I started singing when I was three - my mother would teach…

I only started singing at about 15, and it came as quite a surprise to my dad.

— Romy Madley Croft

I started off singing when I was little. My parents have said I was singing at 3 years old. So I think it was…

— Brooke Elliott

My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people in coffeehouses,…

— David Crosby

He asked if I was a songwriter, and I said yeah, that I was in town because I'd won this contest. He said, okay,…

— Arthur Godfrey

I grew up singing. My mother was a music teacher.

— Connie Britton

I don't remember ever not singing. My mother loved music, and she taught me songs, country music, spirituals. I would sing for people and…

— Florence Henderson

Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally and who admired Mahalia Jackson and Aretha Franklin.

— Tracy Chapman

I had trained in Hindustani classical singing and my mother thought I could become a playback singer, but I always wanted to become an…

— Amrita Rao

I remember I always felt much more safe standing up on a chair and singing in front of my mother than I was in…

— Ryan Murphy

“That innate love of melody, which she had inherited from her ballad-singing mother, gave the simplest music a power which could well-nigh drag her…

— Thomas Hardy

“If she were their mother she'd teach them these things are nothing, the clothes and toys and furniture. These things fool people into thinking…

— Josephine Humphreys

A man will treat his girlfriend how he treats his mother so a mother should teach their son how to treat a woman...you are…

— Anonymous

The mother must teach her son how to respect and follow the rules. She must teach him how to compete successfully with the other…

— Frank Pittman

“Legendary manners there, Karim,” she commented, her voice calm. “Your mother teach you?” “I was taught the advantage of surprise,” he responded as he…

— Katherine McIntyre

“When we mother well, we teach our children to embrace the moral obligations that build solid relationships, healthy marriages, and secure families.”

— Jani Ortlund