Decision Quote by Rita Levi-Montalcini

My mother, a teacher, encouraged me to use my creativity as an actual way to make a living, and my father, a Mississippi physician,…

— Greg Iles

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 tells me that I was a very busy, curious child and that I quite often challenged my father when I was little,…

— Claude Picasso

I had a very vivid, almost hallucinatory moment in which I was engaged in a dialogue with my father.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

I was putting on a stiff upper lip and trying to fulfill the obligations I thought were demanded of me, taking over my father's…

— Allen Ginsberg

My father never really encouraged me or even took an interest after I walked away from the family business. No one did except my…

— Juergen Teller

My father was a doctor.

— David Alan Grier

My mother took too much, a great deal too much, care of me; she over-educated, over-instructed, over-dosed me with premature lessons of prudence: she…

— Maria Edgeworth

At a very young age, my beloved mother passed away from leukemia, forcing my father to become a single dad. Rather than coddle me,…

— Kimberly Guilfoyle

I always wanted to follow in the footsteps of my maternal grandfather, who was a doctor.

— Hasnat Khan

My mother had taught me about the importance of finding a 'good provider,' so when my boyfriend proposed, I said 'yes' in a heartbeat.…

— Elizabeth Warren

Initially I had intended to study medicine, but before going to University I had decided that I would be better suited to a career…

— Frederick Sanger