Church Quote by Esther Williams

I told Mother of my decision to study medicine. She encouraged me to speak to Father... I began in a roundabout way... He listened,…

— Rita Levi-Montalcini

I think my mother was very spiritual.

— John McGahern

My mother took us to church every Sunday, Wednesday Bible Study, student Bible Sunday. It was instilled in me at a very young age.

— Keyshia Cole

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

My father was a minister, so I was raised in the church.

— LeToya Luckett

My second mother is my maternal grandmother. Her name is Thelma. She also gave me a very powerful medicine; she made sure that I…

— Erykah Badu

My mother and grandmother had me in church, and I was the kid that played in church. But pastor was telling me something totally…

— Joe Gibbs

Me and my father went through a war period where we wasn't talking. He wanted me to go to theology school - I didn't…

— Wyclef Jean

My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school, So? Did…

— Isidor Isaac Rabi

It was as a mother that I needed my mother back, and I needed to conjure her anew and think about what she would…

— Maya Soetoro-Ng

[My mother] was the one who encouraged me constantly and always reminded me that God gave me a talent and I have to use…

— St. Lucia

I was raised in the church.

— Kenny Rogers