Quotes About Influence

We die once when the last breath leaves our bodies. We die a second time when the last person speaks our name.

They showed me what a stable life could look like. If they hadn't bothered, how would I have even known there was another way to live? You can't aspire to something you've never seen.

When you're a kid in a tough family situation, you're painfully vulnerable to trying to fill the void with peers.

Through one lighthouse, you guide many ships. Iola's words whispered in my mind. Was she thinking of the

I realize that those who have loved us are never really gone. They live on in all the ones we love and all the ways we love. They are the reason we know how to love at all.

The funny thing about having people believe good things about you is that, without even realizing it, you want to make those things true.

She always wanted those around her to see the greatest possible versions of themselves. That passion made her a fantastic teacher.

you can't impact something you don't touch.

Nothing takes you from thirty years old to thirteen faster than your mother's voice rebounding up the stairs like a tennis ball after a forehand slice.

It's an odd thing when your children start telling you what to do." "I

Through one lighthouse, you guide many ships.

Ever'body got a reason for what they do. You eat off somebody else's plate, drink a their cup, could be, you'd be that same way.

You know there is an old proverb that says, 'We die once when the last breath leaves our bodies. We die a second time when the last person speaks our name.' The first death is beyond our control, but the second one we can strive to prevent.

Mama has always been in charge of the world, and she's determined not to abdicate now.

I loved each of them dearly. One was a teacher, one was a preacher, and the last was an artist who found his calling later in life. One taught me to think, one taught me to know, and one taught me to see. Each inspired me.

As hard as it is to change yourself, it's even harder to change someone else.

Names have power. In certain cultures, just speaking a man's name gives you mastery over him.

What defines someone's music taste is their teens and early 20s. It's that combination of your sexual awakening and the music of the time, it fixes you forever.

If voting changed anything they'd abolish it.

There are many current examples that show quite powerfully that higher education does play quite a significant role in building national identity and supporting its assertion.

In those days men were the ones who usually conferred blessings. Yet here we have a woman proclaiming a blessing upon another woman. Wow. Even from the womb, Jesus was changing the culture.

I learned for the first time that when we lose the people closest to us, we tend to become more like them—as if to fill immediately the unbearable lack they have left behind.

When we lose the people closest to us, we tend to become more like them -- as if to fill immediately the unbearable lack they have left behind.

To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.