Quotes About Inspiration

My family knew, but most of the sporting world did not realize that my right hand been some 75% paralyzed.

I'm a family guy. A lot of my songs are inspired by my kids. Simple relationships. Watching them grow up, watching them share experiences with me and vice versa.

Except for me, no one in my family could draw.

I was a runaway girl from France who married an American and moved to New York City. Im not sure I would have continued as an artist had I remained in Paris because of the family setup.

I come from a musical family as well as a culinary family.

I was exposed to the arts, but there was no one in my family who was an artist.

My strength never came from political echelons, it came from the family. And from the fields and the lands and the flowers and everything I see there. My strength came from there.

It all starts with the script: it's not worth taking myself away from my family if I don't have something I'm really passionate about.

Because I found myself telling the story of his family to people without the visual aids that I was able to employ by filming them eventually. But I very much knew exactly what I was going to do.

In our family, there wasn't anything else besides art. Nothing else in the world existed. My father never spoke about going to a movie or listening to music, other than my mother's singing.

This kind of intense loyalty, then, became the well-spring of the IBM spirit, the family spirit as it was called.

Everyone in my family is a hero to me.

You always draw inspiration from your family or your parents if they've proven to be inspirational. My mother is someone who's always been inspirational to me.

I want to own a network. I want to own a network where you can turn it on with your family all day long and get positive reinforcement.

Irreverence ran on both sides of our family...my parents brought me up to think we could all change the world.

I hate traveling and being away from my family. But I like meeting my readers, as what I write is actualized in them. Those encounters are exhilarating to me.

When I was four years old some friends of my family took me to see 'Fantasia' and I was totally blown away. From that minute on I wanted to be an animator.

I wasn't an only child, but I was the youngest, and no one else in my family played music.

My mom is such a big supporter of mine. She still is, and always was. So I got the sort of encouragement from that side of the family.

I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. I'd been raised by a family that always told me I could do anything I wanted.

I think so much of what informs us as performers is what we had to endure as kids growing up. I was the youngest in my family. I always got a lot of attention.

I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist.

And when I look back I recognize now that I indeed do come from a large family of artists. Whether they necessarily realize it or not.

All of William S. Burroughs friends pushed it forward and introduced me to one another. I was able to enter into that beat family for a while and document it.