I told Mother of my decision to study medicine. She encouraged me to speak to Father... I began in a roundabout way... He listened, looking at me... →
Rita Levi-Montalcini
My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.
Philip Levine
I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet.
What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.
Al Lewis
Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard.
I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
Damian Lewis
My mother and father and many of my relatives had been sharecroppers.
John Lewis
My dad was a New York City cop. His father was a New York City fireman. And my mother's dad was a city taxi driver.
Joe Lhota
Ever since I was a little girl, I always loved fashion. I would watch my mother get dressed and suggest things she should wear.
Monique Lhuillier
I was afraid of just about everything in this world, with the possible exception of my mother and I wasn't too sure about her.
G. Gordon Liddy