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Quotes About Molding

I like to think of myself as kind of a sculptor, only I sculpt people.
~ Kathleen Quinlan
Terrible (whom he greatly admired), was molded largely by traumatic childhood
~ Abraham Ascher
According to Chanakya, by pampering and accepting all the right or wrong demands of their children, they develop several bad habits. These bad habits hinder their progress and development in the future. It is, therefore, essential to discipline them also, in addition to loving them. A potter also needs to pat, caress and even beat the rotating mound on his wheel, to shape it into a beautiful pottery. Parents must also bring up and shape their children like the potter shapes his pottery.
~ R.P. Jain
Sometimes a manuscript is like bread dough. You have to abuse it.
~ Carolyn Chute
We don't know the contour of feeling; we only know what molds it from without.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.
~ Ray Bradbury
God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of the other.
~ Ray Bradbury
how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of the other.
~ Ray Bradbury
Pictures help you to form the mental mold.
~ Robert Collier
If a process or adaptation seems too smart for nature, that's a failure of your imagination, not the hand of God. I can make that claim because we have a working model of life's morphing and molding without it.
~ Kyle Hill
It is said by some that the gods show us their bitter humor by molding us into what we hate most in others.
~ Raymond E. Feist
The Jesuit boast, 'Give me the child for his first seven years, and I'll give you the man,' is no less accurate (or sinister) for being hackneyed.
~ Richard Dawkins
Since music has so much to do with the molding of character, it is necessary that we teach it to our children.
~ Aristotle
My musical style was developed basically by listening to music. The music I like helped to mold my style. I used to listen to the majority of down south music when I was a shorty coming up.
~ King Louie
And out of darkness came the hands that reach through nature, moulding men.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Is it some law of human nature that you inevitably become whatever your first commander was?
~ Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.
~ Charles Stanley
To you your father should be as a god; One that composed your beauties, yea, and one To whom you are but as a form in wax, By him imprinted, and within his power To leave the figure or disfigure it.
~ William Shakespeare
O God, the creature knows not to what end Thou hast made Him; teach him, and write in the depths of his soul that the clay must suffer itself to be shaped at the will of the potter.
~ Francois Fenelon
The best thing about being God would be making the heads.
~ Iris Murdoch
Rest in the Lord; wait patiently for Him. In Hebrew, "Be silent in God, and let Him mould thee." Keep still, and He will mould thee to the right shape.
~ Martin Luther
We are not just studying human history, we are shaping it.
~ Jason Russell
My mind is like clay, but thank goodness God knows how to mold it!
~ Mary Kate
The fingers of your thoughts are molding your face ceaselessly.
~ Charles Reznikoff