Quotes About Influence

If you want your children to eat better, don't tell them what to do; eat better yourself.

Much of what we learn about eating comes from the way our parents feed us.

Parents and children resemble each other no more in the foods they like than couples do, suggesting that nurture - who you eat with - is more powerful than nature in determining our food habits. Whatever our innate dispositions, our experience with food can override them.

Appetite is a profoundly social impulse.

Every day, children are exposed to messages - whether on giant hoardings and TV ads or from looking in friends' lunchboxes - telling them that they should like the very foods that will do them the most harm.

Our tastes are learned in the context of immense social influences, whether from our family, our friends, or the cheery font on a bottle of soda.

God made every man to have power to be mightier than the events round about him; to hold by his firm will the reigns by which all things are guided.

Public sentiment is to public officers what water is to the wheel of the mill.

In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion.

There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.

Wealth held by a class and used ambitiously becomes as despotic as an absolute monarchy, and has in its hands manners, customs, laws, institutions, and governments themselves.

No people are so easy to govern as the intelligent, and none are so hard to govern as the ignorant.

A man without a vote ... is like a man without a hand.

Newspapers are to the body politic what arteries are to the human body, their function being to carry blood and sustenance and repair to every part of the body.

Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

A man that does nothing but watch evil, never will overcome it.

The great men of earth are the shadowy men, who, having lived and died, now live again and forever through their undying thoughts.

Many professed Christians are like railroad station houses, and the wicked are whirled indifferently by them, and go on their way forgetting them; whereas they should be like switches, taking sinners off one track, and putting them on to another.

Christians should be like a flower store: the odor of sanctity should betray them wherever they are.

Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the common people.

You're not God. Nothing is your fault, except, perhaps, poor teaching.

Trouble is," Paul smiled his most charming smile, "a teacher has to be so many things at the same time: actor, policeman, scholar, jailer, parent, inspector, referee, friend, psychiatrist, accountant, judge and jury, guide and mentor, wielder of minds, keeper of records, and grand master of the Delaney Book.

In many cases the office of captain was more or less automatically voted to the person who had been most active in raising the company; to some extent this was true also in the choice of colonels.

Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.