Love Quote by Lynn Nottage

My father, obviously, and my mother were inspirations. My uncle, Frank Harper, he was an absolute mentor for me.

— Hill Harper

My father was a very good craftsman. He made furniture, he made silverware and he had an incredible gift in terms of how you…

— Jonathan Ive

My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.

— David Rockefeller

My grandfather gave me inspiration to cook, and love food and flavors. My Aunt Raffie, gave me creativity and the inspiration to create new…

— Giada De Laurentiis

My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.

— Carla Bruni

[My father] did every kind of work imaginable from painting to shoveling to herding cattle. And he's always been such an inspiration to me…

— Johnny Cash

My mother was a very talented pianist, and she was a music teacher who hated to teach music, actually, but she loved to play,…

— Peter C. Doherty

My father was a pioneer and a leader in the things he did and the way he did them.

— Anoushka Shankar

Early influences included Lorrie Moore, Amy Hempel, Charles Baxter, Richard Ford, Alice Munro, Denis Johnson - writers who are important to me still and…

— Laura van den Berg

I did not begin with craft, I began with strong feelings and worked toward craft.

— Dorothy Allison

Im not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.

— Robert Wyatt

I relate more to the descendants of Galileo Galilei and the Wright brothers than I do to anyone else you might mention. If you…

— Jakob Dylan