Mother Influence Quotes

My mother - my stepmother, really, she herself have been what they call an elocutionist. And she was the one who first encouraged me to write poetry, because she used to read it to us. And then when I began to write when I was nine years old, my first poem was published in the Amsterdam News. I called it "The Graveyard."

My Mom and I shopped all the time, she shops all the time, and I was always into fashion. I've been blessed to be in a situation where I can now buy some of the things that look good.

My mother and I were very close and even when I left home and came to London I would ring her every day. She was very proud of me and loved my celebrity. She would often come to shoots and TV shows with me.

My collection has a whole new cut; they are based on the style of jeans my mum wore in Texas in the '70s.

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

My mom did a good job exposing me to different types of music.

Well let me just say, for a man, a lot of how your approach and you're dealing with women comes from your mom.

My mother and brother made me strive to get good grades and get through school.

Part of me always wanted to do something useful for the world. It came from my mother. She is a paediatrician and she was active in a small NGO for the child victims of war.

My mom did more press than me for 'Faces.'

I got my first guitar at age of 7 and never laid it down. Momma taught me G, C, and D. I was off to the races son!

I was a mama's boy.

I'm right-handed with everything. My mom was lefty.

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

My mother was very keen I learn dance and I learnt so many forms.

I am truly my mother's son.

If people look at me and, certainly, my brothers, and they see strength and guts, they'd have to know my parents. If they wanted to know why we're so close as a family, that closeness comes from my mother and father.

One great thing about my mom, about the business, is that she has a really great head on her shoulders about everything and always has been 100 percent about the music and not about the other junk.

Well, I always wanted to write from the time I was very little, and my mother encouraged me. She wrote a journal from the time she was 15 up until about the age of 76.

My mother was a first-grade teacher, so I credit her with this lifelong intellectual curiosity I have, and love of reading and learning.

I looked to my mom as an example. And this is what I try to tell so many women: that my mom had a career, and she went to the gym. She took care of herself.

In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.

Every boy grows up trying to be like his father, but what if a boy grows up to be like his mother?

I've always liked women more. I was brought up by my mother and older sister. I found my way into dance class.

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