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Quotes About Passion

My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.
~ Carly Fiorina
You must torment people with your artistic delight, scaring mother and grandmother in the middle of the night.
~ Sergei Parajanov
My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
~ Vidal Sassoon
I'm a medical doctor by training. I'm a physician, not a politician. And I'm in this as a mother on fire.
~ Jill Stein
My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasn't a Christian, she would stomp you to death.
~ Dick Gregory
Fashion has always been in my life, thanks to my mother and my aunt growing up. I think as I became an adult, my style evolved, and my love of fashion evolved even more.
~ Olivia Palermo
My daughter is in love with Adele. She listens to her every day. To see someone with that much passion and soul move a 9-year-old is amazing and it's magical.
~ Brandy Norwood
Mother loved dance so much that she thought (ballerina) Margot Fonteyn should be the president.
~ Chita Rivera
Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me.
~ Ethel Waters
My mom, she wasn't like a baseball mother who knew everything about the game. She just wanted me to be happy with what I was doing.
~ David Ortiz
My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.
~ Kurt Cobain
Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.
~ Eric Hoffer
All Americans believe that they are born fishermen. For a man to admit a distaste for fishing would be like denouncing mother-love or hating moonlight.
~ John Steinbeck
The theater was my mother and my father.
~ Ingrid Bergman
I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic's heart.
~ William Butler Yeats
I used to draw a lot. If my mother would ask me to do something else, I'd have a hairy conniption. I'd just go crazy.
~ Jim Carrey
I would much rather be a better mother or better human being than I would be a singer. Fortunately for me singing makes me a living.
~ Tanya Tucker
I'd run over Russ Grimm's mother to win the Super Bowl, too.
~ Matt Millen
My mother was my first jealous lover.
~ Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
I was this very precocious kid with a big personality. When my mother saw that modelling was something I enjoyed, she didnt dissuade me.
~ Carmen Ejogo
When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.
~ Oscar Niemeyer
The interest of my mother was more in the entertainment field. She loved to go to concerts and to the theatre.
~ Leon Askin
Food is a passion because I basically grew up in a kitchen. My mother was a gourmet chef and I'm the youngest of five kids. We would always congregate in the kitchen.
~ Laura Prepon
I am a historian. With the exception of being a wife and mother, it is who I am. And there is nothing I take more seriously.
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin