My mother taught me to walk ...

My mother taught me to walk proud and tall 'as if the world was mine.'
 Sophia Loren

Quotes from the same author

Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.
 Sophia Loren
When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
 Sophia Loren
Is my mother my friend? I would have to say, first of all she is my Mother, with a capital 'M'; she's something sacred to me. I love her dearly...yes, she is also a good friend, someone I can talk openly with if I want to.
 Sophia Loren
I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.
 Sophia Loren
Without my mother's ambition, her drive, I doubt that on my own I would have pushed myself out of Pozzuoli and into the frightening world that was faraway Rome.
 Sophia Loren