Quotes About Influence

...no-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away... The span of someone's life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence.

I enter a most earnest plea that in our hurried and rather bustling life of today we do not lose the hold that our forefathers had on the Bible.

Either you are creating your life or the circumstances are.

When I was a kid I went to Catholic school, and they used to drag us out to pro-life rallies and stuff full of crazy people.

An artist don't make you bigger than life - being that person that can break artists can make you bigger than life.

America is replicated at every level of British life, from the taxi driver to the prime minister.

I think the early years, the first decade of your life, is the most formative in a way.

If you want to improve your life and the lives of those around you, you must take action.

There is no question in my mind: reading Gandhi's autobiography changed my life.

I've had heroes in my life - Joe DiMaggio, Babe Ruth.

I don't know that the stereotypical idea of what it is to be a child of somebody hugely famous necessarily comes into play in my life.

Sometimes I think we're exposed to things we shouldn't be exposed to too early. I think that sets the tone to a person's whole life.

I want a certain thing for my children. I just want to be in their life. I don't want nannies raising my kids.

People come up to me and tell me how I changed their life and I've inspired them. And they tell me their stories, and that keeps me going.

I relate to all of my songs and I'm inspired by everything going on around me. Music comes from all different aspects of my life.

when we are young our parents run our life; when we get older, our children do.

We're all just a part of this large, spiraling, constantly fluid hierarchy and changing. At some points in your life, you feel crushed by that, depending on who you come in contact with.

The first decade of your life is really important; it's formative.

It is important that early in life you choose companionable prejudices, for the fact is that they are likely to stay with you for a lifetime.

People need heroes, in music and every aspect of life.

I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.

Throughout the greater part of his life George III was a kind of 'consecrated obstruction'.

A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymuosly in the life of some ex-student's grandchild.

Art imitating life and life imitating art, and it's beyond the job - it will always be a marked period in my life.