Quotes About Inspiration

A bad memory is the mother of invention.

My mother is everything to me. She's my anchor, she's the person I go to when I need to talk to someone. She is an amazing woman.

My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.

I've always thought my creative life began the moment my mother called me Twyla.

Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally and who admired Mahalia Jackson and Aretha Franklin.

The Gita is not only my Bible and my Koran, it is more than that, it is my mother.

My mother was so beautiful, she really was a a wonderful person. Always walking like a queen. Like she owned the world. Maybe I took something from her.

My mother was a Sunday school teacher. So I am a byproduct of prayer. My mom just kept on praying for her son.

I didn't fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers.

I would never have gone anywhere if it hadn't been for Mother's faith and support.

My mom has always been kind of my backbone. She keeps me strong. She is a mother, a friend. She is really everything to me.

At an early age, my mother gave me this feeling that anything is possible, and I believe that.

My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in all sorts of ways, a wicked wit.

I am positive - determined to move forward with my life, bring up my babies, and do the best job I can as a mother, entertainer, and person.

My mother is a beauty.

I have an incredible role model in my mom. She was a single mother raising two kids in New York.

I became a writer because I am the youngest of six children. I listen; I observe. I'm camouflaged as a moth. Mothers are unseen. It helps me write.

But to me, the most important page in my daughter's book is the last one - because it's blank. It says, "Your Hero's Photo Here," and, "Your Hero's Story Here."

I think it's very empowering to be able to have a career and to be a mother. It gives you an amazing sense of self.

My mother was a very wise and strong person.

The pine is the mother of legends.

If I don't have a mother, I'll let music be my mother.

My father was a big Bruce Lee fan. He's Chinese-Hawaiian, and my mother is Chinese. He used to take us to all these really fantastical films with martial arts in them. And Bruce Lee was amazing.

For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.