My mom grew up in the Soviet Bloc, and she was a Tiger…

Call it the Tiger Mom effect: In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option.

— Naveen Jain

I am also one of those persons who were transformed, who grew out of the Soviet system and transformed myself into the new Russia.

— Vagit Alekperov

I think the whole 'tiger mom' thing is a very common trope. People like to show Asian moms giving pressure, but they don't really…

— Ronny Chieng

But I'm the child of a tiger mom.

— Lisa Joy

I just wasn't cut out to be a Chinese Tiger Mom. I'm more of an Irish Setter Dad.

— P. J. O'Rourke

When my mom grew up, her father was in the military so she grew up all over the world. She lived in Germany, Jerusalem,…

— Paul Wall

My mom grew up in a strict Catholic family and moved to New York and became part of the Warhol factory.

— Gaby Hoffmann

My mom grew up in Brooklyn.

— RJ Barrett

My mom was a big music person. She was that ol' white trash woman that would be singing Bob Seger in the kitchen smokin'…

— Jelly Roll

My parents are both from Vermont, very old-fashioned New England. We heated our house with wood my father chopped. My mom grew all of…

— Geena Davis

I started to play music again because of my dad and my mom. I grew up playing guitar with my dad, and he and…

— Mandy Harvey

The Sandinistas are a tough bunch of guys, with a fabulous amount of Soviet Bloc equipment and Soviet Bloc advisers.

— Elliott Abrams

And the big question for the West, of course, and to the Europeans is, what other countries, which were formerly part of the Soviet…

— Samuel P. Huntington

The only law we broke was the Brezhnev doctrine that once a country is in the Soviet bloc it cannot be overthrown.

— Jack Kemp

Now that we are used to globalisation it's hard to imagine a time when the countries behind the iron curtain were largely obscured from…

— Mark Fisher