Quotes About Influence

A place is only as good as the people in it.

And everything that comes out of my mouth is gonna be repeated in two-sentence-long bites for the next years of my life. Certain words travel far and wide.

They travel best in gangs, hanging around like clumps of bananas, thick skinned and yellow.

Your past experiences will flavour your future ones, that is human nature.

Gordon Lightfoot looms pretty large in my life as a writer and an artist in general. I never travel anywhere without at least two of his records with me.

They who set an example make a highway. Others follow the example, because it is easier to travel on a highway than over untrodden grounds.

My travels and everything that I do where travel has inspired and influenced not only the cooking that I do but also the restaurants that I create.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you for Paris is a movable feast.

Are you saying that we can affect what happened in the past? That we can change it?

A tree falls the way it leans. Be careful the way you lean.

Nothing grows well in the shade of a big tree.

Trees are contagious; as soon as one neighborhood or street is planted, citizen pressure builds up for action from the next street.

Trees die from the top". No one should ever become a strategist unless he or she is willing to have his or her character serve as a model for subordinates

A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors - to dislodge the worms.

The fruit of your work grows on other people's trees

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

As the twig is bent the tree is inclined.

My fruit grows on other people's trees.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.

Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.

When you do television, you have this opportunity to drop these subtle hints everywhere. The way you say things, for example, sometimes those seeds turn into trees.

Fame grows like a tree if it have the principle of growth in it; the accumulated dews of ages freshen its leaves.

A tree lives on its roots. If you change the root, you change the tree. Culture lives in human beings. If you change the human heart the culture will follow.