Quotes About Influence

Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time.

Once upon a time men were possessed by devils. Now they are not less obsessed by ideas

The most important playwright's gift is to hit your time and speak to your time.

My time has not yet come either; some are born posthumously.

Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics.

I have a hard time picturing several aspects of the modern world without Luther.

It's just hard not to listen to TV: it's spent so much more time raising us than parents have.

People learn twenty-five percent from their teacher, twenty-five percent from listening to themselves, twenty-five percent from their friends, and twenty-five percent from time.

The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.

Men of great spirit are at high risk at a time when small souls rule the world.

I like bands for a long time, even when they're not trendy anymore. I still like Arcade Fire. I've always liked Stevie Wonder.

The time has come when the whole world must be concerned about me. From now on, American Christianity must follow me.

A time will come when you're going to be numerous but your impact in the world will be like nothing

I think we are in a time where the youth play such a huge role. It's up to us to go the extra mile to vote and raise our voices.

Once I grew from 6'1' to about 6'6', by that time I was going into 12th grade, and that's when I started wanting to play basketball, because, pretty much basketball players always got the girl.

Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

I'm not going to talk about Picasso. I have done my duty to those memories. I have had a great career as an artist myself, you know. I'm not here just because I've spent time with Picasso.

It was very interesting time to be in England. Even at that point [John] Lennon and [Paul] McCartney influenced my writing. I thought, "maybe there is a huck or two in here I haven't thought of".

It is, indeed, one of the capital tragedies of youth-and youth is the time of real tragedy-that the young are thrown mainly with adults they do not quite respect.

In my own words, I played some significant part in changing the social-sexual values of our time. I had a lot of fun in the process.

You know, Leonard Cohen is amazing, just a mastermind, and really one of the great geniuses of our time.

Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of Fame.

Some of the greatest social reformers of our time were wealthy.

Schools stifle family originality by appropriating the critical time needed for any sound idea of family to develop - then they blame the family for its failure to be a family.