Quotes About Influence

I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.

In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits.

I get a lot of my inspiration from my family, but I never got to meet my dad's dad.

I may be the baby of the family, but that doesn't mean I don't get to boss people around.

Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family.

Everyone in my family is in the film business; I knew I wanted to be creative and it was important in my family to be artistic.

How parents interact with each child as he or she enters the family circle determines in great part that child's final destiny.

I really don't know what makes a comedian. I think it's a family background and environment. Yet if you put the same ingredients in another person, he may never utter a funny line.

In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.

Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children.

There is an ideological colonization we have to be careful of that tries to destroy the family.

Irish is the prominent nationality in the family, but beyond that, I really don't know. I see a lot of artistic or creative influence coming through on my mother's side.

As the family goes, so goes society.

My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the household wasn't a man made a big difference.

There is a strong chance that siblings who turn out well were hassled by the same parents.

As a whole forest becomes fragrant by the existence of a single tree with sweet-smelling blossoms in it, so a family becomes famous by the birth of a virtuous son.

I was exposed to the arts, but there was no one in my family who was an artist.

I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.

I never talk much about my family, but my grandfather was friendly with these guys, with magicians and ventriloquists on the highest levels, and I was just interested.

I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.

My father was the Jewish half of the family, yet it was my mother who taught me to have pride in that tradition.

My family is large and in charge! Thats my favorite way to describe them.

In our family, there wasn't anything else besides art. Nothing else in the world existed. My father never spoke about going to a movie or listening to music, other than my mother's singing.

One truly affectionate soul in a family will evert a sweetening and harmonizing influence upon all its members.