Best childhood & influence Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“You don't know the things in your childhood that influence you. You can't possibly know them. People today try to analyze the early environment and the reasons for something that happened, but if you look at children of the same family -- children who have identical parents, go to identical schools, have an almost identical upbringing, and yet who have totally different experiences and neuroses -- you realize that what influences the children is not so much the obvious externals as their emotional experiences. Of course any psychiatrist knows that.”

“in the comparatively short time between my childhood and my daughter's, the business society has ceased urging people to produce and is now exerting its very considerable influence to get them to consume.”

People Influence Childhood Produce Daughter My Daughter Consumerism Short Time

Book:The Folks at Home

Source: The Folks at Home

“When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for adults. The books that get us through our childhood stay with us for life.”

Writing Children Book Young Influence Childhood Adults Our Children Young Adult

Author:O.R. Melling

“They say your childhood influences your tastes and interests, or your approach if you're an artist. So what you create, whatever you saw, whatever your childhood was like - it influences how you're going to end up.”

Ifs Ends Artist Interest Saws Influence Childhood Taste Approach Your Children

Author:Brett Ratner

“Implanting spiritual ideas in children is very important. Many people live their entire lives according to the concepts that are implanted in them in childhood. When children learn they will get the most attention and love through doing constructive things, they will tend to stop doing destructive things. Most important of all, remember that children learn through example. No matter what you say it is what you do that will have an influence on them.”

People Children Important Ideas Matter Remember Spiritual Attention Influence Childhood Example Concepts And Love No Matter What Destructive Constructive Attention And Love

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“I grew up with probably three different authors having a seminal influence on my childhood, Dr. Seuss being one and Maurice Sendak being another. That was my parents, who exposed me to their stories. That's how I was introduced to the whole idea of not just reading, but storytelling in general.”

Ideas Different Whole Stories Three Reading Parent Influence Childhood Grew Grew Up Storytelling Exposed Drs

Author:Christopher Meledandri

“I was born to a black childhood of confusion and poverty. The memory of that beginning influences my work today, It is impossible now to photograph a hungry child without remembering the hunger of my old childhood.”

Children Today Remember Black Born Memories Poverty Impossible Influence Childhood Photograph Hunger Hungry Confusion

Author:Gordon Parks

“Since childhood, sports has been one of the most important influences in my life.”

Has Beens Important Sports Influence Childhood

Author:Lindsey Vonn

“Both of us have forged our careers in London, but a lot of my comedy influences come from my family and my childhood.”

Careers Comedy Influence Childhood My Family London Forged

Author:Alice Lowe

“I think for Lev [Grossman], C. S. Lewis was a huge inspiration from his childhood. I know that Brideshead Revisited is a book that he's incredibly found of and he took certain structural influences from that book that he brought into The Magicians.”

Thinking Knows Book Inspiration Certain Found Influence Childhood Huge Magician Brideshead Revisited

Author:Hale Appleman

“Something that had an enormous influence over my relationship with language was my stammer. I had a really bad stammer in my childhood and adolescence, and that imbues you with two things. First, a hyper-sensitivity to grammar, because a stammerer will have problematic sounds, impossible verbal stumbling blocks. Second, writing is just such a joy when you have a problem with speaking. It's so astonishing to watch language coming out of your pen without any hesitation or dysfluency.”

Writing Problem Joy Language Impossible Influence Childhood Block Pens Adolescence Hesitation

Author:Maggie O'Farrell

“Although the constellations in which I have found myself - and naturally also the periods of life and their different influences - have led to changes and development in the accents of my thought, my basic impulse, precisely during the Council, was always to free up the authentic kernel of the faith from encrustations and to give this kernel strength and dynamism. This impulse is the constant of my life ... what's important to me is that I have never deviated from this constant, which from my childhood has molded my life, and that I have remained true to it as the basic direction of my life.”

Giving Important Different Found Influence Childhood Development Periods Constant Impulse Accents My Thoughts Council What's Important Constellations Kernel Dynamism

Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“Understand the nature and influence of repeating patterns, from childhood experiences or even from past lives. Wthout understanding, patterns tend to repeat, unnecessarily damaging the relationship.”

Past Understanding Influence Childhood Patterns Repeats Past Life

Book:Messages from the Masters: Tapping into the Power of Love

Source: Messages from the Masters: Tapping into the Power of Love

“I felt the sensation of each of the directions I mentally and emotionally turned into amazed at all the possible directions you can take with different motives that come in like it can make you a different person — I’ve often thought of this since childhood of suppose instead of going up Columbus as I usually did I’d turn into Filbert would something happen that at the time is insignificant enough but would be like enough to influence my whole life in the end? — What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?”

Persons Different Ends Enough Whole Happens Would Be Turns Felt Influence Childhood Stores Whole Life Motive Sensations Amazed Insignificant Columbus

Author:Jack Kerouac

“I don't want you to think that I'm up late reading a stack of Spider-Man comics and eating a tray of lemon cookies while sucking my thumb. I'm not doing that. But I am loyal to the influences of my childhood.”

Thinking Men Want Reading Influence Childhood Late Eating Loyal Spiders Cookies Thumbs Lemons Spider Man Trays

Author:Nicolas Cage

“I knew there was never anyone to blame when people get into drugs. They're always responsible for their own behavior, and it's not the dealer, it's not the friend, it's not the bad influence, it's not the childhood.”

People Influence Childhood Drug Behavior Responsible Blame Dealer

Author:Anthony Kiedis

“Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.”

Wanted Influence Childhood Mom Drinking Vices Lust Save Me

Author:Ethel Waters

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