“Abraham Lincoln once said, "All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my mother." I'm not sure I want to say it quite like that, but my mother, Sonya Carson, was the earliest, strongest, and most impacting force in my life. It would be impossible to tell about my accomplishments without starting with my mother's influence.”
Source: Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (1990), p. 16
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“All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”
Attributed in The Life of Abraham Lincoln (1866) by Josiah G. Holland, p. 23; also in The Real Life of Abraham Lincoln (1867) by George Alfred Townsend, p. 6; according to Townsend, Lincoln made this remark to his law partner, William Herndon. It is disputed whether this quote refers to Lincoln's natural mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, who died when he was nine years old, or to his stepmother, Sarah Bush (Johnston) Lincoln.
Posthumous attributions
“Once, I was my mother's daughter. Now I am my daughter's mother.”
Rachel Notley during her 2015 victory speech. "Notley's Way: How the Alberta premier became determined." http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/alberta/the-alberta-ndps-rachel-notley-she-is-a-child-of-the-party/article24338069/ May 8, 2015.
“What I am and what I know I owe to my father’s library and to my mother’s salon.”
Original : Was ich bin und weiß, verdanke ich der Bibliothek meines Vaters und dem Salon meiner Mutter.
Source: Jugend in Berlin. München: Hanser Verlag, 1984. p. 57
“I wasn't pretty, but as my mother once said, prettiness wasn't my profession.”
Source: The Screaming Staircase
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Asked about maintaining her image http://www.timesofindia.com/entertainment/hindi/music/news/I-am-a-girl-next-door-Shreya-Ghoshal/articleshow/9455640.cms