Quotes About Role-models

There are so many people around young kids nowadays it can make it very tough and difficult - people who think they are going to care for those kids but do the opposite.

For it is a curious characteristic of our unformed species that we live and model our lives through acts of make-believe. A youngster identified with a mustang goes galloping down the street with a new vitality and personality. A daughter imitates her mother; a son, his father. —Joseph Campbell, MYTHS TO LIVE BY

I learned by example. ...As a kid you think you are just the same as other adults.

I think encouraging young people to twerk might be a bad thing. It's a stripper's move. If I had a daughter of nine, I wouldn't want her twerking.

More than anything, I wanted to be Aragorn in 'Lord of the Rings,' and I wanted to be Lirael in the 'Sabriel' trilogy. The only way I was ever going to get to do that was act, so I tried.

I like heroes, and would like to be a hero myself. I suppose we all want that.

A child certainly allows himself to be impressed by the grand talk of his parents," wrote Jung "but do they really imagine he is educated by it? Actually it is the parents' lives that educate the child – what they add by word at best serves only to confuse him.

If we show fictional characters doing cool stuff, then girls will want to be it in real life.

Jesus, man. Why do people want to be Paris Hilton and nobody wants to be Spider-Man?

I'm going to try and model myself after Kurt Russell and Jodie Foster.

My mom and dad taught me a lot. They kept me out of trouble and told me to go a better route. They taught me how to be a man, basically.

Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.

Whatever you would have your children become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.

Nothing is so catching as example.

The most important thing to me is to inspire all these athletes in the next generation.

I have never emulated any star or celebrity completely, and I hope nobody does the same of me.

Unbeknownst to a lot of us, our children actually listen to just about everything we say and, even more so, watch everything we do. They notice the choices we make and the company we keep.

Sons quote their fathers, in words and in deeds.

It starts in the home environment. If the parents eat bad? Those kids are going to eat bad. If they see their parents stopping at McDonald's or Pizza Hut, then that's what they're going to eat as well.

I never grew up thinking, 'Why aren't there any Asians?' But then Lucy Liu came on, and I was like, 'Oh my God, she is my favorite.' I was nothing like her, but I just loved her because she was the only Asian I saw.

Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.

Children will copy everything from adults by example.

We can seldom get our children to do what we tell them, but they almost never fail to imitate us.

I just think that the Victoria's Secret girl values herself by the way she looks. And that might be linked with being healthy, but that's all it is, and it sets a negative example to other people.