Best Formative Years Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: A Ghost in the Throat

“There are three qualities that make someone a true professional. These are the ability to work unsupervised, the ability to certify the completion of a job or task and, finally, the ability to behave with integrity at all times.”

Challenges Ability Learning Youth Integrity Capacity Corporate Professionalism Qualities Formative Years Subroto Bagchi

Author:Subroto Bagchi

“I have always wanted to kill you, all my life led to that blow. Jealousy and hatred compose my earliest memories. I have killed you every day in my thoughts.”

Hatred Jealousy Motive Iris Murdoch Rivalry The Green Knight Homicidal Formative Years Murderous

Book:The Green Knight

Source: The Green Knight

“There were good times or goodish times, only the bad times were so—crucial.”

Abuse Good Times Crucial Iris Murdoch Bad Times The Sea The Sea Formative Years Abusive Household

Book:The Sea, The Sea

Source: The Sea, The Sea

“I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues around Manchester, playing against lads from tough areas who had been taught they had to fight for everything.”

Years Has Beens Fighting Football Taught Tough Areas Seven Locals League Seven Years Manchester Lad Formative Years

Author:Gary Neville

“I wouldn't be where I am, if not for Jamaica. My formative years were here. I wouldn't have the confidence that I have if I wasn't born here, because growing up here I knew I could become anybody I wanted to become. There was no ceiling on top of me.”

Ifs Years Wanted Born Growing Up Growing Ceilings Jamaica Formative Years

Author:Michael Lee-Chin

“It's not a deliberate thing. It's not like I was rejecting the UK, which is what the papers said. It's just that when you spend a lot of time in your formative years around an accent, you're going to pick it up. I had been living in LA for a bit and that's what happened.”

Years Said Bits Happened Paper Picks Accents Papers Deliberate Rejecting Formative Years

Author:Joss Stone

“You could spend the rest of your life trying to outlive the scars that are left by what you go through in your formative years.”

Trying Years Left Scar Rest Of Your Life Formative Years

Author:Todd Edwards

“A Fraternity, too, is of such character that after men have left college they delight to renew their own youth by continued association with it and to bring their richest experiences back to the younger generation in part payment of the debt which they feel themselves owe to the fraternity for what it gave them in their formative years.”

Men Feels Years Character Left Generations Youth College Delight Debt Association Payment Fraternity Younger Generation Formative Years

Author:Newton D. Baker

“You're always looking at last year, or 10 years ago, or your school days, or your teenage years, your formative years. Because that's exactly what they are, they're your formative years.”

Years School Lasts Years Ago Last Year Teenage Teenage Years School Days Formative Years

Author:Paul McCartney

“I have great parents, and they both taught me great things, but my formative years were boundaryless.”

Years Parent Taught Great Things Great Parents Formative Years

Author:Roseanne Barr

“I could never work in a recording studio where you have this lovely view and a beach and the waves are crashing. For me, it's all about being in a tiny room with little windows. It's almost like you have to be in a prison. And you can create beauty when you're in that sort of deprived environment, which is a re-creation of your formative years.”

Years Littles Rooms Views Environment Creation Like You Window Prison Wave Studios Tiny Lovely Beach Deprived Recording Studio Formative Years

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“My mom is American, so I was raised in her household in my formative years. But as I got older, my pops tried to keep me involved with the culture by telling me the stories of the conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea, how he came to America, and about our family back home, because all that side of my family, my aunties, grandparents, is in Africa.”

Years Stories Home America Culture Sides Mom Involved Conflict My Family Raised My Mom Pops Our Family Household Grandparent Back Home Ethiopia Formative Years Eritrea

Author:Nipsey Hussle

“My dad, who is a heart surgeon, works with many adult patients who did not take good care of their bodies in their formative years. He is able to teach them how to break old eating and exercise habits and reshape their bodies, but not without a great deal of resistance.”

Years Heart Body Care Able Deals Teach Break Habit Dad Exercise Eating Adults Patient My Dad Resistance Surgeons Formative Years

Book:The Dorm Room Diet: The 10-Step Program for Creating a Healthy Lifestyle Plan That Really Works

Source: The Dorm Room Diet: The 10-Step Program for Creating a Healthy Lifestyle Plan That Really Works

“I have very fond memories of the 80s; they were very formative years for me. I certainly remember the Cold War. It was a closer doorstep for the Brits than the Americans, so it was a very real and palpable threat at the time.”

