Quotes About Molding

Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and true shape and form!

Children are like clay in the hands of teachers. Like a sculptor we can chisel and carve their personalities with our behavior.

I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.

Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot?

To be incapable of taking one's enemies, one's accidents, even one's misdeeds seriously for very long - that is the sign of strong, full natures in whom there is an excess of the power to form, to mold, to recuperate and to forget [...]. Such a man shakes off with a single shrug many vermin that eat deep into others; here alone genuine love of one's enemies is possible

A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter of schools. Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

Who can live without personal retrospect? We will always glance back to our childhood, for we are shaped deep in our core by the impress of our parents, and we will always wonder how that molding determined us. Svetlana willfully believed in her happy childhood, even as she gradually understood that it was secured by untold bloodshed. What was it about this strange childhood that she would always turn to it for solace?

Without realizing it, they're like clay telling the potter that they know more about pottery than he does and that they can form themselves into pots on their own (Is 29:16).

Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.

And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.

The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.

Time is clay; make something.

Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man.

The people you end up hanging out with are the people you become.

God's finger can touch nothing but to mold it into loveliness.

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I think the best coaches have their own style. That takes time to mold that.

Nowadays many people seem to believe their lives are entirely a matter of choice; but in my day we viewed ourselves as pieces of clay that forever show the fingerprints of everyone who has touched them.

As she watched him she understood the quality of his beauty. How his labor had shaped him. How the wood he fashioned had fashioned him. Each plank he planed, each nail he drove, each thing he made molded him. Had left its stamp on him. Had given him his strength, his supple grace.

As the twig is bent, so the bough is shaped.

The only person he cared about was the one he thought he could mould her into.

I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mold society.

we can shape behaviour more fluently than we can understand it.

Precious stones need sculpting before they become gems.