My childhood was all about going to church, singing in…

Some of the old folk singers used to phrase things in an interesting way, and then, I got my style from seeing a lot…

— Bob Dylan

I can recite poetry, but I cannot write it.

— Irrfan Khan

I spent my entire childhood going 'look at me, look at me, look at me,' before realising I needed someone to look at me…

— Jack Garratt

I wrote poetry, journals, and, especially, plays for the neighborhood kids to perform. I had an ordinary, happy childhood. Nothing much was going on,…

— Alex Flinn

My childhood is always going to limit me.

— Lynda Barry

Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later on, but…

— Carlos Ghosn

I have to thank my mother for this. When I was a little boy she used to teach me poems. I would go in…

— Rudy Ray Moore

My mother always taught me to be strong and to never be a victim. Never make excuses. Never expect anyone else to provide for…

— Beyonce Knowles

My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in - like her expectation that I'd be a missionary…

— Faye Wattleton

I am a good sewer. My mother taught me how to sew.

— Nick Nolte

My mother taught us that ambition is part of femininity and really taught us to have substance but also style.

— Denise Morrison

I had a mother who taught me there is no such thing as failure. It is just a temporary postponement of success.

— Buddy Ebsen

My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.

— Eric Allin Cornell

My mother taught me when you go someplace, you leave it better than you found it.

— Esai Morales

My mother taught me three things, respect, knowledge-search for knowledge, it's an eternal journey. That's like my hair-cut, the line, 360 degrees, find knowledge…

— Tupac Shakur