully

Mother-love is not inevitable. The good mother is a great artist ever creating beauty out of chaos

In the creative process there is the father, the author of the play; the mother, the actor pregnant with the part; and the child, the role to be born.

I don't see myself as a role model; people should look to mothers and sisters as role models.

I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.

She became a very famous, very popular young girl. Before that, she was my daughter, but now I'm her father.

I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.

My job as the mother of daughters is to make sure my children see that every opportunity is available to them.

... my mother and father ... raised nine of us and taught each to do our best ... We tried.

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.

When I was growing up, my mother would take me to plays and museums, and we'd talk about life. Those times helped shape who I became.

My mother was my beauty icon my whole life.

Little boy, you remind me how so much depends of day made of now

My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.

And my daddy could play a harmonica and also the guitar, so I guess I got a little bit from both of 'em, but I think mostly from my mother's side of the family.

I've always had this female-empowerment thing in the back of my mind - because I wanted my mother to be stronger, and she couldn't be. I thought, 'If I'm successful, I can change her life.'

I think my mom just filled me with confidence. I just thought I was the best at everything. Like any mother really.

I used my mother's radio as a PA system. I'd take the telephone, the speaking part, and take those two leads off and lead them into the radio and the sound would come out of the speaker.

I would write plays for my grandmother, who was stone deaf, my mother and the dog, that was our audience.

Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.

My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends.

My mother was a huge influence on me. She was a living example of what a Christian should be. Her conviction, her discipline. She would rather see other people happy than herself.

I'm extremely blessed to have the extraordinary mother that I have, and I don't mean Diana Ross, I mean the mother. My mom paved a road that didn't exist, as did Oprah.