Quotes About Influence

Firestar made ThunderClan what it is now," he meowed softly. "I'll always try to follow his example. I hope I'm half the leader he was.

great power.

We all were. We wanted to learn the warrior code." "Only because you wanted to be like ThunderClan," Needlepaw scoffed.

I'm Monkeystar," the tortoiseshell announced. "I'm Clan leader, so I mostly decide what we do each day.

He follows Bramblestar around like a shadow, giving 'tips.

Just remember this: power is neither good nor bad, but its user makes it so.

Ambition gripped Brambleclaw like an eagle's talons. Hard as it was to admit it, he knew that he wanted to be deputy, and then leader, of his Clan. Was this what Tigerstar had felt? he wondered.

has always been the natural leader of all the Clans," she pointed out. "For that reason, we have to hold ourselves to a higher standard.

Even now I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books.

Even now I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books.

I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.

Modern architecture only becomes modern with its engagement with the media.

I couldn't escape him, now or ever. He'd always be there, consuming my every thought, my heart locked in his hands. I was drawn to him by forces I couldn't control, let alone escape.

The danger of growing up surrounded by these endless sweet and salty industrial concoctions is not that we are innately incapable of resisting them, but that the more frequently we eat them, especially in childhood, the more they train us to expect all food to taste this way.

We speak of having better food choices, but for the most part, we eat the foods that food companies want to sell us.

Memory is the single most powerful driving force in how we learn to eat; it shapes all our yearnings.

One of the reasons that we do not usually think of our tastes as learned is that most of the learning tends to happen in the very early years of life; and then it stops.

Each bite that you see the other person take reinforces your liking. Or not: it is hard to sit calmly by and carry on eating if you share a table with someone who is grumbling that peas are 'gross' and pinging them at you with a knife.

what we are prepared to accept in the way of the technology of eating is often determined more by cultural forces than function.

You did not choose the environment in which you learned to eat, nor did you design the shops in which you buy your food. If you eat too much sugar and refined oil, that says less about you than it does about the world you are eating in.

When the flavour of white bread and processed meat are linked in your memory with the warmth and authority of a parent and the camaraderie of siblings, it can feel like a betrayal to stop eating them.

Different meals, different times of day and different locations can all make the same food or drink seem either desirable or not. Call it the retsina effect: that resinated white wine that is so refreshing when sipped on a Greek island tastes of paint-stripper back home in the rain.

From childhood onwards, our idea of fullness is heavily influenced by how much food we are offered.

It's a chancy business, taking our cues about how much to consume from our surroundings.