Dad Quote by Liz Murray

Thanks to my mother, I graduated. But then we lost everything, we were homeless.

— Shannon Briggs

Becoming a mother has helped me to realize who I am aside from my career.

— Christina Aguilera

It's always been very clear to me that I was going to be a mother and that my purpose in life was to give…

— Elle Macpherson

Even my going back to school was to inspire young people that it's never too late to education. That's all I can do, and…

— Mark Wahlberg

I urge you to pursue preserving your personal history to allow your children and grandchildren to know who you were as a child and…

— Oprah Winfrey

My career choice was to be a mother.

— Ann Romney

I was hoping I could become a success to give my mother and my father a better way of living.

— Bobby Womack

And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother's push to get…

— Sam Donaldson

You could analyze me and say that my father leaving and being absent was a motivator for early ambition, trying to prove myself to…

— Barack Obama

My desire, my passion, was to help moms with practical encouragement.

— Lisa Whelchel

If it weren't for the mentorship and guidance from people like my mother, James Brown and others, I wouldn't have been able to make…

— Al Sharpton

I told myself I was going to get a scholarship so I could get a degree and take care of my family.

— Demaryius Thomas