My mother never learned English, but in Russia, the…

Since babyhood, I've always evolved from one thing to another. My mother gave me ballet lessons at 6 as part of her enthusiasm for…

— Judith Jamison

I gave up ballet when I was four because I was so shy.

— Emma Weymouth

I realize how much ballet gave me, and because of ballet, I’m known as a graceful gymnast.

— Svetlana Boginskaya

From speaking with my mother I learned that forgiveness is a process that begins with the choice to end your own suffering.

— Iyanla Vanzant

I had no reason to doubt that brains were suitable for a woman. And as I had my father's kind of mind-which was also…

— Margaret Mead

“It was from my mother that I learned reading was not a duty but a reward, and from her that I intuited a vital…

— Richard Russo

“It stung, the notion that my child belonged more to her mother than to me, but I learned to accept it.”

— Shulem Deen

From my mother I learned the value of prayer, how to have dreams and believe I could make them come true.

— Ronald Reagan

My grandmother died when my mother was just 11 years old, and consequently, my mother never learned how to cook particularly well.

— Jami Attenberg

“Mother, once I learned what wings were, opening was easy.”

— Jacob Oet

And as I had my father's kind of mind-which was also his mother's-I learned that the mind is not sex-typed.

— Margaret Mead

I think it was something I inherited from my mother, who learned to do it. You know, I, like a baby duckling, was merely…

— Trevor Noah

“It was my mother who tucked him in and told him that there exists a sort of love in the world that only survives…

— Jenny Zhang

My mother is a very fun-loving person. She has been through a lot in her life. She has had a couple of divorces. When…

— Kenny Chesney

From my mother I learned just how violent and unquenchable a woman's loneliness can be. She had been sheltered excessively by her husband and…

— Edmund White