Years War Real Remember Memories Cold Threat Cold War 80s Doorstep Brits Formative Years Fond Memories

Author:Matthew Rhys

“In terms of what happened over that hiatus that I took, I just rested. I spent that time with my family, during their really formative years, and enjoyed that, and I messed with pills and new medications that help me to deal with dyskinesia and some other things I was struggling with, that I don't have as much now because of medication to counter the side effects. So, it just seemed like the right time to do it.”

Years Helping Sides Term Deals Struggle Happened Effects My Family Enjoyed Help Me Right Time Pills Medication Side Effects Formative Years Hiatus

Author:Michael J. Fox

“A general curiosity about the unknown sparked by the multicultural milieu in which I spent my formative years. There was a lot of unknown back then, too. I dare say it was easier to be an explorer then.”

Years Easier Curiosity Dare Explorers Multicultural Milieu Formative Years

Author:Herodotus

“I was fortunate to work with Corigliano for a few years in the mid nineties. Meeting and working with him during those formative years was an important experience.”

Years Important Meetings Fortunate Formative Years

Author:Michael Hersch

“My first memoir, 'Home,' was about my childhood, early training and formative years in the Theater, i am so pleased that my good friends at the Hachette Book Group have encouraged me to share the next phase of my life, beginning with my arrival in Hollywood and the wonderful movies and television programs I was asked to be a part of.”

Life Years Firsts Book Home Next Wonderful Groups Share Childhood Television Training Program Hollywood Theater Memoir Phases Good Friend Arrivals Formative Years

Author:Julie Andrews

“High school and college were my punk, formative years. I was playing hardcore, learning to be a musician. In bands, you tour, but you're paid nothing; you're playing to 50 people in a basement, sleeping in a van, and you love it.”

People Years School Sleep College Band Musician High School Paid Punk Vans Basements Hardcore Sleeping In Formative Years

Author:Steve Aoki

“When I was growing up, everybody in charge, my parents and teachers, had all survived the war, and they talked about the war like it was the Kraken - you know, this huge beast that roamed the earth during their formative years.”

Knows Years War Earth Parent Growing Up Teacher Growing Huge Beast Survived Parents And Teachers Formative Years Kraken

Author:Tom Hanks

“My formative years were all about 'Star Wars' - the first three, not the last crap, obviously. I understood 'Star Trek' but it was too caricatured for me.”

Years Firsts War Lasts Three Stars Understood Crap Formative Years

Author:Nick Frost

“To deny that human beings are filled with anti-social passions betrays a denial of reality and a lack of self-awareness. One has to be taught nonsense for a great many formative years to believe it.”

Source: A Dark Time in America

“I do think a lot of sexual violence stems from experiences in childhood or at puberty. Some people become sadistic after suffering early abuse at the hands of parents, relatives or friends. But for others, the seed is planted in the formative years by the conflation of images of violence with those of sexual arousal. Magazines, TV shows and, especially, slasher movies are masters at doing this.”

People Thinking Years Shows Hands Suffering Parent Violence Childhood Masters Tvs Abuse Seeds Magazines Stem Tv Shows Puberty Sadistic Arousal Formative Years

Author:Park Dietz

“I think it was interesting that when you're in those formative years you respond to things that interest you and don't always know where they lead. But they accumulate and add up to something that enriches your later life or leads you to some new experience.”

Thinking Knows Years Interest Interesting Add New Experiences Formative Years

Author:Paul Smith

“My mom is American, so I was raised in her household in my formative years.”

Years Mom Raised My Mom Household Formative Years

Author:Nipsey Hussle

“In my formative years the people who influenced me most were the Christian existentialists, I mean men like Munier and Kierkegaard and perhaps most of all Nicholas Berdyaev and in my travels I looked for one thing more than anything. I rarely discussed, probably mainly because of language difficulties, metaphysics with the various religious people of other groups I'd meet with. But I'd very much try to see how they were incarnated, how their particular soul was incarnated or took roots into reality.”

People Men Trying Years Mean Soul Reality Christian Language Religious One Thing Groups Particular Roots Difficulty Various Metaphysics Existentialist Formative Years Mean Man

Author:Pierre Trudeau

“I spent my youth and my most formative years in Africa. I left Africa when I was about 20, 21, and when Mo says a great African, I was really moulded by my African experience, although I had the good fortune that by the time I was 24 I had studied and worked on three continents - Africa, the US, and Europe.”

Years Three Left Youth Europe Fortune Continents Good Fortune Formative Years

Author:Kofi Annan

“I suppose, if someone was into baseball for an extended period of time during their formative years, they're always going to be interested in it.”

