Mother Quote by Leslie Uggams

Milton Berle is an inspiration to every young person that wants to get into show business. Hard work, perseverance, and discipline: all the things…

— Dean Martin

“Mom could make small things seem miraculous. That was her talent.”

— Matthew Quick

If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.

— Garth Brooks

“Mrs. Kronborg was a strange woman. That word "talent", which no one else in Moonstone, not even Dr. Archie, would have understood, she comprehended…

— Willa Cather

My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences

— Lorna Luft

“Do you still call it talent, if it blooms without any kind of nurturing? That's got to be something else. She made talent sound…

— Esi Edugyan

“She was actually a recording star in Puerto Rico when my mom was growing up. My mom was always stuck sitting backstage somewhere or…

— Taylor Swift

I had one critic who wrote: 'Finty Williams is like her mother in looks if not in talent.' It'll be on my gravestone.

— Finty Williams

Before my mother was a King, she was a gifted vocalist and musician, whose skill and academia garnered her a scholarship to the prestigious…

— Bernice King

I remember my father playing me Same Situation when I was a nipper, and saying how nobody since has done melodies as well as…

— Laura Marling

“She was a far better mother when she had an audience.”

— Liane Moriarty

“[My mother] saw it as part of her mission to keep my cockiness in check. I'm grateful for that now...We now live in an…

— Randy Pausch