Ifs Years Periods Baseball Formative Years

Author:James Mercer

“I think what frustrated me more than anything else in my formative years was that I just had to work. I had to have a job. Like twenty to thirty hours a week, a lot of times in high school and college. And that was hard.”

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Author:Jon Gordon

“I'm very comfortable in Argentina. I was raised there as a baby and stayed there until I was 11 years old, so the first decade of my life or my formative years were spent in Argentina. I stayed in tune with the food, music and language.”

Years Firsts Language Baby Comfortable Raised Decades Tunes Argentina Formative Years

Author:Viggo Mortensen

“My doctor felt that the main contributing factor was so many years of malnutrition, especially during my formative years, even before I got into modeling.”

Years Felt Doctors Factors Modeling Contributing Malnutrition Formative Years

Author:Carre Otis

“It is mother's influence during the crucial formative years that forms a child's basic character. Home is the place where a child learns faith, feels love, and thereby learns from mother's loving example to choose righteousness.”

Feels Years Children Character Home Form Mother Influence Example Righteousness Crucial Formative Years

Book:The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson

Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson

“I have two different categories of favorite films. One is the emotional favorites, which means these are generally films that I saw when I was a kid; anything you see in your formative years is more powerful, because it really stays with you forever. The second category is films that I saw while I was learning the craft of motion pictures.”

Years Mean Two Different Kids Film Powerful Forever Saws Emotional Crafts Categories Motion Pictures Formative Years

Author:John Carpenter

“Place the lives of children in their formative years, despite the convictions of their parents, under the intimate control of experts appointed by the state, force them to attend schools where the higher aspirations of humanity are crushed out, and where the mind is filled with the materialism of the day, and it is difficult to see how even the remnants of liberty can subsist.”

Source: Christianity and Liberalism

“Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try to talk about ways of working toward redeeming what's wrong, because they'll look sentimental and naive to all the weary ironists. Irony's gone from liberating to enslaving. ... The postmodern founders' patricidal work was great, but patricide produces orphans, and no amount of revelry can make up for the fact that writers my age have been literary orphans throughout our formative years.”

“I Lived on the street when i was a kid, i wasn’t even at school, so i had a whole different set of experiences for those formative years. I was gone… i was in a very precarious place when i was younger.”

Years Different Whole Kids School Gone Streets Precarious Formative Years

Author:Jared Leto

“Childhood is what you spend the rest of your life trying to overcome.”

Trying Childhood Overcoming Floats Rest Of Your Life Formative Years

Author:Sandra Bullock

“I don't mind being classified as a jazz artist, but I do mind being restricted to being a jazz artist. My foundation has been in jazz, though I didn't really start out that way. I started in classical music, but my formative years were in jazz, and it makes a great foundation.”

Way Years Mind Has Beens Artist Foundation Jazz Classical Music Formative Years

Author:Herbie Hancock

“Now, today, some children are enrolled in excellent programs. Some children are enrolled in mediocre programs. And some are wasting away their most formative years in bad programs....That's why I'm issuing a challenge to our states: Develop a cutting-edge plan to raise the quality of your early learning programs; show us how you'll work to ensure that children are better prepared for success by the time they enter kindergarten. If you do, we will support you with an Early Learning Challenge Grant that I call on Congress to enact.”

“Even now, after whatever gains feminism has made in involving fathers in the rearing of their children, I still think virtually all of us spend the most formative years of our lives very much in the presence of women”

Thinking Years Children Made Stills Father Our Lives Feminism Gains Feminist Involving Formative Years

Author:Reynolds Price

“Maybe deep down inside we were all still in our formative years. Maybe it was never too late for any of us to change.”

Years Stills Late Too Late Deep Down Never Too Late Formative Years

Book:Must Love Dogs: New Leash on Life

Source: Must Love Dogs: New Leash on Life

“The general disinclination of Spain to accept slaves from Islamicized regions of Africa during the formative years of Hispano-American society had enormous consequences for the development of music in the New World.”

World Years Accepting Development Consequence Slave Enormous Regions New World Spain American Society Formative Years

Author:Ned Sublette

“The funniest thing is not who influenced me positively, but who influenced me negatively. I had such an aversion to what Busby Berkeley did; in my early formative years, I thought it was terrible. Now, I think it's wonderful. But then, I wanted to do anything but what Busby Berkeley did.”

Thinking Years Wanted Wonderful Terrible Positively Aversion Berkeley Formative Years

Author:Stanley Donen

“My mother was a politician in my formative years.”

Years Mother Politician Formative Years

Author:Antonia Fraser